Description
They went away as friends.
They came back as suspects.
Rachel and Jack. Paige and Noah. Will and Ali. Five friends who’ve known each other for years. And Ali, Will’s new fiancée.
The three couples travel to Portugal for Ali and Will’s destination wedding. Arriving at the gorgeous clifftop villa, the weekend away is a chance to relax and get to know Ali a little better. A newcomer to their group, she seems perfectly nice and Will seems happy after years of bad choices.
But when Rachel discovers a shocking secret about Ali, everything changes. As the wedding weekend unfolds, the secrets each of them holds begin to spill, and friendships and marriages threaten to unravel.
In Sandie Jones’s explosive new suspense novel, jumping to conclusions can become the difference between life and death.
Details
- Rating: ☆☆☆
- Title: The Guilt Trip
- Author: Sandie Jones
- Genre: Domestic Thriller
- Length: 320 pages
- Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
- Release Date: August 3, 2021
- Excerpt
Three couples.
Destination Portugal.
Goal to experience the beautiful wedding of one of the couples: Will and Ali.
The friends attending don’t really care for Ali, especially Rachel. In spite of that, will it be the fairy tale wedding most might imagine it to be?
Sometimes friendships can start to frazzle with too much time and togetherness. Especially if secrets are involved. And none of the characters can be trusted, or can they?
Sound interesting? It did to me too. St. Martin’s books many times are the mysteries I reach for, so I was excited to get started reading.
Unfortunately, I’m disappointed to say this book, for me, just didn’t tick many of the boxes that make up a good mystery.
This story had characters who were talking constantly, so it was filled with dialog. However, rather than the dialog weaving seamlessly throughout the story, it jumped out. And it only marginally moved the story ahead so it not only was noticeable, but it drug the story out. The constant chatter quickly led to characters I really didn’t care about.
It just didn’t wow me in any way.
This story is probably a toss of the coin. You might like it, maybe not. I really can’t recommend it.
Rating
Not the best…just okay.
About the Author
SANDIE JONES has worked as a freelance journalist for more than twenty years and has written for publications including the Sunday Times, Woman’s Weekly, and the Daily Mail. She lives in London with her husband and three children. The Other Woman was her debut novel and a Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club pick, followed by The First Mistake and The Half Sister.
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