The Stats
📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚
BOOK: The Hunting Party
AUTHOR:Lucy Foley @lucyfoleyauthor
Publisher: Harper Collins UK @harpercollinsuk
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐
Published: January 24, 2019
The Review
The Title/Cover Draw:
- I loved The Guest List and people talked well about this one so I decided to get it from Book of The Month
What I liked:
- There were a ton of red herrings in this book. It definitely kept you guessing.
What I didn’t like:
- I really didn’t like most of the characters in this book. Although there were a few that had some redeeming qualities, it was hard for me to really get on board and root for them.
What kept me reading:
- I had a theory early on about who died, but had the wrong idea about why.
The Characters:
- See above.
The Ending:
- Overall I ended up guessing the twist. But I got quite a bit of deja vous from this story. See below.
Consider if you like:
- This book is kinda like One By One meets The Guest List. And while Lucy Foley kind of has this formula of not revealing the dead person until ¾ of the way through, it still didn’t diminish the impact of the story.
All thoughts and opinions are my own.
Small Summary:
Everyone’s invited…everyone’s a suspect…
For fans of Ruth Ware and Tana French, a shivery, atmospheric, page-turning novel of psychological suspense in the tradition of Agatha Christie, in which a group of old college friends are snowed in at a hunting lodge . . . and murder and mayhem ensue.
All of them are friends. One of them is a killer.
During the languid days of the Christmas break, a group of thirtysomething friends from Oxford meet to welcome in the New Year together, a tradition they began as students ten years ago. For this vacation, they’ve chosen an idyllic and isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands—the perfect place to get away and unwind by themselves.
They arrive on December 30th, just before a historic blizzard seals the lodge off from the outside world.
Two days later, on New Year’s Day, one of them is dead.
The trip began innocently enough: admiring the stunning if foreboding scenery, champagne in front of a crackling fire, and reminiscences about the past. But after a decade, the weight of secret resentments has grown too heavy for the group’s tenuous nostalgia to bear. Amid the boisterous revelry of New Year’s Eve, the cord holding them together snaps.
Now one of them is dead . . . and another of them did it.
Keep your friends close, the old adage goes. But just how close is too close?