Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six: A Novel of Thrilling Suspense

For all that is holy, SKIP THIS ONE! I swear chapters 2-44 are worthless & mundane. I absolutely struggled to finish this one & it was painful. I really wanted to DNF this one but by god…Im no quitter but yeah- I should have saved myself some hours I will never get back.
The characters are painfully developed into painstaking detail when they could have been summed up into 5 words. I can only compare this dumpster fire of a story to a Tarantino fight scene. Too long, too detailed & your over it fairly quickly.
Hard. Pass.

It would be impossible for me to review this novel without spoilers so here we go, lots of spoilers ahead... I would only read ahead if you've either read it already or know for sure you will not be reading it. Wow do these characters suck. Other than Henry and Piper and their story line, they're all terrible. At first I wanted to dnf. This is one of my first audiobooks and I was listening at 1.5 speed so I thought maybe my issue was with not being used to the pace and hearing it in someone else's voice. But as I went on I realized the characters suck because they're terrible people so it clicked and suddenly I couldn't put it down. This is one where I rooted for the killer at a certain point and was slightly disappointed with the ending but I want to expand on that. Mako, his sister Hannah, his ex Cricket, and all their significant others are hard people to like. Mako (actually Michael but also one of those guys) immediately gave me a creep vibe and I hated and I mean *hated* how his sister and ex who is also his sister's bestie, not only made excuses for him but actively covered up crimes for him. I hated them all for so many reasons. When I realized that this was by design because we were meant to feel this way about them it was an ah-ha moment for sure. Genius writing on the part of the author, really, because I *really hated* these people. I am slightly disappointed in the end where the women got off by making a Facebook post? I mean come on, but I'm also thinking that's probably what the author was going for. I get women are always made to be punished for men's actions (and I agree) but I feel like in this situation they should have been punished for something, at least more than 'losing some friends over the Facebook post'. I couldn't have rolled my eyes harder there and based on the earlier twisted narrative I think this was the goal of this part. I do feel like the sex scenes were slightly more graphic than made sense for the level of detail elsewhere in the novel. Again, one of my first forays into audiobooks so it may have just been the fact that it was being read out loud. I would definitely read more from this author and would recommend their work to those who like to hate the characters, it does make for a more interesting ride.