The Last Party by A.R. Torre
It’s hard to give a synopsis of the story without giving away too much information. This story is so complex and intriguing.
The Last Party revolves around Perla and Grant Wultz and their daughter Sophie, who play the part of loving mother and wife, data scientist husband, and adored 11-year old daughter. The family is wealthy, successful, and seem to have the perfect life…but everyone is hiding secrets.
Perla is obsessed with a crime that happened years ago. Twenty-three years prior Leewood Folcrum confessed to murdering two young girls during their 12th birthday party. Dr. Timothy Valden, a doctoral student is writing his dissertation on Leewood Folcrum and visits Fulcrum in jail, but Fulcrum is determined to keep him and anyone else from learning the real truth about what happened the night of the murders.
Perla has an obsession with this crime and as Sophie’s 12th birthday approaches her obsession reaches another level which causes tension, worry, and fear for the safety of everyone involved.
The author switches back and forth from Folcrum’s life and the Wultz’s. As the past and present intertwine, secrets are unraveled. This book is filled with deception, lies, intrigue, and twists. You don’t know who you can believe and who is safe.
If this review seemed to make yourself ask, how could it possibly tie all together to make one story? Well, you’ll just have to read it for yourself. The story is complex and sometimes seems random but I promise everything connects in the end in more shocking ways than you could have imagined.
What I Loved: I really love the author’s writing. This story is told from different POVs including podcasts, emails, and journal entries. This book also had short chapters with intriguing endings that made it easy to fly through the book. I also felt so connected to the characters, whether I liked them or not, the author created such well developed characters!
What I Didn’t Love: This story is dark and the main character is a devious and cunning woman which fits for the story, but it made me feel a little angry at her very unlikable character as I read.
My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5/5
This book is for the one who: likes a dark, psychological thriller with a female antagonist
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