The Guilt Trip by Sandie Jones
Thank you to Minotaur Books for the gifted copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
Synopsis
Rachel and Noah have been friends since they met at university. While they once thought that they might be something more, now, twenty years later, they are each happily married to other people, Jack and Paige respectively. Jack’s brother Will is getting married, to the dazzling, impulsive Ali, and the group of six travel to Portugal for their destination weekend.
Three couples.
As they arrive at a gorgeous villa perched on a cliff-edge, overlooking towering waves that crash on the famous surfing beaches below at Nazaré, they try to settle into a weekend of fun. While Rachel is looking forward to getting to know her future sister-in-law Ali better, Ali can’t help but rub many of the group up the wrong way: Rachel’s best friend Paige thinks Ali is attention-seeking and childish, and while Jack is trying to support his brother Will’s choice of wife, he is also finding plenty to disagree with Noah about.
One fatal misunderstanding . . .
But when Rachel discovers something about Ali that she can hardly believe, everything changes. As the wedding weekend unfolds, the secrets each of them hold begin to spill, and friendships and marriages threaten to unravel. Soon, jumping to conclusions becomes the difference between life and death.
My Review
This book is full of drama and makes us question as the reader, how well do we really know our friends. This book reads like a domestic soap opera thriller with all the backstabbing and juicy gossipy bits. There are lots of secrets and suspicion in this book. The first half of the book was an entertaining read and had me turning the pages. I did figure out the big reveal/plot twist that happened towards the end of the book. When I was reading the second half of the book, I was feeling this was going to be a 4 star read, but the rather crazy and drama filled ending with that epilogue that makes the reader question what they thought they knew, brought my rating down a bit.
With how fast I was reading this book with all the entertaining drama, despite some of the characters being a tad annoying, I will be reading more books from this author in the future for the pure pleasure and amusement value.
My Rating: 3.5/5
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Book Details
Author: Sandie Jones.
Publisher: Minotaur Books.
Publication Date: May 31, 2021.
Genre: Thriller. Suspense. Fiction. Mystery. Psychological Thriller.
Edition: Paperback.
Pages: 320.
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