This book is a little bit family drama, a little bit teenage soap, and a little bit WHITE LOTUS, and that works out just fine for me! I enjoyed the way that Frick tackles different POVs of the main cast, as well as sprinkling in epistolary moments in the form of resort information blurbs and police transcripts to create a mystery that is filled with lots of potential victims, lots of potential motives, and more than a few potential suspects, all of whom have some degree on unreliability to themselves. The twists and turns felt generally earned, the characters were pretty believable in most of their actions, and I liked that there were some well done red herrings to try and throw the reader off the scent. This was Frick's strongest novel yet, and it's a good one to end the dwindling days of summer with should you need a fast paced beach or pool read.

I enjoyed Frick's I KILLED ZOE SPANOS a lot and when I read the description of this book, I knew I was in for a treat. It didn't disappoint! I love posh resort settings and dark family secrets. The multiple POVs were fun and I enjoyed the police interviews and resort announcements mixed in with the prose. I had no idea who the killer was and when they were ultimately revealed, it made perfect sense. There were so many mysteries and secrets that the Mayweather clan was keeping, some more shocking than others, but it played into the narrative seamlessly. Overall, a fast-paced compelling thriller!

An Eleven person resort reunion trip with lots of intrigue?

Cancun Reunion - The Mayweathers are on vacation with a reunion trip to cancun.

Blended Family - it’s also to celebrate the engagement of 2 of the adults there, making this a true blended family

Multiple POV - through multiple POV we learn that each teen has a secret, some together, and some with each other

Minus 1 - and when the vacation ends, one does not return with the rest of the family

This was my first book by this author. I loved the pacing, the intrigue, the secrets, and finally knowing what was happening to everyone. Why were they being so secretive? Well to be honest, once that is revealed, it all seems rather tame. Yes, these secrets could tear the family apart but in the grand scheme of things, it would not have really effected them as much as they thought. That is probably the only reason I rated this lower is because I wished it had a little more shock value.

This book is a murder mystery where 11 Mayweathers go on vacation and only 10 come back. I love Frick’s mystery books as it always keeps me guessing at the end. I liked the plot of the story which gave it more of a White Lotus meets Karen McManus. I liked the conflicts in the story and the mystery wasn’t super dark but more family dramatic and secrets. There were many conflicts that kept the story going which I enjoyed. The pacing was great and I enjoyed the setting. Frick had a great writing style but there were too many povs that kept it hard for me to figure out what was happening sometimes.

The story is told from Theo, Mason, Addison and Natalia’s pov. They were well-written characters but I do have to say that their characters started to become similar and not so unique. Most were well developed which I enjoyed but some needed more development. There were many side characters in this book which helps mystery book so readers try to figure out who did what. Romance is not present in this book as it involved a family.

I liked the ending which is my favorite part of a mystery novel because everything gets revealed. I usually am not a person who can suspect who did it so I like when the mystery is great. This story was well written but the only issue I had was with the characters. Overall this was a great book and I recommend checking it out if you like Karen McManus and The White Lotus.

*this arc was sent to me by the publisher to give an honest review in return*

Thank you to Netgalley for allowing me to have an advance reader copy of The Reunion by Kit Frick, and let me tell you this was one wild roller coaster ride. I love how we slowly gain information on the one person who died. It was not up front so as we read about the teens, we can pretty much view them all as the suspect and victim. I must say my favorite character was Holly, I love how she was an outsider and did not care to speak her mind against her family. And the more the story goes on, you just see why the family is how they are. Theo was sweet, being another outsider almost in the wrong place for the secret he is apart of. Seeing how each teen is holding something, so much comes out during the week. I also felt bad for Natalia, her secret was another wrong sort of feeling and being so young when it happened. Her sort of torment was rather harsh. But it truly was a fun read to see how it all was going to play out.

Told through a mix of hotel emails, police interviews, and prose, The Reunion is a twisty thriller that's perfect for a beach read. I felt like I was fully transported to La Maravilla and caught up in the entanglements of the Mayweather family. I was pretty much suspicious of all of them from the beginning, and while I had my suspicious at some of the plot points, I was pleasantly surprised to find them zigging and zagging in an unexpected way.

