Four women.
Four secrets.
A weekend that will change them forever...if they survive.
Katie Manning was a beloved child star until her mid-teens when her manager attacked and permanently scarred her face, effectively ending her career and sending her on a path of all-too-familiar post-Hollywood self-destruction.
Now twenty-seven, Katie wants a better answer to those clickbait "Where Are They Now?" articles that float around online. An answer she hopes to find when her brother's too-good-to-be-true fianc�e invites her to a wellness retreat upstate. Together with Katie's two best friends--one struggling with crippling debt and family obligations, one running away from a failed job and relationship--Katie will try to find the inner peace promised at the tranquil retreat. But finding oneself just might drudge up more memories than Katie is prepared to deal with.
Each woman has come to the retreat for different reasons. Each has her secrets to hide. And at the end of this weekend, only one will be left standing.
Published: 13th August 2019
Publisher: Titan Books
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Series or Stand-Alone: Stand-Alone
Source: Review Copy from Publisher
Please note that this story contains a trigger warning for a sensitive issue
MY REVIEW
What an interesting book. I went into this book completely blind, not reading any reviews or even reading the book description - which is the way that I like to go into thrillers so I don't spoil the story for myself. For a story that I would have thought would be straight forward and an OK book for me turned out to me very surprising!
We have a main character in this story, which is Katie. Katie was a child star of a TV show that stopped airing some 12 years before. She is clearly unhappy, drinking a lot and suffers from sleep walking, which she is helped by her brother who lives in the same building, which she owns. Her brother, Nate, has a girlfriend called Ellie, who does not get on very well with Katie. We then start getting into the main part of the story when Ellie and Katie go off to 'The Retreat' for a girls weekend and whilst Ellie thought that it would just be her and Katie, Katie has invited her friends along as well. There is something not quite right when they get to the Retreat, with each of the characters, including the two hosts of the Retreat (husband and wife team), acting quite odd. Slowly, we get to understand more and more about each of the character's backgrounds.
I had an inkling of who the 'bad guy' was in this story but was still surprised by a few of the other twists and turns in this story.
I should also, at this point, that there is a trigger warning that needs to be brought to your attention in this book. I am not going to say what the trigger warning is about here because that would spoil quite a big twist in the story but if you want me to let you know what that is, please do message me.
If I had to be picky, I would say that the one thing I would change in this book would be to have more of an ending. It felt very abrupt at the end, with the main twist in the story happening and then very little what happened next which felt rushed. I would have loved to have had more of a what happened next there.
This was certainly a thriller that kept me on my toes with what would happen next! I can't wait to check out more from this author.
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