You Are Fatally Invited is a super intense locked room psychological and horror thriller that will keep you puzzled and riveted to the very end. Like a macabre game of Clue, but with more dead bodies, enhanced methods of killing, and a puppet master hellbent on revenge invisibly pulling the strings. Suspenseful, intriguing and dark stuff by Ande Pliego.
Several well-known writers are invited to the private island of famously anonymous author J.R. Alastor for a thriller writers’ retreat. But this isn’t any ordinary retreat. Alastor has hired a host who will help execute a week of contests, riddles and scary situations intended to rattle and inspire these writers who all have a dark secret from their past. Meanwhile, this host has a hidden agenda – she wants to murder one of the participants and feels this week of mayhem is the perfect cover. However, when one of the guests turns up dead and it’s not the person she planned to kill, all bets are off and everyone on the island is in mortal danger. Can the guests outwit the unknown killer in their midst? Or will they all die the death they deserve?
Your brain will get twisted up like a pretzel and you’ll feel cold chills down your spine as you follow the deadly action and try to figure out who’s the mastermind behind this sinister retreat. Every character is both a suspect and a potential victim. They all have reasons to kill while also harboring secrets that someone could find punishable by death an appropriate course of action. Which leads to being deeply skeptical of everyone while also trying to find a sliver of goodness that would eliminate them as a killer. And it’s that dichotomy of fearing the worst but hoping for the best from each individual that propels this story forward. Forcing you to reconcile the two and pick sides until the truth is finally revealed.
The result is an engaging and enthralling story that grips you early and doesn’t let go. Exercising your brain and nerves in equal measure while you watch authors put through hell to see if/how they come out the other side.
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