📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚 The Guilt Trip
AUTHOR: Sandie Jones
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Stars: ⭐⭐ + 🐢
Published: August 3, 2021
The Review 📚 The Guilt Trip
✨ The Title/Cover Draw:
- I had enjoyed some previous Sandie Jones books, so I was interested in some more. Thank you to @Netgalley and Minotaur for the opportunity to read this ahead of publication.
💜 What I liked:
- The thing I loved about this book is the description for the setting. It sounded like a beautiful beach and hotel.
😱 What I didn’t like:
- As you know, I don’t like to be totally negative about a book. But this one confused me for a lot of reasons. First, it’s being marketed as a thriller but there is no element of danger except at the end. There is a mystery but it’s basically “is the bride sleeping with her soon to be sister-in-law’s husband”. The thriller part might be at the end, but it’s too much blink and you miss it. It’s clumsily revealed with the addition of an epilogue that was more confusing than wrapped up. The shallowness of the main character also annoyed me, as she lent herself more to gossip than just getting to know someone. Overall this book was a miss for me.
🚦 My face at the end: 🤦♀️
💭 2 Reasons to Read:
- 1. Exciting Setting
- 2. Mysterious personalities
🕧 Mini-Summary:
- Rachel, Jack, Noah, and Paige are traveling to Portugal to attend the wedding of Jack’s brother Will and Ali. There are many secrets and lies.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Received from Netgalley.
📘 Summary 📚 The Guilt Trip
In the vein of The Other Woman, Sandie Jones’s explosive new novel The Guilt Trip will have readers gripped to the very last page.
Six friends.
Rachel and Noah have been friends since they met at university. While they once thought that they might be something more, now, twenty years later, they are each happily married to other people, Jack and Paige respectively. Jack’s brother Will is getting married, to the dazzling, impulsive Ali, and the group of six travel to Portugal for their destination weekend.
Three couples.
As they arrive at a gorgeous villa perched on a cliff-edge, overlooking towering waves that crash on the famous surfing beaches below at Nazaré, they try to settle into a weekend of fun. While Rachel is looking forward to getting to know her future sister-in-law Ali better, Ali can’t help but rub many of the group up the wrong way: Rachel’s best friend Paige thinks Ali is attention-seeking and childish, and while Jack is trying to support his brother Will’s choice of wife, he is also finding plenty to disagree with Noah about.
One fatal misunderstanding . . .
But when Rachel discovers something about Ali that she can hardly believe, everything changes. As the wedding weekend unfolds, the secrets each of them hold begin to spill, and friendships and marriages threaten to unravel. Soon, jumping to conclusions becomes the difference between life and death.