Review: The Guilt Trip by Sandie Jones
About the Book
In the vein of the Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine Book Club pick The Other Woman, Sandie Jones’s explosive new novel The Guilt Trip will have readers gripped to the very last page.
They went away as friends.
They came back as suspects.
Rachel and Jack. Paige and Noah. And Will. Five friends who’ve known one another for years. Then along came Ali, Will’s new fiancée.
The three couples travel to Portugal for Ali and Will’s destination wedding. The weekend away at the gorgeous cliff-top villa is a chance to relax and get to know Ali an little better. She seems perfectly nice—and Will seems happy after years of bad choices.
But when Rachel discovers a shocking secret about Ali, everything changes. As the wedding weekend unfolds, the secrets each of them holds begin to spill, and friendships and marriages threaten to unravel.
In Sandie Jones’s explosive new suspense novel, jumping to conclusions can become the difference between life and death.
Review
For most of The Guilt Trip it felt as though I was immersed in a dramatic soap opera. Characters whose lives were tangled together in a web of secrets and deceit. To me, the suspense aspect didn't really even come into play until perhaps the last 25% of the book. I felt the story up until this point was engaging, but it lacked surprise. As the lies came to light and the drama unfolded, it wasn't all that shocking. Still, I was satisfied with the ending, so I'd say that although it wasn't a "blow-me-away" read, it was still an alright reading experience.
If you're in the mood for a domestic drama/suspense novel, check it out for yourself.
*Complimentary copy for review provided by Minotaur Books (St. Martin's Press). All opinions expressed here are honest and entirely my own.
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About the Author
SANDIE JONES has worked as a freelance journalist for more than twenty years and has written for publications including The Sunday Times, Woman’s Weekly, and Hello magazine. She lives in London with her husband and three children. She is the author of The Other Woman, a Reese’s Book Club x Hello Sunshine pick.
