(2020) Not very good. Book about snowboarding and a murder (maybe) by one of a group of boarders invited to a glacier in the alps. Turns out someone is in for revenge of the murder(?) of one of their consort 10 years ago. All have motive but every one claims innocence until the end when everybody did it. Flashbacks every other chapter got a little stale, but thankfully all chapters were pretty short. Glad I am done with it.Kirkus:Deep in the breathtaking winter bleakness of the French Alps, revenge¥and perhaps even murderÂ¥is most definitely afoot.In a remote, off-season snow lodge, five former friendsÂ¥Curtis, Milla, Brent, Dale, and HeatherÂ¥gather for a weekend reunion, but from the get-go, it's unclear which of them is actually behind the invitations. They're encouraged by a teasing note to disengage from their phones, but when their phones disappear, they realize they are completely cut off from the rest of the world. The action in this disturbing thriller shifts between the present-day reunion and a time, 10 years earlier, when four of these five were professional snowboard competitors along with several others, including Curtis' sister, Saskia. The outlier, Heather, was a bartender who became Dale's girlfriend. At that time, a tragic accident and Saskia's disappearance put a damper on their burgeoning clique, which had already been slightly riven by an underlying element of sinister malevolence. Now, the five leftovers (so to speak), trapped in their present-day snowbound digs, find it harder and harder to trust one another: A supposed icebreaker game contains accusatory secrets; the lodge's electrical power proves iffy; food supplies vanish, not to mention knives; and windows are left mysteriously open. The sometimes-grisly action has a palpably visual immediacy to itÂ¥it comes as no surprise that this debut novel has already been picked up for televisionÂ¥while the mostly breakneck pace of the narrative lags only on occasion.This suspenseful debut thriller by a former freestyle snowboarder contains both style and substance.Pub Date: Jan. 19, 2021ISBN: 978-0-593-18783-8Page Count: 400Publisher: PutnamReview Posted Online: Oct. 27, 2020Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 15, 2020

tried to read anyway ... couldn't finish. Not my cup of tea. ( )

I just couldn't relate to the characters and I lost interest in the story.

I am not sure what all the hype around this book was about.
I found myself wanting to start skimming after about 70 pages. The story was just not that suspenseful and it was not at all believable.
Way to much snowboarding information, and the power plays between the main characters in both the past and present just weren’t that interesting.
I did like the authors second book- Swell, so hopefully her next book will also be good. ( )

All very unlikely but very readable. I got a bit lost with the ever swapping relationships and no-one is very likeable at all. But it's entertaining and I'd probably read another by same author. ( )