A story of newlyweds starting their honeymoon in the posh and prestigious Pink Hotel, surrounded by the rich and richest. A Cinderella meets Gossip Girl, Kit a doe eyed small town girl marries Keith Collins a wannabe “Golden Boy” from boondocks. Keith the guy who so desperately wants to fit in and mingle with the billionaire crew with their expensive suits and easy breezy do as I wish attitude. Two young kids thrown into a jungle of the rich and slightly famous trying to find their place in society and marriage only to find either is not as it seems. A story of socioeconomic divisions both inside and outside of the pink hotel with the environmental impacts raging as a fire rips through the city outside.

It’s a great beach read, something light that works for picking up and putting down. It’s not all encompassing as it’s lacking in more depth with the characters not being more developed and only knowing them at a true surface level. Even the main character kit feels flat with her woe is me demeanor. i was disappointed at how it wrapped up but i suspect there will be a few who enjoy the ending as poetic.

The Pink Hotel was a slow burn at first but picked up the pace real fast. It felt like watching a movie. The author did a really fantastic job with the way it was written. Very different from what I am use to.

Thank you NetGalley for a copy of this book for my honest opinion.

The Pink Hotel: where nothing real can survive. This book is about classism and love or lack thereof when you have it all. The story follows newlyweds Kit and Keith Collins during their honeymoon (if it can really be called that) at the Pink Hotel as Keith tries to get the position of assistant manager. The two meet very wealthy guests, but interpret their time very differently. Keith wants to break through his middle class title and jump into the elite, and Kit is happy to go back home and stop pretending. Throughout the book, it is made known that these rich guests are merely playing with the two as they would any new toy. Outside of the hotel’s walls, the forests and city are burning due to out of control wildfires. The rich continue to play in safety while the world is literally burning around them.

Liska Jacobs did an amazing job of writing it so that I felt that I was part of the story.
The book gave me a sense of thrill in the beginning, being able to “participate” in the riches, but by the end, I was done. Worn out by the extravagance of everything. “And they always wanted more”


Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for giving me an electronic advanced reader copy!

Kit and Keith are newlyweds. In small-town Booneville, CA, they run his uncle's restaurant and inn. A chance encounter with the Beaumont’s leads to them honeymooning at the historical and famed Pink Hotel in LA. Mr Beaumont runs the wildly successful establishment- popular among the extremely rich and famous and site of frequent extravagant parties. Unbeknownst to Kit, Keith has set his sights on getting a position at the Pink Hotel. He uses the trip as an extended job interview and aims to prove himself indispensable to Beaumont, who is in need of a new manager. Keith will do whatever it takes to fit in with the exclusive crowd at the hotel. As Kit and Keith get swept up in this new lifestyle they grow farther and farther apart and their relationship is tested in ways they never imagined. Meanwhile, outside the gates of the hotel wildfires have taken over California. The hills are burning, riots are breaking out, and lockdown is ordered. Within the hotel, the staff must work harder than ever to keep their clientele entertained to their extravagant standards. As the fires and riots take over the hotel the guests and staff alike are pushed to their breaking point.
This book examines topics of class disparity, greed, and relationships. I found the writing style took some getting used to, but the story shows a glimpse of 'how the other half' lives.
Thank you to the author and the publisher for the opportunity to read and review this ARC.

e-arc provided by netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

"rich is a country to itself"

i cannot express how much i hate rich people and this book reaffirmed that. but it's fine because all things considered, this was a very fun read, despite how many times i wanted to strangle some side characters. 'the pink hotel' is brimming with imagery, and at times i felt almost as suffocated as the characters. liska jacobs writes like a painting, and it was a joy to read, even if the material itself made me a little uncomfortable at times. it's a tough job making influencers even more unlikeable than they already are, you know.

going into this book knowing just the basic premise -a newlywed couple spends their honeymoon cooped up in a fancy hotel while fires and protests rage around them-, i was expecting a little more drama, but as it stood, the middle dragged a little. still, the final quarter or so had so much going on i could barely keep track, which allowed me to breeze through it.

while this book touched on plenty of social issues, i felt that either the cast of characters was too big to offer more than a remark about a particular problem, or there were too many subplots. it might've been intentional, to show how warped priorities can get when you're surrounded by so much excess without having to work for it, but it left me feeling like the big message of this book was buried beneath the stress of an impending divorce or a week-long job interview. there also wasn't much of a buildup to the climax -we spend almost a full week at the hotel, but everything goes to shit in one night. i suppose real life doesn't exactly have subtle foreshadowing, either, but books can afford to bend our perception of reality a little.

