Book: The Writing Retreat

 Book: The Writing Retreat

Author: Julia Bartz

Pages: 320

This is my 97th read for the year

This is the story of Alex.  She has been invited by a coveted author for a month long writing retreat at her beautiful home.  Even when she finds out her ex-friend Wren is going to be there, she is not deterred.  When she gets to Rosa's house and they find out what they will all be doing during this retreat, it becomes clear that Rosa isn't who the public thinks she is.  When one of the writers vanishes during a snowstorm, Alex is determined ti figure out who Rose is really and what is going on.

This wasn't a good book.  I listened to it to pass some yardwork time, and it did a fair job at that - passing time.  It isn't good writing.  It has quite a few sex scenes were are never my thing, and honestly did not really add to the story.  My age is showing when I don't really like books with a lot of vulgar language or sexual slang.  The characters were not likable.  Finding out what Rosa was really up to as a writer was the only interesting thing about this book, but not enough to redeem it for me.

Stars: 2