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3.67 AVERAGE
3.67 AVERAGE
The only thing I can point is that the Portuguese written in the book is Brazilian Portuguese, when Emma is supposed to be half Portuguese (so, she should talk European Portuguese). As a Portuguese person, it bothered me just a little bit!
What a FUN and WILD ride!
It Could Be Anyone finds a close knit of college friends attending a wedding of one of their own to outsider Trevor. On the surface Trevor seems like a decent guy but the bride Fiona thinks the relationship may be moving too fast. Trevor, wanting to get in good and enjoy the advantages of Fiona’s political family by marrying her decides to bribe the close-knit group to make sure she says yes when he proposes.
The book starts off with Trevor’s inevitable and shocking demise at the wedding and then flashes back in between a couple of days before the wedding and 5 months prior when Trevor’s about to propose from each friend’s POV. Shocking and I mean really shocking secrets are revealed as Trevor approaches each friend with blackmail he has on each person and tells each one they better make sure Fiona says yes by talking him up and encouraging her about the relationship she’s doubting. Secrets within the group one doesn’t know about the other and secrets from their shady past thought to be long buried are all known by Trevor. I literally gasped out loud at some of the revelations.
The pacing of this book was fast as we got closer and closer to the wedding and the characters were perfectly terrible!
This was a 5* read and I really enjoyed it. Thank you to W. W. Norton Company and NetGalley for the EArc and the chance to review it! Be sure to get your copy of this excellent psychological thriller on May 10th, 2022!
It Could Be Anyone finds a close knit of college friends attending a wedding of one of their own to outsider Trevor. On the surface Trevor seems like a decent guy but the bride Fiona thinks the relationship may be moving too fast. Trevor, wanting to get in good and enjoy the advantages of Fiona’s political family by marrying her decides to bribe the close-knit group to make sure she says yes when he proposes.
The book starts off with Trevor’s inevitable and shocking demise at the wedding and then flashes back in between a couple of days before the wedding and 5 months prior when Trevor’s about to propose from each friend’s POV. Shocking and I mean really shocking secrets are revealed as Trevor approaches each friend with blackmail he has on each person and tells each one they better make sure Fiona says yes by talking him up and encouraging her about the relationship she’s doubting. Secrets within the group one doesn’t know about the other and secrets from their shady past thought to be long buried are all known by Trevor. I literally gasped out loud at some of the revelations.
The pacing of this book was fast as we got closer and closer to the wedding and the characters were perfectly terrible!
This was a 5* read and I really enjoyed it. Thank you to W. W. Norton Company and NetGalley for the EArc and the chance to review it! Be sure to get your copy of this excellent psychological thriller on May 10th, 2022!
A recipe for success, but still a little disappointing?
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I was seeing so many 5 star reviews from my friends on this one but in the end I felt like it was just okay. The premise and tropes are right up my alley. I love mysteries surrounding a group of friends. I love stories set at weddings. And I love knowing the conclusion and then going back and figuring out the whodunit. And this book executed all of those really well. But I am a few weeks out from finishing the book and I’m struggling to remember the details. It just didn’t stick with me.
It Could be Anyone follows a group attending the wedding of their college friend. A wedding ending, of course, in death. We then follow each of their perspectives of the months and days leading up to the accident as the truth unfolds.
The characters were all really interesting. They all had their own unique motivations and I felt their desperation. This is where the book really shines. I’m not surprised someone ended up dead because I understood what was at stake for everyone involved.
What I didn’t like was the pacing. It felt incredibly slow to get to the point. And in the end I was really disappointed with the reveal. I guess it really could have been anyone.
I’d recommend this for anyone who is a fan of The Guest List or Friends Like These.
QOTD: Do you read mostly ebooks or physical books? Kindle or iPad? Paperback or Hardback?
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I was seeing so many 5 star reviews from my friends on this one but in the end I felt like it was just okay. The premise and tropes are right up my alley. I love mysteries surrounding a group of friends. I love stories set at weddings. And I love knowing the conclusion and then going back and figuring out the whodunit. And this book executed all of those really well. But I am a few weeks out from finishing the book and I’m struggling to remember the details. It just didn’t stick with me.
It Could be Anyone follows a group attending the wedding of their college friend. A wedding ending, of course, in death. We then follow each of their perspectives of the months and days leading up to the accident as the truth unfolds.
The characters were all really interesting. They all had their own unique motivations and I felt their desperation. This is where the book really shines. I’m not surprised someone ended up dead because I understood what was at stake for everyone involved.
What I didn’t like was the pacing. It felt incredibly slow to get to the point. And in the end I was really disappointed with the reveal. I guess it really could have been anyone.
I’d recommend this for anyone who is a fan of The Guest List or Friends Like These.
QOTD: Do you read mostly ebooks or physical books? Kindle or iPad? Paperback or Hardback?
Plot twist after plot twist, each more crazy than the last, I just couldn’t put this book down.
Classic whodunit centered around a group of friends and a wedding ceremony. Each character was guilty in my head at one time or another and I did not figure it out!
Easy five star read for me!!
