Item: The Invitation
Rating: 5
Author: Gina

The Invitation by Rachel Abbott – The first time Jemma and Matt were invited to Polskirrin – the imposing ocean-view home belonging to Matt’s childhood friend Lucas Jarrett – it was for an intimate wedding that ended in tragedy. Now all the guests are back and someone has devised a devious game to get to the bottom of the previous mystery.

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The Invitation by Rachel Abbott
Published by Bookouture on April 15, 2020
Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller
Format: Audiobook, eBook, Paperback
Pages: 352

That’s the thing about old friends… they never let you forget.

The first time Jemma and Matt were invited to Polskirrin – the imposing ocean-view home belonging to Matt’s childhood friend Lucas Jarrett – it was for an intimate wedding that ended in tragedy. Jemma will never forget the sight of the girl’s pale body floating listlessly towards the rocky shore.

Now, exactly one year later, Jemma and her husband have reluctantly returned at Lucas’s request to honor the anniversary of an event they would do anything to forget.

But what Lucas has in store for his guests is nothing like a candlelight vigil. Someone who was there that night remembers more than they’ll admit to, and Lucas has devised a little game to make them tell the truth.

Jemma believes she and Matt know nothing about what happened to that woman… but what if she’s wrong? Before you play a deadly game, make sure you can pay the price…

From the four-million-copy bestselling author of Sleep Tight comes a psychological thriller that will have you gripped until the last page. Perfect for fans of Something in the Water, The Woman in the Window and The Silent Patient.

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My thoughts on The Invitation by Rachel Abbott:

Wow, what an incredible ride this story was. I have not read a novel by Rachel Abbott before today. But now I can’t wait to get my hands on the next.

The Invitation is a psychological thriller that I couldn’t put down. I thought the opening chapters were a tad slow but absolutely necessary to set up all the background info to make the suspense and mystery work later.

The story is told from the perspective of several characters, proving that people remember entirely different things from the same scene. The entire story revolves around secrets, ones that should have been kept, and many that would have changed lives if they had found their way into the open.

Other than the tiny problem I have with switching perspectives without a clue in a new chapter, the book flows well while building to the big twist at the finish. The Invitation is nicely edited, and I found no typos or grammatical errors.

Overall, I highly recommend The Invitation to lovers of mystery, suspense, and thrillers. If you want to be entertained by a contemporary fiction novel, this is the book for you. It kept me turning page after page while I read late into the night.

Thank you to Rachel Abbott, Bookouture, and Netgalley for the chance to review this story. The above thoughts are my honest, unbiased opinion.

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About Rachel Abbott

Rachel Abbott's debut thriller, Only the Innocent, was an international bestseller, reaching the number one position in the Amazon charts both in the UK and US. This was followed by the number one bestselling novels, The Back Road, Sleep Tight and Stranger Child, Nowhere Child (a short novel based on the characters from Stranger Child), Kill Me Again, and her latest thriller, launched in 2017 - The Sixth Window.

Rachel's novels have now been translated into over 20 languages.

In 2015 Amazon celebrated the first five years of the Kindle in the UK and announced that Rachel was the number one bestselling independent author over the five-year period. She was also placed fourteenth in the chart of all authors. Stranger Child was the most borrowed novel for the Kindle in the first half of 2015.

Rachel now lives in Alderney - a beautiful island off the coast of France - and spends a few months of each year in the Le Marche regions of Italy, where she devotes her time to her love of writing fiction.