The Hunting Party

3.75 - i thought the red herrings and twists were really good i just think i don’t looooove her writing style it takes me forever to get into

3.5

3/5

There's a lot of stuff here that normally makes it hard for me to get through a book. Check the content warnings. Many of the characters are unlikable and make terrible decisions. Despite all that, I actually enjoyed reading this. I found myself mostly focused on figuring out who had been killed and who had killed them, so I was reading the chapters hunting for clues, not necessarily for immersion in the story, and that helped keep me from being too affected by the heavier stuff mentioned in the content warnings. The alternating perspectives helped keep me from getting too frustrated with the more unpleasant characters. I figured out the victim and killer a bit sooner than they were revealed, so that was satisfying as well. Good atmosphere and tension building, thematically appropriate for cold weather. I was worried I'd regret picking this up when it was on sale at my local bookstore, but no regrets at all actually.

Absolutely incredible mystery/thriller. The way the story is broken up into different POVs and flashes to different periods on the timeline had me on the edge of my seat - let alone that it was absolutely brilliant that we know someone is murdered from the very start, but we don't know who it is (or who did it) until the very end.