The setting was extremely atmospheric, channeling a gothic vibe by incorporating some of the island's earlier history and lore into the tale. He’s a sociopath who messed up a bunch of lives and they all just coincidentally are at his wedding.

One of Lucy Foley popular books is The Hunting Party, a suspense novel that will surely appease the fans of Ruth Ware and Agatha Christie. He would have recognized it when Julia took him home, but they say that when he met Olivia for the “first” time he was surprised and covered it up.

The trip begins innocently enough: admiring the stunning if foreboding scenery, champagne in front of a crackling fire, and reminiscences about the past. I’m not one to usually give up before trying it myself but the soft porn-like vibes and plot holes aren’t what I’m after right now. Because if (and yes this happened) you got dressed, feeling sexy and beautiful for the rehearsal dinner, until you see Jules, and then suddenly are disgusted by yourself? At some point, The Guest List by Lucy Foley (trust me, this is for your own good) went from a thriller mystery.

My point here is that Foley had a million better ways to end The Guest List than the wedding planner killing Will. We should be careful to use this technique only to those misbehaving with us and not to intimidate others. also I was wondering about where was the “hot” elder sister mentioned before when johnno saw the dead boy’s mom arriving at the school. Footnote (apparently Jay Kristoff has rubbed off on me) – I’ve never read Agatha Christie but her reputation proceeds her. It’s a rather unlikable cast of characters and the reader is required to accept improbable coincidences.

I guess the best part was that the truth set Jules and Olivia free to love each other as the sisters they are. This post is great because it filled me in on whodunnit, but also confirmed that there was WAAAYYYYYYY too much going on for me to care much about anyone. With her latest release, The Guest List, Lucy Foley goes the distance in character creation as she drills down in-depth on all the major players so that the reader will have enough information to try and figure out whodunit when a dead body eventually turns up.

Published by HarperCollins, The Hunting Party follows a group of old friends on a get-together party to celebrate the New Year in a remote cottage in Scotland. Will’s show was his idea, modeled after a creepy game they and their friends used to play at boarding school. If you’re looking for a read that offers interesting, flawed characters with shocking secrets, thick with tension and plot twists in a unique creepy setting, then look no further! It is like getting to the point where Thor puts Storm Breaker in to Thanos’ chest and someone pulls the plug on the TV.

I was kinda lost at times because I listened to the audiobook and let’s just say I have a very short attention span lol. Yes, I have to stop that but I have to admit, at the end of the book my mouth was wide open, my eyes popped out and I stayed like this position for one hour. Some elements of the plot came together with a little too easily--it just so happened that one person in attendance had a link to another in a way that was just way too convenient. It's just if you're going to build up an entire story on nothing but anticipation and petty drama, when it finally gets to the payoff, it better blow me away. These characters may not always be likeable, but they feel convincingly real with all their foibles and flaws, and even as I shook my head at Jules’ selfishness or Johnno’s pitying self-delusion, I surprisingly still felt pangs of sympathy because of how well the first-person perspective made me relate to them.

The Guest List is a fast-paced, gossipy, dramatic thriller, whose five main narrators are all clearly hiding something. The plot was described by Marie Clarie as "enthralling", with Harper's Bazaar commenting that "Foley has honed her unique brand of reverse-whodunit suspense down to a science". I like that we don’t find out who it is that is murdered until nearly the end, I was trying to figure it out the entire book.She sizes up every woman she lays eyes on by what they look like (literally and instantaneously – they look like x so they must have x personality).