This was a great read, overall. The plot was fast paced and well developed. The author did a great job at making the characters likable. Overall I would recommend this book.

The Hitchcock Hotel ⭐️⭐️⭐️(3.5/5 stars)

I really thought I knew where the story was headed, and felt pretty convinced I knew what the twist would be, BUT I was WRONG. Instead, Wrobel succeeds in crafting a story that reads like a perfect mystery.

I enjoyed the pacing of the novel, having just enough information about each character to feel invested, and of course, all of the references to classic films. The imagery of the hotel was great, I felt like I could easily visualize everything. I also think the use of flashbacks in this story worked well to really fill in the complete picture of what had occurred years prior, which so heavily influenced why the characters do what they do and ultimately, the end result of the book.

It was a fun, quick read with healthy amounts of creepy references and overall, an interesting mystery.

Thanks, NetGalley, for the ARC.

Hitchcock meets Christie. A beautifully written mystery that kept me reading til the wee hours of the morning.. The kind of book that keeps you entertained so much that you can’t stop reading it, yet need to because you don’t want it to end. The author employs hooks at the end of each chapter that makes you say to yourself, “ just one more chapter” until you find you’ve ended up reading ten more chapters.
The cover art alone tempts a reader to discover this book. Then there’s the title. Hitchcock?, yes, please.
Must you be familiar with Alfred Hitchcock’s films? It certainly helps. Knowing the references made to his movies fleshed out both characters and plot.
There’s a central character, the proprietor of the hotel. Several satellite characters, once a tight group of college friends who have since lost touch…. Maybe?
Then there’s the hotel, a character in and of itself.
Lastly, the employees of the hotel and the police officers and detectives who arrive in the latter portion of the book.
Without wanting to give too much away, there’s a whopper of a twist half way through the book and an ending I did not see coming.
All in all an enjoyable, satisfying and fun.
This book is definitely ripe to be made into a Netflix or Prime Video movie.

One starkly clever suspenseful read! The writing style is sharp and engaging enough, keeping you on the edge of your seat with every twist and turn. I simply couldn’t it put down.

The book really gave Clue vibes for a while. I kept thinking I knew what the ending was going to be... then out of left field the real answer and I gotta say - I did not even GUESS the ending. Well done to the author. I really liked the Clue vibes though. This was a super easy, quick read. You keep thinking you know what's going to happen, then you change your mind, stay convinced for a while. Then out of left field comes the twist. Loved it.

This book was honestly a HUGE welcomed surprise. I will say it centers around Alfred Hitchcock so some of the plot was a tad lost on me - as I didn’t know some of the more detailed stuff. Although - I think the author does a great job of explaining most of it so you really don’t need to know about Hitchcock to read the book.

The chapters change from different characters perspectives and it’s written super well - you can actaullt follow the story and there are small cliff hangers at the end of each POV chapter to encourage you to keep reading. The beginning was a bit slow - but about halfway was a quick read because I was interested in the plot. Overall - I’d definitely recommend!

This book had so much promise, but the ending was rather anticlimactic for me! It started off with everything I wanted out of it - creepy vibes, mysterious atmosphere, characters with lots of secrets! However, towards the middle it started slowing down and focusing a lot on the past, and I wish we got more excitement out of the hotel! There are some solid twists, but I was hoping for just a little bit more based on how strong the beginning was.

Thank-you for allowing me to read this book. I enjoyed it. A but slow. Took me a while to get into. But it did pick up. 3 stars!

I received a free eARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I requested this because I (mostly) enjoyed <I>This May Hurt</I> (which I read a few years ago back when we were all into cults, apparently!). I also really like Hitchcock. I took a Hitchcock-specific film class in my first master’s program, and it’s to this day one of my favorite classes I’ve ever taken. Because of that class, I created a film study unit for my 8th graders based around <I>Rear Window</i>, and even though I’m no longer teaching, it’s still my pride and joy. Reading this book made me want to revisit some of those movies, and perhaps feel a tiny bit guilty for using my Hitch biography as a doorstop (it’s just the perfect size!).

Weirdly, like Six of Sorrow, which I just finished, this is also a book about a group of six friends. In this case, it’s 3 guys and 3 girls who all went to college together (and they split narration duties). There are hints of dark academia here, but the main thrust of the story takes place in the present day. Like the girls in Six of Sorrow, these six friends had an unspecified falling out years earlier, during their senior year of college, in this case, and when the novel opens they’re getting together at Alfred’s hotel - the titular Hitchcock hotel - for a reunion. Alfred is the one who invited everyone, and though it seems like they all WANTED to say no, for various reasons everyone says yes and shows up. It’s clear that Alfred is holding a weapons-grade grudge against all of them, and also he’s sent all of the staff except his creepy Mrs. Danvers-esque housekeeper home for the weekend, so we’ve got shades of Agatha Christie as well.

