The Club

I really liked the writing style. There were a lot of descriptions, but still, the story was very engaging, despite all the characters not being particularly likable.

This book was fun and a great escapist kickoff to my year in books. It has a great time skewering the rich celebrities at its core and I'm here for it. Fame has become absurd. This book takes that reality and looks at what famous people get away with through an upstairs downstairs lens. It also reveals what the rich and powerful do to get to the top and stay there. I liked the cast of characters. Not LIKED liked - but enjoyed their backstories. Well done by this husband wife writing duo. My second from them. They definitely choose of-the-moment plot points and very timely stories.

Listened to the audiobook for this one and I felt there were way too many characters. I had such a hard time following along and almost didn't finish because it took a long time to get to the point.

Terrible people behaving terribly.

I am unsure why people think there are too many POVs. I recall like 5 characters at most, which pales in comparison to high fantasy books.

I liked every single POV and how some people's story overlapped.

Every character is awful in their own way and the ending was delicious. I rooted for some characters.

I read the entire book in one sitting.

My only question is WTF happened with Jackson Crane when Jess “killed” him?

My rating: 2 stars

sigh... Where to even begin with this one? So you know that Dua Lipa “go girl, give us nothing” meme? That's this book.

The idea of a thriller set at an exclusive club for society's wealthiest elite sounds incredibly intriguing, right? Yeah, that's what I thought, too. Instead, we get 320 pages of nothing. Literally nothing happens until maybe 85% into the book. In addition to zero plot, there were way too many characters to keep track of and too many useless backstories. Why did we need to know about all these people? Who cares?? And then the big reveal at the end was so anticlimactic, it didn't even matter at that point. Ugh, this was such a slog to get through, I won't remember anything about it past today and I wouldn't recommend it to anybody.

I read Ellery Lloyd's debut novel “People Like Here” a while back. While it wasn't a favorite, I thought it had some interesting ideas and plot points, and I was looking forward to reading the author duo's sophomore novel. I think, at this point, I need to come to terms with the fact that they are not the authors for me.

3.5 Stars

Very surprising regarding the characters and their true connections; very disappointing in the gore for the main murder and the lack of any substance for some of the others- it was as if the author had not thought of how to carry those out until they happened.