The Guest List
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
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Book description: 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.
Thoughts:
We follow a few different people, it is set up in two timelines one of them is the day of arriving at the island, some of the guests are invited to stay in the island since the day before the event takes place.
The main character is the bride, as in any wedding. She is a very self-centered and egotistical woman. She is very focused on her image and what the event is going to give her in the media, she needs to look like the event was in raging opulence, even if she is displeased that her father did not pay for the wedding itself.
She met this man and in a few months she decides to get married, everyone around is still unsure if that decision is hasty but she always gets what she wants, that is the fame she has and wants to keep it that way.
The groom is a very well known actor, he has a circle of friends that are not exactly very nice people, they have a very particular sense of humor that can be insulting and putting people down. The groom is viewed as a very nice person because, well he is famous and handsome so obviously e is a good person. That logic by one a few of the people n this story is ridiculous and yet very accurate in our society.
Everyone is insecure and is jealous of other's is this party be it due to love, money or possession.
It starts with a retelling of the day before when people arrived on the island and then moves to the wedding day and in the first few chapters a waitress becomes hysteric and when she is finally able to speak she lets them know she found a body. The people do not want to panic the rest of the guests and they decide to go explore and find what happened. So you do not know who it is, it can be almost anyone. Why?
There is a lot of hate among them, people start revealing issues among each other in their memories. So you have no idea who it could be and yet also why exactly did they do it?
As I rad you start to pinpoint who is the possible murder victim, mainly because you see a few good reasons why someone would harbor hate for several of them and want to kill them.
I had assumed the victim correctly but not the perpetrator, so I was still surprised.
This book was a great surprise, I might not have picked it up on my own but as it is part of the Literally dead book club I was pushed to it, it was a good choice.
I did get the audiobook from Audible, it has a very good narrator, recommended and it is easy to listen to.
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