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A Death at the Party
by Amy Stuart
Read Completed 8/26/23 | 2.5 - 2.75 stars
This was another drama that thinks it's a thriller. Or else, it was marketed poorly as a thriller when it's mostly not.
This was a slow-moving domestic drama/thriller. It kicks off quickly, showing the main character watch a man die at her mother's birthday party. We don't know who the man is that is dying so that's the mystery of the book. We then rewind and experience the day of the party and everything the characters go through that day. It's really not exciting, though. There's drama about cheating, her mother keeping secrets, secret smoking (who cares), blah blah. Obviously there are secrets to uncover but it just wasn't interesting enough.
Once the secrets are revealed, it's very blunt and anticlimactic. The whole book builds up to it and then it's just given to the readers. There are some flashbacks to the past which give us clues but everything was a little clumsy. It just didn't flow well, didn't hold my attention, and wasn't really thrilling.
I ended up finishing the book because I had too many in a row that I've quit, but I probably wouldn't have finished this one if the situation were different. It wasn't bad but it just didn't stand out and could have been a lot better for me.
This was another drama that thinks it's a thriller. Or else, it was marketed poorly as a thriller when it's mostly not.
This was a slow-moving domestic drama/thriller. It kicks off quickly, showing the main character watch a man die at her mother's birthday party. We don't know who the man is that is dying so that's the mystery of the book. We then rewind and experience the day of the party and everything the characters go through that day. It's really not exciting, though. There's drama about cheating, her mother keeping secrets, secret smoking (who cares), blah blah. Obviously there are secrets to uncover but it just wasn't interesting enough.
Once the secrets are revealed, it's very blunt and anticlimactic. The whole book builds up to it and then it's just given to the readers. There are some flashbacks to the past which give us clues but everything was a little clumsy. It just didn't flow well, didn't hold my attention, and wasn't really thrilling.
I ended up finishing the book because I had too many in a row that I've quit, but I probably wouldn't have finished this one if the situation were different. It wasn't bad but it just didn't stand out and could have been a lot better for me.