Needless to say, you'll be up late flipping through your Kindle until all is revealed.” -- Mashable “Foley delivers another atmospheric, Agatha Christie-style whodunit with The Guest List. Jules never blushes. *Footnote (apparently Jay Kristoff has rubbed off on me) – I’ve never read Agatha Christie but her reputation proceeds her. *Another footnote (DAMN IT KRISTOFF)- I’m no prude and while I might be in a drought now, I’ve had a fair share of amazing sex but as Rose Nylund so aptly put it (I know the video looks upside down but when you hit play, it will not be upside down) in the clip below: In MOST ways- Hannah is a whiny, entitled, insecure brat that needs to just plain grow-up. Previous Next. The Guest (I) (2014) Parents Guide Add to guide . Come clean or not. Commence swoons, romances, and overall mean boy, pack behavior to follow the leader. British royal family news divulges that 30 guests will be present at Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh's funeral on Saturday. "Wedding season means a thrilling web of mystery in The Guest List." Notify me of follow-up comments by email. I’ve never plodded through a mystery before and it was all I could do to finish it. Thinking about Verify. Well except for… no we will get to that in a moment. Everyone has a right to love what they love. If you don’t trust your man? Hannah feels more like a colleague than a wife who is desired in her marriage. Actually double respect for reading that dissertation. Guess what, love, your issues are with yourself, not her, nor her and Charlie’s friendship. I have been on a small hiatus because of a mess of things. Even with my favorite books… it is just unnecessary. Absolutely. “The Masked Singer” showcased the celebrities in Group B for the second week running on April 7. The Guest List—set at a ritzy wedding-gone-wrong on a remote Scottish isle—starts with a murder, and then plays a game of keep-away with the victim’s identity until the very last pages.” — Harper's Bazaar “There's clues on nearly every page, but no spoilers here. The bride, Jules Keegan, has a successful magazine start-up and the upscale image to go with it. It started with Verify. Needless to say, you'll be up late flipping through your Kindle until all is revealed. 60 questions answered. So did Will already know Jules before he met Olivia? I’m not quiet about it… Much of the evening has been kind of a foreplay. I would love to hear some of your recommendations! In The Guest List, the premise is an elite wedding in a remote setting, an island off the west coast of Ireland with a tragic history and an old castle referred to as The Folly. I’m going to spoiler land. She wasn’t necessary and her whole part in this book made me want to never read again. Verify is out on September 24th, and it has me tired. Showing all 19 items Jump to: Certification; Sex ... Spoilers. I see. Seriously. I am out of cinnamon rolls and I’m out of them. The victim was obvious and who did was so stupid I just …. I turn to Charlie. The Guest List by Lucy Foley? Does that exist. 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. OOOOOHHHHH CHILD!!! But her vile hatred of Johno? The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine publisher. Yes!!!! And they had sex (holy hell with all the damn sex– was this an off shoot of 50 shades of grey or something) all those times, wouldn’t Will have recognized that apartment the first time Jules had brought him home? He knows about the back history of all the people he’s messed with. Everyone around them would massively puke up everything they have, and will ever eat for the rest of their lives, because everyone wants that relationship, or was jealous of it. Hell, her own sister cares more about the wedding carrying on without a hitch than anything that is happening with Olivia. Repetition: Hannah can’t make up her mind. NO. His father was the headmaster of the private school he went to. Sassy, No Spoilers: The Guest List book of the month selection, book reviews, Cults. Because like there are ten other things going on and while I may not care about any of them? Yet here we are. How many times have you said, “not now Charles, I have a headache,” or “I cooked all day,” or “I breast fed”? Not because it is written like Agatha Christie, as much as it pays hommage (sp?) So, I’m going with Olivia. Get on with it. I’m sure it was this book that did it. 90 Day Fiancé spoilers tell us that the duo went to check out their wedding venue. Close. Charming, handsome- everything but the white fucking horse. See why I provided the summary? Everyone have fun with it. The Guest List by Lucy Foley was released in February 2020, but was chosen as one of