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Tried twice, but just couldn't get into this one. Sorry, but it was a swing and a miss.

This was an insanely slow book for me. I don't always require fast pace or action packed but the back and forth and past, future, character, who is who and who is doodling who or wants to doodle who in the present or past and crushing on who and traumatized by who - was a lot to keep up with (for me).

A group of friends, with a lot of shared history and not-so-shared secrets between them, gather together for a wedding on a deserted island that has a lot of lore and ghosts of its own. Soon after, a body is found and everyone seems to have a motive. This was a slow reveal whodunnit with multiple POVs and moody atmospheric setting. Usually too many POVs can get confusing but the author did a great job making the alternating chapters easy to follow and I loved how different all the characters were. It was definitely a more character driven story. There were some nice twists in the story but it was too much of an unbelievable coincidence that the victim ended up being the “big bad” for so many of the different characters (unbeknownst to them) and they just all happen to be in the same place at the same time but are otherwise unconnected in any way.