The Vacation takes place in the South of France, at an impressive vineyard & luxury villa. 4 women who were college roommates, their spouses and children all meet together for a vacation of a lifetime. Despite all of their lives moving in different directions, they have been getting together every year for over 10 years for vacations together and after five years of missing those vacations, they are looking forward to 7 days of sun and fun once again as a group, in the year they all turn 40.

Rowan, a high powered business woman was able to score the use of the house they are staying in, as a result of a client deal that is going particularly well. She is there with her husband Russ and their 5 year old daughter, Odette . Izzy, a teacher of English as a foreign language, is coming in from Bangkok, but now will be staying in the UK after the trip, something she has not done in the last 15 years. Izzy is the only single friend in the bunch.. Jennifer, a full time Mom is there with her husband Alistair, and her 2 teenage boys, Ethan and Jake. Kate, a crime analyst with the metropolitan police and her husband Sean are at the house with their teenage daughter Lucy and their young son, Daniel.

I loved T. M. Logan's other novels, but this one is not to be listed among my favorites, despite it being a good enough book. The first two-thirds of the book felt too slow as Logan builds the story, while the last third races by at an unprecedented speed. I found myself disliking most of the kids, as they acted out in a myriad of ways, and even some of the adults bugged me throughout the reading of the book. The description of the area however, made me want to go to the south of France, as it sounded absolutely stunning. I kept wondering why everyone couldn't just get along.... but I learned there were definitely reasons that things were not all fun and games on this vacation. If you enjoy thrillers and do not mind a slow build, I would still recommend The Vacation.

This was a twisted story. It starts off making you think one thing but it ends up something completely different.
The characters all seemed caught up in their own issues and I found myself not really liking them too much. I think the last third of the book was the most interesting .
Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for the early copy

The Vacation by TM Logan is full of twists and mystery when a group of old friends gather for a much-needed vacation. Unfortunately these are not the most communicative of folks and the plot thickens when what is not said hangs in the air or leads the characters to get lost in their own projections and fears. Each misunderstanding leads to a worsening of the situation and it is not sorted out until the very end, and after much tragedy.
I had very much enjoyed Logan's previous novel, Lies, and was a bit disappointed to find the writing less tight and the characters more superficial and less likable than in that previous novel. I think I will now try "29 Seconds," as it gets fabulous reviews. Nonetheless, the plot of The Vacation is unpredictable and engaging for the lover of tragedy and mystery.

This was my first book by T. M. Logan but this definitely won’t be my last. I was drawn to this story due to the simple synopsis of a summer vacation gone wrong, secrets, affairs, and murder. This was a pretty quick read that I had a hard time putting down. The characters are fleshed out pretty well making it hard to guess who the “bad guy” is. I kept going back and forth and was ultimately surprised by the end. I highly recommend this one if you’re looking for a fun summer thriller that keeps you guessing and turning pages! A solid 4 stars

A slow build but overall good plot pace. T.M. Logan offers readers a plethora of characters with secrets to hide. As suspense novels go this holds some familiarity in trope with limited exploration into character depth. The plot is fairly easy to analyze as the story develops but the read is still interesting as the wide array of characters are elusive and fun to watch as they unravel. Good read. 3 stars.

Thank you to #NetGalley for this ARC which was read and reviewed voluntarily.

My thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley for a free ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Well, T.M. Logan is very good at hiding his characters' tracks. The blurb doesn't even begin to describe all the twists and turns in this thriller. And that ending! Loved it. Was justice served? I'll leave you to decide! Very well written. There are parts where you have to stick with it: some passages could have done with a bit of trimming, and some of the characters are less likeable than others, but that is real life, which I always appreciate in a good novel. Highly recommended.

Very atmospheric and entertaining. This would be a quick an easy beach read, bonus points if you're on the beach in the south of France. Thank you to Netgalley and the author for the advanced copy. As always it is appreciated.

The Vacation takes you through a turbulent week in France with 4 life long friends, their spouses and their children. Things are not as straight forward as they seem. Expect half truths, infidelity, broken relationships and bonds that can’t be broken. Watch what secrets can do to the very best of friends.
The story is adrenaline inducing, with an ending that points the finger at everyone in the group. 4 stars.

After reading 29 seconds I knew I had to read this one also. Kate and her friends had always taken a girls trip each year. But this year they decided they would invite their husbands and kids. They go to France and stay in a large villa Kate has started to become suspicious of her husband who has taken an usual interest in his appearance and when she sees text messages on his phone from another woman she fears the worst.

Paranoia takes over for Kate and she starts to think one of her friends is having an affair with her husband. She is looking everywhere for clues on who it could be.

The crazy part of the story is this is not the only secret in the villa. One of her friends husbands tells Kate that he believes his wife is having an affair. In addition, something is going on with Kates daughter who is upset with something that happened at her school.

I really enjoyed this story it had a slow build up but I was intrigued enough to keep reading and was in suspense of what was going to happen. There were so many different things happening between the friends and with all the secrets I never knew the truth or what was going to happen. The ending was great and unpredictable. This is definitely a must read for lovers of thriller books.

The story plot on The Vacation is interesting, I liked that the story happens during a vacation in France. The rythm was a little slow tough which made me cheated and passed on a few chapters. A great vacation read!

Thank you St.Martin’s press for this ARC.

The Vacation by T.M. Logan is an entertaining, hold on to the edge of your seat book. What started out as a simple vacation for four long time female friends and their families, steadily evolved into a complicated series of lies and misdirections. I thought I had things figured out several times only to discover I was way off base. The characters were well developed. The plot had more twists than expected right up to the surprising end. Wonderful reading experience.

