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I was very excited to read 'Two Nights in Lisbon', but unfortunately this novel just wasn't for me.
I liked the mystery and how intriguing it was, but I found the writing too repetitive and not engaging enough to keep me interested. The pacing of the novel was extremely slow for a thriller and I thought the main character was very flat and boring which made it a very disappointing read for me.

I read a few chapters and just couldn’t get into this book. I don’t like to leave 1 star reviews for not finishing so I gave it a 2 just because.

Thank you to NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this ARC in exchange for an honest opinion.

3.5 Stars / 5.0

I was very excited to be given the opportunity to read and review and advanced copy of Two Nights in Lisbon by Chris Pavone. The premise is intriguing and holds lots of promise. A recently married couple travels together to Lisbon on a business trip for the husband. One morning the wife awakes to an empty hotel suite. She checks the restaurant where they eat breakfast and checks with the staff and no one has seen her husband. He is missing. Eventual security camera footage shows him leaving the hotel in the early morning hours and getting in a car. And then the ransom demands arrive.

Sadly the promise of what could be with this book outshone what is. I found the first half or more of the book to be not very engaging. I didn't care about the characters. I was curious about what happened to John, the husband, as well as the snippets of Ariel's past that were revealed. I found it hard to engage with the book. The single thing that kept me going was to see the ending, and understand the horrible past that Ariel experienced, and who the powerful mystery man is. As her story was revealed I did find myself caring more about Ariel and the pains and scars she carries from that trauma. There was a final twist to the ending that was interesting, although not enough to make up for the shortfalls of the first half.

This is my opinion. People have different experiences and enjoy different books when reading. There are plenty of reviews that I have seen that are glowing for the book.

Another winner for Chris Pavone. If you like spy thrillers set in Europe but with American characters, this one is for you. Fast paced from beginning to the end.

Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC of this book. This was a pretty decent thriller, but fair warning that it does contain some pretty graphic depictions of sexual assault & may not be for everyone. It felt a bit long, and the narrator provided a ton of social commentary that maybe could have been pared down, though I agreed with most of it.

Nothing says summer like reading a thriller poolside & that’s exactly how I spent my weekend. This was a great twisty thriller that I really enjoyed. Would highly recommend - story of a woman who wakes up in Lisbon (with her new husband, on his work trip) to find her husband missing. She waits, nervously, for a few hours and then heads to the police station to report his disappearance. What follows is a non-stop motorcycle ride of a thriller.

Pavone sucked me in with this thrilling story, and I couldn’t put it down. I was quickly turning the pages and guessing until the very end. Thank you Net Galley for an advanced copy!

Help! My husband's missing!
Ariel and John are newlyweds and and John wants his wife to accompany him on a business trip to Portugal. When Ariel wakes up to find John not there she goes into panic mode. She knows something has happened to him and she seeks help from everybody she can think of. The police say he hasn't been gone long and she should chill, the American embassy is not much help either. Then when looking at security footage they can make out that he was taken by car. Then the ransom call comes in and Ariel has no idea how she's going to get ahold of 3 million euros. What follows is a scintillating race against all odds to acquire the money in time to save John.
This one is fairly well written and my only complaint would be that the transitions from the present to past are abrupt and at times confusing until I realized what was happening. I felt that maybe if they were made into separate chapters it would have flowed better. Other than that, this is a suspenseful, fast paced mystery I couldn't put down. If you're a fan of international thrillers where all things may not be as they seem, I suggest you give this one a go.

I have just read Two Nights in Lisbon by Chris Pavone.

Two Nights in Lisbon starts off with the main character Ariel Pryce – an American, waking up in the hotel room in Portugal where she is staying with her new husband of only a few months John, only to find that he is not there, and not responding to her messages.

When she goes to the local police, they do not seem to be taking her too seriously, since he has only been missing for a few hours.

Many secrets are found along the way, as the story continues.

This thriller has a good pace, and an interesting storyline.

3.5 Stars

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Thank you to NetGalley, Author Chris Pavone and Farrar, Straus and Giroux for my advanced copy to read and review

In Two Nights in Lisbon the kidnapping of an American becomes a matter of national security when the missing man’s wife extorts money from the soon-to-be appointed president of the United States. She falls under suspicion from the CIA, the embassy, and the local authorities and must decide who to trust and where to turn.

I found this book extremely fast paced and couldn’t wait to dive in after work each day to go deeper into the mystery. It was suspenseful, political, and intriguing. Highly recommend!

Ariel Pryce accompanies her husband John Wright on his business trip to Lisbon. When he goes missing in the morning, she asks the hotel staff if they have seen him. She contacts the local police, but they are not much help as not much time has passed.. She then goes to the American Embassy for help with the same result. As the story progresses and Ariel searches on her own, it appears that she knows very little about her husband. Does his disappearance have to do with his past or hers?
Many twists and turns with an unexpected ending.
Thanks to NetGalley for a copy.

