The Hunting Party

The Hunting Party

2018 • 349 pages

Ratings195

Average rating3.3

15

2.5 stars. A mild spoiler. I wasn't bored for most of this book until the end. The characters are all awful people. The writing is just okay. The characterizations are also just okay. There are a million red herrings, and just when I wanted to second guess myself, my basic hunch was proven right in the end. I started to give the book more credit than it deserved, but the end was a thing I've seen done before. Badly, and in better written books.

I'm so over the psychopath villain stalker. I'm over the fat girl obsessing about pretty people. I'm over books that don't seem to really get friendship. Do I need another female frenemy thriller in my life? No. Nope. I'm over all those things. Can someone please write a thriller that's actually not asinine? Like, seriously, thrillers are the worst sometimes. And I mostly had fun reading this. But, like nearly all thrillers I've read, the ending just kills me. And is it too much to ask to be able to like someone in the story?

Actually, I did like someone. The only character I liked was Miranda herself.

September 3, 2020