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3.67 AVERAGE
3.67 AVERAGE
I also received an ARC of It Could Be Anyone by Jaime Lynn Hendricks. While completely different from The Last Princess, I enjoyed it just as much.
Description
To anyone on their flight out of New York, they appear to be five best friends excited for a destination wedding in Miami. No one would guess that each of them has a reason to want the groom dead.
Trevor Vaughn, the groom in question, wooed his bride-to-be by first becoming close with her friends—which is to say that he learned all of the five’s darkest, most dangerous secrets and blackmailed them into convincing Fiona to say “I do.” The friends were forced to convince a doubting Fiona to go through with the wedding, no matter what, and now the charade is set to continue all the way to the altar.
Trevor has his own reasons for wanting to marry into Fiona’s family, and he’ll stop at nothing to make his plan a reality. But when he dies of an apparent allergic reaction at the wedding, surrounded by such close enemies, the possibility of murder isn’t far behind. And for the authorities investigating the case, anyone present could be a suspect…
It Could Be Anyone was an enjoyable, satisfying read. The characters all had many layers, which Ms. Hendricks peeled away little by little, revealing a bit more with each page…and intriguing me a bit more, little by little, with every page.
I started and finished this in one day – very easy and compelling story!
I’m giving this 4.5 stars, only because of the random grammatical errors. While there were only a few scattered throughout the book, I found them distracting from the excellent story I was consumed with.
Thank you NetGalley and Pendleton Publishers for the ARC. It Could Be Anyone will be released May 10, 2022.
Description
To anyone on their flight out of New York, they appear to be five best friends excited for a destination wedding in Miami. No one would guess that each of them has a reason to want the groom dead.
Trevor Vaughn, the groom in question, wooed his bride-to-be by first becoming close with her friends—which is to say that he learned all of the five’s darkest, most dangerous secrets and blackmailed them into convincing Fiona to say “I do.” The friends were forced to convince a doubting Fiona to go through with the wedding, no matter what, and now the charade is set to continue all the way to the altar.
Trevor has his own reasons for wanting to marry into Fiona’s family, and he’ll stop at nothing to make his plan a reality. But when he dies of an apparent allergic reaction at the wedding, surrounded by such close enemies, the possibility of murder isn’t far behind. And for the authorities investigating the case, anyone present could be a suspect…
It Could Be Anyone was an enjoyable, satisfying read. The characters all had many layers, which Ms. Hendricks peeled away little by little, revealing a bit more with each page…and intriguing me a bit more, little by little, with every page.
I started and finished this in one day – very easy and compelling story!
I’m giving this 4.5 stars, only because of the random grammatical errors. While there were only a few scattered throughout the book, I found them distracting from the excellent story I was consumed with.
Thank you NetGalley and Pendleton Publishers for the ARC. It Could Be Anyone will be released May 10, 2022.
I seem to have liked this book more than many of the reviews on here. I think part of the problem for this book is that it is labeled as a thriller. It is not a thriller, but it is a decent mystery.
There are multiple points of view and a timeline that shifts between 5 months before the wedding and the wedding itself. It did a decent job at building everyone's motives and showing, as the title says, that it could be anyone. None of the characters are particularly likeable, so if that is important to you, you probably won't like this one.
The ending wasn't a big surprise and I wish more had been done with that. I guessed the killer well before the end, which to me is always a disappointment.
There are multiple points of view and a timeline that shifts between 5 months before the wedding and the wedding itself. It did a decent job at building everyone's motives and showing, as the title says, that it could be anyone. None of the characters are particularly likeable, so if that is important to you, you probably won't like this one.
The ending wasn't a big surprise and I wish more had been done with that. I guessed the killer well before the end, which to me is always a disappointment.
The groom is lying dead on the floor at the reception but who poisoned him?
Fiona is getting married to Trevor, and her five best friends are flying to Miami to attend her wedding, each of them are part of the wedding party. Unknown to Fiona none of her friends can stand Trevor. Each of them put on the front that they love him, but why? Well beneath Trevor’s smile is a monster, he’s blackmailing each of them, he knows each of their dark secrets and if they don’t tell Fiona she should marry him, he will tell everyone their secrets. None of the friends know that each of them are being blackmailed, but they all have a motive to want him , dead so who killed him? The book bounces back and forth from before the wedding and then back to the wedding day, and we get each of the friends POV. I truly enjoyed the story and it was a quick read for me because I couldn’t put the book down!!
Fiona is getting married to Trevor, and her five best friends are flying to Miami to attend her wedding, each of them are part of the wedding party. Unknown to Fiona none of her friends can stand Trevor. Each of them put on the front that they love him, but why? Well beneath Trevor’s smile is a monster, he’s blackmailing each of them, he knows each of their dark secrets and if they don’t tell Fiona she should marry him, he will tell everyone their secrets. None of the friends know that each of them are being blackmailed, but they all have a motive to want him , dead so who killed him? The book bounces back and forth from before the wedding and then back to the wedding day, and we get each of the friends POV. I truly enjoyed the story and it was a quick read for me because I couldn’t put the book down!!
IT COULD BE ANYONE by Jaime Lynn Hendricks is a fantastic face paced thriller!! I love fast paced thrillers and this one was great with multiple POV and short chapters. It starts off super intriguing with a murder and an unknown POV. I was hooked to keep reading to find out whodunnit and what all the connections were.
