After the Party

Product Information

WOW!!! I. COULD. NOT. PUT. THIS. DOWN. I read it all in ONE sitting! It was amazing! The storyline was captivating and engrossing while the main characters, Suzie and Emily, were so well written and interesting that I couldn't get enough of them. Plenty of suspense and twists to keep you guessing until the very end! Bravo!!’ Yamil, NetGalley At times I thought Lizzie was going to get into hot water with her investigations and even to a point where I thought surely she can't trust her neighbour she's too nice, what is she hiding. I am still at a loss for words. I have been chasing that Gone Girl high for so long when I read thrillers, and this one finally hit the mark’ Amber, NetGalley Elijah Wood as "Yasper" (season 2), an actor cast as Yasper in Danner's film X Marks the Murder Spot

The tide was out and little boats lolled on their sides in their sandy mud, like the tongues of overheated dogs.’The adults are doing shots, but so are the teens, and one, Ollie, gets into a state of semi-comatose nausea, vomiting all over himself. Later, Penny sees something appalling, something which changes the course of every life in the house. Only, what did she see? “Whatever you saw, it wasn’t that,” says Penny’s mother, knifing her in front of a roomful of their friends. “You’re making a fool out of yourself.”

Miller conceived of The Afterparty in the early 2010s, where he wanted to make a murder mystery showing the different perspectives of the murder from its witnesses, inspired by his love of the murder-mystery genre and Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon. The high school reunion aspect was added after Miller attended a high school reunion himself, thinking it would be a unique setting for such a concept. [29] Miller initially wrote it as a feature-length screenplay on his own while he was making Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and 21 Jump Street with Lord. In June 2013, the project was set-up at Sony Pictures as a film titled The Reunion, with Miller as sole writer and director, while producing the film along with Lord, Jonathan Kadin, and Hannah Minghella. [30] However, the film never came to fruition due to commitments with The Lego Movie and 22 Jump Street. Lord and Miller were still optimistic in making The Reunion while promoting The Lego Movie, [31] so when Miller considered making the project in later hears, he made the decision to make it as a mini-series. Miller felt that expanding the concept into a series would allow him to properly develop the characters. Doing so also gave Miller the idea to present each version of the event as a separate genre in line with the respective POV's of each witness. [32] It also subtly presses against recent trends in NZ On Air-funded series, in a way I want to carefully commend. The cast is largely Pākehā, and a character describes a restaurant as “gay”. I am not, to be clear, suggesting that this is good in and of itself. The push toward greater representation and consciousness of bias in New Zealand productions is manifestly excellent and essential. Yet at times the fact such a large number of our screen communities are perfectly racially blended and confident in their reo can make a show feel like it’s less about reflecting the messy reality of our society than an aspirational window into what we’d like it to be. Chapman, Wilson (January 18, 2023). " The Afterparty Season 2 Sets April Premiere — Here's Your First Look". IndieWire . Retrieved January 18, 2023. Overall, this was a great read and I'd definitely recommend to those who like psychological thrillers. So certainly not a faultless novel but an important reintroduction to fiction of Britain's flirtation with fascism in the run-up to WW2.New Zealand’s latest premium drama will launch on TVNZ 1 at the end of the month and internationally on ITV UK and ABC Australia soon after. Aniq and Danner interview Grace, who recalls her love story with Edgar in the style of a regency period piece. [nb 1] She met Edgar at the antique booth she worked at, where he bought a typewriter as a gift for his adopted sister, Hannah. Edgar and Grace's whirlwind romance alarms Zoë, who expresses concern that Edgar was always preoccupied with work. Grace confesses she spiked Edgar's drink with Adderall so he would stay awake past his strict sleeping schedule, but he drunkenly caused a scene at the afterparty and lashed out at the guests. Travis, who declared that Edgar would die that night, investigates the crime scene with Zoë and finds some interesting clues in his belongings. Taylor, Drew (February 18, 2022). "Tooning In: The Afterparty EPs Chris Miller and Phil Lord Break Down the Animated Episode". TheWrap . Retrieved February 19, 2022.

After the Party by G. Lees, published by Harper Collins UK/ One More Chapter, is a book that stays with you. I literally just finished the book and I can't even say how the story threw me. A thriller of it's finest, a story that quietly, sneakily grows on you, then grips you with both hands and doesn't let you go anymore. The poor little British fascists. One minute it was all summer camps and dinner parties, leaflets and meetings and uniforms (wearing the uniform was against the law as of two years before this book opens by the way), the next they were in prison. All for the trifling matter of Britain being at war with literal fascists! It's enough to make one clutch ones pearls in horror and whine like a spoilt upper-class brat. Zoë asks her parents, Feng and Vivian, why they don't want to be questioned. Next to be interrogated is Ulysses, Feng's half-brother and the self-described "funcle" of Grace and Zoë. His retelling of the weekend is told as an epic romance when he reveals that he had a torrid love affair with his own sister-in-law, Vivian, before Grace was born. Feng eventually discovered their secret, prompting Ulysses to travel the world in an attempt to move on with his life. Ulysses stayed distant from Feng and his family until he got a personal visit from Edgar, who wanted Ulysses to attend the wedding. When Edgar suggested that Ulysses could be Grace's biological father, Ulysses chose to attend the ceremony with the intention of confirming Grace's parentage, much to Feng's fury. Despite his personal suspicions, Ulysses ultimately chose to leave the past behind him. After Zoë attempts to force a confession out of Hannah, she realizes that the wedding videographer, Kyler, should have plenty of footage from the previous night that could help pinpoint the killer.The story opens with a love triangle; at one corner, Lizzie, at another, Dean, and at another, Rebecca. When Rebecca is discovered missing, it messes up the love triangle and the remainder of the book is about what transpired. Huff, Lauren (September 6, 2023). " The Afterparty bosses on season 2 finale, season 3 hopes, and that major clue fans missed". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved September 6, 2023. I will say that the party does not actually take place until a good chunk of the way through the book. The ending was a huge letdown, but I can appreciate what the author was trying to do. This was a solid four-star read until that disappointing ending.