The Pink Hotel – ARC Book Review

Confined to an opulent Beverly Hills hotel during a raging wildfire, a young couple is caught in the escalating tension between the wealthy guests and the staff, in Liska Jacobs’s blistering, dark social satire, The Pink Hotel.

Newlyweds Keith and Kit Collins can hardly believe their luck when the general manager of the iconic, opulent Pink Hotel invites them to come for a luxurious stay as a bid to hire Keith. Kit loves their small-town life, but Keith has always wanted more, and the glittering, lily-scented lobby makes him feel right at home.

Soon after their arrival, wildfires sweep through the surrounding mountains and Los Angeles becomes a pressure cooker, with riots breaking out across the city amid rolling blackouts. The Pink Hotel closes its doors to “outsiders,” and Keith and Kit find themselves confined with an anxious, disgruntled staff and a growing roster of eccentric, ultra-wealthy, dangerously idle guests who flock to the hotel for sanctuary, company, and entertainment.

The Pink Hotel exposes a tenuous class system within its walls, full of insurmountable expectations and unspoken resentments, which deteriorate as the city burns. In her barbed, provocative new novel, Liska Jacobs explores the corrosive nature of greed and interrogates the notion of true love, while hurtling readers toward certain disaster.

Keith and Kit Collins are newlyweds and luck has it when the manager of one of the opulent hotels in Beverly Hills invites Keith to stay in at the Pink Hotel. But wildfire starts raging followed by riots and blackouts and Keith and Kit find themselves confined inside the hotel with disgruntled staff and wealthy guests while trying to enjoy their honeymoon.

To be honest, the front cover is appealing and beautiful and should be given a five star for the cover. The plot sounded interesting which was I requested the arc for the book. However, it wasn’t great as I expected the book to me.

Though the book is labeled as a thriller, it wasn’t fast-paced or that there were not much OMG moments in the story, and none of the characters in the book didn’t really fall out of for me. I almosted got bored with the story but as a person who doesn’t DNF the book, I kept reading the book, hoping that it will get better somewhere in some part of the story. Overall, this was an OK thriller book–not really great, not really an unputdownable thriller that you would expect in a thriller. I also didn’t really enjoy much but maybe this was just me.

Overall, this book worth 2.5 stars in my opinion.

Many thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the ARC. The review is based on my honest opinion only.