As the weekend unfolds, we start to learn what happened when the friends were in college that led to them all falling out with Alfred. It seems like the other five kept in touch sporadically through the years, but no one had spoken to Alfred since “the incident” (no one actually uses that phrase, thank god!). And it’s clear he had ulterior motives of his own for both inviting them and ensuring they would show up. After all, every good hotel has a dark past…

Trying to avoid too many spoilers since the book doesn’t come out until September (when oh when will I come up with a system to organize my ARCs?). Normally the time shifting would bug me, because I’m always more invested in one timeline or the other, but I found these equally engaging. There are a few annoying cliffhangers, where it seems like something dire has happened and it’s revealed on the next page to be completely innocuous, but thankfully it’s not every single chapter. There are also some snippets in between chapters - quotes from what I *think* is the Hitchcock on Hitchcock collection? I used to teach the surprise vs. suspense essay in my film unit, and parts of these rang super familiar to me. Given that it’s an ARC, there’s no attribution for the quotes yet, and they also peter out about halfway through, which I found disappointing. I need to remember to take a look at the library copy when this comes out, because there are some structural things that I’d like to see the final version of!

Overall I really enjoyed this. I kept finding myself wanting to return to it and I couldn’t stop thinking about it! It’s really well paced, and even though we have six different narrators, it never felt like a cheap device to disguise a thin plot. I also didn’t really have trouble telling everyone apart, in spite of the fact that the characterization of everyone but Alfred is a *little* thin (not surprising given that there are so many of them). But this is really entertaining, and honestly would make an excellent spooky season read.

A chilling masterpiece that seamlessly blends mystery, thriller, and horror. The writing is razor-sharp, keeping me on the edge of my seat, and the plot is brilliantly crafted with twists that left me breathless.

A fun mystery filled with twists and surprises, The Hitchcock Hotel was a joy to read. A love letter to the works of Alfred Hitchcock composed of cheeky “whodunnit” themes and complicated characters, this book reminded me of Clue meets Friends.

Thank you to Berkley Publishing Group for providing this book for review consideration via NetGalley. All opinions are my own.

Thank you for lending me this title. I enjoy a good revenge story. Alfred brings all his old Film Club "friends" from college, that he has not seen in sixteen years, for a weekend reunion at his "Alfred Hitchcock" themed hotel. Reluctantly, they all go. They all have secrets they are hiding and Alfred has a plan up his sleeve as payback for what happened back in college. I couldn't put this book down. It kept my attention throughout and I audibly gasped a few times. I absolutely was not expecting the twist at the end. I highly recommend this read.

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙞𝙩𝙘𝙝𝙘𝙤𝙘𝙠 𝙃𝙤𝙩𝙚𝙡
𝘣𝘺: 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘦 𝘞𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘦𝘭

𝔅𝔩𝔲𝔯𝔟
Alfred Smettle is not your average Hitchcock fan. He is the founder, owner, and manager of The Hitchcock Hotel, a sprawling Victorian house in the White Mountains dedicated to the Master of Suspense. There, Alfred offers his guests round-the-clock film screenings, movie props and memorabilia in every room, plus an aviary with fifty crows.

To celebrate the hotel’s first anniversary, he invites his former best friends from his college Film Club for a reunion. He hasn’t spoken to any of them in sixteen years, not after what happened.

But who better than them to appreciate Alfred’s creation? And to help him finish it.

After all, no Hitchcock set is complete without a body.

𝔔𝔲𝔬𝔱𝔢
Art is meant to be poked and prodded, talked about, fought over. To take it in with no reflection is missing the point.

𝔉𝔞𝔳𝔬𝔯𝔦𝔱𝔢 ℭ𝔥𝔞𝔯𝔞𝔠𝔱𝔢𝔯
Julius! He became my favorite once I finished the book. The entire time reading… I had no favorite. Once I got to know Julius and see who he was as a person, I grew to adore him!

