Minotaur Books
Parents Weekend
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AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
From the bestselling author of If Something Happens to Me, comes one of the year's most anticipated thrillers.
In the glow of their children's exciting first year of college at a small private school in Northern California, five families gather over dinner and cocktails for the opening festivities of Parents Weekend. As the parents stay out way past their bedtimes, their kids--five residents of Campisi Hall--never show up to dinner.
At first, everyone thinks they're just being college students, irresponsibly forgetting about the gathering or skipping out to go to a party. But as the hours tick by and another night falls with not so much as a text from the students, panic ensues. Soon the campus police call in reinforcements. Search parties are formed. Reporters swarm the small enclave. Rumors swirl and questions arise.
Libby, Blane, Mark, Felix, and Stella--The Five, as the podcasters, bloggers, and TikTok sleuths soon call them--come from very different families. What drew them out on that fateful night? Could it be the sins of their mothers and fathers come to cause them peril--or a threat to the friend group from within?
Told from each family's point of view--and marking the return of FBI Special Agent Sarah Keller fromĀ Every Last Fear and The Night Shift--Parents Weekend explores the weight of expectation, family dysfunction, and those exhilarating first days in the dorms when friends become family.
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Book Details
ISBN:
9781250360724
EAN:
9781250360724
Binding:
Hardcover
Pages:
320
Authors:
Alex Finlay
Publisher:
Minotaur Books
Published Date: 2025-06-05
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Loved the multiple points of view! Great book!
I really was enjoying this book with all its twists and turns and secrets until the end. The ending was soooo not great. Though, it was logical, but it was not exciting or fun. With everything going on one would think the ending will be something more explosive, but it was boring end. Other than that, I did enjoy 75% of the book.
I don't know where to start on this review. Disappointing, after a relatively good starting chapter that piqued my interest, parents weekend- as the name suggests begins with multiple dysfunctional families that are involved in the kidnapping, which it was, although never referred to as such, freshmen at college. It went down from there. Each chapter ends with a new 'astounding' (not) detail in the unraveling of their 'story', which turns out to be a prank, gone wrong, leading to a series of 'unfortunate events' that result in their captivity. The parents never come together- never console one another- never have an iota of interest in one another, a detail I find astounding. There is no connection. Most of the couples hate each other, and the one single, struggling mother, with the sweetest son who has clearly had a traumatized childhood by her abusive ex-husband, ends up the one freshman to die. Why did the horrible couples end up having the 'happily ever after'? Couple this with the endless, pointless explanations of the obvious- I mean it was almost like the author is treating his readers as if they have never heard of the most basic things- it was laughable and truly bad editing. For example, Finlay's attempt to connect adults to their teenage kids by explaining the meaning of emoji's to the reader- Just so many cringe moments in this book- so sterotypical I almost thought I was reading a comedic spoof. Spicoli, yada yada yada, .......
A must read! If you like suspense, mystery thrillers.. please buy!
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I loved this book which was told from multiple perspectives and it kept me on the edge of my seat all day. I have created a video book review for this title.
