Wow! A great thriller! Rich, believable characters drive a well-crafted tale of a friendship and a marriage both tainted by deceit. So many twists, I though I had it figured out...and I did partly, but not entirely. A fast read with a great heart thumping ending.

Interesting, fast paced and will keep you guessing until the end! Would definitely recommend this book to anyone who is looking for a good thriller!

i enjoyed this book. It keeps you turning the pages. Twists, turns and a kick in the gut. Thanks NetGalley for the ARC. I will recommend this book to others.

Orla and Kate were best friends, they have been through everything together. Orla is married now with a baby, Kate is a career woman living the single life, They both needed a break and decided to get away for a weekend to Portugal, a few days to relax,

There are so many twists and turns it will keep you guessing until the end. One of the friends does not return home from the trip. The book was very good.

I was given an ARC for my honest opinion

The Weekend Away by Sarah Alderson is a page-turning thriller I couldn't put down... literally. .I was being prepped for surgery and only put it down to have the surgery!
Orla and Kate have been best friends for ages. Orla, the responsible one, settled down and had a child with a sweet, doting husband while Kate remained a fré spirit until her late 30s marrying (and ultimately divorcing) for money. Since they were in their early 20s they have taken a girls trip once each year to somewhere around the world.. Lately, however, they haven't had a chance and when Kate suggests a weekend in Lisbon, Orla gladly accepts thinking a weekend away from motherhood responsibilities will do her good. Thing go south quickly when Orla realizes Kate doesn't have the same, relaxing weekend in mind as she does. Kate wants to party like they are still in their 20s, clubbing, drinking and even wants to bring back two men they just met in a bar. Orla, feeling unusually drunk falls into bed while Kate enjoys the men's company. The next day when Orla wakes up, the two men are gone. So is Kate. No note, no text, and her phone goes straight to voicemail. She's vanished and it's up to Orla to find out what happened to her.

Thank you for the opportunity to read this novel. 2 Stars. The book focused on what was going on in the present between everyone but didn’t provide enough on how they came to be in the situation they put themselves in. This domestic thriller fell flat for me.

I loved this book and would have awarded it five stars but the ending left me disappointed. However, it was a great read and would highly recommend it. Some readers might love the ending, so I still want to praise the wonderful writing and the plot as well as the characters. Unusual twists throughout the book and really kept me guessing. Unpredictable and wonderful.

For those who love a good vacation gone wrong book this a great choice!

In The Weekend Away, two best friends go away on vacation and only one of them comes back.

I listened to most of this on audio, and I loved every minute of it. Loved the awkward conversations between the two characters, the mystery after the disappearance, and every minute until the very end. This was so close to being a 5 star read for me, but I hated the ending. I still highly recommend this one, just know you might not be a fan of how this one ends.

Release Date: Available now as audio or ebook, paperback April 2021

Thank you @avon_books for my copy.

I loved it! It hooked me from the very beginning. I loved the twists and I'm hoping there's a sequel to tie up the loose ends at the end of the book.

Oh my ‘lanta what did just read 😱 #netgalley #netgalleyreviewer #netgalleyreads we meet a recent mum who has had struggles with fertility, happily married. She’s about to take a quick weekend getaway with her best friend Kate. Leaving her babe and husband alone for the first time. What starts as an evening of dining and adventure quickly becomes something that one of the friends did NOT sign up for. One of the friends goes missing. And. As the other friend searches for her the secrets that unravel will shock you as it did me. This book was phenomenal with all of its twists and turns. Everything just made sense. Which. Readers will get 😂🤷‍♀️ definitely pick up #theweekendaway by #sarahalderson out on the 13th of April. I promise you won’t put it down. #bookstagram #booklover #bookcommunity #booknerdlife #bookrecommendations #bookaddict

WOW! What a great book. This one will keep you guessing to the very end.. it has it all. The story begins quick and does not let up the pace. Great development of the characters without unnecessary details. I hope Netflix picks up the rights to this one to create it into a movie. When this comes out in April I am sure it will be on the bestseller list!

