Title:- After The Wedding
Author:- Laura Elliot
No. of pages:- 393 pages
Date published:- will be published on March 24th 2022
Publisher:- Bookouture
Genre:- Psychological Thriller
Rating:- 2.5/5 stars
Everyone said she was the prettiest flower girl. But now her dress lies on the floor. It’s wet and torn, her shoes are lost. ‘Tell us what happened to you?’ her daddy sobs. Christine shakes her head. All she can remember are the red rose petals scattering like drops of blood spilling to the ground.
When Christine Lewis was a little girl, she witnessed something terrible at a wedding and buried it so deep in her memory, she managed to forget it ever happened.
Years later, Jessica Newman walks into the successful advertising agency Christine runs with her husband. Jessica is beautiful and excellent at her job but her presence triggers disturbing memories for Christine. Fragments of the wedding are starting to flicker in her mind and an unexplainable ball of dread begins to form in Christine’s stomach. Jessica is slowly beginning to destroy Christine’s marriage and her business. Why can’t anyone else see it?
Christine and Jessica’s lives were connected long before they set eyes on one another. But in unlocking the mystery of what happened at the wedding all those years ago, is Christine prepared for the truth she’s about to find?
When Christine was a little girl, she witnessed something horrifying but couldn’t remember what it was. Years later, Christine is working in a company when Jessica Newman enters into her life. Through Christine’s hazy memory, she couldn’t place Jessica but feel suspicious of her. Jessica slowly enters into her life and slowly breaks Christine’s marriage and slowly take over the company. Then Christine undergoes a hypnotherapy session and soon she slowly regains her memory in which Jessica may be involved…
The plot was good, the writing was great. But unfortunately, this wasn’t as interesting as I thought it should be. Maybe it was just me but it wasn’t as fast paced thriller as I thought it should be. Not much of twists and turns you would normally expect in a thriller and there were some parts where it was boring. However, I have to send, the ending was good–not great but good. Overall, in my opinion, this was an OK thriller, not a thing to die for.
Many thanks to Netgalley and Bookouture for the ARC. The review is based on my honest opinion only.
Laura Elliot lives in Malahide, a picturesque, coastal village in Dublin, Ireland. She enjoys writing psychological thrillers and, to date, she has written nine novels: The Thorn Girl, The Wife Before Me, Guilty, Sleep Sister, The Betrayal, Fragile Lies, Stolen Child ( also titled On Your Doorstep) The Prodigal Sister (also titled The Lost Sister) and her most recent novel, The Silent House.
In the UK she is published by Bookouture, Sphere and Avon, and by Grand Central Publishing in the US. Her novels have also been widely translated.
AKA June Considine, she has written twelve books for children and young adults. In her earlier career, she worked as a journalist and magazine editor.
For more details check http://lauraelliotauthor.com/
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