Thanks to NetGalley for my copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Three couples rent an isolated luxury cabin for the weekend. It seems like the perfect opportunity to relax and escape the everyday stresses of high-powered jobs, parenthood and modern life. However, they didn’t bank on quite how remote the cabin is…especially with a violent storm on the way. Sinister elements from the past of the cabin – and its current residents – soon begin to surface. And there is no escape.
Unger does a brilliant job of building the tension throughout this book – there’s lots of creepy scene-setting, horrific back-story and eerie descriptions of the gathering storm. Later on in the book, once the action begins to ramp up, I was reading this with my heart in my mouth!
The characters are interesting, although not very nice! I spent a long time trying to work out who was the nicest as they would be my key suspect! I totally failed to predict what was coming though, so kudos to Unger for keeping me guessing. I particularly disliked Mako – with his controlling nature and manipulative generosity – and Cricket, but there weren’t too many likeable ones. Still, I think this is deliberate to better reveal the relationships between the characters and to bring out past tensions.
I liked that different chapters in the book were told from different perspectives – it was clever that the story was revealed slowly this way and the characters started to make sense in their attitudes towards each other. The inclusion of Bracken’s point of view (the owner of the cabin) was an engaging addition – although he’s another character you might love to hate!
You’ll enjoy this if you like books by Lucy Foley, Ruth Ware or Catherine Cooper. Think claustrophobic settings, intense situations and constantly trying to work out where the danger lies!
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“Three couples rent an isolated luxury cabin for the weekend.” Me: What could go wrong? 😅 but I’m loving what you read in your review. The fact that you failed to predict what was coming has me very interested since that’s one of the most important things for me with thrillers. I also like that the story is told from different perspectives, I always enjoy that!