To start, I’d like to say I really enjoyed “Hidden Pictures” by this author so I wanted to read another book from him. But this book was confusing. I’ve read a lot of thrillers and I feel like this one just threw in a bunch of random things to throw you off and make you think different things were happening but in a weird way that looking back on it, is even more confusing every time I go through it all. 😭 I feel like the title had nothing to do with the storyline of the book and didn’t even make sense also. And the story kept seeming like something big was gonna happen but in the end there was barely a big reveal and then the last chapter was also just…. Anticlimactic and of course confusing again. Overall, I of course will not tag this author in my review but I did not like this book and I do not recommend unless you want to be thinking about it all day in a bad way. 😣

Thanks to Macmillan Audio for the gifted ALC!

After loving HIDDEN PICTURES, I knew I would have to read THE LAST ONE AT THE WEDDING and am so happy I did!

ABOUT THE BOOK: Frank Szatowski is a simple man - he loves driving his UPS truck and getting his hair cut by the same woman at Supercuts, and he consistently writes his daugher, Maggie, letters with some pocket change, even though he never hears from her. She finally calls out of the blue to tell him the good news: she's getting married to the son of a famous tech billionaire, and the wedding will be at the family's private estate.

REVIEW: I was hooked from the start! Told from Frank's point of view, I loved getting the fatherly perspective as he tries to reconnect with his daughter amidst his shock that she's marrying into such a famous family. There were so many good plot points to keep driving the story forward and keep me intrigued the whole time. There's so much family drama and rich person drama I wasn't able to put it down! I loved the audio as narrated by John Pirhalla - he did a great job with the voices.

Frank has been estranged from his daughter for years, so he’s surprised when she calls out of the blue to invite him to her upcoming wedding. Maggie is marrying into a wealthy and influential family and is over the moon. Then Frank discovers that the last woman her fiancé dated disappeared. The family has kept the whole affair very quiet and insist the woman ran away, but Frank has serious doubts about the safety of his daughter. Frank’s sisters foster child steals the show

This is a fun book to read. I honestly had no idea where it was going for the first 3/4 of the book. This book really boils down to the story telling and narration. I keep thinking about it and even though all the characters in the book infuriated me, that's what has me hooked. It was really really well written. The end left me lost though.

The Last One at the Wedding is not really a thriller. It is a mystery, and at times is a little scary. A young woman disappears and there is definitely something fishy about the entire Gardner family, and then the night before the wedding of the century, one of the guests is found dead. The novel is also a powerful, and sad story of wealth, greed, and corruption and of a father who seems at times to be naïve and sheltered but who loves his daughter no matter what and who tries to do the right thing as he has done for all of his life.