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Release Date: November 24th 2015
Pages: 320
Age Range: Young Adult
Received from publisher for review
It's Saturday night and Gabby Perez and her best friend Maria are out in their hometown Miami. What should have been a normal night out turn in something bad. A guy they don't know warns Gabby that the drinks of her and Maria have been spiked/drugged. Luckily Gabby didn't drink from it, but Maria did and the next day Maria can't remember anything about the night before.
Gabby is a host at a local radio station, and the day after she tells in her show about what happened to her and Maria, as her plan is not to stay quiet about this incident and warn other girls about it. A few days later, Gabby's friend Bree goes missing after she went to a party.
With the mysterious boy she met at the party, who goes by an undercover name which is just ''X'', she starts the search for Bree, and with X she lands in the underworld of the bad side of Miami, where drug lords and gangs make out the rules, and where they find out that Bree apparently has landed in a shady prostitution/drugs ring. During their search, a romance between Gabby and X starts, until she finds out the true identity of X and his past, and that danger surrounds him..
Light of Day is a thrilling dark YA thriller, perfect for fans of Simone Elkeles and Katie McGarry. I had some weak points though: the danger in the book is kind of a letdown, I expected more from this, especially around X and the search for Bree. What I expected was a more cliffhanger-y ending, with some dangerous events around Bree's escape. that stayed out, and the story keeps hanging of ''danger'' that is supposed to happen but doesn't really happen at al.
What I did like was the romance between Gabby and X. Because there is danger around him it is much more exciting to read ofcourse than when he wouldn't have this. Gabby doesn't realise this until quite the end, but the reader does, and this makes curious if she will find out too and when.
Overall, a very well written novel, which is a sequel to On The Edge, which I wish I had readed before this one. It can be read as a standalone though. Enjoyable but would have been better withsome more thrilling parts in the plot.
