The Guest List: A Reese's Book Club Pick

Slow start but the last third of the book had me invested! I seemed to have wanted more in the end. I overall enjoyed the mystery of secrets!

This is really mysterious book, there is a wedding, and there is killer, maybe even there are manyyy secrets🐈‍⬛

Slow statt but good ending

I enjoyed this book. Had me questioning things along the way. Only thing I didn’t like was the last few pages otherwise a definite win

My first foray into Lucy Foley’s novels was a winner. “The Guest List” is a fresh and hard to put down murder mystery meets ghost story. It reminds me a lot of Rian Johnson’s style in “Knives Out.” There is a compelling case to be made for a collaboration between Johnson and Foley. What drives the story forward is the unbearably messy drama of the cast of characters. That basic plot would not be enough to keep me on its own. It’s how Foley has layered on a complex web of secrets and lies that are carefully metered out over the pages. I love surprises and this book is packed with them at every turn. For all that there is real meaning and a message here. It’s as if Foley is arguing that the real ghosts in this story are the secrets buried in the past that come back to eat at your soul. Whether the victim or the villain, the burying of the truth has violent consequences for the self and others.