GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER

CABIN IN THE WOODS MEETS SQUID GAME

I don’t know about you, but I love a good crime read. That’s why when Getting Away with Murder popped up in one of my emails this morning, I decided to feature it for our Crime Friday book discussion. We haven’t done one of these posts for a while and with this book’s upcoming release date next week (November 5th), it seemed like the perfect time to start posting these again. Besides, who doesn’t love a good fall crime read?

Getting Away with Murder is a YA thriller book written by Kathryn Foxfield about a group of video game loving teens who are locked in an escape room by an AI supercomputer and forced to play a deadly game to survive. Now, if this book sounds a little bit familiar, it could be because it was first released back in 2023 with Scholastic, but for reasons unbeknownst to me, it now has been rehomed with Sourcebooks Fire, hence the new cover and upcoming release date.

Admittedly, I didn’t read this book last year when it was released, but I am interested in reading it when it comes out next week. It seems like a great read, and perfectly timed given how much more prominent AI has been this year in so many different arenas. I can see the benefits this type of intelligence could offer to some, but like many others, I also see the inherent dangers, pitfalls, and problems that come from it, too (especially in the creative arts sector). What do you think?

 

ABOUT THE BOOK

 

GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER 

Kathryn Foxfield

320 Pages, Sourcebooks Fire

Standalone, Young Adult Thriller

Releasing November 5, 2024

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Walking disaster Saffron and her perfectionist twin sister Georgia have only one thing in common-they are both obsessed with battle royale video game Sole Survivor.

While working at a brand new, high tech escape room complex, Saffron poses a question to the resident AI: which high school stereotype would survive the longest in a real life version of Sole Survivor? She is convinced a rebel like her would beat a know-it-all like Georgia. Unbeknown to her, the AI decides to determine the answer to her question by testing it out for real. It invites Saffron and Georgia’s gamer friends to a preview of the escape rooms, but then it locks the doors and turns the rooms into a life-or-death battle to be the last player standing.

The rebel, the know-it-all, the princess, the jock, the geek, the weirdo, the star, the artist and the criminal. Just like in Sole Survivor, only one can survive the night…

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Did you read this book last year? If so, what did you think of it? If you didn’t, are you interested in reading it this year? It seems like it would be a good read, and perfectly fitting given the current rise of all things AI in our lives.