The Wild Girls was one of my favourite reads so reading one of this authors novels is always a thrill and I couldn't wait for The Trip. I loved the premise snd the front cover snd the book itself lived up to my expectations.
If you love a thriller with relatable well rounded characters and a twisty exciting plotline this ones for you. I couldn't out it down! It was the perfect beach read

What if you are on holiday with your friends? What if you live the perfect life? What if money is no object? What if you are hiding your past? What If your past catches up with you?...Read it!

I’ve enjoyed this author’s previous books even her writing can sometimes be a bit of a hit or a miss for me. Unfortunately this was the latter. Full of racial stereotypes and profiling, it was clear that the author had never been to Thailand which isn’t presented well in this book. The characters embody peak white privilege and not in an ironic way. It takes a while for the thriller part to get going too. The first quarter is just so much description of their activities as a tourist. The plot just wasn’t compelling.

Set in Thailand, this novel follows two couples in their early thirties—Saskia and Theo, and Lucas and Holly—highlighting their stark financial contrasts: one couple is budget-conscious while the other is extravagantly wealthy.

The story begins with intrigue as a hidden secret looms, and the couples’ vacation takes an unsettling turn with missing items, unresolved bookings, and eerie messages.

The novel offers a swift, engaging read, providing an escape to sunny Thailand from a rainy day at home.

I really enjoyed this book, if you’re into psychological thrillers that have suspense and about people trying to work people out then you are in for a big ride. Enjoy the trip.

Not really a book that engaged me well enough to give an excellent review. I will say it had good points but I never felt I was in Thailand. I was just reading about it. A good author makes you feel like you are there.

As an avid follower of Phoebe Morgan’s novels – the ones she edits and the ones she writes – I was looking forward to ‘The Trip’ and hoping that it would surpass her recent novel ‘The Wild Girls’ which described a group of friends, purportedly on holiday in Botswana, but did not truly conjure up a lasting atmosphere of what is a very unique African country. ‘The Trip’ reprises the theme by setting out a trip to Thailand, this time by two couples, and it does a little better in anchoring the storyline in its unique setting. Other elements are, however, a little predictable: the recurrent friction between the two wealthy holidaymakers (Saskia and Theo) and the less affluent couple (Lucas and Holly), the eerie suspicion the characters have of being watched, the mysterious stranger who suddenly integrates themselves into their uneasy group … I enjoyed the novel enough to persevere with it to the end, but I cannot help wishing for Phoebe Morgan to return to London, the location of her unsurpassed debut ‘The Doll House’ which focused less on setting and more on intrigue. I wish to thank NetGalley and Harper Collins U.K. for facilitating access to a free ARC in exchange for an unbiased review.

Four friends head to Thailand.... It twists and turns and is an easy read. But somethings are too obvious and annoying. Not checking a backpack after it was missing... simple things that didn't add up for me and were too obviously wrong..

This was a great beach read! I’ve read all of the authors work to date and throughly enjoy each one!

4 friends go to Thailand for a luxury holiday, looking for a week's break in the sun. There are some hiccups along the way, a hotel booking that hasnt come through, a missing backpack, a lost watch -but they're all seemingly having a great time. When the missing backpack is returned to them all by fellow holidaymaker Caleb, he quickly becomes part of their gang. But there's more to Caleb than meets the eye, and he has history with at least one of the four friends.
A fun read and entertaining page turner

A thriller set in the country I’d just come back from holidaying in? Yes, why the hell not?

The Trip finds 4 friends vacationing in Bangkok and of course from the get go everything starts going wrong. This adds to the unease some are feeling and while there are lots of tense moments, there was also a veeeeeeeeery big build up before it all suddenly came to a head about 80% of the way in. 🙃

I love thrillers but this one missed the mark for me.
The author kept describing locals that the main four came into contact with as, ‘the Thai woman,’ ‘the Thai lady ’or ‘the Thai man’ etc etc. This happened multiple times in the book and I just kept thinking why? Why not just call them the bell boy or the spa therapist etc or whatever their roles were in the book. The cleaner in one scene was described as the Thai cleaner. Why couldn’t he just be the cleaner? One of the locals was described as having perfect English too. These all felt like unnecessary descriptions and as it happened so many times, I began to question the thinking behind the word choice more. As far as I can see, no one else seems to have mentioned this in their reviews so perhaps you can tell me what you think.

I went in blind so after I finished, I read the blurb and it is quite misleading as it leads the reader to make a false assumption about the plot and there is also a huge spoiler in it so avoid the blurb if you still intend on reading this.

