This was a really easy listen to me. I loved the narrator. I found myself sitting in my car longer then I needed to so I could finish the chapter. This has a dual timeline and I am a sucker for that. Always waiting to figure out what is going on. I would highly recommend you listen to this book.

Thank you NetGalley and Dreamscape Media for allowing me to listen to this audiobook in advanced for my honest opinion.

I found this book to be very lackluster. I listened to the audiobook and found it difficult to differentiate between Lessa, Lucy and Lyra. Why didn't the editor or author listen to this and think the names were to similiar? Also, the whole story was so far fetched that I just couldn't enjoy it.

Listen here Kiersten... uyou stop that dragging me along for an explosion of an ending... just once id like to have you figured out. Once again a beautiful journey and story filled with intrigues, heartache, confusion, mystery, murder and mayhem. Maybe more ...or less authors should go on these retreats!

I love that Kiersten Modglin writes quick easy reads that grab your attention early on and make you want to binge read them. A Quiet Retreat was no exception! This was not your typical thriller or mystery, it was a very light read for the genre.

Sadly, I didn't like any of the main characters. There wasn't one I wanted to root for but I was invested in the story. I did love the dual timeline and couldn't wait to see how they were connected. I would have never guessed the ending and loved the twists and turns the story took.

Overall, I liked the book and wanted to know what was going on. Carly Robins did an amazing job with the narration. I binged the audiobook very quickly.

I listened to the audiobook and even though I liked the narrator, I just wasn’t able to really get into this story and I found the ending a bit lackluster. This one just wasn’t one for me. I thank Netgalley and Dreamscape Media for the opportunity to listen to and review this audiobook.

One of the storylines was interesting but the other was not. Did not leave me on the edge of my seat. The twist didn't really have a wow factor for me either unfortunately. Not overall horrible but I would not choose to read it again

Another fantastic thriller by Kiersten Modglin! This is a locked room setting where five authors are invited to Black Hills Manor for a weeklong writing retreat and they are expecting to relax and get caught up on their next book. It doesn’t exactly go that way, and things take a dark turn. This was suspenseful, fast-paced, and highly entertaining, just like you’d expect a KMod book to be. The narration for this on audio was great, and I absolutely recommend this one.

Thank you to NetGalley and Dreamscape Media for the ALC to review.

The Quiet Retreat was a great thriller, mystery. I loved the characters especially the main narrator and her story and the fact that everyone involved was a novelist/writer. It kept me guessing until the end. I can't wait to listen to another audiobook by this Author. Great premise and story, it keep me wanting more.

Simultaneously absurd and predictable. Mediocre at best. Decent narration but overall a real dud. Thank you to Netgally for providing an advanced copy of this audiobook.

I love anything by Kiersten Modglin and this was no different! I liked the cast of characters and think Kiersten did a fabulous job at crafting an intriguing and believable story. The narration was easy to follow and kept me interested all the way through! I loved this from beginning to end.

I was hooked from the very start. Kiersten gave another phenomenal story that kept you on your toes until the very end. Another 5 star book and the audiobook was absolutely enthralling!

I didn't think the killer was who they were as far as the relationship to the parties but I figured out that two of the characters had to be involved with the deaths and the sketchy things that were going on there. This book was a good book for the middle mystery readers but was not as who did it as I would have liked.

"The monster's inside the house!"

Once again, with A Quiet Retreat, the queen of the quick gotcha thriller Kiersten Modglin had me completely fooled by the real monster causing havoc during an invite only of published authors to relax and create in a remote mansion in the woods.

The always reliable knows her stuff narrator Carly Robins really got to use her shock and awe talents as five very different authors find themselves slowly feeling unsafe as phones go missing and laptops disappear. As paranoia and mistrust grows we learn more about the haunting past of the mansion and why our heroine Blakely may have wished to stay in the noisy city rather than the deadly quiet retreat.

I received a free copy of this audiobook from the publisher via #NetGalley
for a fair and honest review. All opinions are my own.

A large house with fellow writers, what an idea setting for writing a book! All starts out on good terms for the five writers and quickly turns south with items missing, issues with the retreat home and more. Overall there was too much drama between the characters for my liking, however the book moves along at a very fast pace and is a quick, fun read. I found the ending to be a little unbelievable, but the epilogue helped bring things around for good closure and it ended on a positive note. The narrator did a fantastic job and I enjoyed listening to her.

Thank you to NetGalley and Dreamscape Media for the audio book copy of this book in exchange for my honest opinion.

Thank you Netgalley, and Publishers for allowing me the Audio ARC of this book. I really enjoyed it! This was the first Modglin book I have read and I was not sure what to expect but I enjoyed the brisk pace of the mystery and the twist that came! I look forward to reading more from her!!

I think I would have loved this if it weren't for all the plot holes, but I can't ask my questions without giving away spoilers. What excited me about this book was a strange antique home with a frightening past! Blakely is an author who focuses on thrillers. She's attending Black Hills Manor's premium retreat. The authors only need to post about it online. Daniel, a Stephen King-esque horror author, greets her. Is he in the house?! Cozy mystery authors, police procedural authors, and Tennessee Rivers write action thrillers. To begin with, everyone gets along great, but then they start losing stuff and hearing strange noises, and they begin to believe that someone is playing a prank on them. They don't trust one another, and they have doubts about why they were brought together here in the first place. The tale we are listening to comes from an unknown time period. We have a couple from different social classes. Are her affluent parents correct to keep them apart? As the stories combine, we uncover the house's and people' histories, which are frightening! Lots of twists & turns! Except the twists and turns kind of fall way short because it was just a little too far-fetched for me. I love Kiersten Modglin, but this was probably my least favorite. I did love the nod to And Then There Were None.

Thank you to Dreamscape Media and NetGalley, who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I really enjoyed this book until the end. I kind of figured out some of it out, but then parts were to HTF would that even happen. There were just a few things I found too unbelievable.

That being said, I liked the 2 POVs and had me thinking ahead on how they would tie together.

I definitely would recommend this just to discuss it with someone. It would make a good buddy read.

I listened to the audio, and the narrator did a fantastic job between characters.

Thank you to Netgalley & Dreamscape Media

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🎧Song Pairing: Miss Murder - AFI

Kiersten is wickedly vicious and talented in the art of writing a thriller that is both captivating and to the point. No 400 pages of dialogue then disappointment for the author.

That being said, this wasn’t my absolute favourite of hers. The unveil was out to right field in a way that I don’t loooove. I was surprised to an extent I will say!

This one is a great listen and won’t inconvenience you by being too time consuming. A-okay!

I’m a huge fan of locked room thrillers, so I was definitely excited for this book from the description alone. I enjoyed the characters a lot and found myself pegging each writer with ones in real life. It had me guessing from the start trying to figure out how everything played into each other. I loved Blakely’s POV but I just wish it was that the whole time. I didn’t like Lyssa’s POV and didn’t really get its point. I wish instead of it it spent more on building up the locked room troupe and getting to know all the characters more. The twists at the end I wasn’t a fan of and felt very out of left field and didn’t make a lot of sense. I listened to the audiobook of it and it was only 5 hours so it made it go by super fast. Overall, it was an average locked room thriller that was a quick read!

Oh, there were so many unbelievable elements to this novel (a Stephen King level author accepts a random invitation to a writing retreat with no reputation? all the subgenres of genre mystery are represented?), but I do love a good scary-and-locked-house book. I listened to this on audio, and I loved parts of it--imagining the house, the woods--but the plot and characters were a little too much.