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A review by traceyroberts
What a Way to Go by Bella Mackie
adventurous
dark
funny
medium-paced
4.0
It's Anthony Wistern's 60th birthday and his wife, Olivia, has thrown the most lavish birthday party to celebrate and also to show off how disgustingly rich they are. But the party ends in disaster when Anthony is found dead. Anthony is then stuck in the afterlife holding centre until he can figure out how he died. Only then will he be able to move on.
The story is told from three different POVs, the grieving widow, a true crime podcaster and the dead guy from beyond the grave. I love the authors take on the afterlife, it's both original and strangely believable in it's mundaneness.
The characters are all deeply unlikeable and as a family they are most definitely dysfunctional but Mackie writes them in such a way that you love to hate them.
This was my first time reading this author and I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this darkly humourous and twisty thriller. This is definitely an author I will read again.
Thank you to Netgalley and Harper Collins for the ARC
The story is told from three different POVs, the grieving widow, a true crime podcaster and the dead guy from beyond the grave. I love the authors take on the afterlife, it's both original and strangely believable in it's mundaneness.
The characters are all deeply unlikeable and as a family they are most definitely dysfunctional but Mackie writes them in such a way that you love to hate them.
This was my first time reading this author and I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this darkly humourous and twisty thriller. This is definitely an author I will read again.
Thank you to Netgalley and Harper Collins for the ARC