Two Nights in Lisbon by Chris Pavone is an exciting international thriller. Ariel Pryce has accompanied her husband John on a business trip to Lisbon. The next morning, John has disappeared without a message or a trace. Ariel begins by questioning the hotel staff but no one has seen John. Then comes the local police station where the detectives tell her that her husband has not been missing long enough to look for him. Out of desperation, she goes to the American embassy where she is not taken seriously. She will have no option but to seek help from someone in her past, someone who is the last person she wants to talk to. There she is, alone in Lisbon, not knowing where her husband has disappeared. Sounds simple enough. But Two Nights in Lisbon is not simple. This is only the beginning. The story alternates between the present and Ariel’s past. And nothing is as it seems. Just when I thought I had figured what was going on, the storyline would swerve and veer off on another tangent. Chris Pavone has written an original thriller with a difference. The novel keeps up the tension and suspense until the very last paragraph. If you enjoy international thrillers, this is an excellent choice. You will find you want to reread it, now that you know what really happened. Highly recommended. Thank you to Farrar, Straus and Giroux, NetGalley and the author for an e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Two Nights in Lisbon, by Chris Pavone, is one of those suspense novels that takes you on quite the circulatis ride with its backstory among all sorts of other relevant details. I don't know that I got much of an idea of what Lisbon is really like but I have some understanding of what it might be like to deal with their police department, among others in different international branches. I found the main character interesting with a well detailed backstory.
Ariel Pryce thought she knew her husband, John
but then she woke up, this morning, alone. Now she's by herself, in Lisbon, and her husband is nowhere to be found. Not only aren't there any any clues to his whereabouts, he's not answering his phone. She's sure that something bad has happened to him.
Out of ideas Ariel first goes to hotel security, second to the local police and last she goes to the American embassy. As they start asking her questions she realizes that she can’t answer most of them. Who exactly is John?
Then she gets a ransom call and in a race against time Ariel turns to the only person who can help her but they're also the last person she wants to ask.

Rating: 2.5 rounded up to 3
I am not sure about my feelings on this book. It took me forever to get into the story and I was still struggling. Could not relate to any of the characters.
Lies upon lies….
Multiple timelines….
Overall, just way toooooo long and just sooooo much going on!
I encourage you to read Two NIghts in Lisbon and see how you like it. It may turn out to be a favorite read for you. For me it was just meh.
Many thanks to NetGalley, the publisher and author for the opportunity to read this book for my honest review. All opinions and thoughts expressed are my own.

I had such high hopes for this book based on the author's previous works. I can't specify without spoilers why I wasn't delighted by this book, but I'll do my best without spoiling. For one, I agree with other reviewers that not all of the flashbacks were necessary and pertinent to the plot. For another, the whole story fell apart in the end in a way that was reminiscent of "but it all turned out to be a dream!" The author's hand was way too obvious or felt; from the very beginning, secondary and tertiary characters follow/surveil the lead characters for reasons that don't hold water, and they are only doing it so the author can pull the trick he's pulling throughout. I read some reviewers criticize this book for 'wokeness.' I personally enjoy stories that are socially conscious, as I thought this one might be. But boy was I wrong. First of all, this story is a disservice to women who are victims of sexual assault. And if you're a survivor of sexual assault reading this because you think it's a story about a survivor who gets to enjoy a loving, authentic life in middle age... well, don't read it, because that's ultimately not that this book is offering either. Cheap thrills, faux feminism, and gimmicks turned this would-be thriller in a beautiful city into the most wrong-minded and disappointing of airport-style paperbacks.

This book definitely kept my attention! Ariel wakes up to find her husband missing in a foreign country. No one wants to take her seriously until the first phone calls come. After that she had the Lisbon police, US embassy, and the CIA trying to figure out what is going on and if she is involved.

This book had twists and turns. I really enjoyed it!!

Complex, fast paced novel that will keep the reader wondering what will happen next.
Artfully crafted story of a woman's alone in a strange country, her husband has disappeared, where is he?
Read on to follow her search.

Two Night in Lisbon is a very timely mystery. A woman wakes up to find her husband missing in a foreign country. No one wants to take her seriously until the first phone calls come. Soon she had the Lisbon police, US embassy, and the CIA trying to figure out what is going on and if she can even be trusted. The reader is wondering right along with them. The author tread the line between keeping the reader enthralled and just dragging the reader along and stayed on the right side of it. Every new revelation added to our understanding of who is really behind everything that happens and how these events all go back to one horrible yet powerful man.

I see people who get tired of what they call the #metoo movement. This is not a new movement. This is people finally just listening to the stories that have always been out there AND deciding to take assault seriously.. I read a review that complained that it was unrealistic that one woman would have so many instances of sexual assault. I am envious of that reviewer. It would be nice to be so naive and believe in a world in which this is unusual.

Every turn this took, I was there for it.

Such an intriguing premise for a book…the husband of a newly wed couple disappears from their hotel on a weekend trip to Lisbon. Ariel, his wife, is thrust into a seemingly endless web trying to get the police actively involved in finding him.
Loved the timely headings and the way the story unpeeled slowly as more and more is revealed, building suspense until the ending when everything suddenly becomes clear.
I felt as if I were actually in the room during the incident with Charlie and several of the interrogations with the police in Lisbon.
Intriguing as it could very well be a true story given the political climate of our world today.
Having enjoyed Chris Pavone’s previous books this will be a bestseller very soon. Many thanks to Chris Pavoone, MCD, and NetGalley for affording me the opportunity to read an arc of this just published book.

This was an interesting mystery, with some unexpected twists and turns, but it also felt overly long and too slowly plotted.
In so many instances, it felt like the author was trying to make a bunch of societal observations. This seemed to bog down any of the tension that was building and I found myself skimming a lot.
Overall, this wasn’t as much of a win for me, but definitely could be for others.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a copy of this e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.