Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six
Ratings36
Average rating3.1
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Ratings36
Average rating3.1
"A deliciously tense ride." --Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author of One By One Three couples rent a luxury cabin in the woods for a weekend getaway to die for in this chilling locked-room thriller by New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger. What could be more restful, more restorative, than a weekend getaway with family and friends? An isolated luxury cabin in the woods, complete with spectacular views, a hot tub and a personal chef. Hannah's loving and generous tech-mogul brother found the listing online. The reviews are stellar. It's his birthday gift to Hannah and includes their spouses and another couple. The six friends need this trip with good food, good company and lots of R & R, far from the chatter and pressures of modern life. But the dreamy weekend is about to turn into a nightmare. A deadly storm is brewing. The rental host seems just a little too present. The personal chef reveals that their beautiful house has a spine-tingling history. And the friends have their own complicated past, with secrets that run blood deep. How well does Hannah know her brother, her own husband? Can she trust her best friend? And who is the new boyfriend, crashing their party? Meanwhile, someone is determined to ruin the weekend, looking to exact a payback for deeds long buried. Who is the stranger among them?
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I love the isolated, trapped, terrible weather plot line and this one did not disappoint. I appreciated the first 50 pages of getting to know Hannah, the main character and by far the most likable of the group. This helped me to easily keep these characters straight. I also enjoyed the Georgia setting. The family comes up from Florida to enjoy a weekend of unplugging in the Georgia mountains. Every thriller reader knows how dangerous that is. This book did a solid job of weaving in a DNA/Ancestry dot com subplot that, in my opinion, really worked. This one kept me guessing and kept me interested. Good read for domestic thriller lovers.
This was definitely an entertaining read. I have been looking for a good slasher and I feel like with this I am definitely getting closer to finding it.
I found the jumping of point of views a bit confusing and unnecessary at times. The moments that were set in Henry's point of view had me double checking to make sure I was still reading the same story since it didn't make sense until much later on. There were definitely characters I wanted to root for and characters I most certainly didn't.
I do have a lot of questions about Bracken, the owner of the cabin with what his motives were and what would happen with him. I felt like his part of the story possibly could've been left out altogether.
However, I loved the thriller aspect of it and actually would've loved for the action and eeriness of not knowing what's lurking in the dark whilst being stranded in a cabin in the middle of nowhere to be dragged out further.
I enjoyed how the main plots of the story were tied together at the end of the story. I would read this again.
Thank you to NetGalley and Legend Press for providing me this arc!
I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
This is one of the authors that got me into thrillers, but it just didn't do it for me. Way too many one dimensional characters to keep track of and some did not fit into the story at all. I know it would have all come together, but it couldn't keep me reading. Loved the premise, just messily executed.
