I read reviews where people decided not to finish because of the many grammatical errors, but I decided that I wanted to persevere to see what happened. I shouldn't have. It didn't get better. The grammar isn't just bad, it's so awkward. People don't talk like that. And the story is about these young guys who aren't likable, and some of them do terrible things for really dumb reasons. We learn about the bad acts through flashbacks and there are awkward attempts to show time passing in the latter section, with about the last 15% of the book being ... some sort of religious thing?
Anyway, I thank NetGalley for allowing me to read this in exchange for an honest review.

Poorly developed characters. The book was all over the place, overly descriptive at times and no imagery at other times. Good premise but not well executed. Thanks to Netgalley for the opportunity to read this book

I ended up DNF at 22%. I tried but just could not get into it. The book sounded great but the writing was poor and nothing was enticing me to keep moving forward.

I'm sorry that this novel gets only 2 stars, but unfortunately it was poorly written.
The first half reads like a very bad horror movie. The second is a quite boring narrative of the following years. The issues redemption and forgiveness are so important, but I guess that this novel won't reach those to whom it is intended. I must admit that I skipped great chunks because of too much redundancies.

This was hard for me to read. I just couldn’t get into the story. The characters aren’t relatable but the story itself is interesting.

I was looking forward to this book based on the description but I couldn't get past chapter two.

I have nothing bad to say about the author or publisher and this is just my personal opinion.

The first chapter alone was riddled with errors. Spelling errors, grammatical errors, and punctuation errors. An editor, proofreader, or even beta readers are desperately needed.

The sentences were written in a way that I found myself re-reading them so they would make sense. It felt as if the author was trying to sound literary but it was just confusing. Again, an editor really needs to help rewrite.

The characters didn't make sense. Five "best friends" with nothing in common are coming back from a road trip to Acapulco. They don't act like friends and they could have been named "Random male characters 1-5" since none of them had much of a personality. Oh, and one is a devout Christian who likes to preach to the others. But, hey, they're all friends so nobody minds!

The dialogue also suffers. Nobody talks like that. Nobody. It was stilted and didn't make sense. We use contractions when we speak. Example "Let's go check that out" is written in here as "Let us go check that out". It makes the characters sound like robots.

By the time they arrived at a hotel with a creepy desk clerk, I just didn't care about them at all. So there was no tension or fear. That's where I checked out, gave up the ghost, and realised that life is too short to read books you don't like.

Writing a book takes a lot of work and I give the author credit for doing something that the vast majority of people will never do: write a book and put it out for the public to critique.

This is just my personal opinion and, who knows, you might actually enjoy it. So while I don't personally recommend this book, if you like the description go ahead and take a chance. It's just not for me.

DNF at 17%

This story of six friends returning from a summer vacation in Mexico and finding a scary hotel was incredibly poorly written and was filled with grammatical errors. Also, if you are planning to try to shove your religion down my throat, warn me about that so I’ll know not to read your book at all.

Thank you to NetGalley and to the publisher for this advance readers copy in exchange for an honest review. Took me a bit to get into this one but overall a good thriller!!

This book was definitely a different kind of read than I normally read! It had suspense, intrigue, action, murder, mystery, A very strange storyline! It was worth reading bit just a little out there for me! Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for sharing this book with me!