While my tastes are varied, I tend to gravitate towards darker reads: horror, suspense, psychological thrillers, hauntings, gothic fiction, terror. I thought I was getting at least a few of these with You Shouldn't Have Come Here, but I was woefully disappointed, and I wanted to save you that same disappointment! Note to self: Do NOT judge a book by its cover. Or its dust jacket blurb, for that matter...
Grace Evans is a city girl from New York who chooses vacation spots by throwing a dart at a map. Her latest vacation rental? A ranch turned Airbnb in Middle-of-Nowhere, Wyoming. The air is fresh, the house is spacious, and the Airbnb's host, Calvin Wells, is extremely attractive and eager to please. The only problem is... everything else. Grace's car breaks down, a Sheriff comes looking for a missing girl who had reserved the same Airbnb weeks earlier, there's no cell phone service, Calvin's best friend is a woman with a dangerously jealous streak, a mountain lion nearly kills her, and Calvin appears to be keeping secrets. But why?
I had high hopes for this book, but unfortunately it failed epically in the thriller and suspense genres. The alternating chapters told from the points of view of Grace and Calvin are downright obnoxious. Calvin won't stop talking about Grace's blue, blue eyes and how he longs to swim in them. This reads more like a cringe-worthy, slow-burn romance than a thriller. If that's what you're into, then this may be the book for you! But if what you're looking for is a noteworthy thriller with an ending that doesn't make you want to throw the book across the room in frustration, I suggest putting You Shouldn't Have Come Here down and picking up literally anything else by Lisa Jewell, Tana French, or Lucy Foley instead.
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