Reese’s Book Club Picks for June 2020 (there were two this month). So, he wouldn’t have been SHOCKED, when he met the family after their quick, rushed engagement? It was just. The multiple points of view will keep you guessing right until the end.” … Due to circumstances I am having to "read" this book via audio book so that I have enough read for an online book club meeting. I enjoyed your review! IT IS NOT. Another self-entitled man-boy badly in need of being smacked upside the head. The Guest (I) (2014) Plot. It all came easy for Will. Nice answers in return of this question with genuine arguments and explaining the whole thing about that. They look so amazing together. which really resonated with me because 'The Hunting Party' and `The Guest List' are, essentially, the same book. The Parents Guide items below may give away important plot points. But you've take the "edge" off. As it is I’m afraid to look at the word count, which might have broken my 3800-word dissertation on Nevernight (at least that was positive). And the kicker? Apparently, every woman wants him. Two very different books. This isn’t a fantasy or a fairy-tale retelling. Ok. I’m exhausted. Gina recently posted…Fame and Privilege by LC Reagan | Book Review. Oh, I have receipts. Now I deduced (at first) that it was the wedding planner except that didn’t make sense because she wanted, needed the wedding to go off without a hitch for her own success. It is like getting to the point where Thor puts Storm Breaker in to Thanos’ chest and someone pulls the plug on the TV. It was just murder, murderer and done. And then everyone just goes on with the wedding (The Guest List YOU NEVER WANT TO BE ON). Young people will always be attracted to live concerts. Let me break down the repetition, ad-nausea (see what I did there- just like The Guest List by Lucy Foley is the repetition of repetition). Your email address will not be published. None of this is spoilers. It still has me tired. I don’t want to hear about Johno and Will and mess with the Loner. Especially with all the social issues being so badly handled. I love the discussion of it all. SPOILERS for The Guest List by Lucy Foley Disclaimer: If you continue reading, you will be exposed to spoilers about the above book. She is always in control. The bride The plus one The best man The wedding planner The bridesmaid The body. Oh and. Directed by Adam Wingard. Again, there is much more to be said, but I won’t. I just can’t promise that what I’m about to do in my review of The Guest List will give you that foundation: A wedding celebration turns dark and deadly in this deliciously wicked and atmospheric thriller reminiscent of Agatha Christie* from the author of The Hunting Party. I hope you will subscribe and hang around the site. I actually made an outline this time around to actually help tighten this one up and apparently that went horribly wrong for me. Johno had two options. I said too much about Olivia, probably. OH, AND THE SEX. How they touch each other, representative of their unbridled passion and love. I’m gonna just throw in my random opinion here. And the “adults” in this book were so fucking up their own petty, self-entitled, insecure, trend-setting asses that there was no time for actually noticing. He knew Olivia before Jules. Side note, Olivia is the one that wrote the note and it is in the book towards the end (don’t recall the page number). Let me quote something that made me laugh so hard I dropped my kindle. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Mind you, I can say this about every person in this book except the teenager, who is the only character I liked, empathized… wait let me stop. There too many great books in the genre. HE MARRIED YOU and SHE IS MARRYING PRINCE FUCKING CHARMING THAT EVEN YOU SWOON OVER. Hello Book Worm friends! That is the appropriate response? It wasn’t necessary. Yet, all this shit got to me. That leads to the next huge ass plot hole in The Guest List- WHY DIDN’T OLIVIA SAY SOMETHING? Reese Witherspoon picked The Guest List and I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown for her June book club picks. And then someone turns up dead. It is about half as long and possibly more salty. So let that sink in for a point of reference. The Guest List review: Twists and turns as island wedding ends in murder. This is just one of many times. I’m done with the genre. I’m delighted that you caught the plot hole about the apartment. Hi! Book Publicity, Reviews, Author Interviews, and Discussion Posts by Susan Crosby. Because I’m kind like that. This is a “locked room mystery” built for the readers of 2020: a story concerned with secrets—among spouses, partners, and