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THE WEDDING PARTY

 



SYNOPSIS


Till death do us part...

Lucy has dreamt of her wedding day for as long as she can remember.

And now the day is almost here. Her nearest and dearest are gathered on an idyllic Greek island and she just knows it's going to be perfect. It has to be.

But even the best-laid plans can go horribly wrong. Why are her parents behaving so strangely? Why won't the rather odd lady from the airport stop hanging around? Who is the silent stranger her sister brought as a plus-1?

And then they find the body.

It's going to be a day to remember.


Title: The wedding party
Author: Tammy Cohen
Publisher: Black Swan
Publication date: August 19, 2021


REVIEW

RATING: ⭐⭐⭐💫

Dear reader, you are cordially invited to celebrate the marriage of Lucy and Jason. The ceremony will be held on the island of Kefalonia on the afternoon of the 15th of June 2019. This will be followed by dinner and…MURDER!

At least that’s what it looks like when a body at the bottom of a cliff is being guarded by the police in the fist few pages. 

The wedding party follows the current trend in the domestic suspense genre where we know from page one that someone dies but we don’t know who it is till the very last pages, with the story focusing on the events leading to this death and not its investigation. Although it has been done before I still was entertained by it.

Most of the characters are pretty unlikeable so I wouldn’t have minded more than one of them being the deceased. Interspersed extracts of police interviews allow the reader to go discarding candidates as the story progresses. Lucy is your typical bridezilla obsessed with everything being perfect on her wedding day cause she deserves it (her words); her friend Shelly gives really clingy vibes; her sister Jess is a free agent and doesn’t care much about her sister wishes, bringing to the wedding a virtual stranger that may not be who he says he is; her parents are hiding some secret from their daughters and from each other; her fiancé seems to have a not so healthy relationship with his mum, and to top it off an old lady on the resort seems to be weirdly interested in the wedding party. This was recipe for disaster!

I liked how all their secrets were slowly unraveled but, imo,  halfway through the story stalled a little bit until it picked up again once the wedding day arrived. For such a huge build up  I felt some of the secrets they were hiding were a bit of a let down.

The changing POVs and short chapters made of The wedding party a fast and twisty read and it will have you guessing till the end not for the killer but for the killed one.

Thanks to NetGalley and Random House UK for providing an eARC in exchange for an honest review.

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