Title: After Nightfall
Author: A. J. Banner
Genre: Psychological Thriller/Mystery
Pages: 247 (Paperback)
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
Publication date: August 7th, 2018
Synopsis from After Nightfall's Goodreads page
Beware of friends with secrets…
Imagine your closest friend utterly betraying you. Years later, when she seeks forgiveness, you invite her to your engagement party as a gesture of reconciliation. But seething hostilities rise to the surface, ruining everyone’s evening. After an awful night, your friend’s battered, lifeless body is found at the bottom of a rocky cliff.
Newly engaged Marissa Parlette is living this nightmare. She should be celebrating her upcoming wedding, but she can’t shake the image of her friend lying dead on the beach. Did she fall? Was she pushed? Or did she take a purposeful step into darkness? Desperate for answers, Marissa digs deep into the events of the party. But what she remembers happening after nightfall now carries sinister implications: the ugly sniping, the clandestine meetings, the drunken flirtations. The more she investigates, the more she questions everything she thought she knew about her friends, the man she once trusted, and even herself.
Synopsis from After Nightfall's Goodreads page
Beware of friends with secrets…
Imagine your closest friend utterly betraying you. Years later, when she seeks forgiveness, you invite her to your engagement party as a gesture of reconciliation. But seething hostilities rise to the surface, ruining everyone’s evening. After an awful night, your friend’s battered, lifeless body is found at the bottom of a rocky cliff.
Newly engaged Marissa Parlette is living this nightmare. She should be celebrating her upcoming wedding, but she can’t shake the image of her friend lying dead on the beach. Did she fall? Was she pushed? Or did she take a purposeful step into darkness? Desperate for answers, Marissa digs deep into the events of the party. But what she remembers happening after nightfall now carries sinister implications: the ugly sniping, the clandestine meetings, the drunken flirtations. The more she investigates, the more she questions everything she thought she knew about her friends, the man she once trusted, and even herself.
THOUGHTS
Thank you so much to Thomas Allen & Son for sending me an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review!
I quite enjoyed this book! I've been into the psychological thriller phase for awhile now, and I have really only not enjoyed one or two books in that genre - thankfully this is one that I enjoyed!
The book opens up with a dinner party that is happening, with the announcement of an engagement between two of the main characters. Things start to spiral out of control after a few drinks and some celebration, and already negative feelings and emotions get stronger. Following the dinner party, an old friend (and not a great one) is found dead nearby. The remainder of the book is the struggle of finding out what happened and if it was a murder, who killed her, and why?
I really enjoyed the suspense in this book. I found that the main character Marissa is the main reason for the suspense - she is determined to find the person who killed her friend, and she is determined to find out why. She goes off searching for answers, and in result she places herself into unsafe situations, resulting in getting herself into danger. There are many small twists and turns throughout this book, as Marissa is working towards finding out what happened to her friend.
Throughout the book, Marissa suspects many different people in killing her friend, and because of this she suspects many horrible things are happening. These thoughts make many people angry at her, and she risks her own relationships and her own life in order to solve the mystery.
I really enjoyed Marissa as a character. I found that she was very stubborn, very focused, and very outlandish at times as well, letting anxiety and worry take over. She was realistic at most times, however sometimes she would become a little too focused on the murder and in result get into some sticky situations.
I liked how the author made her relationships and her life suffer in result of what happened, because many authors make the characters pretend that everything is perfectly fine after a murder happens. I liked seeing how so much stress and worry was placed on the character that she had to make hard decisions and had to get herself out of sticky situations and it made her stronger in result.
I quite enjoyed this book! I've been into the psychological thriller phase for awhile now, and I have really only not enjoyed one or two books in that genre - thankfully this is one that I enjoyed!
The book opens up with a dinner party that is happening, with the announcement of an engagement between two of the main characters. Things start to spiral out of control after a few drinks and some celebration, and already negative feelings and emotions get stronger. Following the dinner party, an old friend (and not a great one) is found dead nearby. The remainder of the book is the struggle of finding out what happened and if it was a murder, who killed her, and why?
I really enjoyed the suspense in this book. I found that the main character Marissa is the main reason for the suspense - she is determined to find the person who killed her friend, and she is determined to find out why. She goes off searching for answers, and in result she places herself into unsafe situations, resulting in getting herself into danger. There are many small twists and turns throughout this book, as Marissa is working towards finding out what happened to her friend.
Throughout the book, Marissa suspects many different people in killing her friend, and because of this she suspects many horrible things are happening. These thoughts make many people angry at her, and she risks her own relationships and her own life in order to solve the mystery.
I really enjoyed Marissa as a character. I found that she was very stubborn, very focused, and very outlandish at times as well, letting anxiety and worry take over. She was realistic at most times, however sometimes she would become a little too focused on the murder and in result get into some sticky situations.
I liked how the author made her relationships and her life suffer in result of what happened, because many authors make the characters pretend that everything is perfectly fine after a murder happens. I liked seeing how so much stress and worry was placed on the character that she had to make hard decisions and had to get herself out of sticky situations and it made her stronger in result.
Overall - ★★★☆☆.5
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