I couldn't get on with this novel. Too many characters with confusing plots and subplots from the very start. I felt as if I were were running three separate races at once.

Thank you to NetGalley and Legend Press for an ARC of this work. I overall enjoyed the book. I had a few concerns. There were so many characters and almost an overwhelming amount of plot and details for each. But did we need all of them to build out what became the focus? I’m not completely sure. It felt like so much of it was unnecessary and we could have gotten details on other parts. My other concern was the issue of rape in the book. Maybe there should be a trigger warning? Also the way it relates to a Cricket and how it’s almost a passing concern I didn’t love. But I think it was tied up nicely. I like Henry and Hannah as characters and how their story ends and the contract they make against other characters.

If you’re looking for. page turner from the very start, look no more, this is your book. I was hooked immediately as we start to learn about the family dynamics over Christmas dinner and everyone in the family received an Origins DNA testing kit from a secret Santa. The story then follows each character and their point of view as they go on a weekend trip to a secluded cabin and the events that unfold, along with secrets that are revealed.

I really enjoyed this read because I kept wanting to read more about the family drama, secrets and what was going on… it was messy and I loved it. This would have been a five star read for me except that the ending did fall a bit short for me, I was expecting a bigger twist and finale, which I didn’t get. I think the build up of the book was great but the ending could have been better, 4⭐️

Thank you to NetGalley, Park Row, and Lisa Ungler for providing me with an advanced reader’s copy of this book.

Oh how I loved this book! I love good back and forth chapters between different characters. Mako was disgusting of course. LOVED Henry. Was kinda left falling flat with Brecken though..

I did not get a great first impression from “Secluded Cabin Sleep Six”, there were SO MANY names and characters and introductions that could have waited until the cabin scenes and not during the Christmas scene. Also the multiple POVs that are mix matched without a flow and a pattern really threw me off.

There was TOO much going on, too many storylines at once. This was a mashup of two books. Two books I would happily read if they were separate but together it made zero sense.

The connection that the characters had was weak at best and I am very disappointed in what I just read.

Excellent read and full of intrigue. This book is quite unique in its premise and has astute observations of human nature. It keeps the reader guessing till the very end when all the pieces fall into place. The descriptions of the locations and the characters make it easy to visualize and play it in your mind like a movie. Highly recommend.

Wow! SECLUDED CABIN SLEEPS SIX is Lisa Unger's twentieth Novel, and did she hit this one out of the fictional ball park!! I devoured this in a day/Night reading session and am still pondering its implications and depths. There are multiple themes in operation here, but first and foremost is Family: birth, found, chosen, discarded. What Ms. Unger does to develop these themes is extraordinary. I could easily reread and reread and reread. I want everyone to read SECLUDED CABIN SLEEPS SIX!

This one has a lot going on. There are a lot of different POVs, and one of them seems totally unrelated until 3/4 of the way through. It was a little confusing at times and I think I would have preferred it if some of the narratives were taken out (Cricket for instance didn’t really need a voice, and the Bracken part was a bit much with everything else that was going on. That part of the story was unnecessary).

You need to suspend belief a little to get into this one, but it was a pretty good twisty thriller that kept me interested until the end. Not a lot of likeable characters but I thought the plot and pacing made up for it.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I am normally quite a fan of Lisa Unger, but really couldn't get into this book. The premise did not feel unique, and this book was a "did not finish for me". I really couldn't get into it; or care about any of the characters. Disappointed and wouldn't recommend..

'Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six,' had so many of my favorite elements. I love thrillers set in the woods. There was a DNA website storyline (so relevant). I DON'T love reading about the ultra-wealthy, but it didn't bother me here.

Without giving too much away, the story did not go the way I had expected. I thought I had called all of the twists about 1/3 of the way in- but I was pleasantly surprised to be wrong.

Lots of trigger warnings though- take care of yourself, and look them up before reading.

I found the multiple points of view were quite distracting and made it a complicated read. It was an interesting story though once I worked out who’s who.

Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six was a good solid closed room mystery. Three couples go up to a cabin in the woods for a weekend and get trapped there by a storm. There are so many lies and secrets among this group that it’s hard to keep track!
There are a lot of characters and the story switches from current to the past and back often. I found myself thinking that everyone was an awful person and I do like to root for someone! The story gets quite complex at times but for sure was not going where I thought it was going. The family theme of who is your family and what do you do to protect them was the major storyline here. I’m not sure it worked like it was supposed to. I enjoyed the descriptions of the cabin and the creepy feel. The book left me feeling unsettled and I’m not sure if that’s good or bad. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

“…every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” This quotation from Tolstoy begins Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six, a thriller that proves it true in so many different ways.

Mako (née Michael), married to the ethereal Liza, his polar opposite, is the controlling, grandstanding founder of a successful gaming company. His protective sister Hannah is married to family man Bruce who occasionally consults with Mako’s company. They have a baby daughter. Mako’s grand plan is to entertain them, along with Hannah’s best friend Cricket and her new boyfriend at a “secluded cabin” isolated in the Georgia woods. The cabin, a soaring glass and wood architectural masterpiece, comes with a private chef, massage therapists and more. More includes a troublesome owner, unreliable wi-fi, ghosts, a hurricane, flooded roads, downed trees and danger that until this weekend had been deeply buried in the past.

Lisa Unger has crafted a chilling, locked room (or isolated property) mystery. The characters are flawed and not always likeable. The plot is at first deliberately slow-paced to build suspense. And the shocking conclusion knits all loose ends together. This is another best seller for Lisa Unger! 5 stars.

Thank you to NetGalley, Legend Press and Lisa Unger for this ARC.

This book was sent to me electronically by Netgalley for review. Mystery and intrigue…family friends…some explicit scenes should be left out…add nothing to the story…that being said, this is a talented and gifted author who writes mysteries of such intrigue….scary…suspenseful…frightening…a difficult to put down guessing the ending not easy…waiting for what happens next…wondering what will happen…the characters come alive on the pages. Fiction that could be true…this book would make a great movie.

I enjoyed reading this book. It had a good story to it. I liked the variety of characters in it. It was a well written book. I have read other books by this author and liked them too.

This one was areal firecracker- Unger’s most modern and complex thriller yet! If you are a fan this one is a no miss! Easy easy five

Thank you to NetGalley and Legend Press for the ARC of this book!

3.5 stars rounded up to 4 for this thriller about three couples taking some much needed R&R in a haunted luxury cabin where everyone has secrets.

When everyone has secrets, everyone has secrets in this book. Some are real doozies and all are life altering. I'll admit to some confusion in the beginning of the story with all the names. I confused Sophia with the friend and sister in law a few times before it finally stuck that Sophia is mom.

There's a few POVs telling the story and a few jumps in time to keep track of. I really don't think Bracken added much from his POV and ultimately could have done without it. His doesn't really fit in with the story as a whole. I'm also a little confused on the haunting part of it. Was the cabin actually haunted? Was the white figure a ghost or the stalker or the result of the fun they were partaking in?

Also, there were two characters who added weirdness to the whole cabin and haunting mystery, but then we never hear anything more about them again. Did they leave before it all went down? Were they harmed? This added some messiness to a book that was already fully of messy family drama.

In the end, this book is about family. Who you choose to make family and those who are blood. What you would do for family. How far you'll go. I think the family messages really saves the over the top plot lines in the book, for me.

It was well written and kept me wanting to read until I finished and had it all figured out. For a thriller and the twists, I enjoyed it for sure.

There is a lot of action in this fast paced thriller, which provokes thinking about nature, nurture and even eugenics. Featuring a range of characters - some deliberately constructed to offer red herrings, I think - the book uses an intriguing setting to drill into relationships and family as a concept. I thought this was excellent and read it in a sitting.

Hannah and her husband Bruce go on vacation with two other couples to a secluded cabin in the woods. People are not what they seem and tragedy arises This was a very thrilling read and I raced through it. Thanks NetGalley and Legend Press for this ARC! It will be released February 15th 2023.

Thanks to NetGalley and Legend Press for the opportunity to read Lisa Unger's Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six, a twisty, sinister tale. I loved it! I have read all Ms. unger's books and i hope she writes another hundred of them (at least.).