The Reunion is told from 4 different perspectives, and unfortunately, they all sound the same. It was too many perspectives with nothing all that distinguishing from the characters. There really was no character to root for because they were so alike.

I find it odd that Elizabeth has brought her fiance Austin and his son Theo along on this dream vacation so her kids and family can get to know him better, and he spends the entire time working. Hello, it’s one week! This vacation was specifically so everyone could get to know each other. Why would you want to marry someone who has no interest in getting to know your family? Let alone that her kids don’t like his anger issues.

No one spends time with anyone in this book. They dump the youngest Mayweather, 12 year old Mia, in essentially daycare and promptly forget about her. It was so weird that everyone was supposed to get to know each other, and we got to know no one. This book took place in Mexico at a high-end resort, and yet it could have been anywhere because they spent the whole time in the hotel, doing nothing. It’s all so very bizarre.

There were a few key secrets in this, involving an “Incident” and a box, and the grand reveal was lackluster and didn’t get resolved. For me, the storyline could have been stronger. Add in little character development, how bizarre much of it seemed, and the plain setting, and there just wasn’t enough to carry the book. But I made it to the end, which warrants 3 stars from me.

Thank you, Simon and Schuster-Children’s, for sending over an ARC.

If you’re looking for a quick, end of summer read that will keep you guessing and taking notes, this is for you.

The Reunion follows a wealthy family deeply rooted in secrets and favoritism on a vacation in Cancún meant to celebrate an engagement and welcome “outsiders” into the exclusive Mayweather clan. The story is told from multiple POVs, hotel news updates, and police interviews. For a little more than half of the book, we do not know the identity of the victim but we do learn that everyone on the trip has something to hide-even the adults.

Three years ago, cousins Natalia, Addison, and Mason were inseparable, until a secret drove them to their breaking point and lead to consequences that would eventually fester and alter their lives forever. This secret hangs over the story and isn’t revealed until the last couple of chapters. There’s a dark kind of foreboding, that puts suspicion on each of these characters and makes the reader question what could have been so bad that it caused a wedge in their tight-knit family.

As the story progresses, more secrets, more skeletons in the closet are revealed but only to certain characters, increasing the certainty that one of the cousins are dead but the reason is more cloudy than ever. There are so many possible motives, but none of them really seem strong enough for murder for the majority of the plot.

Kit Frick does a good job of building the family image, the prejudice, the backstory, and little bits of their history that made secret-keeping a Mayweather pastime. Money, lies, and family all come to head when characters begin to question what’s more important: the Mayweather name, money, or blood ties, and if losing all the benefits that come with being a Mayweather are worth killing for.

I enjoyed the mystery, the subtle clues, the red herrings that kept me guessing what lies were important and not just which Mayweather could be dead, but why.

There were five POVs. The characters each had their own characteristics, secrets, and issues they were dealing with but their voices weren’t as strong as I would have liked them to make them distinct or to make me care about who lived or died. The emotional connection wasn’t there for me.

The ending was a bit of a letdown. It hit the climax and crashed down so quickly, and then was resolved within a handful of pages. There’s definitely an opening for another book about the Mayweathers.

Overall, this was a fun read, perfect for relaxing on the beach or sunbathing by the pool.

This book suffered from something similar to a few other books I’ve reading lately – too many narrators. There were just so many and I had no idea how they really all worked together. I found it rather odd that we would get multiple POV’s in the same chapter and they were all similar. It just didn’t really work for me. I think as a result of this I struggled hard with how this was a thriller. Had this been labeled contemporary fiction I would understand. Nothing happened. Apparently one of the points of view dies, but it happens at the end of the book. The rest of the book is just hearing about the vacation they were one.

Overall I really wanted to love this one but it missed the mark for me. It was however a quick read, and for that I was thankful.

Thank you so much to the publisher and netgalley for this e-arc in exchange for an honest review.

Man this was such a let down. I hated the pacing of this book. I didn’t like the multiple PVOs. The thriller party’s weren’t good. This was just bad.

