The Vacation (or The Holiday in the UK) was a pretty good little "closed room" thriller dealing with hidden secrets, family ties, lies, and scandalous secretes! I liked getting to know all the characters and each of them were different enough to bring a bit more to the story. The writing was easy to understand and follow along with and I really enjoyed the occationsl flashbacks to add some background and additional hints at the "big secret" coming during the story. 

The main gripe I had with this story, was the structure. We spent about 73 chapters before we finally got to the big reveal and there were many different occasions that the main character could have confronted her husband about that was going on, and she chickened out (so much so that I got really annoyed with her lol). The big secret was a doosy and created quite the ending to the story, but I would have loved to have seen that secret revealed sooner so that the characters had more time to deal with that revelation and make the end of the trip that much more harrowing and exciting. I think if we could have had the main character uncover this secret 1/2 way through it would have created opportunities for some really exciting developments to the story. 

I REALLY loved the finale to the story as well and thought it was so clever.