One by One

yes! one by one was a great read. kept me turning pages, very hard to put down, and as always, the twists are so unexpected

Excellent suspense building plot! Very believable characters, easy to relate to. I read this book in one weekend. Once you start it, it'll be hard to put it down.

I started this book this morning and finished this evening. Kept my attention the entire time. Never bored of it, and I didn’t have it figured out until the very end.

Review Contains Spoilers: The main characters lacked any good qualities right from the beginning. Claire’s nonstop excuses for her infidelity with her husband’s best friend gets old fast to Noah’s weird casual reaction to the truth about his wife. The other characters were okay but they came and went so fast it was hard to care one way or another but on the positive side the story becomes a puzzle looking at each person’s motivation for how/why they might’ve been the one responsible for everything gone wrong and the ending’s good because it’s surprising.

Good reading for the beach. Suspenseful and fun to read if you like these kinds of books. Would recommend to a friend.

Freida McFadden is a practicing physician. She specializes in brain injury, lives in a centuries old three-story house in New York City, and has an ocean view. The staircases creak and moan with each step. She claims that nobody could hear you if you scream — unless you scream really loudly. Maybe. Although the three books of hers that I’ve read are (1) eerie, (2) creepy, and (3) scary, they do not rely on the supernatural or blatant horror. But they are definitely the kind of books that you don’t want to put down. “One by One” (2024, 258 pages in soft-cover format) vaguely reminds me of Agatha Christie’s “Ten Little Indians,” also known as “And Then There Were None.” Unlike Christie’s tale, McFadden sets her story in a modern middle-class suburb. Friends, and at least one newcomer, pile into Claire’s SUV and take off for a week’s vacation at a secluded Inn in the mountains. Claire and her husband Noah, have not been getting along. If fact, Claire reveals that they hate each other and are staying together for the sake of their two children. But the kids, Aiden and Emma, are staying behind in the care of Claire’s sister. The other passengers are Lindsay (Claire’s best friend) and Warner, Lindsay’s new boyfriend about whom she’s head over heels. And then there’s Noah’s best friend Jack (with whom Claire has been having an affair) and his wife Michelle whom he can’t divorce because she’s the best divorce lawyer in the country and would leave him living in a box, and not a very good box. The trip starts badly when Noah asks Claire if she remembered to use the bathroom before getting in the car, which he has decided to drive. Of course, she says “yes.” But half an hour later, she really has to go. However, she can’t risk inflaming Noah’s wrath, so she pleads with Lindsay to ask Noah to pull into a rest stop. Naturally, Noah knows that it’s Claire who really needs the facility, and the animosity rises to a conspicuous level. Then, as the car stalls in the mountains, quite a distance from the Inn, the six vacationers are stranded with little food or water. Lindsay picks some berries, ignores Claire’s advice not to eat strange fruit, and suffers the consequences. Her boyfriend Warner seems little affected by the event. Then Michelle disappears from the camp in the middle of the night, and Jack goes berserk because everyone wants to press on to the Inn to get help. Warner is the third to disappear. Claire becomes convinced that she’ll never see her children again, but her husband seems to be the stalwart who keeps his head and gradually becomes protective of and affectionate toward her. The three who are still together, Noah, Claire, and Jack, settle into an abandoned cabin, and that’s where the plot begins to unfold.This is a well-told story with the kind of twists that kept me awake all night....Jim Glynn

This book was definitely a page turner. Keeps you on your toes from start to finish! Very, very good read!!!! Just when you think you it figured out, something happens to make you scratch your head. Very hard to put down!

First of all, I am a huge fan of Freida McFadden's books. Her books are never boring and a quick read, the kind you keep saying, "Just one more chapter," and then 10 chapters later you realize you stayed up way too late past your bedtime. This book was good, but honestly not, in my opinion, as good as some of her other books. A lot of things did not really make sense to me. Why the trip in the first place when it seems no one wanted to really be there with the person they were with more or less. And one character that was supposedly dead... not doing a name here to spoil... they could not tell the person was still alive? I mean come on. And then the ending when the culprit was revealed... it did not make sense to me because the person did not have a really good reason for doing what they did. It was a flimsy reason that made no sense for the rage and carnage. There were a lot of things that did not make sense and asked you to suspend logic and common sense, which kind of dampened the thrill for me. Plus, I figured out one of the culprits 3/4 of the way through so that was not a surprise. A good book but just not her best work I think.

What a great pager tuner, the ending was not expected! Great plot and well developed characters! Another hit from Freida.

El paquete llegó abierto.El libro está bien pero los bordes están ligeramente maltratados al igual que el borde.

Every chapter had me wanting to know more. I really couldn't figure out what was going to happen next. With a kind of humor, it made me laugh at times and some dramatic twists through the book.Unique and a little disturbing!

Fantastic book read this in just two days very gripping and great twist would recommend everyone to read this book

This was my favorite Freida McFadden story yet.Fast paced, and with a good cast of characters. Just a few unclear loose ends (i.e. who rigged the car battery, some other logistical moves... don't want to give away any of the plot) kept it from being a 5 star read. Good job, Dr. McFadden!