I have read this author's other books so I figured I would like this and I was 100% correct.. it was your typical young adult mystery/thriller, but that's not to say that's a bad thing.. the book kept me engaged to the point where I was reading until the wee hours of the morning.. I didn't like all the characters but I don't think they were all meant to be liked, the ending did surprise me a bit but everything wrapped up pretty nicely. I think if they made a sequel I would definitely read it.. five stars for sure!! And thank you to netgalley and the publisher for this Arc exchange for an honest review

I loved Kit Frick's I Killed Zoe Spanos and was beyond excited to read her upcoming ya thriller, but unfortunately I didn't enjoy this one as much as I'd hoped. I enjoy when books start at the end and then flash back so you can try to uncover how everything happens, and The Reunion uses this plot device well by interspersing the regular narrative with more "news" as it becomes available. The readers don't find out who went missing until halfway through the book, and then you're left trying to figure out how, which was fun.

The story is told in the alternating first person perspectives of the four teenagers on the trip to Cancun, Mexico: Addison, Mason, Theo, and Natalia. I often struggle with multiple POVs but can enjoy them in thrillers when used to relay information to the reader that the other characters don't know. That really didn't happen here and unfortunately, each character POV sounded the same and it was a little confusing to keep track of. Barring a few surface-level characteristics, each felt paper thin. There's a big Secret that Addison, Mason, and Natalia have been holding for the last three years that blew them apart, and I felt it was a little anticlimactic when revealed considering it is mentioned all the time. However, I appreciated how queer normative the world is, especially how identity and finding oneself is handled.

Ultimately, this was a quick and enjoyable read but I was left wanting on the character development front. The mystery itself is well done and engaging, making this a good summer read on the beach or poolside.

eARC provided by the publisher via NetGalley for consideration. This does not affect my opinion nor the contents of my review. Quotations are from an unfinished proof and subject to change upon final publication.

I've really enjoyed all Kit Frick's books so far. I think that each one gets better too.

Since this has a mystery, I'll be keeping this short. The Mayweather family is extremely rich. The patriarch can't travel anymore, so when his favorite daughter gets engaged, he gives them rewards points for a resort in Cancun. Addison and Mason's mom is marrying Theo's dad. Their cousins Natalia and Mia are there with their moms. And then the youngest son, Corey, is there with his much younger girlfriend Holly. In total, there are eleven people for the party. Natalia's older brother wasn't able to make it. We learn early on that there is a member of the family missing. The story goes back from there, but there are current updates on the case throughout. Addison, Mason, and Natalia had "An Incident" when they were thirteen and they've barely talked since. Addison wants to change that, but she can't seem to get Mason or Natalia to spend time with her. Theo is the outsider and only Natalia and Mia really talk to him. Each family member is keeping secrets and they all start to come out.

I gave this book 4 1/2 stars rounded to 5 on Goodreads.

Thank you to the publisher for my physical arc and Netgalley for my earc.

I really enjoyed this YA thriller. I enjoyed the family drama and the setting. It was a pretty quick read and I found it satisfying from beginning to end!

This was a great book that was full of secrets and plot twists. I’m sure young adult readers will definitely enjoy this book.

Fun time! Secrets, family, drama, what's not to love? I enjoyed the writing and the characters. This will definitely appeal to young adult readers, but I think everyone could find something to like in this book.

Told in multiple POV, The Reunion is a testament to never knowing the secrets of our family. We can think we know everything about our parents, our sister, the ones we see every day. But The Reunion calls everything into question. All the secrets turn sinister. Every mistake, harsh word, or chilling silence turn into accusations against us. I finished The Reunion in three days because I had to know what happens.

Frick does this fantastic writing trick where we are given snippets of the future reports, witness statements, and news posts. The tension keeps building and we don't know who to turn to. What new clue will be revealed which will call everything into question. Frick takes this normally idyllic setting - a resort - and infuses tension and suspension in every word. The distance between who we show ourselves to be and who we are grows with shadows in the night and secretive moments.