This is an over the top thrilling adventure from start to finish. Kudos to Joshua Manning for a great narration job!
Six college friends travel to rural Scotland for a birthday weekend getaway. Something happens that forces them to decide who they are and what they will and will not do. Along the way, secrets are exposed. By the end, not everyone will return home. I don’t want to say too much as you need to go into this book buckled up for the ride. Have fun!
*Thanks to the author, Dreamscape Media, and NetGalley for this advance audio copy.

This book was pretty insane. All these friends clearly had issues. Also a lot of drama between all of them. Grudges were held. I loved the writing of this book! The only reason I didn’t give it 5 stars was the ending. It was pretty meh to me and just didn’t wrap everything up. Otherwise solid read.

This started out strong, but I wasn't able to finish it. It just didn't hold my attention -- there were too many side plots and I just didn't care about the characters.

I loved loved this Scotland based novel i love who done its and this one was perfect kept me guessing until the end!!! This book had alot of good twists,thrills,and action! I will definitely be recommending it to my bookish friends!

This book “With Friends Like These” by Keri Beevis was great as an audiobook. Joshua Manning did a great job with the narration and I loved the light Scottish accent to match the setting of the novel. This story follows a group of friends who get together at a remote Scottish rental home to celebrate a birthday. However, everyone in the friend group has a secret and you wonder if these friends even really like each other! On top of the secrets and friend drama, there are some creepy locals thrown in. This audiobook kept me hooked!

Thank you @netgalley and @dreamscape_media for allowing me to listen to this audiobook ahead of publication in exchange for my honest review.

Friends don’t let other friends go to prison do they? Billy McGuire is heading to his university reunion in a remote place in Scotland. The roads are twisty and he’s been drinking.

Billy ends up hitting someone on the road. He’s puts the guy in his car with good intentions of taking him to the hospital. Unfortunately the man dies!

Billy arrives at the reunion and tells his friends what happened. They all offer advice and they find out the man who died is a well know criminal. His back pack has several questionable items including a lot of cash. They decide to keep the cash and get rid of the body.

The story takes a twisty turn when the criminals brother starts looking for him and the friends turn on each other!

This was the perfect whodunit. The suspense to find out the answers was intense. It was a little hard to keep all the characters in order because there were so many. I liked how the story starts off right away so from the start you are hooked. I’m my opinion, the writing style is much different than any other book i have read in a long time. That sets this book apart from the rest. I would definitely recommend this book.

Keri Beevis is a new author for me. I chose this book because of the cover and title. I'm so glad I judged a book by its cover! 6 friends away for a weekend in a remote cabin, what could go wrong? Apparently everything! She kept me guessing the whole time until the big reveal. I really liked the flash backs to the individuals' time at college and how they all met one another. The audio book narrator was great. Good differentiation between characters and good pacing. I'll be looking for more from Beevis in the future!

First book by this author. The title of this book was part of what intrigued me, as well as the setting in Scotland. I was looking forward to the Scottish brogue in the narration of the audio version, but didn't get as much of that as I'd have liked. The pace of the book was fast enough to keep me interested, and the plot was tense, gritty, and dark. There were a lot of layers revealed along the way, and I enjoyed the comedy of errors as nothing went to plan. I just kept wondering why on earth these six people ever called themselves friends. Definitely not a quick page turner but just enough to keep interest.

With Friends Like These by Keri Beevis
Pub Date: 21 Jun 2022
4/5 Stars

Six friends meet in Scotland for a reunion/birthday celebration. On the way there, one of them, Billy, hits a man in the road. He’s been drinking and can’t decide what to do. Thinking his friends will help him, he loads the nearly dead man and his huge bag (of money!) into his car and heads to the vacation house.

As we all know, whenever you try to get away with something, everything will go wrong. And everything does.
This story was not really anything new, but it was thrilling. There were a lot of twists. There were some head banging moments where you asked yourself why they did this or that. But I think we all enjoy feeling smarter than the characters in any book. I enjoyed the narrator, Joshua Manning, and thought he did an excellent job of moving the story along and keeping the tension high.

Thank you to NetGalley and Dreamscape Media for the opportunity to listen and review this audiobook ARC in exchange for my honest opinion. #WithFriendsLikeThese #NetGalley.

The title of this book was part of what intrigued me, as well as the setting in Scotland. I was looking forward to the Scottish brogue in the narration of the audio version, but didn't get as much of that as I'd have liked. The pace of the book was fast enough to keep me interested, and the plot was tense, gritty, and dark. There were a lot of layers revealed along the way, and I enjoyed the comedy of errors as nothing went to plan. I just kept wondering why on earth these six people ever called themselves friends.