Overall, the novel definitely felt thrillery and the setting was perfect but the constant references to the ethnicity of the local people just felt icky.

Disappointingly this was a DNF (my first ever). I really tried to persevere but it was just very flat writing, very little action, too much in depth and basic description of the journey to Thailand and just a few strange occurrences in an attempt to build suspense but it just really wasn't for me.

I chose this because the authors who had given it good reviews are some of my favourite but was very disappointed

Four friends holidaying in Thailand. I just wanted to keep reading this book. Good twists and turns. A great beach read.

Phoebe's books are all such fun, escapist romps - I fly through them every time and THE TRIP was no exception!

A brilliant book to read on holiday. Although, if you're in Thailand it might be a bit too close to you.
Four friends go on holiday. The location sounds great. The author does a great job of scene setting. The business on Bangkok and the quietness of the island.
I sped through this. Desperate to find out what was going on. No spoilers here, but, I will say there are a few red herrings.
Something about the way this is written just flows so easily. It really gives you a great idea of the characters and their relationships.

An idyllic holiday to Thailand is planned for four friends. But just wait. They will certainly be pleased to be home following nightmare encounters with horrors from the past.
A well written story that you will want to follow them on till the end.

The Trip follows four friends on the holiday of a lifetime; but it doesn't seem to live up to their expectations, ending in a vicious murder.

This book was a real slow burner and that usually puts me right off, but there's something that kept me hooked on this one. I really like Phoebe Morgan's writing style and the depth she gives to her characters. There were times where I felt it was dragging a bit, but it never made me want to stop reading and it made me realised how invested I was as I was impatient to find out how it ended.

I always like a story centred around a holiday and this was no exception. Thailand was a wonderful setting for this book and I enjoyed reading about the locations, having visited a lot myself.

My thanks to NetGalley for sending me this ARC in return for an honest review.

Thrillers were my favourite genre for quite some time and even though I wouldn't necessarily say that is still the case, I still enjoy a well done, cookie cutter thriller. Murder, mystery and tension. This book was all of those things and I had a great time reading it. It was oozing with mystery and intrigue and I was racing through the pages trying to get to the bottom of what had gone on in the lives of these characters; find out their secrets. The short and snappy chapters told from multiple perspectives kept the plot moving along at a relatively quick pace and I enjoyed getting multiple sides of the story.

Holly was my favourite character throughout the story. She was the only one of them who I felt to be honest and actually cared about the other friends in the group. Saskia and Theo were the showy couple who appear to have it all, but that was quickly disproved; money isn't everything! for Lucas, money was his everything on account of the absence of it in his life. Although I didn't dislike him per se, I didn't agree with the secret he was keeping from Holly and it put me off him from quite early on in the book.

For a large proportion of this book, I had such a horrible feeling of tension and eeriness. The scenes in Bangkog were written brilliantly and the uneasiness the characters were feeling regarding being followed and watched leaped off of the page and into my conscious. There's a reason that city breaks aren't a favourite of mine! I enjoyed the twists and turns in this book and the last chapter took me by surprise. A solid thriller that swept me away with the story that I would recommend for a summer read.

I was kept guessing during this book. I guessed who was being tracked due to having the app on my phone. What I didn't guess was the kind of past brought up by a chance encounter with someone who had crossed paths with one of the characters before. The way everyone else slowly began to realise that the supposed stranger in their midst wasn't the person he pretended to be seemed real as it wasn't a sudden realisation from all at once. The ending was a surprise I didn't expect

What a book, what a plot, what a trip. A great holiday read, or a read if you are looking forward to your holiday. Well done Phoebe on another compelling novel.

The story is based around two couples, Theo & Saskia and Lucas & Holly. Theo and Lucas are friends from school yet with different fortunes in life. Theo has the money and Lucas needs a spreadsheet to help with his struggling finances. The four go to Thailand for Theo and Saskia’s honeymoon which is where their past starts to haunt, initially with subtle and strange goings on then teaming up with solo traveller, Caleb. Due to a mix up with their top class hotel in Bangkok they spend their first night at a hostel which is where the mystery really starts to develop. The different fortunes of Theo and Luke give an ongoing friction to their otherwise strong friendship but is there friction between Saskia and Holly and what is Caleb after? Let’s not give anything away, the twists are there until the end.

The book also provides an insight to the culture and atmosphere of Thailand including the contrast between the hustle and bustle of Bangkok and the paradise of one of its scheduled paradise islands.

A recommended read as a gripping mystery and not far off being a travel guide to Thailand.