This week some of my library holds came through so I bumped down books I was planning to read so I could read these long-awaited books. The Villa is by Rachel Hawkins who wrote the very, very popular thriller The Wife Upstairs. I have not read that one, so if you think it is awesome comment below! I follow Rachel Hawkins on Twitter because she also writes fun witchy-rom-com books under the pen name Erin Sterling (ie. The Ex-Hex)
This book held my attention, I listened to the narration which is very well done and I got some extra work done around the house because I needed to find out what happened! This book has two timelines with two sets of characters and the only throughline is "The Villa" in Italy. I found this to be quite clever. The Villa contains some nice red herrings and a couple of plot twists. One of our main characters ends the story going from one albatross to another and I think that is what I liked the best.
Even though this book is centered around The Villa, the story is very character driven. I don't even recall many of the details of the setting because the characters in the 1970s and 2022 are so interesting.
4 stars for this book. I could definitely see this as a Netflix or Hulu limited-time series of 6-10 episodes.
