Neverworld Wake

 

Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl  YA

(from Amazon)

It's been one year since graduation, and Beatrice Hartley has mixed feelings about joining her friends for a weekend reunion.
     She's right to be worried. After a night out, they narrowly avoid a collision with a car on a deserted road. Or so they believe.
     Back at the mansion where they are staying, a mysterious man knocks on the door during a raging storm. He tells them that they must make a choice: one of them will live, and the rest will die. And the decision must be unanimous.
     Soon time backbends. Beatrice and her friends are forced to repeat that dreadful day so many times they lose count. With each replay, events twist and fears come alive in horrifying ways.
     This nightmare, this nothingness . . . this is the Neverworld Wake.
     To escape, they have to vote. But how do you choose who to kill? And then how do you live with yourself?

(My Review)

Hmm...this book was weird.  Not bad, just weird.  After an accident, a group of friends get stuck in a "ground hog's day" loop until they decide/vote which one of them will LIVE.  Their decision leads them on an adventure to discover why they are in the situation, and to solve the murder of one of their friends a year before.  I thought the author did a good job taking this very complicated concept, and making a very interesting story.  The characters were college-aged, so I am not sure if this, technically would be considered YA (Amazon says it is).