Name of Book: With Friends like These
Author: Keri Beevis
Narrator: Joshua Manning
Publisher: Dreamscape
Genre: Mystery Thriller
Pub Date: June 21, 2022
My Rating: 2 Stars!

This is my second Keri Beevis. The first was “The People Next Door” and I gave it 4.3 Creepy Stars! Yep I liked it and have been looking forward to reading another.

Six friends: Amelia, Nancy, Ross, Billy, Jonah, and Griffin agree to meet in Scotland to celebrate Griffin’s birthday.
Billy Maguire is travelling by car up from London it's been a long time since they have all been together; on the way he is in a car accident and hits someone. He knows he is in trouble as he has been drinking but knows he cannot leave the guy to guy in the street.
Friends are waiting for Billy to arrive and sure didn't expect to see a dead body in his car.

I was hoping this might be a bit like “The Big Chill”.
Nope certainly no dancing around the kitchen in this one!

I am a big psychological thriller fan, love the twists and turns ~ unfortunately the unlikeable characters, their overuse of f-bombs, plus the audiobook narrator made this a big disappointment for me.

Want to thank NetGalley and Dreamscape Media for this audio eGalley. This file has been made available to me before publication in an early form for an honest professional review.
Audiobook Publishing Date scheduled for June 21, 2022.

4.25 stars

Yes!!! Now this is an excellent thriller, an actual page turner,
This book would make a great movie!!! The action unfolds perfectly adding another layer of complexity and giving a new light on the characters in the same time.

We have a group of university friends that go celebrate a little reunion in a remote Scottish cabin, but things turn for the worse when right from the beginning one of them it's involved in a car accident. Instead of calling the police, the guilty driver decides to take, what is now the dead body, on the car and bring it to the cabin with him so his friends can help him....

Of course, not only that nothing goes according to the plan, but things escalate quickly sometimes in the worse possible way.

A great, fast, thrilling read!!!

A big thank you to NetGalley and Dreamscape Media for allowing me to read this awesome book!!

Audiobook Review
With Friends Like These by Keri Beevis
Pub date: June 21, 2022
Narrator: Joshua Manning
Duration: 8H 50M
4 stars

The Gist

When a group of friends are invited to a reunion/birthday party in a remote area of Scotland, they get a lot more than they bargained for.

My Thoughts

The first 20 minutes or so I thought I might have to do a DNF because I wasn’t enjoying the narrator’s voice. This is a ME problem because men doing women’s voices is usually so cringe but as the story went on, I was compelled to listen and I finished in one day.

Billy, the shallowest member of the group hits a pedestrian on his way to the reunion. He’s drunk and panics, so he puts the guy in the back seat and decides to let his friends help him. When he arrives to the cottage, the man is dead and this sets the tone for the entire book. Going through the man’s belongings, they find his ID and a stack of cash. A quick google search reveals the man as a well-known thug with a criminal family. This family knows he is missing and knows he’s been to the cottage. What will the friends do when the gang comes looking for him and the missing money?

WFLT starts off action-packed right off the bat. There’s a lot of characters to keep track of but not so many that I had to map them out, ha, anyways they all have secrets, hidden agendas and a lot of inner resentment towards each other that fuels the story forward and has a lot to do with some of the bigger plot twists. This is really well-written and I enjoyed it immensely! This is my first book by Keri but I’ll be looking at her backlist as soon as I’m done here.

Narration: Joshua Manning narrates and he does a spectacular job, especially with that of the men and the different accents – Scottish brogue, English etc … but also with switching vocals between the men. My slight criticism comes only when men do women’s voices but that has nothing to do with Mr. Manning. He’s a fine narrator and I’d listen to him again, gladly.

My thanks to @Dreamscape_Media for this gifted ALC.

I love when finishing a book I discover the author has a bunch I've never heard of and now plan to read.

With Friends Like These is a suspense thriller set on the coast of Scotland and drew me in immediately. A college reunion in this isolated vacation spot, alcohol, a pedestrian in the wrong place at the wrong time.......and really, really bad decisions leads to a fun ride for the rest of us. I'm a fan of Ruth Ware and her slow, methodical build of suspense and author Keri Beevis' style is reminiscent of that same pull for the reader.

The audio version which I read is narrated by Joshua Manning, and his deep voice with mesmerizing accent is very suitable for this story. The narrator can destroy good writing, but Manning reads in such a way that both male and female characters are easy to believe and keep the pace and flow of the story moving.

Happy to recommend this one, and even happier that I can add Beevis to my list of authors to explore further.

Thank you to Netgalley and Dreamscape Media for allowing me to listen in advance of the June 21, 2022 release in exchange for my honest review.