Utterly dramatic popcorn domestic thriller that is highly entertaining though completely preposterous.
A spectacle of a gender reveal party involving a truck that is meant to explode with the appropriate color ends in tragedy when a guest winds up dead and many others wounded. The hosts, the extremely wealthy landowners, Madeline and Wes Drake, are in the crosshairs of the investigation when an ATF agent with former ties to the area comes to their ranch to get answers about what looks like something other than an accident.
There is no shortage of suspects or motive along with the usual plethora of secrets, lies, and drama. It seems that in addition to the planned event, a second explosion was actually an IED that someone at the scene engineered. Who set it and why?
I just can’t with this one. There was so much going on and such terrible, hideous people doing all sorts of things that it was hard to narrow down who the really bad actors were. I think readers will enjoy this whole romp more if they can suspend disbelief and embrace the chaos and soap opera qualities. It was fast paced and easy to read in a single sitting. Definitely predictable and thus not really suspenseful but it will likely hold your attention for a couple of hours.
I was able to listen to the audio book while also following along in the e-book ARC, both provided by the publishers. The narrators, Brittany Pressley and Xe Sands, were a bit of a pair as I didn’t really care for either of their voices nor can I identify who did which character making them basically indistinguishable. My main issue was some of the pacing and the deliberate pauses that were overly dramatic even for this plot. There was no male voice which was also a disappointment. I wish that the contents listed who voiced which characters.
This is a standalone and is not part of any series.
Genre and tags, domestic drama, murder, secrets and lies, wealthy ranch owners, traumatic past
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