I enjoyed this one but I wasn’t OBSESSED with it. I think it was a solid well written story but again it’s nothing special. I’d recommend it to anyone looking for a solid thriller. I also really enjoyed that this story dove into the customs of Sri Lanka weddings which is something I personally did not know a ton about before reading this. Overall would recommend but you don’t need to rush to read it 

I had a hard time getting myself to care with this book. I don’t think it was bad, but thrillers are supposed to really have you guessing and wanting to get to the reveal. I wasn’t upset to get back to it but I wasn’t particularly motivated either. I didn’t really predict the twist which is good I suppose but I think someone who reads more thrillers probably would figure it out pretty quick.

The characters were all pretty unlikable, not sure if there is a single one I liked really but that didn’t bug me too much. While I don’t know if I’d necessarily recommend this book, I don’t regret reading it.

The only good thing about this book is that it compels you to keep reading in order to find out what the heck is going on. Unreliable narrator.. Unlikable characters everywhere. Everyone is so hateful that it made it almost Impossible to keep going forward. I’ve never had such a hard time to finish a book. It put me in a reading slump. The twists at the end were great but they don’t make up for a whole book of craziness.

Boring boring boring. And the end was waaay over the top corny.

I love thrillers…not quite as much as I love romance, but thrillers are a close second. Thrillers are the kind of books you start on your day off so you can simply read all day with few distractions. The twisty stories require complete attention. I love it when a thriller shows up next on my TBR queue (I recently saw a meme about how the word “queue” is just the letter Q with a line of letters behind it…a queue of letters, if you will). I’m quite certain this is the first book I’ve ever read that was set in Sri Lanka. I know nothing of that country or it’s culture. The book doesn’t dive too deeply into the culture, but it’s still interesting to read books set in countries with which I’m unfamiliar. This book concerns the wedding of an affluent social media queen from Sri Lanka, marrying an American boy she met in college while he was dating her best friend. That scenario itself presents an interesting premise, but it just twists from there. We are introduced to Amaya at the beginning and we traverse about half the book from her point of view. She comes across as slightly unhinged for most of this story, so it’s easy to assume from the onset that Amaya is the antagonist of this story. However, she isn’t…not by a long shot (haha, that was unintentionally punny). Every single character in this book has secrets…every one of them shares the role of antagonist. That’s quite a feat. I think the only people that aren’t evil or conniving are Nadia and Kaavi’s dad. By the end of this book, my head was spinning and I had to actually go back and reread a few parts just to make sure I understood everything. This book is expertly written, and it makes me wonder if this poor author has had some crappy experiences in her past. Is she ok? Can somebody check on her? The ONLY reason this one fell a tad short of the fifth star was the absolute lack of effective communication from Amaya. Had that girl just told her story, this book would have been boring as hell…and then when she had the opportunity to tell Kaavi the truth, she faltered. It made no sense to me. However, I suppose had Amaya found her voice, we wouldn’t have this amazing story. Read it.

4⭐️. This was an intense pyschological thriller with an unreliable narrator and a wedding party full of secrets & lies. The plot twists were executed perfectly and the main characters were developed so well that you both liked and hated them throughout the book. I also enjoyed the Sri Lankan representation- I learned some things I wasn’t already familar with. I highly recommend this thriller.

Easy read.

I could not put this down. At all. Ending was a bit rushed I think after the build up of the book but didn't stop me from enjoying the mystery. I'll leave this quote here: "Do we really change? Does what's deep within us, in that place that makes us innately who were are, shift and move and evolve with time? Or are our lives like the window dressing of department stores-changed and updated with season, leaving what's inside the same chaotic mess?"