Saturday, July 17, 2021

7.17.2021 - The Guilt Trip

 The Guilt Trip by Sandie Jones

Many thanks to NetGalley, Minotaur Books and Macmillan Audio for gifting me both a digital and audio version of the latest suspense novel by Sandie Jones - 4 stars!  I alternated between the audio and digital versions of this book.  The audiobook narrator, Claire Corbet, did a great job with this cast of characters - I was easily able to differentiate between the characters speaking and her voice had a great quality with good pacing.

The story takes place with 3 couples headed to Portugal for one of their weddings.  Rachel and Jack, married for 20 years; their good friends, Paige and Noah; and Jack's brother Will and fiancĂ© Ali.  There is history between the couples - Rachel and Noah have been best friends since university, even close to making it more than friends.  Jack introduced Will and Ali, as Ali once worked at his company.  Ali's addition to the couples' friendship is a bit grating - she's quite outgoing and everyone seems to be questioning her actions.  Then those actions become too much for any of them to ignore any longer.

This was an enjoyable read and I was anxious to find out how it would all play out.  Everyone was keeping secrets and motives to themselves and there were lots of questions along the way as to the truth.  Since the prologue opened with one character in the hospital after an incident, you knew it wasn't going to end well for all of the characters.  Another good read by this author!

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