🎧 book review: The Weekend Away by Miranda Smith

4⭐
Genre ~ psychological thriller
Setting ~ Smokey Mountains
Publication date ~ October 4, 2023
Page Count ~ 310 (58 chapters +p)
Audio length ~8 hours 21 minutes
Narrator ~ Madeline Pell
POV ~ single 1st & 3rd, and journal entries
Featuring ~ dead twin sister, references to r@pe and suicide, murder, remote setting

Sienna is off to spend the weekend with her twin sister’s friends in hopes of learning more about her death a year ago. You can just tell each of these friends are hiding something and some secrets are quite a doozie.

I loved the added journal entries from Samantha that gave the dead a voice. We, also, have the interesting 3rd person perspective from Troy, the guy that is renting them the house for the weekend.

Add in the remote no cell service atmosphere and Miranda has given us another tension filled, suspenseful read.

Narration notes:
She did an okay job. A bit stiff at times. Troy’s POV is in the 3rd and she didn’t even try to sound like man, and that was probably a good thing.

*Thanks to the author, Bookouture Audio and NetGalley for the audio copy. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review*

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Book blurb:

My sister died. Her friends lied. And now I’m going to learn the truth…

A year ago, my twin sister Samantha left me a message: I need you.

A day later, she was dead. I always knew it was suspicious, but no one would listen.

But I’ve just found her journal, tucked into a hidden space in the window seat of our childhood bedroom. It shows who her best friends really are: the fraud. The liar. The cheat. The crush.

Now, they’re all together on a weekend away, in a beautiful wood-panelled cabin in the mountain. And I’m going too. One of them killed her, and I’m going to prove it.

But am I ready for the answers I’m seeking? Because I soon realize that my sister had dark secrets too…

And when fire breaks out on the mountain, leaving us trapped, I must decide: what will I risk to get justice for Samantha? Because finding the truth might cost me my life…

An absolutely compulsive thriller that will have your pulse racing as you flip through the pages at speed! If you like The Hunting Party, Ruth Ware and The Summer House, you’ll love The Weekend Away!

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