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Best Friends Forever by Cathryn Grant is a psych thriller that wanders around for a while, drawing the reader in, finally leading to a surprising ending.

It is not exactly linear, but it is very easy to follow.

Abbey and Raven were best friends in college. A tragedy caused one of them to drop out. But neither of them has followed the best path into their current lives.

When the opportunity arrives for a road trip to a college reunion, they have the chance to bury some memories, clear up some misunderstandings, and create new beginnings.

It’s not a spoiler to say that things don’t go exactly as planned.

I’ll be boring and repeat that I don’t do spoilers. But I don’t think it is a spoiler to say that you have to suspend your disbelief for this one. People who haven’t spoken in over a decade don’t just randomly meet up and go on a road trip together.

It makes for a good (and pivotal) plot point but isn’t exactly believable. Some of the actions of both women are also questionable and seem to be more for plot than for character development.

The point of the women traveling is that they have a shared incident from college that each has a completely different perspective on, and the road trip is a way to clear the air (so to speak).

I didn’t really like either one of them. They were each narcissistic in their own ways, and it is easy to see why their college (and subsequent) years turned out the way they did.

That being said, I liked how the author kept the past events a little mysterious so the reader never really knew who was the worst one and who was responsible for what aspects of the tragedy.

And the ending is a total shocker. The author went in a direction that is seldom taken in a psych thriller, and I applaud her for this. It was a great ending to a decent book.

Author Bio 

Cathryn Grant writes psychological thrillers, psychological suspense, and ghost stories. She’s the author of twenty-three novels. She is endlessly fascinated by the twists and turns, and the dark corners of the human mind.

When she’s not writing, Cathryn reads fiction, eavesdrops, and tries to play golf without hitting her ball into the sand or the water. She lives on the Central California coast with her husband and two cats.