I have now read both books written by S.C. Lalli and this one is just as good as the first one. I enjoyed the characters and the plot of this latest book. This is a great murder mystery.

I really enjoyed this book. Shay goes to a destination wedding with her boyfriend, Caleb. The couple getting married are quite wealthy and the man works for his father. The couple is found dead the day before their wedding. I don't want to give anything away, so I don't want to go into details. However, the book had many twists and is quite interesting to find out who did it. I didn't care for the ending that much, it seemed like the author was setting up for a sequel.

Everything I want in a thriller!! This one is fast paced and hooked me from the beginning! I love reading about rich people drama and influencers and this book has PLENTY of that. All the characters have just enough sketchy things about them to make them all suspicious throughout the book, which made me want to keep reading to find out more! I really loved this book, it was fun and exciting and shocking all at once!

Absolutely loved this!! Had me hooked from the very beginning! I instantly fell in love with the characters! It was hard to put down!

Thanks Netgalley for allowing me to read this book. A wedding should be a happy affair especially at a destination wedding. Shay is their as a guest. This book was ok.

The Plus One follows the wedding of the union of two very wealthy Indians. It is set in a fabulous resort in Cabo, Mexico. All is wonderful until the bride and groom are found dead.

It is up to a friend, who has the most information about the couple, to try to solve the crime.

There is a great deal of privilege amongst the characters, as they are quite wealthy. It made the characters harder to like for me - but that is just me as the book is clearly about the upper echelons.

This was a fun thriller. Shay is a guest at the wedding of the year in Cabo. Sadly, the bride and groom wind up dead. The bride’s sister and the groom’s best friend and cousin are the main suspects. Shay just so happens to be dating the best friend. She also isn’t honest but who she is.

I enjoyed the little twists throughout the book where Shay is trying to figure out who was behind the murders. It’d make a good limited series if you ask me.

Thanks as always to NetGalley for the ARC.

S.C. Lalli is proving to be an excellent writer, like her first book, Are You Sara, (which is also great) her writing is excellent and fluff free. The Plus One is a great read taking on twists and turns from almost the first page. You really never know where she is going and you never know who is “the bad guy” until the very end. Well written and keeps you guessing. My favorite kind of book.

I was given an advanced readers copy from the publishers via NetGalley for The Plus One in exchange for my honest review.

This book had quite a few plot twists! From start to finish you were wondering whodunnit?!
I think Lalli mixed perfect amount of intrigue and suspense in this book. 10/10 would recommend

It was a quick and easy read that I thoroughly enjoyed. The murder mystery occurred at a luxurious resort in Cabo, and I wanted to keep reading to uncover the ending. I particularly enjoyed the use of flashbacks and the glamorous setting of the story. There were a few moments where there was a lull and I needed a refresher of what was going on, but overall I enjoyed the plot and the twists.

I wasn't the bigest fan of this book./ It was okay but I didn't like the writing style/ Not my cup of tea as some say. Thank you NetGalley./

The setting is a lavish wedding in Mexico which makes the perfect backdrop for this killer story which takes you on a wild ride to find whodunit. The story is fast paced and captures you from the moment the wedding couple is found dead! Highly recommend

So... This book.... I loved the idea of the storyline. I LOVE The White Lotus, so I went into this super excited! I liked the characters and the details. I did feel like it was very wordy and the same things repeated several times throughout the book. I did feel it was a bit predictable as well. I love that it wasn't the same old story of influencers and rich white folks. There were times where I felt it was crazy suspenseful and times where it felt like a bit of a chore to get through some chapters. I did see a few grammatical errors, which I highlighted. I do understand that this was an ARC. :) Overall I would give this 3.5 out of 5 stars. I greatly appreciate the opportunity to read this book and I thank the Author, S.C. Lalli and publishers at Harper Collins, and Net Galley!!

Started out strong with lots of twists and turns. Really liked the flashback format as well. That being said, once I hit the halfway mark, it felt like the book could have wrapped up. It went through a lull between the 50-75% mark but ramped back up and had a great twist at the end.

The wedding of Radhika Singh and Raj Joshi, a weeklong affair at a luxury resort in Cabo, isn’t just going to be the event of the season, it will also mark the union of two highly influential and wealthy Indian-American families. No expense will be spared for what Radhika and Raj have coined “R&R,” a week of rest, relaxation, and celebrating their love. Shaylee “Shay” Kapoor is just an outsider, but she just so happens to be dating Raj’s best friend, Caleb Prescott III, and is sucked into this world of wealth and excess. But on the morning the wedding festivities are supposed to begin, the resort’s wedding coordinator Daniela makes a frightening discovery: Raj and Radhika are dead, gunshots to the head!! The police think its drug cartel, but Shay not so sure the police have it right!!
This book was definitely an interesting read! The culture was different it had light suspense, intrigue, action, murder, drug cartels, mystery, a great who done it and some crazy twists and turns! I would recommend reading this book as it was worth reading! Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for sharing this book with me!

