The In-Laws by Laura Wolfe is another compelling page-turner from an author who has become an automatic read for me, and a fast favourite.

Abigail and Pete are getting married and decide that a few days in the wilderness with their respective sets of parents will be the perfect bonding exercise. Along with their guide, Liam, the group reluctantly depart and are plagued by problems from the very start. As tensions begin to mount, a well-intentioned weekend getaway becomes a battle for survival, and no one who emerges from the woods will be left unscathed.

This is a riveting read that I devoured over the course of a single afternoon. I cannot wait to get my hands on whatever comes next from this talented and bankable author.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Bookouture for an ARC.

Oh wow! One stunner of a read- sit down and hold on for the ride! Abigail and her fiance Pete have taken their parents on a three night trip into the wilderness, camping. The idea is to bond the parents as the one time they met before didn't go too well. The parents are worlds apart but should have the couples best interests at heart, right? Pete isn't that close to his folks, as they doted on his younger brother Trent who has various issues so Pete has grown up rather independently. Over the campfire and walks, more comes out about each of them and Abigail herself is holding a rather large secret. Can they all survive both the knowledge and the trip?

OMG! I turned and I turned and I turned some more. Laura has brilliantly built a wonderful tension between the pages and a very well thought out carefully crafted plot which had me reeling along the way. The characters are well rounded (or not in some cases- read it and you’ll see what I mean!) and come across very well. I quite liked Abigail, despite everything she went through, there was a tenacious and caring person hiding underneath longing for stability as was Pete but also a very determined young woman.
One I really didn't want to put down. If you enjoy thrilling reads then this could just be your next book. One belter of a read and tension that needed a knife!

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thank you to netgalley for allowing me to read this before its official release in exchange for an honest review.
i cant lie, i had my doubts about this book in the very beginning. i thought it was going to be a boring "the in laws dont get along due to negatively contrasting personalities, someone gets mad and kills someone else, they make up and become one big happy family, the end."
I WAS SO WRONG!
so much happens in this book that i cant even begin to describe (and i dont want to spoil anything) and the last few chapters had my head absolutely spinning. i dont think ive ever read a book with this many plot twists! (in a good way lol)
youre left wondering "what the hell is going on??!!" up until the very last page!
super good read, 5/5 stars for sure!!

I was really pleasantly surprised by this book! I've never read anything by the author before but the premise sounded intriguing.

I loved watching the dynamics between the two families play out - Darla in particular was so entertaining and you could really feel the tension between the characters. There were multiple twists in the story - some I saw coming but some I really didn't and I think the plot was actually really clever. The pacing of the story was great, the reveals came at the right time so as a reader you never have the chance to get bored.

I can't think of anything I didn't like about the book, it thoroughly entertained me and I would definitely recommend it.

Abigail and Pete are just weeks away from their wedding, but have to try and get their respective parents to become friends and like each other.
Abigail announces that they will go camping in the National Park for three days, and will be led by the team building guide that she met on a work team building weekend at the park.

They set out with high hopes of the families becoming closer, but their hike is fraught with unexplained calamities.
Important medication disappearing, bear spray disappearing and food getting ruined.

Then one of them dies, and it seems as though the death was not accidental. But who is the murderer? The ex convict, the mystic, the drug addict? Or someone closely related?

On the whole I enjoyed this thriller, I just found it a bit slow in the beginning, but it definitely picked up. I suspected every single character, and was wrong!
Lots of twists and turns right to the end of the book.
I'm just curious about the mysterious figure Abigail keeps spotting in the forest. There was no explanation about who it was.
Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for an honest review.
I will definitely be on the lookout for more books by this author

I really enjoyed this book had a lots of twists and turns which kept me invested in the story. It is about a couple who’s family don’t really get on so before the wedding there is a get together like know other when I’m the middle of no where secrets are spilled and truths told. Kept me on edge to the end.

I always love the isolating setting in books and this was perfect in that aspect. A woman with her fiance along with both their parents go on a three day camping trip in the middle of a National Park; an attempt at bonding their families. As expected, tensions rise and the paranoid feeling increase as they come upon vague messages left at their campsites.

As I said, the isolated feeling was perfect in this one. For those that have ever camped you know that feeling, along with the eeriness of hearing all the sounds at night from the woods and all it's animals and insects. This captured that feeling in every way. I really liked this until about the last quarter of it. At that point and closer to the conclusion, it became a little too much for me. I love a good plot twist, just not too many. That's not to say others won't enjoy or love it. This is definitely worth the read. Three and a half Stars.

Thank you Netgalley and Bookouture for this ARC.