An incredible follow up to Finding Tessa! Loved the glamorous setting of a wedding weekend when many secrets are revealed and one despicable groom gets his comeuppance!

What an interesting premise! This was very creative and unique for sure! I was disappointed in the ending for whodunit which moved this down to a 4 star for me.

This is a “who done it” story that will keep you guessing until the very end! You will not feel sorry for the victim and it literally could be ANYONE! I’m not sure what man would go through all of that just to try and get someone to marry him, so it is a bit far fetched, especially the drama & how everyone knows each other & the victim. However, it is a decent read.

ARC received in exchange for an honest opinion.

Squishin' Marshmellow Peeps! 😳😯🤯😳😯

What The Fluffy Baby Bunnies!!? WHAT?! 😳 Hold on! HUH?!?! For all that is coffee and chocolate and major carbs! 😳 Geez almighty Jaime knows how to start a novel off with a big boom! This is an author you NEED to keep your eyes peeled for. She knows what she's doing! Put her up there with all the greats for thrillers because she has it! You'd think she was an old pro at this. I was yanked in, thrown around, spinned around & landed at the end with my world upside down. Jaime kept the hits and bombs coming all along the book barely letting you catch your breath!
Trevor and Fiona have had a destination wedding. And during the reception, Trevor dies.
Back track some months and Trevor had wooed and won over his bride-to-be Fiona with the "help" of her closest friends - Veejay, Emma, Ethan, Allie & Dutch. By "help" I mean blackmailed. Trevor has dark & life changing secrets on each friend. Without a choice, her friends not only had to convince Fiona to marry him but go along with the charade against their better judgement. Anyone and everyone is a suspect. And with five friends all having motive, who could have wanted Trevor dead more?
Now while there was a few different view points through the book, I found it fairly easy to keep up with each character & decipher who was who. & even though the beginning of the book started with the death of Trevor, believe me, that did NOT derail or minimize the thriller & suspense factor in the least! In fact I found it amped this baby up. Jaime has major promise after this being her second book and people, she's got the writers bug! She's easily a queen to thrillers & suspense. More twisted than a chocolate pretzel!

Thank you to NetGalley & Penzler Publishers for this DARC.
Release Date: May 31, 2022

I give this 5 / 5 Bouquets! 💐

⭐️ ARC Book Review ⭐️

Book: It Could Be Anyone
Author: @jaimelynnhendricksauthor
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Recommend: Yes!
Pub Date: May 31, 2022

This book was a very fast read! It is a murder mystery whodunnit that is written in multiple POVs. It can get a little confusing at first with all of the back and forth of the characters, but this book had me hooked from the beginning! There are many twists and turns that make you think you've got it figured out, but you don't actually find out until the very end.

Synopsis: Five college friends travel from New York to Miami for their friend Fiona's wedding. All of Fiona's friends agreed to be bridesmaids and groomsmen even though no one supports the marriage or likes the groom, Trevor.

So why did they all agree if they don't like him?

Trevor is a manipulative snake and is blackmailing all of Fiona's friends with secrets from their past. If they don't agree to be part of the wedding and convince Fiona that he's the perfect guy, he will share their secrets with everyone.

When Trevor ends up dead at his own wedding from an allergic reaction, the question is, which friend killed him?

Thank you @netgalley and @penzlerpub for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

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Thank you NetGalley for letting me read this book in advance. Let me just say that this should be in everyone’s beach tote. You are going to want to read it. Plan on not doing anything else, because you won’t be able to put it down. Fiona is about to marry Trevor in Miami. Her five college friends are going to be bridesmaids and groomsmen. The only problem, the groom ends up dead right after the wedding. Whodunit? Trevor has been blackmailing all of them. They all have a reason to want him dead. Hendricks does a good job of letting us see how despicable Trevor is. You don’t feel sorry for him. He has it coming.

I absolutely loved this story! It was a true "who done it" that kept me guessing every step of the way. Just when I thought I figured everything out a new twist popped up and made me question everything! So well written and a complete page turner!!

