This is most definitely going to be one of my favorite reads this year. I appreciated the pace of this story, the action, but most of all, the writing.

Ariel Pryce wakes up in her hotel in Lisbon to find her husband is missing. She immediately contacts the local police and the embassy, only to be mostly dismissed since she's unable to answer many questions about her new husband. But her instincts are correct and what follows is an action-packed thriller.

What I liked about this book:
*The author does an incredible job of writing a female character.
*The story is told well and moves at an appropriate pace. I never felt bored with the storyline.
*The author's writing is smart and I appreciated (and highlighted) so many sentences in this book.

What I didn't like about this book:
Overall, I loved this book. There may have been a few small parts that bothered me but honestly, I don't even remember now that I'm done with the book.

I would certainly recommend this book to others.

Huge thanks to @Netgalley and the publisher for the advanced digital copy of this book.

Ariel Pryce is feeling jumpy. She is in a strange, wonderful city and she doesn’t know where her husband went. She got up this morning and he was gone. Maybe John stepped out to get them breakfast but it seems like that was a while ago. As more time passes, Ariel becomes more frantic. Her imagination is conjuring up all kinds of horrible visions.
In a bit of a huff, she goes to see the Lisbon police. Although polite, they do nothing to assuage her fears and don’t understand why she is concerned. Nearby is the American embassy so she stops there next. They also are not seeing a problem. Does she know for certain if something happened to her husband? Has she checked the hospitals or the police? Ariel leaves the embassy feeling completely alone.
While she is in the square in front of the embassy, a motorcycle comes rushing at her. She believes the rider is going to hit her, but he stops suddenly and thrusts a cell phone into her hand. Then he peels off. Immediately the phone rings. Ariel is going to have a very bad day.

I like the premise of the novel but not how Chris Pavone got there. The first half of the novel is very slow building and I almost gave up several times. The circumstances are rather unbelievable. Ariel’s fears and the way is acting after only a few hours seemed over-the-top. The second half of the novel passed quickly and caught my attention however over-all I felt let down.
Robyn Heil

International thriller spanning two days but feels like two weeks.

This thriller follows Ariel Pryce, a newlywed woman on a work trip with her new husband in Lisbon, Portugal. When she wakes up in the morning, her husband is gone and seemingly can't be gotten ahold of (an out of character trait for him). Ariel goes to the police, the american embassy and the hotel staff but everyone chooses to dismiss her until a run=in with a man on a motorcycle proves that her husband was kidnapped. As the story continues we get glimpses into her past, both engaging and telling of the person she becomes as well as her relationship with her husband.

This book was a total slow burn read for me and I had a hard time getting into the groove of things since we kept getting flashbacks of her life, the present day situation also felt messy and not threaded enough for me and the characters although filled with backstory didn't have me rooting for any of them? this was definitely a case of great book but not for me. I did really enjoy the setting and the description of the town, made me want to look into portugal more as I haven't read many stories set there.

A twisty drama that leaves you wanting more from the very first page. This book is impossible to put down and in the very best way. I will recommend to everyone I know!

This one was okay. I think the concept was great but the flow has some issues. I was mostly intrigued because Lisbon was one of my favorite places to visit a couple years ago.

I like the main character a lot. She is complex and has experienced significant trauma. She’s always on edge and rightfully so after her husband disappears on their trip.

I like that there were lots of agencies and police forces investigating what was unfolding. But at times there were too many folks to follow.

Unfortunately the middle is where I’m lost. It felt drawn out to the end which took away from the twist. I get that we were trying to get thrown off of the direction the story was going, but it just became, I guess, y exciting? I feel like this could have been 50 ish pages shorter to keep me interested.

I think this is great for folks who are interested in international mysteries that discuss politics, socioeconomic is and revenge.

Overall, I give it 3 stars.

TW: Rape, sexual assault, gaslighting, kidnapping.

This book was full of intrigue and surprise! Ariel is hiding her past but why? Do others know? Does her husband’s disappearance while visiting Lisbon have something to do with it? So many secrets that kept me on the edge of my seat. The mystery of this couple takes a while to unravel but is never dull! 4.5 stars

“But that’s true of everyone, isn’t it? Pasts can be reinvented.”

Ariel Pryce accompanies her new husband John Wright on a business trip to Portugal. When John suddenly disappears, Ariel finds herself in over her head. In a foreign country alone, the US embassy, Portuguese police, and reporters begin to get involved. Then when a three million euro ransom is demanded for John, Ariel decides that she will stop at nothing to get her husband back.

Two Nights in Lisbon is an intriguing, complex, slow burn thriller. Easily the best part is the writing, Chris Pavone’s writing is beyond compelling. I found myself engaged from the get go. There’s just something about writing thrillers in intense detail that just pulls me in. The colour of the alarm clock numbers, what the front page news is, the smell of the street. Building the scene so you’re immersed in the mystery, involved in in the disappearance of John. The story itself is a close second. I live for a mystery complex enough that I’m left in awe. Where you figure out parts of it but not everything. Where you get the gist, but the full twist is still engaging.

Two Nights in Lisbon is a stunning read, so in depth that you might think it a little too long, twisty enough to leave you satisfied but with enough foreshadowing that you can deduce the idea. A slow burn but fast paced enough to keep you turning the pages to solve the mystery.

Thank you to NetGalley, Farrah, Straus and Giroux, and Chris Pavone for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

A page-turner with a couple of interesting twists set over a few days in Lisbon, Portugal. Ariel Pryce is a recently married American woman in her '40s who has accompanied her husband, John Wright, on a short business trip to Lisbon. Ariel wakes up on the second day of their trip and her husband has disappeared. She knows immediately that something is wrong and contacts the local police and the American embassy for help in finding him. The CIA becomes involved in an attempt to rule out any political motive for John's disappearnce and flashbacks slowly reveal that there is a connection between Ariel's past and her current situation in Europe. An interesting premise but the novel is quite long and drags a bit during the middle which detracts from the suspense of the story. Overall it was an okay read for me but I didn't love it.

