Nosy and interfering Maggie Burkhardt has a nasty habit of getting involved in other people's business. A habit that caused her to have to flee a stay in the Alps and relocate to the Royal Karnak Hotel in Luxor, Egypt. But it appears she hasn't learnt her lesson and this time she seems to have met her match in eight year old Otto.

I went into this book not knowing much and what I found was a very strange, White Lotus-esque set up with a grand but crumbling hotel filled with demanding guests and the put upon staff forced to provide service to them.

It was, quite frankly a pretty insane and wild ride of a read and one that unfortunately I didn't enjoy as much as I hoped I would. There's a trend it feels at the moment to pack your cast with wholly unlikeable characters and that's what I found here. It's a trope I don't love as whilst I don't mind bad behaviour, I struggle to enjoy a read when I dislike the main character(s) as much as I did here.

If that's something that you enjoy and you like strange and twisting thrillers then I would recommend this to you because whilst it didn't hit the mark for me I think it's more to do with my reading tastes than anything related to the writing for this book.

Thank you to Netgalley and HarperCollins UK, HarperFiction | The Borough Press for this digital review copy of "HAVOC" in exchange for my honest and voluntary review.