yetanothersusan 's review for:

It Could Be Anyone by Jaime Lynn Hendricks

3.0

mysterious medium-paced

Strong character development: No

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Another destination wedding mystery (but is Florida really a destination?). All the members of the bridal party have secrets they are being blackmailed over by the groom. It seems like a very basic premise for a mystery. I didn't care so much about who murdered Trevor, the groom. I figured he deserved it. I had hopes for how it was done but the truth was a tad more boring than I expected. However, I was more interested in the fall out of all those secrets. Because they were still going to come out somehow and they were still going to impact people. But by the end of the story I didn't even much care about that. I think my big struggle was that we never got to know any of the characters very well. Everything was in relation to their own particular secret. And we never got to know the victim or Fiona, his fiancée. It is incredibly difficult to get vested in a story where you don't really know enough about the characters to care. For a thriller, this book never had the high suspense points that I expected it should have and again I think it was because the characters were never developed enough for the reader.

Thanks to NetGalley and Penzler Publishers for a copy of the book. This review is my own opinion.