Getting snowed in at a beautiful, rustic mountain chalet doesn’t sound like the worst problem in the world, especially when there’s a breathtaking vista, a cozy fire, and company to keep you warm. But what happens when that company is eight of your coworkers…and you can’t trust any of them? When an off-site company retreat meant to promote mindfulness and collaboration goes utterly wrong when an avalanche hits, the corporate food chain becomes irrelevant and survival trumps togetherness. Come Monday morning, how many members short will the team be? The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Turn of the Key and In a Dark Dark Wood returns with another suspenseful thriller set on a snow-covered mountain.
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2.5 stars
OVERALL: Slow start, music business was stupid element to the book's structure, I knew 'who-done-it' from pretty much the start, good middle 40%, bad long anticlimactic boring ending after the reveals. Also, idgaf about skiing.
Content warnings: murder, sexual assault, alcohol, suffocation, poison, death
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Buddy-read this thriller
Read about 75% of this in one sitting, and honestly I think that only helped the book...
The start is slow and lays a lot of ground work, with info dumps about the stupid music company that never becomes particularly interesting nor relevant to the plot. Characters are sketched quickly, with one or two defining characteristics. But from Erin's POV she overhears or witnesses a number of conversations that demonstrate who is sleeping around, who is loyal to a fault, who would have a reason to jump ship, etc, laying out possible red herring motives.
I'd say the first ~30% should have been condensed further, as it takes that long to get to the avalanche that's described in the blurb.
Then the next third of the book is fast paced and exciting, as the characters start to die/disappear, and everyone's motives are thrown into question, and people are trying to be logical and smart but also fingers are being pointed and all those red herrings are coming up...
Then, somewhere around the 75-80% mark, there's important information and then a bunch of action, and then the book just trails off, with the last 15-20% being further information dump and tying up all these boring loose ends--most of those last few chapters should have been summarized into an epilogue or one chapter.
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