Bella Mackie never disappoints. Another great novel, it's comic and engaging and a brilliant exploration of relationships. Thoroughly enjoyed it!

I really enjoyed this book. It is well written and well developed. I enjoyed the afterlife element and the mechanics of moving on from the in-between. I liked that the main couples relationship was explored. Would recommend. This is the second book I've read by this author. Both were engaging with elements of comic relief that I liked.

I really enjoyed this Arc by Bella Mackie. Her writing style is clever, funny and really easy to read!

I was worried i wouldn’t enjoy this as much as some of her other books but i was wrong!

Highly recommend and loved the super natural element!

Bella Mackies writing is engaging, to the point and immensely enjoyable. This novel takes you to unexpected places.

The second book from Bella Mackie is good but not great. The characters frustrated me and I wasn’t glued to this novel in the same way as when reading her first release. Still, a fun read with darkly comic twists - it’s a recommend.

In 'What A Way To Go', Bella Mackie has succeeded in doing something few writers do successfully: creating a thoroughly enjoyable novel despite not having a single really likeable character. Events are recounted from the perspectives of several different characters — including dead ones and a true crime podcaster, The Sleuth.

The story revolves around the death of Anthony Wistern, an English, deeply obnoxious Elon Musk-type (if you'll excuse the tautology). The Sleuth is set on persuading her audience that Anthony was murdered and on solving the murder. Anthony's dysfunctional family - his adult children and his almost-as-awful wife - is set on rocking the boat as little as possible, at least until they all get their grubby little fists onto the fortune they expect to inherit.

What A Way To Go is a thoroughly enjoyable romp, allowing the reader to indulge in a bit of how-the-1%-live voyeurism. It's well written, with sharp dialogue and tight plotting.

My thanks to the publisher, the author and Netgalley for giving me a free copy of this book. All my reviews are 100% honest and unbiased, regardless of how I acquire the book.

3.5*

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A biting satire taking pot shots at the rich who care for nothing except the accumulation of wealth. Anthony, an obnoxious millionaire, dies in mysterious circumstances at his lavish 60th birthday party. A tragic accident or murder? His wife and children are more concerned with the inheritance. A great read with plenty of humour, nicely plotted and plenty of twists.

I liked it how it was told from 3 different points of view, from very different characters. This made it more interesting.
I liked that you weren't really left with questions at the end, it tied it up quite nicely.
I thought the premise was interesting and it was an enjoyable read.
Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I could not put this down! Bella Mackie has a way to rope you in with her writing and I eat it up every single time. Antony ends up dead at his 60th birthday party, and he is taken to the "lobby" for the afterlife, where he won't be able to move on until he remembers how he dies. He can follow what's happening with his family to help jog his memory, however all is not what it seems in the land of the living. Everyone is convisted his wife Olivia killed him, but it's never that simple is it?
Loved it! If you're looking for a "who done it" with humour and twists, this is the book for you.

I thoroughly enjoyed this rather delightful and unusual murder mystery, with its rich, highly dysfunctional family at the centre orbited by an array of supplementary characters.

The story is told from three points of view - narcissistic Anthony who is (or was) a very rich banker / financier with extremely dubious morals and a risk-taking attitude. Olivia - his 'clotheshorse' of a wife who is glamorous but vain, vacuous and will allow nothing to impede her social standing. Finally Jade Evans, a local girl and social media crime buff, who strikes it lucky when Anthony - someone she vaguely knows from the village pub- is killed.

Anthony, having recently died, is stuck in the South Gloucestershire Processing Centre (purgatory) until he can remember the exact circumstances of his death. He is able to view and hear the living through a set of monitor screens, resulting in some hilarious revelations as his awful family vie for position and a slice of the supposed fortune.

The book has some very dark humour and is witty and fun, while dealing with the subject of death, theft, fraud and deception. It certainly had some laugh-out-loud moments for me and I guessed the ending only slightly before the big reveal.

