Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for an advanced copy in exchange for my honest review.

This was my first book by this author. Unfortunately it wasn't Suspenseful enough for my liking and I felt very bored waiting for the big Suspenseful moment that never came.

What a fantastic keep you on the edge of your seat read! I couldn't put it down!! Definitely recommend this one! It feels like it should be a movie!

This book was an absolutely wild ride. It starts off innocent enough and then some truly shocking events just keep coming. The twist at the end was done well.

Set in 1976, Tom and Alice are taking an RV trip across Canada to try to save their marriage after they're hit with a personal trauma. But when they pick up a young couple hitchhiking, things quickly spiral out of control and the entire book becomes a fight for survival. I loved the setting, the RV trip, the campgrounds. I loved how having no communication, no internet, no cellular, and no instant connectivity really set the book up in such a suspenseful way. The book is quite a bit slower than previous books by this author, and it evolves into a gritty and sometimes violent rampage in which the main character makes kind of questionable choices. But ultimately, it's a story of redemption and hope. If you like a slow burn thriller, this one's for you.

This was a free ARC available on NetGalley, and I thank the author, publisher, and NetGalley for the chance to review. This is my own original review of this new book.

I did not like this book. The plot was simple and lacks engagement. There are four principal characters in the book. Blue and Ocean are a couple of hippie teens that are befriended by RV vacationers Tom and Alice in British Columbia around 1976. Alice recently suffered a miscarriage and her emotions are all over the place. Tom is a happy go lucky teacher who likes everyone he meets.

Turns out Ocean and Blue are really named Simon and Jenny. Both are on the run because they allegedly murdered Jenny’s mother and stepfather. After gaining the trust of Tom and Alice, the young couple proceed to kidnap them and lead them on a path of carnage and rampage.

Simon is the most despicable character I’ve read lately in a book. He is narcissistic and abusive with a violent temper. He piles up the body count as they travel eastward in rural Canada. Jenny is portrayed as a cute young thing who is clueless about everything, and oh yes, she’s also pregnant. Simon roughs up Tom early and he is incapacitated through most of the book. Alice tries to reason with Jenny over and over to no avail.

The story is about 100 pages too long. In the end I just wanted to see Simon and Jenny taken down in a hail of bullets but that didn’t happen.

Can’t recommend this one. I give it 2/5 stars.

Thank you Netgalley for the ARC of this book. I am a huge fan of Chevy Stevens and was thrilled to get this early copy. The story was suspenseful and the characters well done. The story was just too predictable for me and I lost interest. I did finish the book hoping for a great twist...it didn't happen. Overall , a good read.

I read this book after I received it as an ARC. The story was great but it kept dragging on and on. The writing was good there was just too much of it. It was way too long with too many things happening.

Thank you NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for this ARC. This was my fourth Chevy Stevens novel. Set in 1976, a couple on a camping trip trying to save their marriage but instead get the shock of their life when they run into hitchhikers who are on the run. I thought the premise of this novel was fun and I was definitely sucked into the story right away. I did feel like it was a little predictable and it felt a little longer than it needed to be. I got frustrated with the story halfway through and decided to push through. In the end, despite guessing what would happen I did like the way the story was wrapped up. Overall, I thought it was decent.

This was definitely one of my favorite Chevy Stevens books to date. I did not see those last couple twists coming at the end, and I read a lot of thriller/suspense books so it's not often I don't see a twist coming at all. This is a well-written story, it did seem to get stagnant a little bit in the middle, but I thought it had a great ending! Overall a great read.

It's 1976 and Tom and Alice have hit the road in their RV to visit Canada's beautiful landscape. This trip is offering a couple the chance to reconnect after experiencing a tragedy. Little do they know how much things will spiral when they befriend a young hitchhiking couple... Ocean and Blue, or Simon and Jenny, seem innocent enough, but the reality of their true selves is quickly exposed. What started as a fun road trip soon turns into a horror movie.

I will read anything by Chevy Stevens, and my love for her writing started with Still Missing. I find her stories will instantly pull me in. As I was reading The Hitchhikers and at around 15% in, I thought to myself - where will this story go?? There was so much of the book left, yet the story had already gotten pretty wild. The story is set during the perfect time period, too - hitchhiking was normal and people had more trust; there were no cell phones, no social media, no cameras on every building. I could totally envision this book adapted as an amazing limited series. Just when you think the story has nowhere else it could go, it takes another wild turn. This was a great story that I really enjoyed (and the epilogue was perfect).

