And trouble is most certainly what they get. well you know they are asking for trouble. Any setting where there is no phone signal or Wi-Fi …. This is not going to be an easy ride, and there is a very sinister feel to the whole set up right from the start. Think less writing retreat, more boot camp. the cause of their split is not immediately clear, but when both budding authors secure a place on this exclusive retreat, you know that the tension is going to be off the charts … and that’s before the strange demands of Rosa Vallo are slowly revealed. It’s a setting that should be positive, full of good cheer, but for Alex the tension is already building, along with the fear of coming face to face with her former flatmate and best friend, Wren. We meet our protagonist, Alex, as she attends the book launch for her close friend. It all grabbed my attention from the off and saw me devour the book in a single day. This is the writing retreat from hell, and although it may sound idyllic to begin with, and the perfect setting in which to knuckle down and get writing, the remote location and the isolation that it brings turns out to be just another twisted adversary in a book which is beset with atmosphere, tension and an undulating sense of threat.
They also say, ‘don’t meet your heroes’, and never has a saying been more appropriate. That certainly seems to be the case when wannabe writer Alex wins a place on an exclusive writing retreat with author Roza Vallo. If something seems too good to be true, then it very likely is.
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