siblings—and their deadly collision. The synopsis below may give away important plot points. There is a brilliant song by The Beatles called You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away (I’ll plug the video in before the spoilers). Jules is marrying the man everyone wants to be like or fuck. Not to mention the numerous commentaries by all the other points of view to how they sound and how it makes them feel. I was nauseous. It was a quick read, but I just have mixed thoughts about it. I had a hard time putting it down. And reviews where I even say look it was me, not the book- YMMV. He is the one who got her pregnant. It was obvious he wasn’t going to say anything. But you also know there is something much deeper than that going on and no one knows what it is. And again… PICK A DAMN lane. Parade. The groomsmen begin the drinking game from their school days. The Guest List was never that. As the champagne is popped and the festivities begin, resentments and petty jealousies begin to mingle with the reminiscences and well wishes. And when Jules hears Olivia and William arguing, finding out their back history? I will never take that from anyone. You do them right or you don’t do them at all. But no. Well, I’m going to show them I made something of myself.” I really, REALLY couldn’t care less about him if I tried. This is where I was about to be physically ill. Hell, some of the men might even want to fuck him. Respect. If you enjoyed this one, I highly suggest my review of All the Stars of Teeth! How many people would call me cuckoo because I’m bipolar? OH, BUT HOW DARE HE! Of course, the insult being to Ms. Buffy, not me. I cum, hard. No. So, I really don’t see the issue here. This is our weekend away together. Yeah maybe this book isn’t perfect but I don’t think it deserves the bashing you gave it. Daddy issues. And many coming that I can’t wait to sink into. Hannah’s dead sister. Organized, pulled up from her bootstraps self-made rich bitch that everyone is jealous of and wants to be like. The Guest List by Lucy Foley is told from multiple points of view—the bride, the plus-one, the best man, the wedding planner and the bridesmaid. Just. Hannah’s dead sister- and speaking of which- um. Carey’s The Book of Koli because. The multiple points of view will keep you guessing right until the end.” … Is the ARC screwed up? The book is just a mess and if I save you the time? Hey Hannah? SPOILERS for Always the Last to Know by Kristan Hi... SPOILERS for The Guest List by Lucy Foley, SPOILERS for The Lies That Bind by Emily Giffin, SPOILERS for Murder at the Book Club by Betsy Reavley. What if Olivia/Jules’ Mom and Will, struggling, go over the cliff together?! At one point I expected him to literally ride around the island on a white horse, or to find out that he was a legitimate prince of some sort or something. Page after page, Lucy Foley writes him in the “woe is me, everyone always looked down on me. She then internalizes and transposes that into how she sees herself. Complete respect. All the other shit… nothing. The work begins in the 1930s, capturing Kitty and Ogden’s charmed life as an affluent family in America. It is Hannah’s one good trait and action throughout the book. But that is it? This was their chance at a weekend away (her and her husband Charlie). So, there had to be pictures around. Mystery: The Guest List Lucy Foley HarperCollins, hardback, 384 pages, €15.99. Uh. Even if you disagree with my reviews, I love your fothriteness! Malice. Just wrong. That’s animal cruelty. All the Stars and Teeth Should Have Been Called All the Tropes and Tropes. Foley has simply recycled her cardboard, cliched characters from `The Hunting Party', changed the names and PC details and plugged them into relationships with the SAME EXACT DYNAMICS as in `The Guest List'. Thank you for your honest review – I just wish I had seen it BEFORE I read this crap. Will is a piece of shit, obviously. Funny, I thought we’d let go as that being something to be envied, about a decade or so ago? You know she is entirely too thin. