Quick Synopsis – During a weekend girl’s trip Emily’s best friend Vanessa goes missing, 15 years later Emily wants to relive that weekend and find out what really happened to Vanessa.

Song This Reminds Me Of – champagne problems – Taylor Swift

Rating – 2 out of 5 stars

Review – Thanks to Netgalley and Ballantine Books for the ARC.

Emily and her best friends are on a college get away at a winery. A winery that’s owned by her best friend Vanessa’s family. Vanessa then goes missing, but wait! Emily has a series of text messages on her phone that make it look like she did something shady to Vanessa. Too bad she was too drunk to remember anything, so she says nothing to the cops.

15 years later she sees a doppelganger of Vanessa in an LA coffeeshop and decides to bring the whole group back together at the winery to see if she can figure out what happened to Vanessa. Oh, and she’s writing a screenplay about that weekend so she can also cash in on the mystery.

The book is told between scenes from Emily’s screenplay and Emily’s present trip to the winery with Brittany, Paige, and Lydia. It honestly seems like none of these women like each other or have a personality outside of drinking. Everyone’s back story seems so minimalized that it’s hard to care about any of the characters or understand why they were friends in the first place. We’re supposed to believe Vanessa was the glue of the group, but honestly she just seems like an asshole.

I didn’t really like this book and the twists honestly made me angry. The author seems like she’s trying to say something about toxic friendships, but there is no positive relationships to anchor the book. It’s just bad rich people doing shitty things to other people. There were too many misdirects for me to enjoy the book and the ending really fell flat for me. I honestly put this book down and was like what did I just read….and not in a good way.