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Reviewed by Jamie Michele for Readers' Favorite
In Long Temple and Fielder Whitley’s What Survives the Pressure, Gia is assaulted the night before graduation and moves into the next morning with what happened unspoken. On the way to the ceremony, a man connected to her attacker follows Gia and her friends into a narrow walkway, where the girls fight back before escaping. The encounter brings Detective Harris to Delores’s apartment, but Gia’s attacker, Doug, arrives with a warning before she can decide what to say. Soon, men are watching from cars and street corners before following the girls onto train platforms. A package containing a bloodstained hoodie wrapped around a cracked phone makes the danger impossible to dismiss. When Gia realizes the men are studying every decision she makes, she begins to understand that running may be exactly what they expect.
Long Temple and Fielder Whitley’s What Survives the Pressure is a seriously good urban crime thriller, and the best part is Gia. She notices the half-second pauses other people miss, then makes the next move before anybody else has caught up. I loved watching criminals begin listening to her. The surveillance folder is brilliant, especially when Gia spots that the man in the blue jacket is being watched too. The entire scale of the story changes right there. Temple and Whitley are bang-on with suspense. Breaking routes to expose a tail is fantastic, with one slow car on the wrong street telling Gia that somebody has finally moved. Arlene is excellent, always putting herself nearest to danger when Gia needs her. Well written and absolutely female-forward; readers who enjoy urban crime thrillers will adore this.
