Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley

115 reviews

tashtasher's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Animal death, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual content, Blood, and Pregnancy

Minor: Outing and Classism

nicoletiff's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

hematthews's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Infidelity, Stalking, Murder, and Alcohol

Moderate: Gun violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, and Pregnancy

Minor: Kidnapping and Toxic friendship

clarklyn's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

I really enjoyed this book! I would definitely recommend the audiobook, the voice actors added so much personality to each character. 

I wouldn’t say the twist was particularly shocking, it eventually becomes somewhat obvious what is happening. However, I loved the slow burn of finding out who was murdered along with the murderer. 

Now I desperately need a romance novel for Heather and Doug…stat!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Stalking, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

ekclar's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Murder, and War

Moderate: Animal death and Drug use

runbeck's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Infertility, Infidelity, Sexual content, Murder, Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship

lexithelion's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Out of Lucy Foley's 3 murder mysteries, this is definitely my least favourite. However, that is not to say that this is a bad book, because it's not. This book is a great first mystery that combines the difficult inter-workings of friendships and an establishing plot-line that puts all the characters in an abstract and very solitary situation. The book does not drag and the story is incredibly easy to follow; props to Lucy Foley for being able to write a 0% confusing mystery novel that jumps back-and-forth in time and also utilizes multi-perspective chapters. I will say that this book seemed quite fast and the ending was incredibly abrupt which is a pattern I've noticed in Foley's literature. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Stalking, Murder, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gore and Toxic relationship

Minor: Drug abuse, Suicide, Medical content, and Grief

adearajean's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.5

Did a good job of setting up the mystery but the characters were unlikeable and dragged in the middle. At a certain point I was not emotionally invested in any of the characters but wanted to know what happens. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Eating disorder, Stalking, and Alcohol

pookiee's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Loveable characters? No

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming and Death

caitlin17's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Death, Sexual content, Blood, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail