One Big Happy Family profiles the Bishops. George is the owner of the Precipice, a unique hotel located in a very remote location in Maine. George has passed and the three Bishop sisters, Vicki, Faith, and Iris have returned to hear the reading of the will. But the main character is Charley. Charley is a maid who works at the Precipice. Simultaneous with the arrival of the Bishop family is a hurricane. And the hurricane is a perfect metaphor for the numerous plot twists. The spiral arrangement of the conflicts reaches a very unexpected crescendo. Equal parts who did it and can't put it down!

I didn't love this one, however I really wanted to. I loved the coastal setting and the premise of being isolated in an old mansion/hotel during a hurricane....guests being unable to leave at will, definitely was eager to dive into this one but it fell flat for me.
The book was full of mystery, murder as well as some revenge all circling around the Bishop family and the young maid, Charley, who has certainly been sucked into this family drama with plenty of secrets.
I didn't feel a strong connection to any of the characters and honestly felt myself scrolling through several pages to get closer to the end. The ending was fast paced and I did like how several things played out, however.

Thanks to Netgalley, St Martins Press and the author for allowing me to read this digital ARC in exchange for an honest review.

One Big Happy was a page turner - perfect beach read for the summer. The reader is trying to figure out who the murderer or murderers are and there are lots of twists and turns along the way.

Another great read by Jamie Day. I really enjoy her characters and writing style. So many secrets and lies. I had no idea who to trust. Fantastic reveals!
Thank you NetGalley and Jamie Day for the opportunity to read and review this book.

Thank you to NetGalley, author Jamie Day and publisher St Martin’s Press for the ARC and the opportunity to review this book.

I will say the ending was terrific and made the read worth it, but the vast majority was slow and slightly boring. While reading, it felt more like I was at one of those local theatre groups putting on a show.

I feel the book would make a great small town theatre production but as a thriller book it slightly missed the mark. I feel there was just something missing from the middle of the book that could have pushed it to a 4/5 star read.

The last section of the book is where all the tension and edge of your seat reading was. The characters were well developed with some you love and some you hated the way it should be in a fiction novel.

The storyline was very descriptive and the author made the readers feel as if they were a part of everything. I would recommend as the last part was full of twists and shocks.

3.5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️

I really enjoyed this book. The twists throughout the book definitely caught me by surprise and the elements of the weather throughout put you more on edge as the story continued. The ending was perfect as it didn't leave you wondering what happened at all and tied the story together nicely. I would definitely recommend giving this book a read when it comes out!

Well, this was a hard hitting family drama. There were many secrets, lies, twists and turns as this story unfolds. Definitely wanted to read what was coming next. Thanks NetGalley for the eArc

I was so excited to get my hands on a copy of this book before it released. Jamie Day is an excellent author, but this book wasn’t one that I would choose to read over again.

Overall, it is a good book. I was cheering on Charley and hoping she came out on top after being dealt a rough hand in life. The chapter were nice and short, but it felt like I was never going to finish the book. Of the 25 books I’ve read this year, this one took me the longest, but wasn’t actually the longest book.

The Precipice is a legendary, family owned hotel in Maine. The Bishop sister return home upon the death of their father. A hurricane is looming, and the sister are harboring secrets. Each sister wants what is rightfully theirs, but the reading of the will proves differently. Charley Kelly is the chambermaid that really needs the job. She is fearful of what awaits the fate of the hotel. Add to this, she is hiding a friend in one of the rooms who is trying to get away from an abusive boyfriend. In addition, there is a death in the hotel. I won't give any spoilers. Read it to find out who and whether Charley saves her job.

Thank you to St. Martin’s Press for the copy. I’d give this one a 3.5/5. This was my first Jamie Day book and I think it was pretty decent. The premise was intriguing - I’m a sucker for thriller movies set in hotel/motel settings so I was reeled in from the beginning. It was honestly reminiscent of an Agatha Christie style of storytelling.

I loved this book! Following Charley’s story, while simultaneously learning about the Bishop sisters, kept me guessing the entire way. I loved the build up and character growth, especially.

I loved Jamie Day's "The Block Party" so I was excited to receive an advanced reader copy of One Big Happy Family!