If a despised character with a tree nut allergy enters a thriller early in the story, the allergy will kill him before the end--but the question in It Could Be Anyone by Jaime Lynn Hendricks is who slipped Trevor Vaughn the nut? A group of New York City longtime friends arrive in Miami for Fiona and Trevor's wedding weekend. Although the friends have known Fiona for years, Trevor is new to the group. As the plot unfolds, readers learn that each member of the wedding party has been blackmailed into attending and their secrets are revealed. It Could Be Anyone is a high-drama beach read that turns into a good character study.

Thank you to #Netgalley for the ARC of this book.

With a completely appropriate title and intriguing summary, I expected this story to be better.

The groom at a "destination" wedding is murdered in the beginning of this novel. (It's Miami... does that really count?) Each of the bride's 5 best friends has a motive to murder him, as he has been blackmailing them all with their deep, dark secrets.

I really disliked every single one of these characters. Each of their secrets seemed like a one-uppance as they were told. They weren't little mistakes that they made as kids. They were horrible things and each of them deserves to be in prison or to be alone. When there is no likable character in a book, I have a very hard time caring about anything and just try to make it to the end of the book.

An interesting premise, but a failed read for me. 2 stars because it was an easy read and I made it to the rather predictable ending.

A group of five best friends (two of whom are married to each other) travel to their other BFF’s destination wedding in Florida. The happy occasion is marred by the fact that they are all being blackmailed by the groom. Then the groom dies of an allergic reaction at the reception, and anyone could be guilty of murder.

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I did not like this book at all, and it’s my own fault because I should have known better than to read another destination wedding/frenemies/secrets and lies and murder book.

** spoiler alert ** First, I want to thank NetGalley for an ARC of this book. It was on my 2022 Must Read List. Unfortunately, I REALLY wanted to love this book but it took me forever to get into it. When I finally decided to hyperfocus and finish it, I absolutely hated the ending. I though it would've been a great twist if Fiona was the one who poisoned him.

The title of It Could Be Anyone by Jaime Lynn Hendricks is completely apt. Hendricks really set up everyone’s motives so that I could have seen everyone as being guilty. Slowly revealing each persons secrets kept the suspense going. There was a nice flow to the book and while some of the characters drove me nuts, I was rooting for others. The antagonist was one of the douchiest characters ever and it made me excited for him to be murdered. There was a large cast of characters but each one was clearly their own person and I never got confused keeping the people and secrets straight. I really enjoyed reading this!

It Could Be Anyone
By Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Release date: May 10, 2022
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

This story follows a group of friends who are gathered at their friend Fiona’s wedding. They have all been blackmailed by her groom to be Trevor, and when he dies after the ceremony, it literally could have been anyone who killed him! This was a fun read, and I enjoyed how it bounced between past and present for each of the friends to reveal their encounters with Trevor. I highly recommend both this book and Finding Tessa by the same author. @jaimelynnhendricksauthor has become a must read author for me, and I’m already looking forward to what comes next!

Thank you to @netgalley and @penzlerpub for the ARC in exchange for my opinion.

Loved it! Creepy cover and what a thriller! Hands down ready for more books by this author! Can’t wait for more!

Ethan, Emma, Dutch, Veejay, and Allie head to Miami to attend the wedding of their college friend Fiona to Trevor. We know from the first chapter that something terrible happened during the reception. Trevor suffers some sort of medical crisis and lies dead on the floor. Fiona is hysterical and in shock as you would imagine. These five best friends though, do not seem that upset, and through their POVs, we find out why.

And holy groom from hell! Trevor is not only a terrible person he thinks nothing of using information he has gathered to blackmail every one of these five people in the wedding party. He doesn't want much, just for them to all encourage Fiona to marry him even if she has second thoughts. On the outside, they all appear to like Trevor, but on the inside, any one of them would make murdering the man at the wedding the main entree on the menu. The question is was his death a tragic accident? And if not which of them, did it?

So, let's discuss the blackmail, shall we? No spoilers but you know that the odious Trevor has enough dirt on all five of them to make them abandon their good friend Fiona to this horrible man. None of the information he has is say like not returning a library book. Nope, Trevor has enough ammunition for each of them to want him dead! Some of them have made bigger shall we say mistakes and truthfully, they are not very nice people either. But you know what compared to Trevor they are saints, While most of my sympathy was reserved for Fiona I didn't care if the killer was caught assuming that it was one of these five, or even if it was someone else. The secrets dripped off the pages and I for one was happy that Trevor got what he deserved. 4.5 stars.

