sydsshelves 's review for:

A Death at the Party by Amy Stuart

3.5

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I was immediately drawn to this book because of how beautiful the front cover was. The flowers just made me want to read it and so, here we are. I was lucky enough to get an advanced reader copy of this book and I am glad that I did! I enjoyed reading it and will definitely be recommending it to all of you. 

I wasn’t too sure how reliable a narrator Nadine was going to be for us. The story flops between her current life of planning a party for her mother as well as the past where an accident happened that she feels partially responsible for. I won’t spoil anything so if you want to know more about it you’ll just need to read it yourself! 

The way that she discusses all of the people in which she interacts throughout the story has you wondering who on earth the bad guy of the story is. The first chapter dumps us into the knowledge that there was indeed a death at the party, but the question we’re left asking throughout the whole book is “who died?” It definitely kept me hooked as I was trying to figure out who on earth the dead person was going to turn out to be! It was great! 

Overall, the burn of this story is SLOW. And you’ll want to try to pick apart the story as it's happening in front of you. I had a pretty good guess of who the death happened to and I was right, but I think it got kind of obvious the closer to the end of the story you get. But, it was still good and you can’t help but be kind of impressed with Nadine for how clean everything went. Need a new mystery book? This could definitely be it!