Rebecca meets The Gift, in this first adult fantasy novel by Roshani Chokshi. The story starts with a loved up couple, infused in mystery and romance. Unsuspected to the reader, it does not however take you down a road you'd expect the story to go. Little hints about the bride's past, make the tone of the book, dark and delicisiously intriguing as to figure out the puzzle that is slowly unfolding. 

Told my the POV of the bridegroom in present day and the POV of the bride's best friend in the past, the narrator lets you collect pieces of the story that make them make sense, one piece at a time. My only stance is that sometimes, I would have liked to also hear from the bride herself, as her character is the most interesting element in the story. 

Personally, albeit I enjoyed the narration immensly, the story still read more like an upper YA fanatsy and not sure why it's being marketted as an adult. 

But overall, Chokshi is an excellent storyteller, whose imagination to bring a story onto the page manages to keep you entertained from the first to its last page.

Kind thanks to the publisher for approving me for an audio netgally of this book.