You Are Fatally Invited by Ande Pliego (Feb 11, 2025) Many thanks to PRH audio for the free advanced listening copy of this gripping debut thriller!
World-famous anonymous thriller novelist J. R. Alastor is bringing together six renowned thriller writers for a writing retreat at his mansion on a private island off the coast of Maine, and he’s hired former writer Mila del Angél as the host. Together, they’ve planned a week of thriller-inspired jump scares that might frighten these authors into either inspiration or confessing a secret of two. However, Mila has bigger plans. The week is the perfect cover to enact the murderous revenge she’s been wanting for years. But when a murder occurs, and it isn’t the one Mila had planned, she begins to realize that she might be a pawn in a much bigger game. As the body count begins to rise, she’ll have to use everything she knows from books about escaping the tropes of a thriller to make it out alive.
Told through 8 different POVs, this book takes a little time to settle into as you rotate through the different narrators, but once you become familiar with all the characters, it is completely engrossing! It is a very self-aware book that references a host of commonly used thriller tropes; once it hit its stride, I could not put it down. I became invested in these characters and was definitely saying “No! No! No!” after several deaths. I loved all of the twists and found the conclusion pleasingly cathartic.
🎧 About the Audiobook 🎧 This is a fun, big-cast narration that this audio performance 100% needed. Alejandro Ruiz, Dawn Harvey, Jeremy Carlisle Parker, John Lee, Will Damron, Victoria Villarreal, Mia Hutchinson-Shaw, and Feodor Chin all narrate a different character’s POV in the performance. Each brings their unique character to life in a fantastic way. Highly recommend!
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