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So loved this book. Will read anything these writers put out. Keeps you hanging on for sure.

Waking up on a beach. Alone. Wet. Discovering that one’s roommate and best friend is missing. So begins the nightmarish trip that is Girls’ Night Out, written by Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke. Three once close friends embark on a trip to Mexico, hoping for reconciliation and renewal. Trouble ensues after a chance encounter with a local man. He becomes their tour guide and leads them on adventures that are not only illegal, but dangerous. Old resentments and current troubles between the friends will leave the reader wondering who took Ashley, and will she be found alive? Fenton and Steinke are masterful storytellers and this fabulous, twisty tale will leave readers guessing until the last page.

Thanks go to NetGalley and Lake Union Publishing for this title as an e-ARC in exchange for my honest review. I was hoping I'd be granted this one, because it looked intriguing, and I enjoyed the authors' previous book. The characters were well done, but I wasn't sure how much I liked them much of the time. That said, I can see how the decisions and life events caused these 3 lifelong friends to be at odds with one another. Big decisions, lots of feelings and no one being able to say what they really wanted. It was a book about friends, and work/life balance, girl code and full of suspense. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and couldn't wait to get to the end. It was told I alternating time periods and narrators, which is a style I love if done right...this was. One of my favorite parts was the authors' notes at the end, about the writing of this book.

Psychological thrillers are one of my favorite genres. And I read a lot of them. So I was excited to get approved for this ARC. However, it fell short of my expectations, and I have to say that I just wasn't a fan.

First, the characters. I found their relationship very odd, as I know no one who has kept in touch with their friends from college to the extent that this women did. It just struck me as very far fetched. I can forgive a lot of terrible behavior from book characters (and there is a LOT of TERRIBLE behavior from these women who are my age) if there is something redeeming about them. And there just isn't. All three are shallow and vapid, and are really unlikable. Their spouses are unlikable too.

The setting was nice, I guess. It does seem like it would be a lovely place to visit.

The way the story is set up was hard to follow.

I had such high hopes for this one. But I just didn't like it. I wanted to know what happened though, so I kind of skimmed to the end.

I love Liz and Lisa so much but I had trouble connecting to this story. I found it a bit slow until about the halfway mark and while the pace did rapidly increase, I found the characters actions a bit unrealistic. I want more character development and depth from this as I felt their relationships with each other were very surfacey. Would make for a good, light beach read.

I received an advanced and uncorrected copy of this book in exchange for an honest review from Netgalley.
I have never read a book by these authors before, but I was interested in the a story of friendships and relationships put to the test.
I loved the concept of the story but at times found it slow moving, although it was still suspenseful.
I was kept guessing right to the end, and didn’t see the twist of the story coming.
I would look for another book from Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke in the future.

Three women that have been friends for over 20 years decide to do some dumb things - go to Mexico, drink a lot of alcohol, and befriend a strange man while they run off and let him give them "tours" around Mexico. Uh oh, you know something nefarious is gonna happen, amIright? Well, it does. One of the women is missing and we hear the story from multiple points of view. I also shook my head a lot while reading this as I have traveled in other countries alone before and these woman are really naïve; however, I really did enjoy this book. It will be a great beach read when it is released.
Thanks to NetGalley for the Advanced Copy!

Great read. Although I found a bit hard to keep track of the 3 narrators ( and the back and forth in time) I really enjoyed this book. It definitely was suspenseful and not predictable as some books in this genre tend to be. Definitely recommended it for mystery fans !

Three women, Lauren, Ashley and Natalie want to regain the friendship they once had and agree to take a vacation to Tulum, Mexico. But it’s not as easy to get over the past as they had hoped, then Ashley vanishes into thin air, leaving Lauren and Natalie to try to remember what happened the drunken evening their friend disappeared. Has Ashley been taken, left on her own, or did Lauren and Ashley have something to do with what happened to their old friend?