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The man who gets murdered is the groom at his wedding and the suspects are the five best friends of his fiancé. There’s a lot of characters but they’re all well differentiated. I liked how secrets were revealed and the suspense lasted until the very end. I also liked the countdown timeline as we find out what went down days before the wedding. I’m so looking forward to reading more thrillers by Hendricks since I really enjoyed this one and her first book Finding Tessa!
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Thank you to Scarlet Suspense and Penzler Pub for my advance reading copy!
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The man who gets murdered is the groom at his wedding and the suspects are the five best friends of his fiancé. There’s a lot of characters but they’re all well differentiated. I liked how secrets were revealed and the suspense lasted until the very end. I also liked the countdown timeline as we find out what went down days before the wedding. I’m so looking forward to reading more thrillers by Hendricks since I really enjoyed this one and her first book Finding Tessa!
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Thank you to Scarlet Suspense and Penzler Pub for my advance reading copy!
3.8 rating
This one has an amazing premise but wasn’t executed in an amazing fashion for me. There were a few good twists, but I didn’t find myself invested in the characters and the ending was a let down for me. I really liked this author’s debut novel, so I went into this one with high hopes.
This one has an amazing premise but wasn’t executed in an amazing fashion for me. There were a few good twists, but I didn’t find myself invested in the characters and the ending was a let down for me. I really liked this author’s debut novel, so I went into this one with high hopes.
After reading & loving Jaime Lynn Hendricks' debut FINDING TESSA, I knew I wanted to read IT COULD BE ANYONE. Unfortunately, this one fell flat for me in more ways than one. I try to be sensitive in writing a review for a book I didn't love but I always like to share what didn't work for me.
My thoughts:
-super quick and bingeable read - a group of college friends go away for a weekend to a destination wedding gone wrong
-fake pregnancy rubbed me the wrong way (this could be a trigger for anyone going through infertility so use caution when reading)
-the ending left me with SO MANY QUESTIONS???? nothing was wrapped up at all!!
I wanted to love this. And I started out really enjoying it but things took a turn and it missed the mark heavily for me. Some might enjoy this, especially those that don't mind an open ending.
My thoughts:
-super quick and bingeable read - a group of college friends go away for a weekend to a destination wedding gone wrong
-fake pregnancy rubbed me the wrong way (this could be a trigger for anyone going through infertility so use caution when reading)
-the ending left me with SO MANY QUESTIONS???? nothing was wrapped up at all!!
I wanted to love this. And I started out really enjoying it but things took a turn and it missed the mark heavily for me. Some might enjoy this, especially those that don't mind an open ending.
2.5⭐
I loved Finding Tessa by the author and was thrilled to be approved for an ARC of her sophomore novel, but it sadly missed the mark for me.
This was a quick read and relatively easy to follow despite the large cast. However, I didn't feel attached to any of the characters and the antagonist was laughably one-dimensional (which a character in the book itself actually acknowledges and mentions
I loved Finding Tessa by the author and was thrilled to be approved for an ARC of her sophomore novel, but it sadly missed the mark for me.
This was a quick read and relatively easy to follow despite the large cast. However, I didn't feel attached to any of the characters and the antagonist was laughably one-dimensional (which a character in the book itself actually acknowledges and mentions
Finding Tessa, Hendricks' first thriller, was one of my top books of 2021 and is one of my top favorite thrillers ever….so I was really excited to get my hands on this one.
What do you do when the guy who is marrying your friend is a *horrible human being*? Does your answer change when he starts BLACKMAILING you to keep quiet? Because YIKES Y’ALL…this friend group is in trrrroubbllee. The secrets these people had were UNMATCHED and it makes me wonder if most people are walking around with this many damning secrets.
I am a little shocked that these friends, who've known each other for so long, didn't trust each other more but there wouldn't have been a novel without that *insane* lack of trust. I am a sucker for multiple POVs and this gave me so many that I felt so full. Every single POV is unreliable so you really have no idea who to trust until the VERY LAST PAGE. And I know people say that but I kid you not…the very last page.
The twists kept coming and it really kept me on my toes and isn’t that what we’re all looking for in a thriller?
Thank you SO MUCH to @jaime & @penzler for the physical ARC & @netgalley for the e-ARC. This one comes out May 10, so mark your calendars!
What do you do when the guy who is marrying your friend is a *horrible human being*? Does your answer change when he starts BLACKMAILING you to keep quiet? Because YIKES Y’ALL…this friend group is in trrrroubbllee. The secrets these people had were UNMATCHED and it makes me wonder if most people are walking around with this many damning secrets.
I am a little shocked that these friends, who've known each other for so long, didn't trust each other more but there wouldn't have been a novel without that *insane* lack of trust. I am a sucker for multiple POVs and this gave me so many that I felt so full. Every single POV is unreliable so you really have no idea who to trust until the VERY LAST PAGE. And I know people say that but I kid you not…the very last page.
The twists kept coming and it really kept me on my toes and isn’t that what we’re all looking for in a thriller?
Thank you SO MUCH to @jaime & @penzler for the physical ARC & @netgalley for the e-ARC. This one comes out May 10, so mark your calendars!