An odious groom, Trevor, dies at his destination wedding reception of an apparent allergic reaction. He has blackmailed his bride Fiona's five best friends to convince her to marry him because he wants to take advantage of Fiona's family's political connections. So they all have a reason to want him dead. Who did it? And why? Great setup, but a little lacking in execution. Although I was engrossed and read through this quickly, I was at times confused by the multiple POV's and who was who. And I was underwhelmed by the ending.

I received an ARC of, It Could Be Anyone by Jaime Lynn Hendricks. I could not finish this book, everyone was so self absorbed and selfish. I did not like any of the characters, I also did not like the swearing, in this book.

I also received an ARC of It Could Be Anyone by Jaime Lynn Hendricks. While completely different from The Last Princess, I enjoyed it just as much.

Description

To anyone on their flight out of New York, they appear to be five best friends excited for a destination wedding in Miami. No one would guess that each of them has a reason to want the groom dead.

Trevor Vaughn, the groom in question, wooed his bride-to-be by first becoming close with her friends—which is to say that he learned all of the five’s darkest, most dangerous secrets and blackmailed them into convincing Fiona to say “I do.” The friends were forced to convince a doubting Fiona to go through with the wedding, no matter what, and now the charade is set to continue all the way to the altar.

Trevor has his own reasons for wanting to marry into Fiona’s family, and he’ll stop at nothing to make his plan a reality. But when he dies of an apparent allergic reaction at the wedding, surrounded by such close enemies, the possibility of murder isn’t far behind. And for the authorities investigating the case, anyone present could be a suspect…

It Could Be Anyone was an enjoyable, satisfying read. The characters all had many layers, which Ms. Hendricks peeled away little by little, revealing a bit more with each page…and intriguing me a bit more, little by little, with every page.

I started and finished this in one day – very easy and compelling story!

I’m giving this 4.5 stars, only because of the random grammatical errors. While there were only a few scattered throughout the book, I found them distracting from the excellent story I was consumed with.

Thank you NetGalley and Penzler Publishers for the ARC. It Could Be Anyone will be released May 10, 2022.

It Could Be Anyone
by Jaime Lynn Hendricks

Thank you NetGalley and Penzler Publishers for an early copy of It Could be Anyone. Honestly, every time A book compares it to Woman on a Train I shake my head. I had no clue Jaime Lynn Hendricks IS the author of that book. And she did not compare it .lol. BRILLIANT!! I could not wait to find out who would take the creep Trevor out. Never saw it coming. Excellent book.

Accurate summary of my brain while reading “It Could be Anyone” by Jaime Lynn Hendricks: No way. NO WAY. NO FREAKING WAY. Book drop, mic drop all the drops. This book is an absolute trip—a wildly entertaining train flying off the tracks as five friends head to a destination wedding only to have the groom drop dead shortly after the ceremony. I would highly recommend this to anyone who enjoyed Lisa Foley’s “The Guest List”.

The opening chapter, from the murderer’s perspective, immediately grabs your attention when the groom drops dead on his wedding day. Hendricks then takes us back to a couple of days before the wedding and introduces us to the five friends who are heading to Trevor and Fiona’s wedding (Emma, Allie, Veejay, Dutch and Ethan). The plot does drag a bit up until the events of the wedding—but you’re hooked, so you keep going. I loved that we get bounced around to each of the friend’s perspective because not only do we get to know individual personalities and insights, but we also get some backstory on the insane secrets that each of them is hiding from everyone (except Trevor who is using his knowledge to blackmail them all). None of the characters are overly likable but since Trevor is abhorrent, you will find yourself rooting for these flawed friends.

This is a familiar plot in the destination murder mystery vein but does it ever get old? No. Not in the case of this book at least. Despite some of its shortcomings I couldn’t put it down. It was definitely darkly serendipitous how connected everyone was and while some shocks I saw coming, others were absolutely wild. One thing I do think was missing was a chapter or two from Fiona’s perspective. We got everyone else—even Trevor—and I would’ve loved to have jumped into her head for a bit.

I see this one as the perfect summer read by the beach or the pool and there’s absolutely no denying it’s one wildly entertaining read that will keep you grateful you don’t have any Trevors in your life. 3.5 stars.