2021: Better than I thought it was going to be, but still not great.

What I liked: I mean, can you imagine?! A wedding on the coast of Ireland held by people with more money than they know what to do with?! Goals! Great setting, loved the premise, and I'll admit, I did not guess correctly who the murderer was going to be.

What I didn't like: A big detractor for me were the scenes "in the present". It immediately gave away who the victim was (in my opinion) and were just full of eye-rolling cliff hangers that just took away from the pace of learning what was actually happening. There seemed to be an awful lot of "issues" thrown in to this novel, without many of them being really fully explored. I think it might have worked better if the readers weren't pulled in quite so many different directions, although I do understand that it was done to throw us off the scent of the killer.

Also, a big -1 for a personal pet peeve of mine, which is when anyone in the English language refers to the native language of Ireland as "Gaelic", which it is not!! You can say that they are speaking Irish or you can say that they are speaking Gaeilge (which is how you say Irish in Irish), but the name of the language is NOT Gaelic! UGH