Becky's Great Book Reviews The Unwedding by Ally Condie

I love a good wedding mystery and Ally Condie's The Unwedding was fun to hunker down with. Set in a remote, beautiful location where a wedding is about to take place, a natural disaster occurs. Guests are now trapped, and people start dying off. All the makings for a good story are here!

Ellery was supposed to visit the luxurious Broken Point Resort with her husband to celebrate their twentieth wedding anniversary, but he had other plans. To divorce her. Now Ellery decides to go by herself to lick her wounds, seeing it's her husband's week to have their kids anyway.

A wedding is happening the same weekend, although Ellery doesn't know the party. After a huge storm hits, a landslide traps everyone there. When Ellery discovers a dead body in the pool and other people start turning up dead or disappearing, Ellery and a couple of new friends she makes try to get to the bottom of it.

It's also revealed that Ellery has a traumatic event in her past, but it's not clear what it is or if it has anything to do with what's happening at the resort. What IS clear is that Ellery desperately wants to get home to her three kids, but the landslide has made it impossible to even communicate with them.

When the killer and motives are revealed, it got a little murky for this reader, but everything is helpfully explained in the end. This novel was engaging and well-written, and I give it four stars out of five.