Thank you to NetGalley and BooksGoSocial for providing this book, with my honest review below.

Long Weekend was disturbing and proactive! Emma is given a perk to her very unrewarding job by taking her boss’s place on an exclusive trip to a private island hotel. But of the 5 other VIPs attending, one has an agenda that puts everyone at risk. This played around with the idea of resentment at the 1% and was incredibly creepy. While I didn’t love Emma (she seems very shallow emotionally / immature), I love the concept and the mystery!

What I liked:
- The idea that the whole story is told from finding a notebook from Emma
- It was really just happen stance that Emma ended up on the trip. I was kinda expecting it to turn out her boss knew something was going to happen and thats why she sent Emma on the trip in the first place.

What I disliked:
- I think it was pretty obvious who the killer was. Not really an option for it to be anyone else.
- I didn’t really care for how fast Emma decided to trust people. She went in completely judgmental about everyone going on the trip but pretty quickly started trusting some people
- Emma lied about having money and the only person that figured it out died pretty quickly then it was never brought up again. Little disappointing, I thought it was going to be a bigger point of conflict.
- I don’t understand why Fiona was so upset about Emma having her camera.
- There was a lot of info dumping to introduce all of the Characters in the beginning. Was a little hard to get through at the beginning.
- The ending was very ‘hahaha evil villain’ info dumping at the end to tel everything. Felt rushed and was kinda lame after all of the chaos that happened.

2 out of 5 stars, it took me a few days to get through all of the long paragraphs. I still wanted to know what happened so thats plus.

Publication date: April 16th, 2024
Page count: 229
Genre: thriller
Setting: Hotel Horizon- remote island
POV: Emma

Emma’s boss gives her invitation to the opening of Hotel Horizon. A island hotel for the ultra rich. Emma plans to spend the weekend writing an expose of the wealthy to jump start her journalism career. When she and the other guests get there, the locked in murder mystery begins…

The characters had limited depth and it was difficult to be invested with them. It was fast paced though and had some twists and turns.


Thank you to author, publisher, NetGalley for advanced copy. This is an honest voluntary review.

Long Weekend is an interesting — but not completely unforgettable — take on the locked-door trope. The author does a good job of keeping the pace up and the character list tight, so it's easy to get pulled into the story. However, the majority of the plot is simply the characters reacting. I wish there was more grounding the story so that readers could try to give context to what's happening.

With thrillers such as this one, I expect there's going to be a lot of confusion leading up to a rewarding twist. Unfortunately, the readers do a lot of work and they payoff isn't totally there. It's an interesting concept, but not one big enough to differentiate this book from others who fall under the trope.

All of that said, I still enjoyed the book and will absolutely keep an eye out for what the author releases next.

Thank you NetGalley and BooksGoSocial for the eARC.
A luxury weekend on a private island is given to Emma by her boss and she's thrilled, especially when she meets the other guests which include her teenage movie crush and a couple of women she idolizes. She can't believe her luck!
Unfortunately this turns into a nightmare of epic proportions, as one by one the guests are murdered.
A great beach read (but not on a private island...) that's impossible to put down. I definitely recommend it.

Well, I didn't see that coming.

If you always guess the ending of a book and are genuinely happy and excited when you DON'T "see it coming, " then read this book!
Long Weekend by S.M. Thomas tells the tale of a luxury holiday weekend turned murderous nightmare. We follow the characters through the weekend as victims multiply, and the suspect list shrinks. Anticipation is built until the last possible moment when the motives, and true mastermind behind the peril, are revealed.

Thanks #NetGalley for the ARC read of Long Weekend!