𝔚𝔥𝔞𝔱 ℑ 𝔩𝔦𝔨𝔢𝔡
I LOVED the ending! I did not want this book to end, it was so perfect. I am not a huge Hitchcock fan, I just never really watched any of his movies (besides Psycho, of course) and you don’t have to be to enjoy this book. I think you may love it even more than I did if you are one, but it honestly makes me want to watch his movies now, and then re-read. It was a really great mystery/thriller. The twists that I did NOT see coming left me shocked to say the least.

𝔚𝔥𝔞𝔱 ℑ 𝔡𝔦𝔡𝔫’𝔱 𝔩𝔦𝔨𝔢
Part way through the book I thought it was going to turn into one of those far fetched summer camp slasher type books, where like everyone gets killed, including the police …and I’m not a huge fan of those. It didn’t go that way, I just needed all the information and didn’t know why yet. It also created the suspense needed to throw you off track.

This book was really fun for me to read! Just because it was for me doesn’t mean it will be for you, and that’s okay! Reading is all about the journey and we are all on our own.

Thank you NetGalley, Berkley Publishing and 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘦 𝘞𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘦𝘭 for this E-ARC copy.

Some secrets stay buried and some come to light - but which secrets are the ones worth dying for?
Welcome to the Hitchcock Hotel - a bed & breakfast type affair themed after, you guessed it, Alfred Hitchcock! When proprietor Alfred invites his college friend group for a reunion-style weekend at the hotel, most of them try to find a plausible excuse to not have to go, but unofficial queen bee Grace manages to gather the crew. But even Julius, TJ, Samira, and Zoe can feel the tension brewing in the Hitchcock hotel - and the creepy hotel manager, Danny, does add a certain air of intrigue to a simple gathering of friends. But everyone has a secret to hide, or maybe kill for. A series of unfortunate events leads to big blowout - that not everyone will survive...
While not my favorite cast of characters (none of them are what you would call, innocent), the drama and plotting felt very true to Hitchcock's methods and I was willing to keep turning the pages, waiting for the next "Aha!" moment. A perfectly creepy story to take to the beach, but maybe not to the solitary B&B...
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This wasn't for me unfortunately. I was expecting more horror but this felt more thriller and even that is giving it more credit. I found this a bit too lengthy for the plot and could have been shaved down. There were many times I really had to push myself to get through the read because it didn't captivate me and I wasn't thrilled about any of the characters. The characters weren't like-able perhaps by design, either way I didn't jive with it. I just expected more horror aspects to be at play with creepiness or gore or something? I'm sorry, I didn't post a review on GOODREADS because I didn't want to tear it down in the reviews. In retrospect I should have DNF it. I do appreciate the opportunity to read it and being approved for the ARC. Again I just think this one wasn't for me.

This book had all the vibes of a Hitchcock thriller! If your a fan of Hitchcock, or horror/slasher movies in general than you need to read this book. Perfect so some creepy autumn reading this upcoming spooky season!

"The Hitchcock Hotel" by Stephanie Wrobel is a masterful blend of Hitchcockian suspense and the classic mystery charm of Clue. From the very first page, I was captivated by the eerie atmosphere and the intricate plot twists that kept me guessing until the very end. Wrobel expertly builds tension, creating a sense of unease that lingers throughout the novel.

The setting of the hotel itself is a character, with its dark corridors and mysterious rooms, adding to the overall sense of dread and curiosity. The characters are well-developed, each with their own secrets and motives, making it impossible to predict who could be trusted.

I particularly loved how Wrobel combined the psychological thrills reminiscent of Hitchcock's films with the whodunit style of Clue, resulting in a gripping and thoroughly entertaining read. The suspense builds steadily, keeping you on the edge of your seat and eager to turn each page.

While there were a few minor plot points that felt slightly contrived, they did not detract from my overall enjoyment of the novel. "The Hitchcock Hotel" is a must-read for fans of classic mysteries and psychological thrillers. It's a thrilling, twisty ride that will leave you satisfied and eagerly anticipating Wrobel's next work.

I will post a public review closer to the publishing date as requested by the publisher.
Thank you!

The book really gave Clue vibes for a while. I kept thinking I knew what the ending was going to be... then out of left field the real answer and I gotta say - I did not even GUESS the ending. Well done to the author. I really liked the Clue vibes though. This was a super easy, quick read. You keep thinking you know what's going to happen, then you change your mind, stay convinced for a while. Then out of left field comes the twist. Loved it.

This was a fun one ! Enjoyed it day at to finish this cover brings all the feels to the original psycho great thriller !!!

Exceptional novel with lots of twists. Many surprises await the reader. This is one that you definitely don't want to miss out on.