Author: Maren Stoffles
Genre: horror
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Summary: A fancy hotel + no parents = party time for four friends celebrating a birthday weekend. But when an uninvited party guest seeking revenge turns up, the fun quickly turns into a nightmare.
My opinion: To start with, this is a translated book. While that alone doesn't make it hard to read, it is worth noting as it can make for awkward text. The plot is familiar - teens celebrating on the anniversary of something bad happening. In this case, we don't really know what the bad thing was until nearly the end. There's a lot of dancing around the past, leading to a revenge plot that we don't fully understand. That revenge plot is quite extreme. There are crazy displays and violent threats, all in an active high class hotel. The heart of the plot makes sense and has some compelling elements. The pieces don't come together well, though, and the characters are underdeveloped.
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