Book Review #753 - Risk by Fleur Ferris

Taylor and Sierra have been best friends for their whole lives. But Taylor’s fed up. Why does Sierra always get what – and who – she wants? From kissing Taylor’s crush to stealing the guy they both met online for herself, Sierra doesn’t seem to notice when she hurts her friends.

So when Sierra says Jacob Jones is the one and asks her friends to cover for her while she goes to meet him for the first time, Taylor rolls her eyes. 

But Sierra doesn’t come back when she said she would.

One day. Two days. Three . . .

What if Taylor’s worrying for nothing? What if Sierra’s just being Sierra, forgetting about everyone else to spend time with her new guy? 

When Taylor finally tells Sierra’s mum that her daughter is missing, Taylor and her friends are thrown into a dark world they never even knew existed.

Can Taylor find Sierra’s abductor in time? Or should she be looking for a killer?

My Rating: 4.5/5

I read this book on a flight home from Melbourne which is ironic as that is where the book was set.

This book should be mandatory reading for high school students everywhere as it was terrifying to see just how easily something like the events in this book could happen.

In this book we follow Taylor who is portrayed as the "good girl" in comparison to her best friend Sierra and her destructive, party girl attitude.

The plot takes no time to unfold and I actually finished this book before my flight did.

The real problems occur when Sierra lies to her parents telling them she is staying with Taylor when in reality she is going out with a guy she met online. 

Taylor and Sierra's mothers are also best friends and Taylor has known Sierra and her family since birth so keeping such a secret from them was not easy for her.

There were parts of this book that I could strongly relate to as when I was a teenager a friend of mine went missing and as I was her only friend the police wanted to talk to me. Luckily she was found before I actually had to meet with the police because seeing that process through Taylor I could feel her anxiety.