The Hunting Party

This book is your classic “who done it” and features all elements characteristic to the genre. I saw people comparing it to Agatha Christie's novels and while i can see their point, i don't think it's fair to compare the OG classics with this modern remake. Overall I found myself enjoying the book and i was always hungry for more, to put it this way. All the anticipation and suspense surrounding the murder was what determined me to keep on turning the pages, yet I wouldn't say that the plot was mind blowing. Right after i finished it, i initially gave this book 4 stars, but after some time passed, i changed my rating to a 3 star because the more i though about it, the more i found issues that annoyed me lmao

Slow burn for the first half of the book. Too similar to the author's previous novel, but without the same spark.

Sólidos 3,5 pra esse suspense que eu já queria ler há meses. Surpreendente e com boa construção de personagens, achei.

Another Lucy Foley book described as thrilling and suspenseful which I found to be neither. She's really good at creating unlikeable characters, I'll give her that, but they're also extremely uninteresting to follow. When most of the book consist of listening to their internal monologue or watching them interact with one another, it gets boring. I'd say the last 5 chapters were the only ones with any suspense, and at that point I was just ready to be done with the story.

This book was really good! I love a good Agatha Christie and this was a modern take on that. I saw some people say they guessed the twists but maybe I'm just naive and didn't at all, so it was a total surprise for me. I love that each chapter is from a different person's perspective so you really get to see how everyone truly feels about each other and makes it hard to guess who was killed and who was the killer.

The Hunting Party, ultimately, was okay. I liked the pace and the setting, but not so much the characters. The writing was decent, but not impressive. Most of all I was not a fan of the format: the point of view changes every few pages, it jumps back and forth in time, and some of the chapters are written in first person while others are in third. WHY? It really felt like they were arbitrary choices and lended nothing to the mystery.

Also, this book (like so many others) was compared to the Golden Age of mystery in the description. I really have to stop falling for that. Aside from being a “closed room” mystery, which is by no means exclusive to the Golden Age, it has little in common with mysteries of that period. I was disappointed.

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.

No author I've read makes backstory as riveting as Lucy Foley. An excellent thriller. Kept me on the edge of my seat until the very end.

Follows the same formula as The Guest List, which I read first and preferred. This one just didn't catch my interest. The characters were all so unlikeable I had a hard time caring who got murdered and who did it.

I read The Guest List, so I wanted to check out another book from Lucy Foley. Despite this story having a different setting, a different set of characters, and different backstories for each one, I was just getting a whole bunch of deja vu from the other book I read from her. It feels like I'm reading the same exact book but only with a different coat of paint... I don't know why anyone would ever paint a book, but I hope you get what I'm saying.

Got a bit slow when I was about 60-70% through but pushed through, the ending is great!!