The Holiday - T.M. Logan 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟/5.

All the stars for this addictive edge of your seat thriller. 

An innocent holiday in idyllic France between four friends and their families turns into something a lot more sinister. 

An outstanding thriller featuring holidays, relationships and dysfunctional families. With a murder thrown in to the mix. 

Fantastic writing style, set with such a fast and rapid pace. This book I couldn't put down. My heart was beating as it came to an end. 

I love a thriller that throws your mind onto so many tangents and theories that keep you up at night and this book did just that. The ending I could never have guessed.

My favourite thriller of the year so far 🙌. Truly brilliant. You wont be disappointed.

Overall this was a good read. It was just a bit of a slow burner. It seemed to take a long time to get into the story,

Thank you to Netgalley for my copy.

Perfect thriller for holidays! I loved it and found it very entertaining beach read. 
It hooked me easily and I kept guessing and guessing till the end. Very good pace and fun to read. Recommended. 
Thanks a lot Netgalley and the publisher for this copy in exchange for an honest review.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book! It is actually the perfect read for a holiday and puts you in a holiday mood, until the story unravels. 

What I loved about this book was the reveal wasn't until the last 5-6 chapters even though you were guessing throughout the whole book. 

Brilliant read, and a first introduction to this author! Great work!

Slight slow burner at the start but once it got going I really enjoyed this, and seeing the fragility of friendships. Thank you for the opportunity to read

The Holiday was a book by the first page I knew I was going to love, with a storyline that gets you right in there from the beginning but balanced with drip feeding you information that turns the storyline on its head.
Kate and Sean are in France on holiday with their two kids and three other families, Kate and her three university friends always try and go away together but after a few years of not doing have decided to do a big gathering with partners and children. What should have been the best holiday ever turns into the worst by far. Lies, deceit, trust and death are the main features in this twisty read.
I loved the writing style it flowed well, the main character Kate was likeable and I liked the way I thought the book was going one way but after a chapter or two it totally turned on it’s head and I did not see the outcome coming at all.
I would like to thank Netgalley and Bonnier Zaffre for this ARC I received in exchange for an honest review.

This was my second TM Logan book and again I felt it was ok and I would recommend it to readers especially if you’re looking for something to read on holiday. That said it certainly isn’t on my favourites list as I couldn’t take to any of the characters and the lead female Kate who was a police officer seemed a bit dim and unworldly.

The perfect family holiday commences, planned by Kate to celebrate turning 40 – four best friends, their husbands and children in an amazingly decadent villa, celebrating their life long friendship. You’d think the worst that could go wrong would be drinking a little too much wine and getting too much sun. Instead, Kate finds out her husband is having an affair – with someone else in the villa. From there, things spiral way out of control and into a dark place of death and deceit. It’s a book about dysfunctional families, betrayal, secrets and lies. It twists and turns and drags you on a journey with an explosive ending.

A little far fetched, but undeniably a gripping psychological thriller. Four Stars. Check it out on Amazon. Four Stars.

This was a bit of a different take on the And Then There Was None trope - a group of strangers with a murderer amongst them. This time, Kate is on holiday with her family, and her best friends from university, and their families. What's meant to be a joyous reunion is ruined on the first day when Kate discovers her husband Sean is having an affair. And it's with one of her three best friends on holiday with them. As she starts to unspool the web of lies and delve into the cracks of her marriage, she goes through each of her friends to cross them off the list, and finally pinpoint who is ruining her life.

I liked how different this was - you weren't trying to pick out a killer, but the subject of an affair. And even though you knew there would be a death - you're told this on the first page of the prologue by the way, no spoilers - it is sort of put to the back of your mind as you focus on the more pressing matter - Sean's affair. And also, what is up with Kate's friends, and why are they all acting weird?

Ultimately, however, for a thriller this book wasn't very gripping. I didn't care for any of the characters, found them a bit 2D, and found the way they talked and interacted with each other just a bit... unrealistic. You know when you can tell a female character is written by a man? Yup. That. I also wasn't sold on the twist and the characters motivations.

3.5/5 stars.

I enjoyed this read and did not foresee the ending.  It was full of twists and kept me interested to the end.

Four university friends get together with their families to celebrate their 40th in France. There are undercurrents and past secrets which underpin all the relationships. There are issues within each family which come to the fore and links which do not become apparent until the end.

I enjoyed the multi voices and perspectives.

An author I will look out for in future.

