The Guest List: A Reese's Book Club Pick
von Lucy Foley
Don't miss Lucy Foley's new book, The Midnight Feast, coming June 18th!A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICKTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST THRILLERS OF THE YEAR“I loved this book. It gave me the same waves of happiness I get from curling up with a classic Christie...The alternating points of view keep you guessing, and guessing wrong.” — Alex Michaelides, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient"Evok[es] the great Agatha Christie classics…Pay close attention to seemingly throwaway details about the characters’ pasts. They are all clues.” -- New York Times Book ReviewA wedding celebration turns dark and deadly in this deliciously wicked and atmospheric thriller reminiscent of Agatha Christie from the New York Times bestselling author of The Hunting Party.The bride – The plus one – The best man – The wedding planner – The bridesmaid – The bodyOn an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine publisher. It’s a wedding for a magazine, or for a celebrity: the designer dress, the remote location, the luxe party favors, the boutique whiskey. The cell phone service may be spotty and the waves may be rough, but every detail has been expertly planned and will be expertly executed.But perfection is for plans, and people are all too human. As the champagne is popped and the festivities begin, resentments and petty jealousies begin to mingle with the reminiscences and well wishes. The groomsmen begin the drinking game from their school days. The bridesmaid not-so-accidentally ruins her dress. The bride’s oldest (male) friend gives an uncomfortably caring toast.And then someone turns up dead. Who didn’t wish the happy couple well? And perhaps more important, why?
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The Guest List: A Reese's Book Club Pick
von Lucy Foley
Don't miss Lucy Foley's new book, The Midnight Feast, coming June 18th!A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICKTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST THRILLERS OF THE YEAR“I loved this book. It gave me the same waves of happiness I get from curling up with a classic Christie...The alternating points of view keep you guessing, and guessing wrong.” — Alex Michaelides, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient"Evok[es] the great Agatha Christie classics…Pay close attention to seemingly throwaway details about the characters’ pasts. They are all clues.” -- New York Times Book ReviewA wedding celebration turns dark and deadly in this deliciously wicked and atmospheric thriller reminiscent of Agatha Christie from the New York Times bestselling author of The Hunting Party.The bride – The plus one – The best man – The wedding planner – The bridesmaid – The bodyOn an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine publisher. It’s a wedding for a magazine, or for a celebrity: the designer dress, the remote location, the luxe party favors, the boutique whiskey. The cell phone service may be spotty and the waves may be rough, but every detail has been expertly planned and will be expertly executed.But perfection is for plans, and people are all too human. As the champagne is popped and the festivities begin, resentments and petty jealousies begin to mingle with the reminiscences and well wishes. The groomsmen begin the drinking game from their school days. The bridesmaid not-so-accidentally ruins her dress. The bride’s oldest (male) friend gives an uncomfortably caring toast.And then someone turns up dead. Who didn’t wish the happy couple well? And perhaps more important, why?
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Rezension von Marea MI’d give The Guest List a solid 3 stars. I can see why this book sits in that middle ground for so many readers. It is very good at building atmosphere and suspense, but much less convincing when it comes to emotional depth and character. What worked for me was the setting. The remote Irish island, the storm, the wedding guests trapped together, it creates an immediate sense of pressure and unease. Foley understands that weddings are already emotionally charged spaces full of comparison, jealousy, and buried resentment, and she uses that to good effect. From the beginning, the book lets you feel that something is going to go wrong, even when everything still looks polished on the surface. The multiple points of view kept the story moving, but they also kept me at a distance. I was always aware that each character existed mainly to be a suspect. I enjoyed figuring out how everyone was connected, but I never really felt close to any of them. It read more like a carefully arranged puzzle than a group of people I could truly care about. I also found the cast a little exhausting. Almost everyone is deeply unpleasant in one way or another, which I know is intentional, but it made the middle section drag for me. When everyone is morally compromised, the emotional stakes start to flatten. I was curious about the mystery, but not especially invested in who would survive. That said, the structure is effective. Foley reveals information in a way that keeps shifting your understanding of what has happened, and by the time the truth comes out, it feels darkly inevitable. The ending works because it shows how small, long held cruelties can build into something destructive. Overall, The Guest List is a readable, well constructed thriller that I never hated, but also never loved. It did its job in keeping me turning pages, even if it never quite made me feel anything deeper than surface level intrigue.