Excellent book by one of my favorite authors, set during the summer of the bicentennial and the summer Olympics in Canada: I love the innocence and laid back vibe of this time. Reminds me of my youth in North Idaho. The story begins innocently when a traveling couple picks up hitchhikers as they drive their camper through Canada. The couple befriends them and urges them to tag along on their trip and offers them food and shelter: When the wife happens to find out they are not just young kids hitting the road on their own; but rather running from a terrible situation. The story takes a sinister turn and the suspense builds throughout the book up to the terrifying climax. I enjoyed this book very much!

I received an ARC of this book from Netgalley and St. Martin's Press in exchange for an honest review.

Chevy Stevens knows how to write a book that will keep you on the edge of your seat. There were parts that dragged a bit, but the ending really pulled everything together and made me rethink several moments earlier in the book that hinted at what was going to happen. This is one of those books that makes you go "just one more chapter."

Oh my this book was so hard to put down, I read it in one day. I am a huge fan of Chevy Stevens and this book is great. This book starts out back in 1976 and the feel of the story and setting are brought to life. I love how the book makes you feel for our young couple even though they are doing something bad. Overall an amazing book.

An unputdownabke thriller! Chevy Steven's is an auto-buy author for me. Brilliant characterization, fast paced plotting, and a creative twist that makes this married poke struggle to survive. Loved it.

The Hitchhikers is a story that got my interest from the first page.
True to its hype,, it is suspenseful and the storyline broke my heart.
The character development is suburb and the twists and turns of the story kept me up late reading.
I will definitely be recommending this book to my customers.

I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Chevy Stevens is quickly becoming one of go to authors. This is my 4 book by her and I have loved them all. Chevy has a way of capturing you from the first page and keeps you wanting more throughout the whole book. I loved how it was fast paced and easy to read. The characters especially Alice and Tom were easy to love. I even felt sorry for Jenny who was essentially the “bad guy” and quickly became my favorite character along with Alice. While I did like the book, it didn’t have that WOW ending I was looking for. I was able to predict the ending and that always makes me a little sad. Overall, I thought the writing was good and I would recommend my family and friends to read. I love how Chevy captures you from the first page and how quickly you become invested in her books.

While I anticipated that this book would be suspenseful, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. This is my first Chevy Stevens book, and I had no idea what a wild ride she puts her readers on. I honestly thought I was going to have to DNF this bad boy at 52% because my anxiety meds were not keeping up with the amount of anxiety this book was causing me.

While I do think that some of the point plots are a little predictable, I was wholly unprepared for how unhinged the character Simon 'Blue' is. Tom and Alice are on a holiday, trying to rebuild their marriage and see Canada from their newly purchased RV. At the first stop on their trip, they meet down-on-their-luck Blue and Ocean (really: Simon and Jenny, who are on the run after murdering Jenny's mother and stepfather). Tom invites the couple to share the next leg of their trip with them, offering to let them ride until the next town so they wouldn't have to walk. Tom and Alice quickly learn that all is not as it appears with the seemingly sweet young couple, and soon they find themselves forced to do things beyond what they could have imagined just to survive Simon's deviant plan to get himself and Jenny across the country.

'The Hitchhikers' is told in dual POV between Alice and Jenny. During each woman's viewpoint, we also learn the backstories of what brought them to where their lives have intersected today. There are some sensitive topics mentioned in the novel, and there is a lot of descriptive, on-page violence so readers who are sensitive to that should take note. Readers who enjoy a lot of suspense and thrills will love this new novel from Chevy Stevens.

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for providing me with an eARC of this novel to review.

Talk about road trips. Set in the 70s it touches upon how some people got from place to place. A fun trip turns dark and definitely scary. Think twice before doing something this crazy.

I've read some Chevy Stevens before, and recall an overwhelming sense of danger. This one? Didn't really have that? IDK. When I was reading it, I was enjoying the prose and the pace, but the second I put it down I no longer wanted to pick it up. I think the journey of story just didn't have enough depth to hold my interest.

This was such a fun read. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time! Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read this ARC in exchange for my honest review!