White Lotus meets The Guest List is a spot on description of The Plus One.

Shaylee is dating Caleb, the Best Man. This scores her an invitation as the Plus One to the ultra high profile wedding of Rhadi & Raj, the members of two ultra wealthy & successful families. The lengthy, no expense spared, celebration comes to a screeching halt when the Bride & Groom are found murdered in the Groom’s villa. When it appears the suspects range from the drug cartel to Caleb, Zara- the Bride’s older sister, Sean- the Groom’s cousin or Daniella- the wedding coordinator, Shay, who has been secretly harboring a vendetta against the groom’s father pivots to find out who is responsible for the murders.

This was the type of thriller that sucks you in from page one. This had all of the elements for a hit- the luxurious Cabos location, the wealthy trust fund boyfriend, the high profile influencer bride, the wealthy party boy groom, two devious & powerful families and a double murder. I loved every second of this book. Just when all signs pointed towards one person something else was exposed that threw me completely.

Thank you to NetGalley, William Morrow Books & S. C. Lalli for the opportunity to read The Plus One ahead of its August 13th release. This is sure to be a hit this summer!

Super thrilling and decadent, The Plus One truly is" White Lotus meets The Guest List," as it is promoted!

Shaylee is the plus one at a very, VERY exclusive wedding - the merger of the children of billionaire empires. Her boyfriend is great but they just started dating and she is not sure she passes muster in the goings on of this multi-day event. When Radhika and Raj, the betrothed end up dead, all hell breaks lose and Shay has only herself to count on. Is this a mob hit? Drug Cartels? Or something closer and much more sinister?

Join Shay at the scrumptious Blush resort as she tries to make sense of the rules of wealthy engagement, solve the murder and stay alive! Each chapter begins with the invite information for the theme of each wedding celebration day, setting the stage for a perfect get-away novel for armchair detectives. I so wish I could attend!
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This thriller stood out with its departure from the common middle-class white people drama of the genre with a largely South Asian main cast (including the MC) and a setting catering to the ultra-ultra-rich. It gave me what I wanted from a good murder mystery, which is a fast-paced plot with some decent characters and a satisfying resolution, but I struggled somewhat with the main character, who frankly felt kind of pitiful with her lack of real friends and weird blind spots about the people in her life. Kind of a bold move on her part to want to be a journalist when she is cripplingly unobservant and also seems to have no idea how journalism works when it comes to blithely passing along information.

It also felt like the author/this novel was trying to make some kind of point here about how nobody can POSSIBLY dedicate themselves in a real way to trying to make the world a better place, and that people can't actually have genuine meaningful principles. That all of us would secretly do anything to get ahead, and if we hold ourselves and others to a better standard well that's just because we're jealous of people who'll step on anyone to succeed and we're just mad we didn't get the opportunity to do so ourselves. Aside from the fact that I, um, disagree, it all came off as very author mouthpiece-y and defensive. This would have been a solid four star but I gotta dock one because the conservatism jumped out here and soured me a bit on the whole experience.

My thanks to William Morrow and NetGalley for the ARC.

#ThePlusOne #NetGalley
The wedding of Radhika Singh and Raj Joshi unfolds at this opulent resort. As the offspring of two business moguls, no expenses were spared for this extravagant event. Caleb Prescott III, the groom's best man, is dating Shay, thus earning her an invitation to this lavish weeklong affair. The plot thickens when the bride and groom are found shot in their bed in a locked room at the beginning of the wedding festivities.
While the police suspect a drug cartel hit, the hotel's stringent security measures suggest the possibility of an inside job. With access to the room in question limited to the bride's sister Zara, the best men Caleb and Sean, and the wedding coordinator Daniela, suspicion falls heavily upon them. Shay launches into an investigation, quickly realizing she's in over her head with a murderer on the loose and everyone's safety at risk.
I loved every character especially of Shay. She's like an onion. The more you peel the more you cry to see that she' has more layers than you can ever imagine. Everything about this book is well crafted if you leave the political angle. I don't like politics.
It's a whodunnit and u must go for it.
Thank you to NetGalley and William Morrow Paperbacks for giving me an advance copy in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you William Morrow and S.C. Allí for the opportunity to read this ARC**

A bride and groom shot dead at their destination wedding in Mexico. Caleb, Shawn, and Zara the only ones with access to the bride and groom are quickly looked at as the suspects. Shay takes it upon herself to do some digging into the murder. Shay is dating Caleb and needs to know if he’s a murderer. It was a fast paced read that checked all the boxes.