A death is described in some detail, characters buy guns and storm a police station, a man is tied up and threatened with a knife, a family is held at gunpoint, a person hangs himself. The friends regularly drink and get drunk, and one is revealed to be a drug dealer. This is a dark story with characters whose emotional troubles are only magnified as time passes. The only way out? A vote that will let one person live while the other four must die. A mysterious man who calls himself the Keeper announces that they are now stuck in time - in a Neverworld where they will live the same day over and over. Did he really kill himself or could it have been murder? The first night the friends spend together is interrupted by a knock at the door. Beatrice Hartley, who narrates the story, has come because she needs closure about the death of her boyfriend, Jim. Families need to know that Marisha Pessl’s Neverworld Wake is psychological thriller that follows five estranged friends who reunite at an isolated seaside mansion a year after graduation from a New England prep school.
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