trr51591 's review for:

The Weekend Guests by Liza North

2.5

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The setup for this thriller sounds generic, but I'm such a sucker for an isolated location and long-ago secrets coming to light that I didn't care. "Five old friends. A reunion to die for" is the tagline. And yet the entire time I was reading I was waiting for people to die. There are so many POVs in this, and dual timelines, and there's not a lot differentiating the male characters specifically from one another, so it took me a while to be able to keep straight who was who. I was more interested in the past storyline than the present, but then the big reveal tying everything together was very "I Know What You Did Last Summer" but minus the man with the hook hand murking everyone, which honestly is the best part of that movie anyway. Not the worst book I've read, but definitely not the best. If you're easing your way into thrillers this may be more your speed, but if you also read a lot of them this will likely be a letdown. Thanks to Harper Perennial for the advance copy in exchange for my honest review.