This is the thriller I have been waiting for! I thought the same thing! They are interrupted by Aoife (who we later find out overheard the conversation). Keegan. Brilliant review! After Jules and Will were engaged (and after Olivia had her abortion), Jules introduced him to her family. Instead of a mystery construct this one is done as a thriller. Available. I. thank you Linda! Jules had asked for venue proposals (through her online mag) and Aoife's pitch came with a huge discount. On an island off the coast of West Ireland, Julia "Jules" Keegan and Will Slater are having a wedding at a place called the Folly. I received this ARC from Netgalley and the publisher, in exchange for an honest review. This one delivered from page one! Ending. A remote, atmospheric island, a wedding no one is particularly happy to be at, old secrets – and a murder. (The Detailed Plot Summary is also available, below). During the wedding speeches, Jules's dad makes the first speech. Olivia brought him to her sister's party, got trashed and needed to leave. You should probably lower your expectations. Johnno finds out that he thinks Johnno stole the GSCE papers (UK standardized test) that Will used to cheat on the exam. Definitely recommend if you're in a who-dun-it mood! But everyone in the wedding party is guarding their own secret and before the festivities are through, all will be revealed and someone will end up dead. Still, I really liked the atmosphere of it, the multiple coherent storylines running through it, and the many small details that end up resurfacing. Loner idolized Will, but had found the (very incriminating) GSCE papers that Will stole. The bride ‧ The plus one ‧ The best man ‧ The wedding planner ‧ The bridesmaid ‧ The body. At the sixty percent mark, I was officially out of patience. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published It simply reinforces Aoife's point that the help is invisible. and thanks for dropping by! The Guest List: A Novel Kindle Edition. I imagine this would be normal at a wedding with family and old Friends present, but it gave me a sense of unease as I read on, feeling that something horrible would happen at any minute. I also felt an overall sense of tight, almost unbearable tension among some of the guests. Bookseller Recommendation. With an island setting, a celebrity wedding, and a body count, The Guest List would be this summer’s hot beach read if any of us could to go the beach. They bring up a girl who once broke Will's heart and how he got back at her by sending around an explicit video. The Short of It: The cast of characters have arrived for a wedding on a remote island. Paperback English. A wedding is such a great setting for a murder mystery, with all the fancy clothes, plenty of booze and so many people being forced to mingle. Thought it was really entertaining but won’t go down in history for me! When I started seeing this one around everywhere, it seemed as good a reason as any to check it out. Hannah. The I added this book on to my May 2020 Book of the Month box. The bride and groom are online magazine publisher Julia “Jules” Keegan and celebrity host and survivalist William Slater. Enraged, she goes off to hang with other guys, who turn out to be two men Will knows from University. William Morrow; 6/2/20. If there isn’t action in the beginning I put it down. Piers reveals that they had wanted both of them for the show, but Will told them Johnno wasn't interested. The night of the wedding, there's a storm, and the lights cut out. Which is to say that, there’s a set amount of characters and they are all (more or less) in one place when the murder occurs. Start out with a bang and then the ending is just..plain ridiculous...3. super boring until the last couple of chapters. In The Guest List, on a small island off the coast of West Ireland, guests have gathered for the wedding. Then, Johnno brings up the kid (nicknamed Loner) who died in school. Will saves her. That book was like reading a Facebook page. The ending did not make up for me being bored for 200 pages. Great review – I couldn’t finish it — too slow and I didn’t relate to the characters. Foley does a great job of giving all the characters enough backstory so it leaves it up for grabs as to where your attention should be focused, and more importantly who could be the killer. Great review! The golden celebrity couple, Julia 'Jules' Keegan, publisher of a successful online magazine, and the handsome Will Slater, rising star of TV show Survival, are getting married in style in front of their friends and family, an exclusive event being organised by wedding planner, Aoife and catered for by her husband, Freddy. This weekend, we went to Hush Cafe Lounge & Garden in Maspeth, Queens and were very satisfied with the service and outdoor dining experience. Charlie. But as a storm brews, the guests and their shared histories collide with one another, and when the lights go out, a body is found. No tea on this! She tells him she's Loner's (real name Darcey) sister. The Guest List explores how that same music and culture became sources of healing and comfort, at least for some, in the years thereafter. Stuff comes together in a way that fits together surprisingly well and it draws in a lot of small details that appear earlier in the book, which I loved. I enjoyed the number of perspectives and how much there was to be told with each perspective, making these characters much more complex then I initially thought they would be. Their identity is totally irrelevant to the storyline! I’d heard great things about this one (I’m always looking for a decent thriller) and I started reading it from the library but gave up, it just wasn’t engaging me. (Hannah leaves out that Alice killed herself 17 years ago.). This is definitely one just for mystery-thriller fans. As the tension mounted and more was revealed, I couldn’t stop listening until I knew not only “whodunnit”, but to whom it was done. British author Lucy Foley wrote three unremarkable historical novels before switching genres and landing on the bestseller list with her crackling 2019 thriller The Hunting Party, which read like a cross between Agatha Christie and Donna Tartt. The New York Times Book Review described this as “evoking the great Agatha Christie classics,” and as much as I did enjoy parts of this — sorry, but no. i could tell pretty early on that this was going to be a more ~topical~ thriller than most and i didn’t love the direction it was going. This was REALLY GOOD and honestly the most fun I've had reading a mystery in ages. I never tried online dating, but what’s wrong with doing it using fake identities? £8.99 £8.36 in basket add to basket add to wishlist. I did guess a huge reveal about half way through the book, but never in my wildest dreams could I have possibly predicted the scale of it all or how it would all wrap up. So, it’s set on a small private island, and all the people on the island are staying at this property. Thank you! It really bugge, Hell yeah! It’s been a while since I’ve read a straight-up mystery-thriller, and I’m trying to switch back and forth when it comes to reading serious books vs more entertaining books. (Flashing forward to the present, we now find out that the dead body in question is Will's. i did feel by the end that it was worth my time (even if I was unhappy with it in the middle) so it’s definitely still one worth considering! Foley, an English author, weaves a tale of intrigue, secrets, and betrayal … Lucy Foley follows The Hunting Party with this even more hugely entertaining atmospheric murder mystery, a modern take on Agatha Christie, set on the wild and isolated Cormorant Island, off the west coast of Ireland. Plenty of unlikable characters here, and actually some really likable characters as well. Afterwards, Hannah talks with Olivia. Meanwhile, Hannah learns that Charlie and Jules had sex once after Hannah had given birth to their first child. On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. 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