I actually listened to the audiobook version of this, it was a pleasant enough listen, but I found the story, although quite original, was a bit slow and lacked some humph and I think that if I had been reading this I probably wouldn’t have been able to continue.

what a ride! Brilliant story telling, flashing from the after life to the after math of the death of Anthony, a prominent and successful business man.

It was just so clever, narrated in parts by Anthony himself as he struggles to remember how he came to his untimely end, but isn't allowed to travel onto his final resting place until he does.

It's also told from the POV of an online amateur sleuth who is determined to get to the bottom of the suspicious death.

So original, very witty and fast paced, it's another brilliant story.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

I was so entertained by Bella Mackie's debut novel and her writing is so easy to get drawn into. The three narrators' voice sometimes blurred into one for me, but the short chapters absolutely propelled me through the drama regardless. I really enjoyed the Youtuber's subscribers going up each time she unveiled something, and I enjoyed her sections most of all, though not quite as much as the protagonist of Mackie's debut. The slightly Good Place-y purgatory administration office being the vehicle for the deceased's voice was a bit wacky, but I was more than happy to go with it!

I was excited to read this, as it’s an interesting premise: billionaire Anthony Wistern dies at his lavish 60th birthday party and ends up in limbo, where he needs to remember his death in order to move on.
His family are loathsome and he watches from limbo as they use his death to improve their lot in life, either by trying to gain access to wealth, or, use the attention to improve their social media standing.

It started well, then I just got frustrated with the irritating characters and then, I lost interest. I completed the read, but, for me, it was an ok read overall. Some good bits, but, mainly not enough to maintain my interest.

Thanks to NetGalley and HarperCollins UK for the opportunity to preview, just, not for me.

This is the highly-awaited second novel from the author of How To Kill Your Family and it delivered! Quite a refreshing novel considering years of the general public obsessing over serial killers and unsolved cases led to the true-crime industry exploding - this offers a nuance that is much needed while being a fun pacy read.

Absolutely brilliant, loved it. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for allowing me an advance copy, I will definitely be recommending.

Another amazing book from Mackie! This made me laugh a lot and I always love a whodunit! I think Mackie is on my instant buy list!

What can I say? Bella Mackie, you've done it again. This is a fantastically funny crime drama. As someone who absolutely adored her previous novel 'How To Kill Your Family' this was a perfect second read. Anthony Wistern celebrates his 60th birthday... by dying. Anthony is a rich busissman who isn't a fan of playing by the rules, he's got a family and a few mistresses but when he dies, his family aren't exactly heartbroken. To get to where he needs to go, Anthony has to discover who is responsible for his death.. and if it's down to his family who believe they will inherhit his fortune.

This book is really cleverly written and the reader must also work out who is the culrpit. So who did it? Read to find out more..!

Thank you to the author, publisher and NetGalley for providing an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This book starts with the death of a man and takes you on a journey to discover his cause of death. The synopsis does not give much away and I was surprised by an element of this book. Bella Mackie is the queen of creating characters that you love to hate. This is another fun read.

I wanted to love this as much as I loved How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie (a 5 star read for me) but it didn't hit the same. I think What a Way to Go is missing a lot of the humour I wanted to see again, and I actively disliked all of the characters. It felt as though Mackie was trying to present all of the worst stereotypes related to wealthy people across the Wistern family and was definitely succeeding, but unfortunately in a way that made them all annoying and obnoxious and made them difficult to read. I have to say I started with the ebook and found it really tough to get into but picking up the audiobook instead got me through this much quicker and did make it less dry.

There were parts of the book I enjoyed. I found the mystery surrounding Anthony's death interesting and I was a little curious to see how it would play out with his family in the end (especially if one of them was the murderer). With the hunt for the (possible) murderer it did intrigue me a little to see what was going to happen next and to find out a motive, and there were also some plot twists in there. The sort of fantasy element brought into the story with Anthony narrating from a post-death kind of halfway house didn't quite gel with the story, but I did enjoy seeing his reactions to things at times despite this. I had higher hopes for this book and I think if the true crime obsessed character wasn't so uncomfortable to read, and had been portrayed a little differently, then I might have warmed more to the story and accepted how despicable the Wisterns were but it wasn't to be!