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3.49 AVERAGE
3.49 AVERAGE
hopeful
informative
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
'What matters more than protecting those we love.'
A Death At The Party is a poised thriller that captivated me for the entire day. Family twists and secrets and a bit of solved murder before murder itself. It was a great read.
A Death At The Party is a poised thriller that captivated me for the entire day. Family twists and secrets and a bit of solved murder before murder itself. It was a great read.
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Although slow at times, the build up to the main event is what kept me reading. And I’m glad I did. The haunting past is very well present throughout the story where it is finally is put to rest, and the main character gets the closure she was seeking for decades.
This didn't really work for me. I expected this to be a tense and suspenseful mystery but I instead got more of a domestic drama/fiction. The writing and the characters just seemed to fall a bit flat for me sadly and I wasn't wowed by the mystery either.
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
For ages I've been looking for a contemporary whodunit novel and maybe author(?) to fill the Agatha Christie shaped void in my bookshelf (and my soul), and there have been lots of players - Riley Sager with his hauntingly beautiful prose and setting before haunting me by changing genres in the last third of the book; Keigo Higashino with the precision of a true police officer and deep knowledge of the psyche to thrillers from Shari Lapena, Jeffrey Deaver and Holly Jackson - none of them quite made it for me.
Yet another new book that popped up in my library - thanks to both my libraries for fuelling this obsession, by the way - was Amy Stuart's A Death at the Party. The premise was interesting, and the blurb fascinated me enough to pick it up..
The book starts off with the cliffhanger and the murder forming the prologue, building on the suspense from the blurb. The book per se is more of a slice of life drama, with twists and turns throughout - some predictable, some that got me.
It was a nice, simple read, the book flowed well, and the language uncomplicated. Recommended for anyone who wants to kill a couple hours with an action-packed thriller, but for me, the search for a Christie-ish whodunit continues. Up next, Freida McFadden's The Housemaid's Secret - another new arrival at the library!