A well developed, fast paced and cleverly written thriller with good characters which I thoroughly enjoyed and can recommend.

Thank you to Netgalley and Bonnier Zaffre publishers for giving me the opportunity to read this book.

I’m someone who enjoys a fast paced thriller, and found The Holiday very slow to get going. The concept behind the story with four friends on holiday is a good choice. But sadly there wasn’t enough pace for me.

Thank you for the opportunity to read 'The Holiday'.

I would classify this as a holiday read - easy, enjoyable if not slightly unbelievable.  The characters were interesting and the plot kept me guessing.

I absolutely loved this book.  At last someone who can take a narrative and run with it, without resorting to changed of era etc.  The opening chapter had me hooked and it did not take me long to read it all.  Now I am sad as I no longer have it to read.  The sign of a good book!

The setting in France, the gorgeous villa, the long lazy meals en famille made you feel as if you were on holiday, even if you were not.  You could almost feel the heat of the day.

The build up to the climax was very good, it kept you guessing and the end was able to surprise.
Very good indeed, I look forward to more by T M Logan.

Four university friends come together for a holiday in a beautiful idyllic villa in France. They bring their respective families with them. Each of them is hiding a secret. One of them is prepared to kill to keep their secret. 

Kate’s husband Sean has been acting strangely. Kate finds messages on his phone, he’s having an affair with one of her friends, but who? Rowan, Jen or Izzy? Each of them seems to be hiding something. 

This book has suspense, intrigue and plot twists. Just enough to keep you wondering. There are secrets, lies and family drama. 

The beginning of the book had me hooked. It slowed a bit in the middle but the ending is enough to send a chill down your spine.

An interesting story with many twists and turns as suspicion falls on the different characters in the book. As the book progresses you are carried along on as the pressure increases and the relationships are exposed. Definitely recommended.

A good story with characters that really annoyed me. Maybe a touch unbelievable but definitely a perfect holiday read

This psychological thriller was a right enjoyable page turner.. the characters were interesting and the setting was fantastic. A good twist at the end that you would never expect. I have read 2 books by this author and I will be looking out for more in the future. Excellent 
Thank you netgalley for the opportunity to read this

Four friends and their family are on their annual holiday together. This year is different though as Kate finds out her husband is keeping a secret from her. He's having an affair and it's with one of her best friends, but which one?
Rowan, Jenny, Izzy and Kate have all been friends since University, but this holiday will test Kate to her limits. As the families keep up their bravados, we start to learn that secrets are held in each family, cumulating in one huge turn of events that no could have guessed was coming.

Well that was quite the ride! Four friends, their children and one reader go to what they think to be a nice quiet holiday at a villa in France. Nothing is as it seems! This reader was expecting one twist and got quite a few more than that! 

The opening as they reach the villa is all sunshine and light. The descriptions of the area and the landscape is stunning and you’re immediately thrown into the heart of the French countryside. You get that holiday buzz just like those in the novel….but then, like those twisty, winding roads, it goes in directions you don’t expect.

The setting is stunning - Beziers, Autignac, fields and vineyards as long as the eye can see. Languedoc is going to be getting more visitors after this. Maybe not groups of friends in villas though ;) (The villa is fictional, I did check, but there are many real ones just like it.

You know when friends get together at a nice location and there’s a birthday to celebrate that something is going to go wrong, but it was hard to guess what exactly. It all starts with a text message Kate finds on her husband’s phone. And oh my word,what a journey we go on after that. Kate thinks everything and knows nothing and when she does find something out, nothing is as it seems. This was a puzzle indeed but I loved it! What a thrill to wander through the rooms of that villa, creeping behind the vines, hiding in door ways and listening to people talking underneath balconies…. Then there was all that bushy headland and mountains to get lost in, to invite someone for a walk so you could ‘talk’. An example of where the location ramps up the tension and acts as a major character itself.

Remember that text? It’s from someone on the holiday…and that’s not a spoiler as it’s mentioned at the start. But that ramps things up even more! Remote location, people you think you know….

It makes me never want to go on a group holiday though! Haha maybe don’t read this if you are going on one anytime soon. You might be looking at them in a new light! And never let them take their children. They get lost and hide and seek becomes very eerie when the light fades.

It starts nice and slow and then I found I couldn’t stop reading and I was getting faster and faster to find out what was going on.My mind was going as fast as Kate’s although in a much nicer way.

I could hear the bushes rustle when reading this and wanted to look over my shoulder from time to time. A very exciting read!