Classic whodunit centered around a group of friends and a wedding ceremony. Each character was guilty in my head at one time or another and I did not figure it out!
Easy five star read for me!!
While I did enjoy the mystery and plot behind the book, the characters felt a little to shallow and fake. My biggest problem was how they all treated the character “Fiona”. The main characters are all supposed to be super close but they constantly put down Fiona for very petty and childish ways. The call her fat and “just average “ throughout the whole book. I understand that it’s to show how out of trevers league she is. However don’t think real friends would do that . They all seem very flat and predictable.
Pub Day: May 30th
After Finding Tessa, Hendricks is an auto-buy author for me, and now she's back with another fast-paced murder mystery at a wedding. Yes, yes, and YES!
Five of Fiona's friends fly out of New York to pretend to be excited about their friend Fiona's wedding to Trevor Vaughn. Whom they hate. Very much. Because he has something on each and every one of them. And then he dies right after saying I do. Who killed him? It could be anyone...
I loved this book SO MUCH!! I'm a huge fan of murder-mysteries because I always try and figure out who it was before the ending. In this case, you have five perfectly flawed people, with no room to love them whatsoever, who each have a motive to kill the wicked Trevor Vaughn.
I enjoyed learning about each of the characters from their own POVs, and although there were five, it wasn't hard to keep up. The plot twists are WILD and had me sitting there, gasping, looking like a deer in headlights. Jaime, I don't know how you do it, but keep it up because I am living for these crazy twists.
Overall, this was a fun, fast-paced murder-mystery that will have you flipping the pages at lightning speed.
Thank you Scarlet Suspense for providing me with an advanced copy of this novel!
After Finding Tessa, Hendricks is an auto-buy author for me, and now she's back with another fast-paced murder mystery at a wedding. Yes, yes, and YES!
Five of Fiona's friends fly out of New York to pretend to be excited about their friend Fiona's wedding to Trevor Vaughn. Whom they hate. Very much. Because he has something on each and every one of them. And then he dies right after saying I do. Who killed him? It could be anyone...
I loved this book SO MUCH!! I'm a huge fan of murder-mysteries because I always try and figure out who it was before the ending. In this case, you have five perfectly flawed people, with no room to love them whatsoever, who each have a motive to kill the wicked Trevor Vaughn.
I enjoyed learning about each of the characters from their own POVs, and although there were five, it wasn't hard to keep up. The plot twists are WILD and had me sitting there, gasping, looking like a deer in headlights. Jaime, I don't know how you do it, but keep it up because I am living for these crazy twists.
Overall, this was a fun, fast-paced murder-mystery that will have you flipping the pages at lightning speed.
Thank you Scarlet Suspense for providing me with an advanced copy of this novel!
Everyone has secrets and it could be anyone who committed the murder of a man that some could justify...deserved it.
This is a very fast-paced story with a group of friends attending the wedding of their friend, Fiona, and the multitude of secrets that they each tightly hold on to. My favorite aspect of this story were the secrets. The skeletons in each character's closet had an interesting way of intersecting with other secrets and the enigmatic connections were intriguing.
The one major aspect of this story that didn't vibe with me was the surface-level writing. It worked well for a quick read with interesting ideas, but it didn't allow for me to become entrenched in these characters, their motivations, their successes and failures. I also found the end to be abrupt and unsatisfying. I was hoping that
I believe this book had a fantastic idea for a thrilling story and I enjoyed how the author crafted the characters and their secrets, therefore, I look forward to giving this author another try and hope for more of a connection.
This is a very fast-paced story with a group of friends attending the wedding of their friend, Fiona, and the multitude of secrets that they each tightly hold on to. My favorite aspect of this story were the secrets. The skeletons in each character's closet had an interesting way of intersecting with other secrets and the enigmatic connections were intriguing.
The one major aspect of this story that didn't vibe with me was the surface-level writing. It worked well for a quick read with interesting ideas, but it didn't allow for me to become entrenched in these characters, their motivations, their successes and failures. I also found the end to be abrupt and unsatisfying. I was hoping that
Spoiler
we would get a chapter from Fiona at the end and she would play some part in the demise of her own husband.I believe this book had a fantastic idea for a thrilling story and I enjoyed how the author crafted the characters and their secrets, therefore, I look forward to giving this author another try and hope for more of a connection.
I really struggled finishing this book. Not because it wasn't good. It was. The writing was well put together, easy to visualize, and all characters were well-built. The problem was, I didn't care enough. As with most books of this theme, we start with a murder and a very small list of suspects. Or is the list bigger than we originally think? However, the victim is a psychopathic blackmailer, so it is difficult to really care that he is dead or who killed him. But then you go back before the wedding and learn about the supposed group of friends. Each has something to hide and in most cases those things are not things they should have gotten away with. Maybe it was good that the secrets were coming to light. Hendricks did these reveals very artistically by giving small breadcrumbs without revealing too much in each chapter. Enough to make me keep reading but at the same time it made me hate the people more. A lot of it made me angry. Great writing but too much anger towards the characters. Honestly, I'm not even sure which of them is worst.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Toxic friendship
Moderate: Alcohol
Minor: Abortion