This book was completely riveting. It is a gripping storyline that is well written with well developed characters and a dark atmosphere. It was told through several points of view which really added to the atmosphere. Twisty and unpredictable.

Amaya hasn’t spoken to her best friend Kaavi for 5 years, when she walked out of her life, so she is shocked when she receives a invite to her wedding, back home in Sri Lanka. She’s even more shocked to find out that Kaavi is marrying her ex boyfriend.

The book is told from different perspectives and interspersed with interviews with the characters about an event before the wedding.

This novel was throughly engrossing and I absolutely loved all the details about Sri Lanka and the insight into the Sinhala language.
The author seamlessly blends beautiful locations with intriguing mystery leaving a completely enjoyable book.

I recommend to any one who loves a mystery, the complexity of friendships and a stunning backdrop.

Thank you to Netgalley for an ARC in return for an honest review

Another wild twisted adventure! ,

Amaya is invited to her friend Kaavi's wedding in Sri Lanka but she is hurt after not hearing from her former best friend for years. Then, Amaya learns that Kaavi is marrying Amaya's ex-boyfriend. Amaya is determined to stop the marriage from going ahead but the morning of the wedding arrives and the bride is missing, with suspicions she may have met foul play. 

As I said, this was a wild wild twisted mystery and the surprises just kept coming. There were so many lies, secrets uncovered and betrayals throughout. I enjoyed the interview format that was used in part of the novel, where characters observed what happened in the lead up to the wedding, which kept me guessing. Another fabulous novel by the author and one I recommend.

#YouAreInvited #NetGalley
Awesome.
When Amaya is invited to Kaavi's over-the-top wedding in Sri Lanka, Amaya is surprised and a little hurt to hear from her former best-friend after so many years of radio silence. But when Amaya learns that the groom is her very own ex-boyfriend, she is consumed by a single thought: she must stop the wedding from happening, no matter the cost. But Amaya might not be the only one with a plan to keep the bride from getting her happily ever after. When Kaavi goes missing and is presumed dead, the evidence points towards Amaya. Caught between excessive Sri Lankan wedding celebrations, old wounds and dark secrets, will Amaya be able to prove she's being framed for a murder she's almost positive she didn't commit?
Wow. It was so gripping.
Thanks to NetGalley and Hodder Straughten for giving me an advance copy.

Love love love love love love this!!!
Author Amanda Jayatissa has done it again!
This was delicious, thrilling all the right elements in their right places!!
All the stars!!!

After reading My Sweet Girl by this author, I was excited to read her second novel but I kind of enjoyed this book and not as much as I did with the first book. However, this book did not disappoint me at all.

Amaya gets a surprise wedding invitation from her ex-best friend Kaavi, whom she hadn't talked for many years. The worst of it was, Kaavi is set to marry Amaya's ex-boyfriend, Spencer. Now Amaya is determined to stop the wedding at all cost that she travelled all the way from Los Angeles to back to Sri Lanka. But on the wedding day, Kaavi goes missing and all evidence seemed to pointing against Amaya...

Trigger warning--BDSM, Self-Harm

Amaya seems to be a very unreliable and a disturbed character who seemed to be stalking her friend on social media by using other alias accounts. She is also a very unreliable narrator. I do like the fact that the story takes place in Sri Lanka and very rarely I have read a thriller based in Sri Lanka. As a Sri Lankan, I am familiar with all the cultures, the pre-wedding jitters and all the life of a high society Sri Lankan in Colombo--I had gone to school and been friends with girls who belong to the Colombo high society family. Kaavi is the epitome of the high society girl so I am glad that the author did a good job of mingling the high society of Colombo with traditional Sri Lankan culture. The use of Sinhala words gave a warm sense of home to me as a Sri Lankan and I am glad that the author used those Sinhala words so maybe the foreign readers could get a glimpse of a life of a rich and wealthy Sri Lankan would be. Mount Lavinia Hotel is in fact real--one of the oldest hotels in Sri Lanka and even I have been to the hotel multiple times. The front cover in the book seemed to be the picture of Mount Lavinia Hotel taken near the beach. The poruwa ceremony, the description of wedding dresses and of course Kaavi's mother's infatuation with horoscopes (which is typical of most Sri Lankan parents including mine) was all too realistic.

Aside from all the Sri Lankan things, as a book, this was good. The first part was slightly boring and but towards the middle, the story started getting more and more interesting. The interrogation parts are the ones where it got more interesting as the security started interviewing the guests.The ending was completely unexpected particularly when reading Kaavi's part. Kaavi's part was the one that actually drew me more into the story and making me at the edge of the seat. The twists and turns started coming towards the end and it completely blew my mind away Overall, I actually enjoyed this book and looking forward to read her third book! Worth four stars!

Many thanks to Hodder and Stoughton and Netgalley for the ARC. The review is based on my honest opinion only.

3.25(still trying to decide if this is a 3.25 or 3.5 star read)

Very disappointed that I didn't like this as much as I thought I would. It was very slow paced and all the 'reveals' were thrown all together at the end.
I wish the author had sprinkled them out throughout the whole book for more suspense because for the first 67% I felt like nothing was happening, just interviews and gossip and the last 33% was like twist after twist after twist and reveal after reveal after reveal.

One thing I will say though the aunties gossip in this is spot on. I am SriLankan too and I have been in many situations with aunties like this lol and let me tell you this is almost exactly how it is.

Also I really enjoyed reading abt the setting coz many of the places mentioned in the book are places I have been to.(Mt Lavinia beach, Lovinia's secret passageway, Colombo 7, etc) And since SriLanka is rarely mentioned in thrillers it was like a whole new experience reading this.

I will definitely be checking out Amanda Jayatissa's other book My Sweet Girl and I cannot wait!!

Thank you Hodder & Stoughton and Netgalley for an ARC of this book.:))

I loved My Sweet Girl and gave it a whopping 5 stars so naturally, the author's sophomore had a lot to live up to. Unfortunately, this was a huge disappointment...

What I liked:
- Flawed protagonist
- Learning about Sri Lankan culture
- Getting a glimpse into the lives of upper-class society
- Complicated female friendships
- Family drama and dynamics
- Feminist themes

The above points are the only reasons for my passing mark of 3 stars because this book completely flopped as a thriller for me. There's zero suspense and tension as hardly anything happens for the bulk of this slow-moving novel. I was hoping for an explosive revelation that would wow me, but nope. Instead, the author crams too much in the last few chapters, just like in My Sweet Girl.

I also found this terribly predictable because not only are wedding thrillers getting tiresome, but it's the same old themes all over again. Been there, read that.