Thank you to the publisher and to net-galley for an ARC of this book. The pink hotel by liska Jacobs
I do not think this book was for me at all, It was way to slow and lacked plot throughout most of the book. The entire point of view with the characters felt uneven and rushed. I ended up disliking all of the characters because I found them extremely bland and with not enough personality. I really tried to enjoy this book so much but i was just unable to find anything good about it.

I found this a great read, it was packed full of interesting characters that really intrigued me. I loved the sound of the story, I felt as though it was a little different but in a good way. It is all centred around the Pink Hotel, Kit and Keith have been invited to stay at the pink hotel as they want Keith to work for them, it is all going swimmingly until wildfires rip through and threaten to devastate the surrounding areas. Everyone flocks to the Pink Hotel and we meet an interesting bunch of characters that have come to brave out the wildfires. An interesting story, one where I wasn't sure where it would leave but was pleasantly surprised by the ending. A great read.

This book was entertaining and charming but ultimately not a favorite of mine. I think my biggest struggle with the book was the length versus impact payoff. The character development (and in a way, even the end) felt relatively expected, and I might have found the length of the novel easier to handle if I felt I was getting deeper "aha" moments with the narrative arcs. I also found that some of the book's thematic message and dialogue felt a touch over-written like the reader was being handed the explicit meaning of everything. I appreciated that the writer includes climate change and police brutality, as well as the obvious critique of the super-rich.

Keith and Kit Collins arrive at the Pink Hotel for their honeymoon. Rather than a romantic time together, it is anything but. They become trapped in the hotel with unhappy staff and very wealthy guests due to wildfires. The divide between classes of people quickly becomes apparent and what’s more, one begins to wonder what drew the Collins’s together in the first place. It seems everything is headed towards catastrophe.

The synopsis of this book hooked me in as did the beautiful cover. Unfortunately, the execution did not and I found the book to not be for me.

Overall, I found there to be too many characters and none of them likeable or relatable. I also found the idea of a grown woman with no health issues seemingly sucking her thumb a bit off putting and hard to get past. The book was a bit long in my opinion also.

I understand the story is satire, and there is more than likely some truth in what the author is trying to get across, but I just couldn’t get into it.

Thank you NetGalley and Farrar, Straus and Giroux for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Welcome to the Pink Motel ! Our protagonists are Keith and Kit Collins, who are honeymooning in the famous iconic Pink Motel. The two were lucky enough to be invited to stay by the hotel owner at a reduced rate. Keith has a barely disguised ulterior motive of becoming a manager in the hotel while Kit is just hoping to have a nice week with her new husband. The two are both employees of a less famous, small hotel in an unknown town and are completely swept away by the ostentatious wealth of the clientele, the opulence of the hotel.

The time is the present wildfires rage through the mountains of nearby LA. There are increasingly dangerous riots and blackouts that send more and more eccentric characters to hide in the hotel for shelter. As the novel progresses, the couple are swept into the debauchery of the wealthy guests, and attend wild parties and gatherings even though they feel more comfortable with the staff.

This is a novel of class divide and a sharply written, quick moving book. It's almost a movie as you read each chapter. If. you love beautiful hotels, class division novels (like Tom Wolfe and biting satire )want to spend a "weekend" with the rich, grab #ThePinkHotel #netGalley #MCD

This my third book by this author and I think it’s probably my favorite. The setting is the Pink Hotel in Beverly Hills where Kit and Keith Collins have come for their honeymoon while Keith interviews to be assistant manager. The couple are definitely fish out of water in the opulent, over there top luxury hotel surrounded by the richest and amoral of guests.
Meanwhile, wildfires are raging around Los Angeles while they spend their honeymoon week at the resort.
The writing is beautiful and the story is immersive. The themes of decadence, celebrity, and climate destruction were definitely not subtle.
Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for this ARC.

I wanted to read this book because I’m a Los Angeles native, and I enjoy glimpses into the crazy LA social scene. I thought that the premise of a behind the scenes look at an iconic hotel is an intriguing one. The writing is sharp and fresh. Unfortunately, I didn’t love this book. It didn’t hold my attention, and I had to force myself to keep going. I’m not opposed to things that are character-driven as opposed to plot-driven, but the problem was that I neither liked nor cared about any of the characters. Overall, I was not a fan of this book.

Thank you Netgalley and the publishers for giving me the opportunity to read and review this book in exchange for an honest review.

