This was quite the entertaining story, even more engaging with the audio format. Featuring plenty of family drama and forbidden secrets, I was here for this popcorn thriller to the end.

*many thanks to Macmillan audio and Netgalley for the gifted copy for review

A nineteen year old is at the heart of this part mystery part family saga. A hurricane mirrors the tension of the sisters and Charley as someone makes a decision they need to make in a matter of days. Root for the one who showed up day and night regardless of her ethics. The overall suspense for a true thriller is lacking.

I really enjoyed The Block Party so I quickly grabbed this up! Here’s what I enjoyed… the premise, the setting, the timelines, and the pace! Here’s where it fell short for me… once again… unlikeable characters! Why?? I feel this is a popular trend lately but it has to be done perfectly to really keep you interested. Overall solid 3/5 ⭐️

Love the story and the drama that mingled with in
the family. Will definitely tell my friends to check this book out.

I enjoyed this book and thought it was a good suspenseful read—the ending surprised me and I look forward to more from this author!

I really loved this book. It is well written and suspenseful. I was surprised by the ending! Highly recommend for a good summer read!

I enjoyed reading this book and the storyline was intriguing. I liked the family dynamics and drama that added to the story. Each character felt well developed and had an intriguing storyline. Overall it was a great book!

This sounds like the setup for a thrilling, atmospheric mystery, with lots of tension between the characters and plenty of suspense building up in a secluded, stormy setting. The Precipice, with its eerie name and its dramatic coastal location, sets the perfect stage for a psychological thriller or a whodunit. The Bishop sisters' different motives—each of them eyeing the hotel for their own gain—add layers of conflict, and Charley's role as an outsider caught in the middle of their dangerous dynamics creates an intriguing underdog protagonist. Her own secrets and troubles only complicate the web of tension.

I was a huge fan of "The Block Party," and wanted to love this one too! I enjoyed it, but it didn't keep my attention like I wanted it to.

I think this plot was a little too close the Nita Prose's Maid series.
Charley is the maid of a huge boutique hotel that is family owned .When the owner passes, the rest of the family descends upon the hotel during a major hurricane.
The plot was full of family relationships, chaos and secrets! It was a solid read! I think if I hadn't just caught up on the other Maid series by Nita Prose, I may have liked it better.

Loved the writing in this suspenseful locked room mystery where the environment is yet another character. Full of twists and turns this book is a fun ride. Can’t wait to read more by Day!

I truly had no idea what was going to happen next at any point in this book. I wasn't surprised by the outcome, but still had fun along the way. I thought it went on a little long, but otherwise, was an enjoyable locked-room mystery binge for me! I look forward to what else this author has coming out next.

I really enjoyed this drama-filled whodunnit thriller! While I suspected some of the outcome generally, it still held many surprises and much more chaos than I expected! I love settings involving storms and being trapped in great expansive buildings on edges of cliffs. I read The Block Party and enjoyed this one more, although they are both entertaining!

I enjoyed this locked room, twisty, family drama thriller by Jamie Day. Set during a Maine hurricane at the family-owned hotel, The Precipice, the Bishop sisters and their families reunite to settle their father's estate and decide the fate of the hotel. Thanks to the impending storm, there's no one to turn to as things spiral wildly out of control for the family and the few people left at the hotel. The twists and turns were great, and the big reveal at the end was executed beautifully. I really enjoyed the epilogue - it tied everything up so well.

This was another wonderfully thrilling book from Jamie Day and I can't wait to dive into her newest book (The Lake Escape) next!

One Big Happy Family by Jamie Day is a domestic thriller that dives into the cracks beneath a seemingly perfect family. With sharp dialogue, layered relationships, and a steady build of tension, Day creates an engaging story filled with secrets, lies, and unexpected conflicts.

While the premise is intriguing and the pacing keeps the pages turning, some plot twists feel predictable, and certain character dynamics lack the depth needed for a truly gripping thriller. Still, the family drama and suspenseful moments make it an entertaining read.

3 stars — a solid domestic suspense novel with drama and intrigue, though it doesn’t fully break new ground in the genre.

