The Guest List: A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick Hardcover – June 2, 2020

Con esta historia me enganchó para leer dos libros más de ella, lamentablemente todos sus libros se parecen y sus finales son predecibles y no tan atragantes. Empiezas bien la historia pero conforme se va acabando te llevas muchas decepciones. Pero como stand-alone esta bien. Entretenido

The atmosphere of this novel is one of its most notable strengths. The weather and setting add to the sense of impending doom that permeates the entire story, and as the storm outside builds up, and the many secrets each character holds slowly surface, the tension mounts and you want to keep reading after each chapter seems to end in a mini cliffhanger. If life didn't get in the way and I could live my dream of having several days (who am I kidding, I'd want more than that, but we'll be slightly realistic and stick with days) with nothing to do but read all the books I've had piling up, I would have read this one in one sitting. Each chapter is its own separate thread, at least at first, so it can also be a good book to read one little bit at a time, but I suspect other readers, like myself, will eventually want to just blast through the rest of it at some point.The point of view of the novel switches between several characters throughout, but they're all distinct enough that it doesn't get confusing. I would also encourage readers to pay attention to the seemingly throw away details, because quite a few of them pop up later, and end up being pretty important. There are definitely some twists and turns towards the end, some of which I saw coming, but several of which I definitely didn't, and it winds up to a satisfying conclusion, even though there are a few plot holes left along the way. Sure, you might have to suspend your disbelief a bit for a few of them, but in the end I think it's more than worth it. Normally I wouldn't care about a bunch of rich people going to a wedding, and I'm honestly not much of one for murder mysteries, but I like how you don't even know who the victim is for most of the novel, so you can't get a bead on who the killer might be. The mounting tension sometimes feels akin to watching the moments before a train wreck. You're uncomfortable because you know what's about to happen will be ugly, but you can't quite turn away. Sure, some of the characters deserve their fates, and that's part of the satisfying conclusion, but the sense of impending doom you'll feel while reading the novel will probably keep you up at night like it did for me.

The book was a fairly good mystery. It felt a bit anticlimactic at the very end. But I still enjoyed the story getting there. I'll probably still read more from Lucy Foley, but it won't be at the top of my list.

I loved that this kept me guessing from the start all the way to the end. I love that each character had secrets that slowly get revealed throughout the story. I literally gasped out loud as the story was ending. If you’re reading it for the first time, I suggest you pay attention to the details and see if you can put the puzzle pieces together.

I could NOT put this book down. I have read The Paris Apartment, and I loved it as well, however, this book, UGH CHEFS KISS! I read it in less than 24 hours. I love how Lucy Foley attaches each character to one main character with their own different back stories. This book took so many twist I never saw coming! Just when I thought I had it figured out, I was way off base! 10/10 totally recommend this book!

I really loved this book. I felt the author describes the characters very well. I don’t want to say too much as to give anything away for someone who might be looking to purchase this book. I’ll definitely buy this authors books again

I enjoyed this book. It is a book that you want to continue until you get to the end! Exciting and suspenseful enough.

This is an excellent book! AS if the scene she writes about isn't enough, the story has a lot of twists and turns! The end brings the story all together with connections that you never saw coming! I recommend this book! Just a note, it is sexually explicit, so some readers may or may not want that.

I love crime fiction and I have read a lot of it, but, dear God, this book is terrible. The characters were stereotypes and mostly unpleasant and I hoped that most of them would be bumped off. Towards the end of the book I just skimmed each page as it was so predictable and over written. Please people, buy a book by Sara Paretsky instead of this nonsense. Oh and I guessed the ending half-way through the book.

Apart from a story too familiar (!) I mostly hated this swiss cheese of a plot-hole filled book. First the idea that someone like the main character Jules, with her glam big city lifestyle and wealth/fame, choosing to hold her wedding in such a godforsaken place is quite laughable. There were several attempts to explain this away - the 50% discount for eg., received in return for featuring the island in her magazine; the way this place was described, you would have to pay ME to hold even a tea party there. Its apparently a tiny Island off the Irish coast, a place well known for its balmy seas and clement weather right? the island itself is an almost continuous peat bog which is described more like an actual swamp/bog/quicksand kind of deal where you can get sucked down to your death at any moment and the rest is lethal sheer cliffs and rocks. It apparently did not occur to the island owner and event holder that safety barriers might be a good thing to stop guests being sucked into the bog. Of course the idea that people at a party, in an unknown location with a MASSIVE unpredictable and mostly invisible hazard could perish by walking from one building to the next seemed perfectly fine. Ridiculous.Next, as horrible as this location sounded, it seemed that at least 2 of the guests actually preferred to sit in a partially subterranean cave subject to flooding, too dark to see the back, full of weird noises, damp, dank and with unknown inhabitants and AT NIGHT !! ... than any other comfortable indoor place.THEN, there was this odd disconnection where the author apparently forgot that she had said that only a select few would be staying in the Folly overnight, but then had hundreds of guests arriving for the day, events merging into the evening and night and no way for them to leave the island! where were they all going? was there a secret submarine evacuation planned, or a bridge she forgot to mention? as it happened, suspense was created by a violent, unpredicted/totally predictable storm which would have made a sea evac by anything other than a Naval destroyer impossible anyway.Forgetting the logistics, the characters were so awful, I hoped they would all murder each other. All the suspenseful storylines were childishly obvious, the awful secrets eked out a child could have guessed and the villain I guessed about 5 pages in. I really liked the character Severine, because she said nothing and did nothing and was apparently part of the scenery.

The book began good it was the firstever pre order i did but i will be pre ordering on kindle again but not this author as it was very weak it didnt grab me and would not read it ever again

Intriguing and captivating. I think that some of the reviewers who gave this book one star may have bad intentions. Read it and judge for yourself. I thought it was great!

I pre ordered this book as I'd read the hunting party, yes the basic story is similar ,a lot of people thrown together this time for a celebration, I guessed some back story before the end,which didn't spoil the story at all , I actually cared and disliked some of the characters, which is no mean feat, enjoyed this book immensely, I'm just annoyed with myself that I read it so quickly!! When's the next book out?