Laura Lovesreading's Reviews > The Murder After the Night Before

I don’t know whether to reach for a bottle of wine, or to put the kettle on?

The Murder After the night before is definitely an easily digestible one sit read, I’ll give it that.

We are following Molly who after a very drunk filled night out with her colleagues, wakes up the morning after with 101 problems. The main 3 being:

1. There is a strange man in her bed
2. She is currently going viral on Twitter for performing a sexual act on an unknown man
3. Her best friend and roommate has been schmurdered!

The beginning of the book definitely drew me in with Molly and all her mess, but I was also squirming with all the millennial lingo the author was using as metaphors. It was borderline cringy but it eventually subsided (or I mentally ignored it).
Once Molly finds that her friend has been k!lled, this contemporary thriller takes on more of a mystery turn and the author throws us a bunch of unlikable characters all with a potential motive to be the perpetrator.
Sounds good right? Well for me it only half worked. The problem was I didn’t care about a single character, they didn’t feel real, they came across very caricature-ish, and they all seem to permeate the weirdest reactions to very serious situations.

The mystery element of this book became so convoluted, it gave me a slight headache.
The police work (lack of) of Molly’s friend Posey was sooo shoddy it gave me the serious ICK! There is just no way that you see copious amounts of bruises on a deceased woman and still write it off as accidental. No photographs taken, no post mortem… just vibes and assumptions! 😣

Speaking of Posey, I wasn’t interested in who had k!lled her. We don’t get much of a backstory or a true idea on her character. The only thing she was depicted as was being a nympho journalist and to be honest not a very good friend.

Common sense was not common in this book!

With just a few examples of the annoyance I felt with this book, I will say that the author does a nice writing style that makes you want to finish the book, even if it’s annoying you.
It was an ok read. I did like how social commentary was intertwined and there was some funny moments.





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Pre Review
Am I purely reading this because I’m so enamoured by the gorgeous cover?… Hell Yeah! 😂
Here’s to me “judging a book by its cover”and hoping it serves me well!!🤞🏾💖💖