Book #67 |
Book: The Guest List | Author: Lucy Foley | |
| Source: Library book Format: Audiobook |
Pages: 319 | Duration: 08/07/25 – 08/07/25 (1 day) | |
| Rating: ★★★★★ | Genres: fiction, mystery, thriller, suspense, crime | ||
| 📕10-word summary: Idyllic couple and wedding venue ends in mayhem and murder. 🖌6-word review: A trifecta of twists seals it. |
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| 💭An amusing quote: “There’s nothing less sexy than a lack of ambition, is there?” | |||
| 🎓Some new-to-me words: marquee, slapdash | |||
| Description:* Guests gather to celebrate a wedding. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine publisher. It’s a wedding for a magazine, or for a celebrity: the designer dress, the remote location, the luxe party favors, the boutique whiskey. The wedding is perfectly planned, but the people are all too human. As the champagne is popped and the festivities begin, resentments and petty jealousies begin to mingle with the reminiscences and well wishes. The groomsmen begin the drinking game from their school days. The bridesmaid not-so-accidentally ruins her dress. The toasts are cringeworthy, and then someone turns up dead.*From goodreads.com’s synopsis. | |||
| Thoughts: This is another book that people either hated or loved. I’m in the latter group. Three revelations toward the end of the story completely justified murder, and I like the interconnectedness of the revelations. More than once while reading this book, I thought of one of my favorite books — Donna Tartt‘s The Secret History, which I read 29 years ago. This is my second Lucy Foley book, and I liked it much better than her The Paris Apartment, which I read two years ago. | |||
See the rest of the books I’ve read in 2025 and previous years: 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019.
