We hope you’re enjoying our Capsule Book Club recommendations! This month, we’re diving into an absolute ripper of a psychological thriller, The Business Trip by Jessie Garcia – pick up your copy from The Warehouse today for just $26!
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Look let’s be real here – chick lit thrillers are a dime a dozen these days. Ever since the runaway success of Gone Girl, a book that sent us millennial and Gen X women into a global tizz.
It’s still the benchmark of a quality thriller – how many times have you heard the phrase, ‘I’m looking for something like Gone Girl’?
I’m happy to report that Jessie Garcia’s The Business Trip comes close.
Here’s the rub: two women board the same flight, and find themselves sitting next to each other on the plane. Both from Wisconsin, Jasmine and Stephanie have a LOT going on in their lives – Jasmine has finally saved up enough money to escape from an abusive relationship while Stephanie, a senior journalist at a local telly station, is on yet another work trip to San Deigo.
Jasmine is from a poor background – she grew up in a trailer park, while Stephanie is recently divorced and estranged from her only son.
They bond, despite their differences, but a few days after the flight they both disappear into thin air. However, they’ve apparently met the same man named Trent, leading friends and family to question what the hell has happened…
This book gets off to a galloping start – so much so that I needed to stop and pause a few times to think ‘what on earth is about to happen?!’ – but it levels out in the middle as I started to piece a few things together.
It’s riveting, it’s riotous and it’s feverishly exciting as Jessie writes the characters’ arcs with rawness and relatability – in fact sometimes they’re not even all that likeable, but you can’t help but root for them anyway.
The characters are relatable, but my one point about the plot is that sometimes it does get a little unbelievable but hell, it’s fiction and I’m not in this journey to think that what transpires in this book actually could happen (I mean I hope it doesn’t).
The Business Trip switches perspectives a lot between a lot of players so it is one you have to have your thinking cap on to navigate the twists and turns – and it’s one of those books where you think you know what’s going on, and then BAM, you’re clueless again.
It’s not one for big overarching themes or wider thinking which, to be honest, was exactly what I wanted – an escape from the world for a few hours that had nothing to do with current events or current troubles.
Grab this book from The Warehouse for a good beach read, or for your Sunday afternoon alone time with a good glass of something!