You may now kill the bride is a wedding themed thriller with lots of satire and dark sarcastic humour for the reader to devour.

We have five best friends who have known each other since ages 3/4 , still prominent in each-others lives, yet somewhat distanced by growing into fully fledged adults with careers and families of their own.

Two of the besties are engaged to be married soon, one engaged after only 4 months in a rapid fire wedding, the other had to wait more than a decade for the proposal and is now feeling tremendous pressure to out WOW the other with the wedding of the century, causing her to commit various crimes in order to fund all the extravagance.

On the eve of the first hen do, there is an unfortunately death amongst the bridal party. What could easily be chalked up to a tragic accident wins over the police side eye to what now seems like a potential murder.

When the other bride to be refuses to delay her wedding plans, a second bridal shower takes place, leading to further tragic accidents. Except now two deaths seems more than just a suspicious coincidence.

With a race to figure what is actually going on before the big day arrives, we the reader also race to figure out who the culprit could be. Except with the flash backs to the past we catch glimpses of situations revealing that pretty much everyone has a means and a motive to murder.

What originally appears to be a life long tight-nit group of besties is actually a gang of jealous, hateful, shady women who are harbouring secrets of their own. Tensions start to show fissures within the group and we have blackmail, betrayal, secret affairs and all sorts of drama and chaos.

This was a really fun read. I enjoyed the pettiness of each of the characters, all of them pretty much unlikeable but in a way that didn’t ruin the book. I enjoyed the whodunnit plot style. the narcissism and self absorption made for good humour amongst the thriller killer tones. I found this an easy quick read and would recommend for anyone looking for a light not so serious thriller as a delightful palette cleanser.

Thank you to NetGalley and Random House Publishing for an advanced copy! I haven’t read from this author before but I will keep an eye out for more of their books in the future!