Thank you to NetGalley for a digital ARC (Advance Review Copy).

WOW! What a tale! Two nights in Lisbon is an intriguing, exciting adventure story about a newlywed couple who go to Lisbon - he for work, and she to have some time with him. After an intimate night, Ariel wakes up alone in their hotel room -without John. He was there for work and had begged her to go along, but leaving without a note or message as to when he would return, was strange. As Ariel goes through hotel security, the Lisbon Police, and the American Embassy, she is generally regarded as a little hysterical as each agency tries to tell her to calm down, he is probably working (although she doesn't really know too much about him or his business).
The story shifts between Ariel's time in Lisbon and her life in NY from her mid 20s until the present day (she's 40ish).
I loved the way her backstory was woven into the plot although I did figure out the twist pretty early on....it was a well developed plot and kept me reading - just a few more pages, and just a few more, etc. Ariel's history and victimization made me cringe - unfortunately, there seemed to be a large amount of truth to the scenarios that she endured. I loved the way the author incorporated some of the unique facets of Lisbon into the story. Nonetheless, the book was just a little too long, and I got a little tired of the way the officials were portrayed - the good cop/bad cop, the embassy officials and the CIA.
I received an advance review copy of Two Nights in Lisbon for free from Netgalley and the publisher and an leaving this review voluntarily.

This book lives up to the hype. It took me by surprise, and I just loved it and raced through it - in less than two nights because I couldn't put it down. Highly recommend.

I took this digital review copy with me to Lisbon, thinking I would read it there. Instead I DNFd it in Lisbon. Yes, it had lots of great details about the city it was set in, just like a previous Pavone book I had read (I read The Expats shortly after visiting Luxembourg.) Some readers might like novels that purposely hold back information for suspense purposes, but I just find it annoying. I can just feel the author writing in a vague prose so that the reader doesn't get too much info at once. I really enjoyed The Expats, but I can't get into Two Nights in Lisbon, even while visiting Lisbon.

Two Nights in Lisbon was my first Pavone book. It had a lot to live up to- I've heard his writing is snappy and suspenseful, with lots of spies and intrigue. This didn't disappoint! I found the heroine to be appealing and a continuous source of surprises, and the plot similarly kept me guessing right up until the end. Even though I guessed some of the plot points, plenty of the beats surprised me- and I do love a surprise! More importantly, this book takes on real-world issues in a way that never felt smarmy. There' are some big trigger warnings for this, but I do think that even the crummiest aspects of the characters' pasts were handled well. Bonus points for the Lisbon police officers and the embassy agents (and CIA agents) who provided a lot of humor as well as insight. The settings were great- Lisbon felt very real to me though I've never had the chance to visit, and the Hamptons and upstate NY were nearly as well painted. And I liked the use of old-school reporting to tackle modern issues. Overall a solid summer read- 4 stars!

The second half of this book is really good. Fast plot with twists and turns. Getting to the second half was a struggle. The first half of the book, you know the main character is playing hide the ball, but it's too much for too long. She seems completely unbelievable in every way. Ultimately, I enjoyed the book but I almost put it down before I got to the second half.

I always enjoy the international setting in a Chris Pavone thriller. The latest book is set in Lisbon, Portugal and both the main plot and subplot held my interest throughout. Great, fast read for summer!

This book was a miss for me. The author is incredibly descriptive and at almost 450 pages, some of the descriptions could have been cut to shorten the text..

I DNF'd this book at page 109. I honestly could not deal with the MC and how it was portrayed that every man was out to rape her. I also felt that this book did a ton of telling but not showing. I am not sure that I could have kept reading through almost 500 pages of this thriller.

I may try to pick this up again one day but now it just did not motivate me to keep reading on.

This was a fun fast paced read. I’m not sure it’s something that will stick with me but could make for a run road trip listen. Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for the advance reading copy.

I loved Chris Pavone’s thriller, The Expats, so I was eager to read this book. Once again he does not disappoint. This is a quick read, spy thriller set in Lisbon. Lots of twists and turns and you can almost picture it as a movie in your head. This book will surely be a summer reading favorite for many. The character development is well done and I really liked and cared about Ariel.

I will be adding Chris Pavone to my must read authors list and will recommend this book to thriller readers. Thank you to NetGalley, Author Chris Pavone and Farrar, Straus and Giroux for the eARC in exchange for my honest review.

I enjoyed this suspenseful spy like thriller by Chris Pavone. Ariel is newly married and on a trip to Lisbon when she wakes up and finds her new husband, John missing. She goes to extreme lengths to find him and who is “behind” his disappearance. Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for this ARC.

“Two Nights in Lisbon” was an interesting read. Ariel Pryce wakes up in her Lisbon hotel to find her husband missing. What follows are more than two days of working to get the ransom money to get John back. (I’m not sure how the title fits in with the story, because it took place over more than two days.)
The storyline was good, but there were so many woke undertones, that I found it off putting. For example, Ariel meets a man at the embassy who is from the South. She accuses him of being proud of sweet tea and slavery. It did nothing to add to the storyline, except to portray Ariel as a psycho, so I don't know why he included it in the story. There were other examples, that are too many to mention.
Please read other reviews, because I am one person, and there are many other people who did enjoy this story. I want to thank the author, publisher and NetGalley for a complimentary copy of the book. The opinions expressed in this review are entirely my own.