The Bishop sisters are all in town at their family owned Maine hotel for the reading of their father's will, but there is a destructive hurricane on the way. Charley, the young maid, worries her job is in jeopardy, but decides to ride the hurricane out with the Bishop family. As secrets are uncovered and information comes to light Charley starts to realize losing her job is the least of her concerns.

I was craving a thriller, and this one just didn’t do it for me. The setting was ABSOLUTELY there- I love a locked door thriller, especially at a hotel during a hurricane. However, the plot seemed to just entirely drag on for me. I don’t know if it was because of like unnecessary plot lines, or how the book was broken down into 4 different parts but it just felt really slow and predictable.

My first book by this author. I enjoyed the story like but I like my thriller fast paced & twisty. This did not meet those expectations, but the story is still good!

❤️thanks to NetGalley & the publisher for approving me for this arch

a very well done and unique closed door murder mystery
lots of chaos and family drama with shocking secrets revealed up until the very last page!
enjoyable and suspenseful!

A slow starter, this quickly picks up the pace and it becomes difficult to tell the truth from fiction. Charley, a strong, independent woman, is supporting her Nana at a nursing facility and works a low paying maid job for a 'handsy' older, wealthy man at his business, The Precipice Hotel. The story becomes more involved after the owner dies and the daughters arrive to discuss the will and the future of the hotel. Just enough characters that they are easily tracked; they have well developed personalities with all of the normal human flaws and foibles. Perhaps Charley is the most honest and likable of the crew, but no one in this book is what they appear to be. And what an interesting twist at the end! Great story with enough suspense to keep me reading well into the night.

My ARC was provided by the publisher and NetGalley, the opinions expressed herein are strictly my own.

This book was so much fun. It felt fast paced from the start. I was constantly torn on which character I thought was worse and the bad guy. There were twists throughout. The ending was fast and kept me hooked.

Jamie Day DID IT with this one!! I couldn't put it down, I was so enthralled. I even bought her debut after reading this!

Ebook/Mystery: I really didn't like this book, mostly because the main character was a complete idiot. I looked up the laws for foster children in Maine, and it was easy to find out huge problems. Either Charley is an unreliable narrator or an idiot. After being orphaned, Charley somehow gets to live with her Nana with early Alzheimer's. She is dead broke and does collect SSI for herself as an orphan or her disabled nana. If Nana when into a home, as she should in her advanced condition, Charley should have went into foster care, where she would have gotten a free education until she was 23. Instead she steals. Didn't the author ever watch Bones. That's how Brennan gets an education.
She also leaves her Nana alone, a lot. When Bree needs a place to stay, Charley hides her in the hotel, during a hurricane instead of a) asking management to comp her a room for her Nana or b) tell Bree to stay with her Nana during the storm. I just couldn't finish the book at that point. I figured Charley would get part ownership of the hotel and that why the sister want to kill her.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ .5

Read if you like:
🏬 short chapters
🏬 dual POV
🏬 dual timelines
🏬 hotel maid mystery
🏬 family inheritance drama
🏬 “who-dun-it” murder mystery ❤️❤️

I absolutely loved Jamie Day’s debut novel, so I have been very excited to dive into this one! This was definitely a slowwwww burn, but for whatever reason I was hooked on the story right from the start ❗️❕
I very much enjoy when books use different formats to tell this story. This one was obviously regular story telling, but also included texts back and forth between the characters. I really enjoy this because even though the first part is only single POV, it allows us to see a little tiny bit into other character’s perspectives.
I absolutely love dual timelines!! Especially when the story jumps back and forth… it’s like giving us little tiny pieces of the puzzle slowwwwwly, and then in the end everything comes together and makes sense 😁
I really really enjoy “who-dun-it” style murder mysteries… when you have a cast of characters and then you have to figure out who was the murderer. I barely ever get it right, but I really love trying 🤪
For the first halfish of this book, I was thinking it was just a single POV, mostly single timeline; BUT THEN part 2 started, and I got to learn muchhhhhh more to the story 💕💕
I reeeeeeeeeally loved how everything came together in the end!!! 4.5 ⭐️!!! I cannot wait to read more and more from Jamie Day!!