Tag: A.J. Banner

After Nightfall by A.J. Banner

Author: A.J. Banner
Published: August 7, 2018
Audiobook

Reviewed By: Jessica
Dates Read: July 27- August 8, 2018
Jessica’s Rating: 3.5 stars

Book Description:

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.

Bestselling author A. J. Banner keeps readers on a razor-sharp edge in this intricately plotted novel of psychological suspense…in which nothing is as it seems.

Jessica’s Review:

Marissa just got engaged and they are throwing a party…. Which went far from what was planned…. After Nightfall is a mystery with a twist- What happened to Marissa’s friend Lauren? Was she pushed, did she jump, or was it an accidental slip? You never know who to believe, including our narrator, and doubt is thrown on ALL characters! Every character has secrets and when it comes to the conclusion it’s not a shocker as to ‘the who’ or ‘what actually happened’, it was a more of an ‘oh wow, why did I not see that coming!?!?!!!’ 

I did feel my attention wander some, not the author’s fault as it is well written, it was the narrator for me. I’m not really sure what it was about her voice, but I know I missed some elements of the story as I listened. The ending seemed abrupt to me.  This will be one I plan to listen to again.  Maybe it will be better on a second listening.

Many thanks to the author, A.J. Banner for sending me an MP3 audio copy which I voluntarily read.  I look forward to reading her second novel The Twilight Wife which I own, but have not been able to read yet.

Purchase Links:
Amazon US
Amazon UK

 

First Line Friday on Thursday

First Line Friday is a day early this week as tomorrow is my day for a blog tour.  I didn’t want to skip First Line Friday, so I decided to post it today!

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