The Last Resort by Susi Holliday

From Goodreads 

Seven strangers. Seven secrets. One perfect crime.

When Amelia is invited to an all-expenses-paid retreat on a private island, the mysterious offer is too good to refuse. Along with six other strangers, she’s told they’re here to test a brand-new product for Timeo Technologies. But the guests’ excitement soon turns to terror when the real reason for their summons becomes clear.

Each guest has a guilty secret. And when they’re all forced to wear a memory-tracking device that reveals their dark and shameful deeds to their fellow guests, there’s no hiding from the past. This is no luxury retreat—it’s a trap they can’t get out of.

As the clock counts down to the lavish end-of-day party they’ve been promised, injuries and in-fighting split the group. But with no escape from the island—or the other guests’ most shocking secrets—Amelia begins to suspect that her only hope for survival is to be the last one standing. Can she confront her own dark past to uncover the truth—before it’s too late to get out?

My thoughts

My thanks to the Publishers via NetGalley for the opportunity to read this in exchange for an honest review.

I gave this a 3.5 stars or 7/10.  Reading the synopsis of this, the story sounded just right up my street.  However, it didn't quite deliver as much as I thought it would and I was expecting great things from it.  

This is a thriller that airs on the side of dystopian in some ways.  In some ways it's almost dual time frame as it's set in the present, but features some flashbacks to the past.  What sounds like an experience to good to ignore an all expenses paid retreat for seven strangers.  They all have secrets and there is one perfect crime. Arriving on the Island that the retreat is on, they are all informed that they are there to help test out a brand new product.  What starts out quite innocent, soon takes an unexpected turn that none of them saw coming.  As the product that they are testing, which is a memory tracking device that inadvertently begins to reveal the secrets that they have all kept hidden to one another.  Tension amongst them all begins to mount and they begin to react to what is being revealed to them. 

As they begin to turn on one another, who will be the ultimate survivor as it looks as though they are fighting to survive.

Whilst, on paper this sounded  perfect for me. I felt that it was lacking and that at times the story became a little lost to me.  Please don't let this review put you off grabbing a copy of it yourself if you come across it as we all read books differently and take something different away from what we have read.