This book was checked out from the library by Traveling With T.

The Hitchcock Hotel

Summary: A Hitchcock fanatic with an agenda invites old friends for a weekend stay at his secluded themed hotel in this fiendishly clever, suspenseful new novel.

Alfred Smettle is not your average Hitchcock fan. He is the founder, owner, and manager of The Hitchcock Hotel, a sprawling Victorian house in the White Mountains dedicated to the Master of Suspense. There, Alfred offers his guests round-the-clock film screenings, movie props and memorabilia in every room, plus an aviary with fifty crows.

To celebrate the hotel’s first anniversary, he invites his former best friends from his college Film Club for a reunion. He hasn’t spoken to any of them in sixteen years, not after what happened.

But who better than them to appreciate Alfred’s creation? And to help him finish it.

After all, no Hitchcock set is complete without a body.

 

 

Traveling With T’s Thoughts:

So, checking my email one day, I realized I had missed out on this book as a blog tour opportunity (which I HATE when I don’t check email in timely manner!) and so I decided to check to see if this book was at my local library because it sounded just the right kinda spooky for October.

Stories of estranged friends from college generally entertain me because the reasons they drift apart in the fictional world are pretty good as opposed to the real world when most college friends get busy and just quit talking with each other because you know… life.

So, did I like it? Let’s discuss.

This group of “friends” needed to become estranged long before they officially did. 

I don’t think I have ever met so many characters who literally brought out the worst in each other.

Also, I know it was setting things up for later, but it took awhile to get to the good stuff

What I liked:

The cover def had a spooky vibe and was a nice nod to Hitchcock.

How the revenge plot started taking shape…

The ending. I felt it was very fitting for the book.

 

Bottom line: In the end, I thought this book was ok; but it took forever to get to the GOOD stuff and that underwhelmed me. But it had a spooky vibe and that checked my box for a Halloween read.

 

*Traveling With T picked this book up from library. All thoughts and opinions are mine alone.*

 

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Happy Reading and Bookishly Yours,

T @ Traveling With T