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A review by mirandadarrow
You're Invited by Amanda Jayatissa
3.0
this was was tough to rate because I liked the setting and characters, all of the behind the scenes looks into the well off residences of Colombo, Sri Lanka. That was really great to read.
Then we got to the mystery and it just wasn't all there. Not that anyone was asking me, but a few notes - this contains spoilers:
1. the jumping around in the timeline didn't really seem to play well into the story. It lead to having our main character being an unnecessarily unreliable narrator, which could have been avoided as that didn't serve a story purpose. And it didn't do the pacing any favors.
2. the twist at the end seemed forced and without context.
3. and finally, all of these people were horrible. There was no justice for the innocent man who didn't even get a POV (despite so many in the story) who was blamed for everything despite only doing too good at his job and pointing out accounting issues that the "victim" was not interested in seeing.
I probably could have forgiven the last one if the mechanics of the first two had worked out more smoothly.
Then we got to the mystery and it just wasn't all there. Not that anyone was asking me, but a few notes - this contains spoilers:
1. the jumping around in the timeline didn't really seem to play well into the story. It lead to having our main character being an unnecessarily unreliable narrator, which could have been avoided as that didn't serve a story purpose. And it didn't do the pacing any favors.
2. the twist at the end seemed forced and without context.
3. and finally, all of these people were horrible. There was no justice for the innocent man who didn't even get a POV (despite so many in the story) who was blamed for everything despite only doing too good at his job and pointing out accounting issues that the "victim" was not interested in seeing.
I probably could have forgiven the last one if the mechanics of the first two had worked out more smoothly.