The Guest List: A Reese's Book Club Pick and New York Times Bestseller
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A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
ONE 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 Review
A wedding celebration turns dark and deadly in this deliciously wicked and atmospheric psychological 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 body
On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather for a remote wedding 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 in this gripping whodunit.
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.
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Readers say *The Guest List* is a well-written, atmospheric thriller with a compelling, isolated wedding setting. Many appreciate Lucy Foley’s skillfu...
The story is about an exclusive wedding on an island off the coast of Ireland that results in the murder of one of the characters there for the wedding. We see the events leading up to the murder play out from the POV’s of:
Jules, the Bride
Aoife, Wedding Planner
Olivia, the Bride’s half sister/bridesmaid
Johnno, the Best Man
and Hannah, the wife and plus-one of Jules’ childhood best friend, Charlie.
I initially found myself not liking the sheer amount of varying POV’s the story was told from at first, but when all the paths crossed and the major climax came to the forefront, the payoff of it all changed my mind. Some of the twists were predictable and easier for me to figure out, but the biggest plot twist of all came out of left field and was very well executed. I read the Paris Apartment earlier this year, and I vastly preferred the Guest List over it. It felt almost like a modern Agatha Christie mystery and it was a quick read for me. I liked it!
I tend to enjoy “locked room mysteries,” but I never seem to love them.
I enjoyed the characters, but figured things out pretty quickly. It was still a decent read.
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