Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Release Date: May 28, 2024
Publisher: Christy Ottaviano Books
Source: Publisher
Genre: Young Adult / Thrillers & Suspense
Sometimes, the only way to live is to make sure the world thinks you’re dead . . .
In
the aftermath of a car accident that claimed the life of her senator
father, sixteen-year-old Milan finds herself adrift, expelled from her
third boarding school. Milan’s mother, who has assumed the senate seat,
diverts her private plane to pick up her daughter. But on their way
home, a bomb rips off a wing and the plane crashes in the mountains. In
her final moments, Milan’s mother entrusts her with a key. She reveals
it will unlock the evidence that so many people have already died
for—including Milan’s father. The only way Milan can survive, her mom
tells her, is to let everyone believe she died with the other
passengers.
Milan is forced to navigate a perilous descent in
freezing conditions while outwitting everything from a drone to wild
animals. With relentless assassins on her trail, she must untangle the
web of deceit and save herself and countless others. Will she piece
together the truth in time?
April Henry's Stay Dead is a cat and mouse thriller featuring three completely different characters like Milan Mayhew, a woman named Janie from 3 years ago, and Lenny, a woman who is paid to get rid of things that might hurt important people. Milan has just been kicked out of her third boarding school, this time for accidentally setting fire to required reading. She has been reeling since her father’s death which she blames on herself, and since her mother recently became a senator.
When her mom charters a plane to pick her up, she is resigned to spend some time in Portland with her old friends, including her best friend Chance. But when a bomb explodes and sends the plane into the Cascade Mountains, Milan finds that she is the only survivor after her mother soon passes away due to her injuries. Her mother warns Milan not to trust anyone. Milan doesn't know it (but readers will), someone has hired Lenny to kill her mom, the same way she targeted her dad months ago before he died in a car accident.
But now that Milan survived the crash, she has to find a way to continue to survive. And the easiest way to do that is for everyone else to think that she didn't make it, at least until she can get to the one person her mom told her to trust. He just happens to be hundreds of miles away and she's stuck in the wilderness. Milan is forced to navigate a perilous descent in freezing conditions while outwitting everything from a drone to wild animals. With relentless assassins on her trail, she must untangle the web of deceit and save herself and countless others. Will she piece together the truth in time?
*Thoughts* Henry has a tendency of talking about white people as though they are infected with racism and bigotry which is as far from the truth as possible. Milan gets booted from school because she didn't want to read another book written by a white author. Next, this book is political in almost all ways. It all focuses on fracking which is and has been a hot topic for at least 10 years and how far powerful people will go to silence dissent. Henry has been writing books about young women surviving in the most stressful situations for a long time now. Milan's is no different. She loses her father in a car crash, shatters her leg, almost dies in a plane crash, loses her mother, comes face to face with a mountain lion, nearly drowns in a quagmire, and eventually makes it back home where she and her friend Chance are tracked by an assassin hired by powerful people to keep a major secret from being exposed.
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