The Hunting Party

Just okay. I thought it was pretty predictable and there were a lot of characters to keep track of. The setting was cool though.

Tense closed room mystery/suspense set in the Scottish Highlands at New Year’s Eve. A group of Oxford alums meet every year for the holiday. This remote spot is decidedly atmospheric and as the chapters were told from various characters’ perspectives, I found my opinions changing about them all. One of the women is killed and we don’t even find out who the victim is right away. This was suspenseful and truly a page turner. Humans are so complicat...read more

If you’re wanting to read a thriller by Lucy Foley, I would strongly urge you to go for The Guest List.

The Hunting Game wasn’t bad, but it was missing a spark, IMO. I really loved the group dynamic, but I definitely felt like the book would have benefitted from Mark’s, Julian’s, Samira’s, or Bo’s perspective. I didn’t feel that I was too connected to this book and I think part of that is because I didn’t like any of the characters I was reading....read more

I enjoyed this. I read The Guest List a couple of weeks ago and loved it! This one felt very similar and almost a bit predictable.

Lucy Foley does a good job of writing the suspense. She writes in a format for building up a story between the past and present by revealing each secret a piece at a time. She portrays the story in multiple POV which I like because it adds to piecing together all the parts of the story one by one.

I listened to the au...read more

Lots of red herrings and interesting backstorys