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Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six
by Lisa Unger
Thank you NetGalley and Harper Audio for this advanced audiobook copy, but truthfully I did not enjoy this. This story did not work for me or entertain me in any way.
This story is basically your usual locked room mystery in a cabin during a storm. Lots of different POVs, plenty of secrets being kept by each character, and a slew of unlikeable characters. However, they didn’t even actually arrive at the cabin until like 20% in I believe (could have been a little later), so a lot of the first 20% was information about our main character Hannah and things going on in her personal life as they’re preparing for this trip. We got to learn about some of her family drama and she’s suspecting her husband is cheating on her, so she’s dealing with feelings of insecurity and paranoia.
This book simply had too many POVs, and some of them genuinely did not feel necessary to the story. There’s Hannah, our main character and protector of her family, her best friend Cricket who’s main personality trait is that she’s a hot busty blonde and is “easy” and who is still in love with Hannah’s brother Michael. Michael, who goes by some other variation like Maeko - (without the text I’m not sure about the spelling) and Cricket have been broken up for years and he has since married someone else. His wife Liza is also one of the POVs, and then lastly we have the Pervy cabin owner, a suspicious woman who is Michael’s ex-assistant, and a young boy who ended up without a home when his mother is killed and we follow him as he grows up. Lots of different perspectives, but a ton that just didn’t seem to fit. There’s also a ton of side characters in the cabin and in flashbacks that were hard to follow.
Ultimately, nothing really happened until 40% in and even when things did start happening they were underwhelming. When the final reveal and twist happened I was so done with this book that I didn’t care. The plot was all over the place, and this could have been cut down a ton of pages and still would have been a fine story.
Perhaps I would have felt differently if I had the book instead of the audiobook. This book was also pretty dark and had some triggers such as rape in the plot.
All in all, I can’t really rate this more than 1 star. If this wasn’t an ARC I would have DNFed, but I don’t like to do that when I am gifted these books to read.
This story is basically your usual locked room mystery in a cabin during a storm. Lots of different POVs, plenty of secrets being kept by each character, and a slew of unlikeable characters. However, they didn’t even actually arrive at the cabin until like 20% in I believe (could have been a little later), so a lot of the first 20% was information about our main character Hannah and things going on in her personal life as they’re preparing for this trip. We got to learn about some of her family drama and she’s suspecting her husband is cheating on her, so she’s dealing with feelings of insecurity and paranoia.
This book simply had too many POVs, and some of them genuinely did not feel necessary to the story. There’s Hannah, our main character and protector of her family, her best friend Cricket who’s main personality trait is that she’s a hot busty blonde and is “easy” and who is still in love with Hannah’s brother Michael. Michael, who goes by some other variation like Maeko - (without the text I’m not sure about the spelling) and Cricket have been broken up for years and he has since married someone else. His wife Liza is also one of the POVs, and then lastly we have the Pervy cabin owner, a suspicious woman who is Michael’s ex-assistant, and a young boy who ended up without a home when his mother is killed and we follow him as he grows up. Lots of different perspectives, but a ton that just didn’t seem to fit. There’s also a ton of side characters in the cabin and in flashbacks that were hard to follow.
Ultimately, nothing really happened until 40% in and even when things did start happening they were underwhelming. When the final reveal and twist happened I was so done with this book that I didn’t care. The plot was all over the place, and this could have been cut down a ton of pages and still would have been a fine story.
Perhaps I would have felt differently if I had the book instead of the audiobook. This book was also pretty dark and had some triggers such as rape in the plot.
All in all, I can’t really rate this more than 1 star. If this wasn’t an ARC I would have DNFed, but I don’t like to do that when I am gifted these books to read.