Honestly, I think that The Pink Hotel wasn’t for me. I just found the book, specifically the plot, very lacking. To me, I just felt that there was no plot at all which really disappointed me.
I also found that I did not like or dislike the characters. I just found it really confusing h0w one second it’s this characters POV then the POV changes completely and I know that’s how it usually is in a 3rd perspective story but the way that the author laid it out was overly complicated which I will mention later on.
Kit and Keith are a married couple, and I honestly don’t have any problem with them, I just found that they were very plain and boring and just needed more depth for me to like them.
One thing that I also disliked about the Pink Hotel was the writing and the plot layout. It just felt like the ending and cliffhangers weren’t planned out, and I am one that honestly dislikes slow stories that do not get to the point and it just felt too long which eventually made me bored.

It was really hard to find something good about The Pink Hotel which really disappointed me because the synopsis sounded really nice to be honest.

Close encounters to filthy rich people’s lives at an eccentric pink hotel located in Beverly Hills as the fires, riots occur outside of the surroundings which is so similar with political and logistical dynamics of today’s California.

Happy couple couldn’t be so wrong to choose this place to spend their romantic honeymoon vacation!

This book pushed me a little harder to get into it. I was hesitant to continue after the very slow beginning and the narration style disturbed my attention. I couldn’t connect with husband- wife so easily.

I still kept reading and thankfully in the middle I found some characters more likable. The book’s pace picked up and the direction of the story slowly hooked me up. I also easily connect with the sarcastic and smart tone of author’s story telling. I wanted to see how the author would wrap up the entire execution. Thankfully she did an impressive job. I liked the ending more than the entire development.

This was promising, interesting plot with less likable characterization ( at least I got most of them’s motives) overall: definitely worth your time! Especially good choice for slow burn dark social satire lovers!

Special thanks to NetGalley and Farrar, Straus and Giroux, MCD for sharing this digital reviewer copy with me in exchange my honest opinions.

What a strange, delightful read this was. The writing style took a little bit to get used to, but once I did, I flew through this story. I’m not sure how it would be classified, domestic drama maybe? But The Pink Hotel was like a ball rolling down a steep hill: the further it went, the faster the pace was until the breathless conclusion. I loved it!

Although it's well written, I'm sorry to say THE PINK HOTEL was not for me. I'm generally a fan of literary fiction and a slow-moving plot doesn't bother me. However, I need characters to root for, or at least ones with whom I empathize. I want characters who seem real. Here, Kit and Keith seem more like caricatures and the same felt true (to varying degrees) with the hotel owners and employees. I kept waiting to care about them and finding the narrative somewhat empty. Perhaps it's the sharp satirical tone that got in the way. I'm sure other readers will enjoy this novel. Jacobs is clearly a very talented writer with a biting sense of humor and an unflinching gaze on society.

I loved this book! I love books with spoiled rich unlikable characters! Jacobs did an excellent job of transitioning the different POV’s
This is a book that will stick with me and I’ll likely buy a physical copy to reread in the future!

This book is one I'm going to be thinking about for a long time. Think of that frog-in-boiling-water analogy: it starts out relatively sedate -- a newly married couple honeymoons at The Pink Hotel in Hollywood, the somewhat obnoxious husband is hoping to ingratiate himself to management so he can work there and the placid wife is just going along to get-along -- and then it boils and gets ... *bonkers*, but you're in it already and you can't jump out because you need to find out what happens. I don't want to give it away, but as the new wife gradually finds her way back to herself, the husband loses himself to the hotel and the *insane* culture of the rich, and along the way, there are wild (and semi-tame) cats, wildfires, riots, gunshots, and a monkey. I'll be thinking about this one for a long time to come. I couldn't put it down. It was a wild ride!

Thanks to Netgalley and FSG for the ebook. This is a wild novel where young newlyweds, Keith and Kit Collins, who work at a hotel in Northern California, are persuaded to spend their honeymoon in the very opulent Pink Hotel in Beverly Hills. This is also an extended interview to see if Keith will be hired on at this hotel. Kit is not sure this is the place for them. Everything starts out fine with rich meals and spa days, but there are wildfires raging in the surrounding hills and riots on the streets of Los Angeles. Soon the hotel closes it doors and all the rich clientele become bored and demand more and more entertainment, betting on fights among the staff, women wrestling. Kit and Keith become more estranged as the place becomes more and more unhinged and ultimately very violent. This is a great dark comedy, filled with over a dozen sharp characters.

Did not finish. Extraordinarily vapid rich people and hotel staff holing up in the Beverly Hills Hotel during the wildfires, oblivious of anything outside the compound. All competing for status, but of course the rich people strive harder because they are insecure.