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. The Guest List (Characters and Plot Summary): The book’s narrative flashes forward then backward, as the guests reveal and learn secrets about one another. Then boom, bang, bam the book is over. Readers’ questions about The Guest List. But his constant self-pity, victim shit really got old fast. ALL THE SEX, ALL THE TIME. Social Issues: It’s all bad. It doesn’t even matter, because honey, check this shit out. I just finished this piece of trash for a book club and I am an avid Agatha Christie fan… it is insulting and a tease that they actually wrote on the cover that this book “evokes Agatha Christie”. I think she wrote this in the hopes that it would be made into a movie. ... Spoilers will be discussed in this post, so if you don’t want to find out what happened, stop reading right now. Not Jules. PLUS, putting all that aside? Yes, I'm going to finish it. At some point, The Guest List by Lucy Foley (trust me, this is for your own good) went from a thriller mystery. As an extension I completely agree about the ending being too sudden. Synopsis. It was obvious Will was going to die. Most of you already know where this is going, and I just can’t. Did he ever get the urge to knock you upside the head with a blunt object? And come on you have to give me SOMETHING over the potholes! OH MY GOD! By the end of Adam Wingard's The Guest, the truth about who David (Dan Stevens) really is and what's wrong with him are left partially unexplained.However, this fast-paced thriller is not as complicated as it may seem. That was said. There's clues on nearly every page, but no spoilers here. They meet up with the senior warden at the church to go over the wedding details. Learn how your comment data is processed. I can’t let the wedding go off the rails. I just can’t even. Trust me when I say there are so many more and it is just done poorly. But she hides those. I give her that and trying to help Olivia, but only those things. No. Here is the summary of the Guest List by Lucy Foley because my review… I can’t. Foley unravels the … She’s so thin and pale and dark haired that she’s Kate Moss, 90s beautiful thin, with legs up to “her armpits.” Yup. I just reviewed The Split by S.J. And I’m 99.9% sure it wasn’t meant to be funny. Right in the very beginning of the book, Lucy Foley goes with: This isn’t the first time the electric has shorted. A soldier introduces himself to the Peterson family, claiming to be a friend of their son who died in action. Either stay away from the person, step-up, and deal with it or whatever. Thank you! Let me quote one of the MANY MANY MANY times Foley felt the need to express the insane amount of LOUD, RUCKUS sex that was had for the ENTIRE ISLAND TO HEAR*, We fuck braced against the bed, him entering me from behind. THE GUEST LIST is a delectable blend of Agatha Christie inspiration and modern-day psychological suspense. I know. Blake’s novel is divided into 45 chapters, spanning three generations of the Milton family. My book club read this and I was amazed that I was the only one who really disliked it. There's a close-up of a guy, shot from behind, running down an empty road through a desert. WHAT THE CINNAMON TOAST CRUNCH IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE AND FOLEY? Shit. I mean I’m not going to defend Jules on much of anything in this book. After the young man is welcomed into their home, a series of accidental … No. SPOILERS for The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid, SPOILERS for The Good Liar by Catherine McKenzie, SPOILERS for The Secrets She Keeps by Michael Robotham. I could think of a list of ways to make this better. ???? She has dropped out of college and had a relationship bust up. It isn’t cool as a person. We can never talk of this AGAIN ???? Rachel Bridgeman recently posted…#BlogTour ‘He Started It’ by Samantha Downing. On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. She was desperate and crying out for help. I thought Aoife being the killer was pretty well done. All the sex. And that behavior, those insecurities, will run off a man really fast, both in reality and in The Guest List by Lucy Foley . “There's clues on nearly every page, but no spoilers here. I have meh reviews. Let’s talk about the guests first. But her mother already knew she had an abortion. Am over here clutching my pearls,it is definitely not for everyone but 100% Agatha Christie-esque in terms of setting and misdirections. The Guest List by Lucy Foley didn’t just give me receipts, it repeated those receipts with buy-one, get one free offers that I couldn’t resist. I mean.. Who the hell left Jules the note? Repetition is an ugly thing when you beat the dead horse to death and then bring it back to life, to beat it some more. The bride’s oldest (male) friend gives an uncomfortably caring toast. You just don’t throw all these themes around without some forethought. And this review is going to become longer than the book. Instead it is just stuck in there, repeatedly for ignorant character commentary on her behavior. Because all of the above is 90% of the book. Oh. In fact, this is now the fourth time I’m doing it. But will be swinging back in the next couple of weeks. 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