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The Hitchcock Hotel
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch, Helen Lloyd, Gail Shalan
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
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Summary
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Six friends. One remote hotel. A long-overdue reunion. Welcome to The Hitchcock Hotel...
Alfred Smettle adores Hitchcock.
And who better to become founder, owner and manager of The Hitchcock Hotel, a remote, sprawling Victorian house sitting atop a hill in the beautiful White Mountains, New England. There, guests can find movie props and memorabilia in every room, round-the-clock film screenings, and an aviary with fifty crows.
For the hotel's first anniversary, Alfred invites the five college friends he studied film with. He hasn't spoken to any of them in sixteen years. Not after what happened. But who better to appreciate Alfred's creation?
His guests arrive, and everything seems to go according to plan. Until one glimpses someone standing outside her shower curtain.
Another is violently ill every time she eats the hotel food. Then their mobile phones go missing.
You should always make the audience suffer as much as possible, right?
The guests are stuck in the middle of nowhere, and things are about to get even worse. After all, no Hitchcock set is complete without a dead body.
'Fans of Knives Out, Agatha Christie, and (of course) Alfred Hitchcock, rejoice! The Hitchcock Hotel is cool, classy – but such fun; reverent – yet so original.' A.J. FINN
'As twisty as a Hitchcock film' ALEX MICHAELIDES
'A scream from start to finish' JANICE HALLETT
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- Sararara
- 26-10-24
MacGuffin
Interesting premise but soooo laboured. The author is clearly a huge Hitchcock fan and while this helps create the sinister setting, it also leads to reams of irrelevant film exegesis.
Whether by accident or design, the Hitchcock theme is just a MacGuffin in a rather rambling tale of revenge.
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- Laura
- 25-10-24
Interesting concept, but it had issues
Overall, I enjoyed listening to this book. However, the longer I reflected on it after finishing it, the more issues I found with it.
It’s difficult to critique with specific examples without giving away spoilers, but I found some of the info dumping unsatisfactory. A really great plot twist is one where the reader is given one additional piece of key information and everything falls into place. With this book, the twist is ‘revealed’ then it is followed by a long explanation of why that works and how it could be so. It just felt very heavy handed and unsatisfactory. Also, I feel a lot of the characters actions don’t align with their true motives, once the ‘mysteries’ have been revealed.
Also, some of the narrators were better than others! The one timeline, multi-narrator format contains the usual issue that characters sound different when read by different narrators - this is a personal pet peeve and really throws me out of the book.
So, while I liked the concept and some passages were well done, I thought the conclusion was unsatisfactory.
Overall, I didn’t dislike the book, but I wouldn’t reread or recommend this book to a friend.
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