The Weekend Away
by Sarah Alderson
Harper 360
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Avon
General Fiction (Adult) | Mystery & Thrillers
Pub Date 13 Apr 2021 | Archive Date 04 May 2021

This book was not my cup of tea. I felt it was slow going and just not interesting enough. Thanks to Haper 360 and NetGalley for the ARC.

3 star

This was a really great escapish book. It would be the perfect beach/vacation read to keep you interested. I found the overrall plot and ending somewhat predictable, but I was able to stay invested and wanted to see how it played out. I liked most of the characters, despite some of the plot holes with them. Definitely recommend if you are just wanting something quick and entertaining but aren't expecting it to change your life.

I have always loved books like this and Alderson's was refreshing! Honestly, I was hooked just from the synopsis, and I'm so thankful to have been given the chance to read this book. I look forward to suggesting it to many of my mystery-reading friends!

This book sucked me in, then bored me. The writing and somewhat intriguing storyline kind of faded by the middle which is not what I want from this type of book. I enjoyed the Portuguese location and the idea but it fell short for me.

Not my cup of tea. I found the plot to be predictable in places and flat in others. I also wasn’t a huge fan of the characters. I do see how others might enjoy the story. It is fast paced and would make a fun beach read

Orla is a new mother with a charming husband that urges her to spend a short weekend away with her best friend Kate. Kate has a high profile job, fabulous salary and rich and wild tastes. She whisks Orla away to beautiful Portugal, new clothes, new makeup, a great evening of food and drinks and later meeting two attractive single men who she invites back to their apartment.
The next morning Orla wakes up in Lisbon to find Kate missing, the unknown men, Joaquin and Emmanuel are gone and the police are ready to involve her in what becomes a murder investigation.
Plenty of plot twists and turns and a few real surprises. Great read!

The Weekend Away is a psychological thriller and was a quick read. Two friends go on what is to be a girls weekend ends up with one of them missing. This book had lots of twists and the ending I didn’t see coming. Thanks Netgalley for my ARC in exchange for my honest opinion.

3 Stars

Sarah Alderson has an easy to read style that I found engaging. I liked the linear, single POV story, told start to finish by Orla, that kept the pace moving along nicely. The setting was interesting and I liked Orla, the protagonist, and rooted for her, even though the plot points were predictable. We've seen them all before. BUT...(spoiler alert!) I was NOT HAPPY with the cliffhanger ending. After spending hours reading this book I didn't appreciate the sleight of hand final chapter that wasn't final at all. I would have rated this book higher if the ending hadn't been a trick.

Many thanks to NetGalley and HarperCollins for providing an ARC to read and review.

It's not very often that I only give a one star rating to a book and I really, really wanted to give this one more. I wanted to like it, but quite honestly, it was an absolute struggle to get through it. I read a lot of psychological thrillers, so it wasn't very hard very early on to figure out where the story was going and what was going to happen. To me, figuring out the characters' motives was not very difficult at all. I recognize that the author put in enough twists to make it a thriller, but I think most of those twists were pretty easy to figure out.

By the time I got to chapter 6, I was asking myself if I was going to be able to continue. I begin skimming constantly and I still got the gist of the story. By chapter 13 or 14, I really thought I was going to just quit reading, but I since I had received a free copy from Net Galley in exchange for my honest opinion, I really felt obligated to continue. By then, I was literally MAYBE only reading the first and last sentence of each paragraph. It wasn't even until around chapter 21 that the book got interesting. The first 21 chapters could have been completed in about 50 pages. At any rate, there was just so much extraneous stuff that didn't need to be in the book mainly because if the reader has half a brain, one can intuit or read between the lines.

It's rare that I read a book that is such a struggle to finish. I think the story has been told before. There are no surprises. Characters and their motivations are easily figured out. There's no mystery. I'm sorry. Just trying to be honest and after all, it's just one person's opinion. I see a lot of people really liked it. I didn't and if you read a lot of psychological thrillers, you might consider giving this one a pass as you will be bored stiff.

As always, though, thanks to NetGalley for letting me read it in exchange for my honest opinion.