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Lucy Fowley has got a template with her stories, someone has died at the start. You often don't find out who till your about 90% through. It does keep.me guessing and reading. Her character also are intresting often people with trauma and from a certain class. With this book I got confused for ages between Katie and Emma which was which as they were not that stand out of characters.

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3.0

So I had previously read “The Guest List” and really liked it so I thought this would be similar but it was just alright. It was almost more predictable and I took me at least 50+ pages to get into.

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4.0

This book gave me strong In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware vibes. It follows the same premise: a group of friends go on a trip together and one of them dies. I liked this book a bit more for many reasons. The characters were complex and had interesting back stories. I liked that the didn't give away who was actually murdered until the end. You could keep guessing and trying to figure out who was murdered. I also like that the narrators of the book were most of the women and just one male. It was intriguing to get the different points of view.

The best part of this book? That would be the major reveals toward the end. I won't give anything away but I really enjoyed the way Foley crafted her reveals. They were shocking and I never saw them coming. At least most of them. Around the halfway point I had a pretty good guess of who I thought was killed. But I never saw who committed the crime and what had happened before it coming.

Overall this was a well crafted novel. A wonderful debut by a really great writer!

I definitely recommend this novel for thriller lovers. Even more if you are a Ruth Ware fan. They have similar writing styles and the stories, though similar, are definitely different.

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3.0

A lot of characters so it was kind of hard to follow

leahroos529's review against another edition

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5.0

I love Lucy Foley and her stories so much!!!!!!!

isolde137's review against another edition

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3.0

Predictable but enjoyable.

hannahnobanana's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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