A review by andintothetrees
The Festival by Sarah J. Naughton

3.0

Delivered what I expected - a nice slice of hard-to-put-down domestic thriller escapism. Loses a star due to a few sentences which felt a bit ableist (also a problem in the other book by this author that I've read) and due to the timeline not quite adding up - the friends first went to the festival when school ended in 2000, but are supposed to be there again "20 years later" when they are 40. Who stays at school (and it was definitely secondary school, not university) until they are 20? And who was going to a festival in 2020? I think it would have worked better had dates either been left vaguer, or set back a few years.