Lexie Elliott

I usually like Lexie Elliott books, but this one didn't do much for me.
After Emily is widowed, she is grieving her husband, Nick, who was working on a discovery and hopefully a patent. She attends a getaway at a remote chalet with friends from Oxford, as well as some other fellows, graduates, and undergraduates.
Before leaving, she feels an intruder has been in her home, and the feeling is with her at the chalet. When there is an unsettling encounter with a student, she is unnerved. She speaks to a friend about it, but is shocked when she discovers a secret between her friend and the same student. Then there is a mystery about the chalet, and Emily feels that her room keeps getting searched, perhaps for some of Nick's secrets.
I wasn't invested in any of the characters in this one. Also - too long.… (mere)

A digital copy of this book was provided to me by NetGalley and Berkley Publishing Group. The opinions are my own and freely given.

"There's someone in the house."

This is the story of a group of professors, graduate students and undergraduate students, getting together for week in a chalet in the French Alps, with no electric and no running water.

Sounds relaxing right? Wrong. Secrets, coverups, "accidents" a missing student. These all lead to paranoia, mistrust and anger.

I liked this book ok. I felt that the chapters were really long. There are diary entries interspersed throughout from the members of the group. I really didn't love the book, until the end. There were a lot of people in the group and a couple of them were barely touched on. Olive for one really only had a small part to play and I felt like I had forgotten about her through most of it.

But everything is answered in the end. I spent most of this book suspecting 2 people, but I got there in the end right before it was revealed.

Thank you NetGalley and Berkley Publishing Group.… (mere)

I mean, how can you resist a book with this title? It's made for an HBO limited series, right? And the story is worthy of one too.

I'm not going to tell you too much about the plot of 𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗧𝗢 𝗞𝗜𝗟𝗟 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗕𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗙𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗗 (and highly suggest you don't read the synopsis) because the less you know going into this thriller by Lexie Elliott, the better.

The broad strokes: college pals Georgie and Bronwyn reunite at an exclusive island resort for the funeral of their best friend, Lissa, who mysteriously drowned. But what brought the three of them together was being on the swim team and Lissa was the strongest swimmer of them all. Along with another teammate, Duncan, their friend Adam and Lissa's widowed husband, Jem, they gather to remember Lissa but also start to question whether what really happened to her.

This book starts off slowly but once it takes off, it is one heck of a ride with some wild twists I did not see coming. It was the perfect vacation read and I was so wrapped up in reading it on the beach that I may have ignored my kids for most of the day. #sorrynotsorry… (mere)