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The Last One at the Wedding
by Jason Rekulak
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Well that's 11 hours of my life I'll never get back.
Thank you to Macmillan Audio and NetGalley for providing me with an audio galley of this book to listen to and give my honest review. The opinions expressed here are my own.
I heard really great things about another book by this author and thought I'd check out what his writing was about.
I jumped into this one thinking it will be a bit of a mystery, thriller. However, it turned out to be more of a mystery/family drama than anything else. There was no suspense at all. No edge of the seat thriller with this story.
I enjoyed the narrator. He definitely brought the personality of the main character alive. I laughed in many places and was also a bit shocked in others at the things he said or thought. However, I really found the Frank rather chauvinistic and full of entitlement.
The dynamic between the main character, his sister, his daughter, and the other supporting characters was a mix of odd and tender. I didn't relate to any of the characters, though. Nor did I find any of them really likeable so I wasn't truly invested in where this story was going. They were also very underdeveloped.
A lot of craziness happened during the book which I thought for sure would turn it to more of a thriller. But it didn't get there. The mystery was meh at most. I almost felt like this one was more satire than mystery/thriller as it's billed. I was actually a bit bored at times. There seemed to be a lot of repetition happening with the way things would come to fruition. I ended up speeding up the narration as I found myself losing interest less than half way through the book.
And I hated the ending. It just kind of ended with no real true resolution to anything regarding the feelings of the characters. It was totally unfulfilling. Talk about anti-climatic. I almost wonder why the author wrote it in the first place if there wasn't going to be a good wrap up. And don't get me started on the title. I don't even know what it means or how it relates to the story besides there being a wedding in the plot.
All this being said, the book was just not for me. However, given the higher ratings I have been seeing, I seem to be in the minority. After speaking with some other readers who read Hidden Pictures by this author and then this one, I see a tendency to agree this was nothing like the other book. So don't jump into this one thinking it will be similar.
Thank you to Macmillan Audio and NetGalley for providing me with an audio galley of this book to listen to and give my honest review. The opinions expressed here are my own.
I heard really great things about another book by this author and thought I'd check out what his writing was about.
I jumped into this one thinking it will be a bit of a mystery, thriller. However, it turned out to be more of a mystery/family drama than anything else. There was no suspense at all. No edge of the seat thriller with this story.
I enjoyed the narrator. He definitely brought the personality of the main character alive. I laughed in many places and was also a bit shocked in others at the things he said or thought. However, I really found the Frank rather chauvinistic and full of entitlement.
The dynamic between the main character, his sister, his daughter, and the other supporting characters was a mix of odd and tender. I didn't relate to any of the characters, though. Nor did I find any of them really likeable so I wasn't truly invested in where this story was going. They were also very underdeveloped.
A lot of craziness happened during the book which I thought for sure would turn it to more of a thriller. But it didn't get there. The mystery was meh at most. I almost felt like this one was more satire than mystery/thriller as it's billed. I was actually a bit bored at times. There seemed to be a lot of repetition happening with the way things would come to fruition. I ended up speeding up the narration as I found myself losing interest less than half way through the book.
And I hated the ending. It just kind of ended with no real true resolution to anything regarding the feelings of the characters. It was totally unfulfilling. Talk about anti-climatic. I almost wonder why the author wrote it in the first place if there wasn't going to be a good wrap up. And don't get me started on the title. I don't even know what it means or how it relates to the story besides there being a wedding in the plot.
All this being said, the book was just not for me. However, given the higher ratings I have been seeing, I seem to be in the minority. After speaking with some other readers who read Hidden Pictures by this author and then this one, I see a tendency to agree this was nothing like the other book. So don't jump into this one thinking it will be similar.