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Device Free Weekend by Sean Doolittle
3.0
Ryan Cloverhill, a self-made tech mogul and billionaire, invites his 6 best friends for a weekend reunion at his remote island home. There’s just one catch: they all have to surrender their phones and devices upon entry. They enjoy their first day catching up but upon the second morning, Ryan has disappeared and left behind a tablet to communicate. At first, it seems like a game: they have to crack a code to open the tablet. But Ryan has something much crazier planned.
I’ll be straight: I did not like this book. I couldn’t connect with any of the characters, and I feel like we were never told exactly why Ryan was doing what he was doing. If the point was for us to not be able to figure out his motives, then I guess it was well-achieved. And although it’s called “device free weekend”, the story was filled with various devices, just not the ones the friends brought with them. I kept reading because I wanted to see how it ended, but honestly felt like there really was no closure. Although it was action-packed, the story was jumbled in between all the technology in my opinion. I usually love remote settings for thrillers but this just didn’t do it for me. Thank you to the author, Grand Central Publishing and Netgalley for the ARC. This story releases February 28th.
I’ll be straight: I did not like this book. I couldn’t connect with any of the characters, and I feel like we were never told exactly why Ryan was doing what he was doing. If the point was for us to not be able to figure out his motives, then I guess it was well-achieved. And although it’s called “device free weekend”, the story was filled with various devices, just not the ones the friends brought with them. I kept reading because I wanted to see how it ended, but honestly felt like there really was no closure. Although it was action-packed, the story was jumbled in between all the technology in my opinion. I usually love remote settings for thrillers but this just didn’t do it for me. Thank you to the author, Grand Central Publishing and Netgalley for the ARC. This story releases February 28th.