This wasn’t my favorite book ever but it was worth reading. It went quickly. I was trying to keep track of the characters and their details at one point. I would definitely give Jamie Day books another read if they come along. Mystery at a resort during a storm with people dying along the way . Good base for a book!

This was one effed up unlikable family. I read this in June 2024 while boycotting SMP. I didn't write a review then and I should have but I remember it being pretty mediocre and the ending not being too great.

I loved Jamie Day's first book - The Block Party and elements of that book transferred to this one:

Lots of characters all linked together because of proximity - makes for a great thriller and who done it! Thank goodness for Charley because there weren’t many other characters I could even come close to liking. It was slow moving at times and I felt it was predictable.

This was a different kind of locked room mystery that brought more jaw-dropping revelations than thrills. I will definitely read Jamie Day again but this was not my favorite.

Thank You to St. Martin’s Press for the gifted ARC, provided through NetGalley.

I just wasn't a fan of this book. I liked the dual timeline, but the characters were all just SO unlikeable. Normally in a thriller there's a book that I'm rooting for to NOT die, but I legitimately did not care who made it to the end of this book. There was not-a-one character that I liked enough to root for.

I liked the premise... a big storm hits Maine and causes employees and family to be stranded in The Precipice, a hotel on the rocky cliff-side. There's a few cases of "whodunnit" so it should keep the book interesting, but the lack of appeal with the characters was a big turnoff for me.

A hurricane in a small resort town in Maine threatens to pummel the historic Precipice hotel and a feuding family into submission in One Big Happy Family by Jamie Day. Charley, a down-on-her-luck housemaid for the hotel, gets trapped there as the family claims the hotel with their own ideas about how to run it after their father, the patriarch, passes away. A mysterious guest and the estate lawyer appear to put another wrench into the works. What secrets will be revealed and who will outlast the threats of both a powerful storm and an even more dominating force, a family with scores to settle? This book will tell all.

All the elements, including the weather, come together to bring a potboiler of a thriller to life. You start out with an introduction to Charley, a teenager who relies on her work as a housemaid for a resort hotel to pay for her grandmother's nursing home. Her parents didn't have the wherewithal to take care of her due to her mother's drug addiction and her father's absenteeism. In fact, she doesn't even know who he is. She's worried about what she will do if the three Bishop sisters take the hotel over.

Meanwhile, all three Bishop sisters who have been mostly estranged, return to the hotel where they grew up to rehash their childhoods and discuss secrets between them that were never meant to be said. They're all out for themselves and have their own personal secrets and agendas when they arrive at the hotel. The back story receives some attention in a few chapters.

I love the idea of a locked-room type of story as I've heard this book called. The characters cannot possibly leave the hotel because of the enormous storm headed their way that could decimate the hotel and any individuals in its path. In fact, you wonder why they seem determined to stay, but all will be revealed as you page through the book. While the book does not feel claustrophobic to the reader, you can imagine how it feels to Charley. Most of the book is narrated in first-person by her with a few chapters devoted to other characters. During the book, some characters go missing, and you may come upon a dead body or two. It's not a place where Charley wants to be.

While I enjoyed the book, it felt a little clunky when the other narrators take over to explain some of the plotlines and backgrounds that Charley would not have access to. You needed to know that information, but it's not a smooth transition. I liked the writing and story enough that I excused it.

There were some thrilling twists I didn't see coming. One twist came to me before it was revealed, but I really wanted to see how it was handled. Others were surprising. Once you reach the action-packed climax of the story, it seems too far-fetched with silly surprises coming out of the woodwork, but again, I was along for the ride. The ending wraps things up a little too nicely and seemed trite at times. At that point, it slowed down a little too much, but I understood what Day was trying to do. I have to say that I definitely enjoyed taking this trip and will be there again for the author's next book.

This was an excellent fast and twisty read filled with suspense, edge of your seat moments, and a crazy good twist that you don’t see coming. I absolutely love when an author can keep me guessing and doesn’t make things too obvious and this was one of those stories for me.