I received an Advanced Reader's Copy from St Martin's Press through NetGalley. The opinions expressed are completely my own.
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Kate thinks she has a wonderful life. Beautiful children, a great career, and a happy marriage. She reflects on her life as her family travels to a luxurious villa in the south of France to spend a week with her three best friends. But something feels off as her family arrives at the villa, and she soon discovers an incriminating text on her husband's phone revealing that her husband is having an affair with one of her friends. With no one to trust, Kate is determined to figure out which one of her friends has betrayed her.

The Vacation forces Kate to take a closer look at herself and the relationships with those closest to her. This involves her reliving her past, seeing things outside of her rose-colored glasses. T.M. Logan has once again delivered a novel with a great combination of mystery and suspense, bringing her characters and conflicts to life. No detail was left overlooked, and it really made me think how I would react if I were Kate.

I'm not sure I would want to include any of these women in my group of friends, but it was an interesting read with some unexpected twists and turns.

Kate, Jennifer, Rowan and Izzy were friends in college. They have had frequent reunions of just the four of them, but this year they decide to bring their husbands and children along on a week long French vacation. The first 75% of this book consists of Kate saying and thinking “my husband is having an affair with one of my friends, oh woe is me”. That storyline doesn’t interest me. In the last 25% of the book, you begin to get inklings that the issues may be larger than problems in Kate’s marriage, but it was a long wait for something interesting to happen in this book.

The author had the annoying habit of having Kate find something “shocking” (in someone else’s room, in a trash can, on a video etc.) without telling us what it is that she found until later. It’s an amateurish device to build tension and it was seriously overused in this book. I didn’t hate the book, but Kate’s prolonged dithering didn’t entertain me and the other adults on the vacation weren’t a really interesting group. Actually, I think the book would have been better if the main focus had been on the teenagers.

I received a free copy of this book from the publisher.

I just could not find my way into this one... I was so excited at a new T. M. Logan. I loved Lies and 29 Seconds - with both books I fell into the story from the opening pages and the tales held me from beginning to end. With this one, I just never found my way in...

I found the characters irritating and petty and utterly unsympathetic. I may be full up on long-time friends who are all hiding horrible secrets from one another LOL... It seems like every other book uses this as the backdrop for a mystery these days - or at least every other book I seem to be picking up. It's possible that I'm just burned out on this as a premise, but I found the back-and-forth revelations to be uninteresting and uninspired. I honestly just didn't care what Sean was hiding or what Terrible Things Kate had done to each of her friends in the past. The drama felt overblown and contrived and it was completely unbelievable to me that these women would have stayed friends given everything that has happened to them and that they've done to one another over the years... The kids felt like stereotypes and their plot lines didn't told me either. It felt like two books cobbled together into one when the focus shifted to their stories/points of view.

All in all this one just didn't work for me and frankly I never even made it to the big reveal at the end. I couldn't gin up enough interest in the characters to even skim chapters to get there... This one just didn't do it for me. A lot of people have enjoyed it though, so as I said I may just be done with "old friends with secrets" as a storytelling concept. If you haven't been down this path multiple times already, this one may work better for you than it did for me... I still consider myself a Logan fan and will definitely check out his next book, based on the success I had with the first two. But this third one just didn't have that "grab me and hold me" factor of the other two...

The opinions of this book are my own. Thanks to netgalley, for the early copy.
This is the first book I've read by T. M. Logan. I enjoyed it a lot. I'd heard lots of good things about this author and I was not disappointed. At times I did feel as if it were trying too hard to be suspenseful but overall a good read.

This was a little on the slow side for me. It didn't really pick up until about 80% into the book. For most of the book, you don't know what happened, only that one or more of them did something bad. I think the setting was good, the overall idea was interesting, but the characters were just so unlikable that I really didn't care what happened to them. I'd just as soon call the cops on the lot of them.

Thank you so much to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press

Another great thriller by T.M. Logan!

First, I always have had a thing for stories that deal with Friends who have maintained a bond for years despite the different directions their lives have taken. The premise of this book is that four friends from college get together to celebrate them all turning 40 this year but things are not always what they see. In the first part we find out that one of their husbands is having an affair and it looks like its one of the three other girls. Of course, she begins to find out who is sleeping with her husband and why..

Vacation is a great read that will keep you guessing! Each family has its own issues and at times puts the fun fack in dysfunctional!

Kate, Izzy, Jennifer and Rowan have been friends since university. The 4 of them plan a dream vacation with their families to a vineyard in France to celebrate their 40th birthdays. While there, Kate will try to determine which of her besties is having an affair with her husband!
I had a very difficult time trying to rate this book.. On the one hand, I HAAAAAAATED these characters. All of them. Every single one of them. Even the kids.. On the other hand, these characters were all very well written, as was the book. Lots of twists and turns, 95% of which I didn't see coming. The first half of the book is mostly Kate trying to figure out who her husband Sean is cheating with. She can make a case for each of her friends being the culprit. The 2nd half of the book really picks up steam, and I found I couldn't turn the pages fast enough! I've never read a book by this author before, but now I will actively search his book out!
I received this ARC from NetGalley and St. Martin's Press is exchange for an honest and unbiased review

I am so glad I've found the author T.M.Logan. His previous books, Lies and 29 Seconds, were both great page-turners, and Logan's newest book The Vacation is just as good.

A group of friends goes on vacation together, but each family seems to be hiding things. The book jacket promises that one husband is having an affair, but are things really as they seem, or are they much, much worse?

I went into this book thinking it would be a simple family drama, but it is so much more complex. And, while our main character Kate aggravated me with her hesitancy to act, the characters were all well-drawn and diverse. In total, this story was a great surprise, serving up a tale that was not at all what I anticipated, and delivering a satisfying ending.

Thank you to NetGalley and T.M.Logan for an advanced copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.