The Guest List

The Guest List by Lucy Foley

Goodreads Summary:
Set on a remote island off the Irish coast, this is one guest list no one would want to be on, just as no one would have wanted an invitation to the New Year’s Eve party in Foley’s previous novel, The Hunting Party . Lives unravel amid the revelry on an eerie and remote island as family and friends assemble for a glam wedding in an updated Murder on the Orient Express. Each of the principal characters has a reason to want one of their number dead, there are old secrets, and one of them is murdered.

My Review:
I was really excited for the book, but was sadly a little disappointed. The first 250ish pages were mostly just setting up the story, who the characters were, and how they were all connected. While there were some important pieces of information, a large majority of it was really boring. It honestly just felt like a bad movie.

The last 60ish pages were a lot more interesting however. Here we find out who died, and who killed this person, and why. I thought the majority of the book was going to be us trying to figure out who did it, but that was not entirely the case. While I liked getting to know the full story by the end of the book, and all of the pieces came together, I would have liked to know what happened to the person who was arrested. I feel like we needed another chapter, but maybe that’s just the romance reader in me- I want a “happy” ending. Obviously it wouldn’t be happy in a book about a murder, but I feel like it could have been more wrapped up.

2.5 stars
I received this book for free in return for an honest review.