Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review.

I don't even know what to say. It sounded like an interesting thriller that did not live up expectations. I think at the 'reveal' part of the book everything fell apart for me. I didn't even understand what was going on. And the multitude of people we follow in this one just has you reading and reading, hoping to get to something that made sense. The ending wasn't great and it didn't make a lot of sense.

"The Business Trip" follows two women, Stephanie and Jasmine. Stephanie is divorced, with one son, and currently working at a news station. She's resentful of her job constantly having her going to conferences and despondent on how much her son has pulled away from her since the divorce. She ends up meeting Jasmine on her flight to San Diego. Jasmine, we find is running from an abusive boyfriend and dead end job. The book follows their friends and coworkers left reeling when the two women vanish.

The thing is, most of this book just follows Jasmine. I don't think we really get a sense of Stephanie at all. And then when it shifts over to following Stephanie's neighbor, her coworkers, and Jasmine's best friend from childhood, etc. We then shift over to a man [no spoilers] and then back again to you are on a never ending loop. I also had to look to see who was "speaking" in the chapters I was reading because some of the characters we get sound so similar that I was getting confused.

The plot is just a mess. I think Garcia was going for a popular book I won't name here since that will reveal things, but there were so many plot holes and just out and out incorrect things that I just didn't really ever jibe with this one.

The ending had me going okay then. It just kind of ends...badly. We get a limp ending that made me think that I was supposed to feel empowered I guess. One grudging star given for this one.