After the Wedding by Laura Elliot is a thriller that is better if you know what it’s actually about.
Let me try to explain.
The blurb says it is a psych thriller, so the reader goes in expecting that something happens at a wedding and the rest of the book has to do with the immediate aftermath. It is a logical assumption.
However, this is not that book.
Yes, there is something that occurs at a wedding in the opening chapter. Then the action switches and we are several years in the future (from the wedding). The wedding is barely a blip in the big scheme (for the most part). I suppose the whole thing is after the wedding if you want to look at it that way.
The rest of the book is definitely more thriller than anything else. I did not get a psych thriller vibe from it at all. In fact, it is a detailed and complicated plot that involves much more than meets the eye.
I don’t want to give anything away, but if you want to enjoy After the Wedding, you definitely need to have the mindset that it is NOT a quick and entertaining psych thriller. It is more of a complicated crime thriller with mystery.
The author’s style of writing is sometimes difficult to follow. A scene will be in the present and then within a paragraph of explanation, the action will be days or weeks later. This happens a lot, so the reader does need to pay close attention.
I did not get much of a feel for any of the characters. I think the reader is supposed to feel for Christine because of her past. But for me, her self-destructiveness gets in the way of her being a truly sympathetic character.
And let’s not talk about Jessica and Richard. The less said about them, the better.
As I mentioned at the beginning, Laura Elliot has a good story in After the Wedding. You just need to understand what you are getting into. But trust me, you will still enjoy it.
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Author Bio:
Laura Elliot lives in Malahide, a picturesque, coastal village in Dublin, Ireland. She enjoys writing psychological thrillers — 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.
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