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The Guest List by Lucy Foley

22 reviews

tabea1409's review

adventurous mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Blood, Drug use, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Suicide attempt, Cursing, Death, Alcoholism, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Abortion, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Alcohol, Child abuse, Self harm, Violence, and Vomit

cdingler07's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

This kept me at the edge of my seat. Toward the end I just had to sit and finish it because my anxiety was getting so strong! Great thriller.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Vomit, Pregnancy, Gore, Drug use, Suicide, Infidelity, Bullying, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, and Abortion

ruthhelizabeth's review

dark tense fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Gore, Murder, Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, Drug use, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Violence, Blood, Bullying, Suicide, Self harm, Alcohol, Grief, and Mental illness

Moderate: Pregnancy, Death of parent, Classism, Confinement, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Vomit, and Pedophilia

Minor: Racism, Animal death, Abortion, Death of parent, Eating disorder, and Rape

glutenfreemaggie's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Violence, Infidelity, Medical content, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Alcohol, Child abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Murder, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Abortion, Bullying, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Vomit, Blood, Body shaming, Child death, and Grief

Moderate: Suicide

klb77's review

dark mysterious sad tense fast-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

4.75

God damn this book was good! It’s everything I’ve been craving in a story and more. One of the first times I’ve ever been surprised by a twist! I’ll be listening to more from this author asap

My own guest list (for a near-perfect story):
1. characters to sympathize with
2. characters to hate
3. a good irish storm to set the mood
4. wedding drama
5. family secrets 
6. multiple mysteries entangled into each other 
7. a small amount of spice and scandal 
8. a timeline and flashbacks that are easy as pie (or wedding cake?) to follow 

Check out the content warnings before picking this one up but definitely give it a chance 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, Suicide attempt, Drug use, Abortion, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Self harm, Murder, Infidelity, Gaslighting, Death, Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, Child death, Alcohol, Sexism, Gore, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Grief, Blood, and Violence

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Domestic abuse, Pregnancy, Eating disorder, Racism, Abandonment, and Adult/minor relationship

jenna_justi2004's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Gaslighting, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Gore, Grief, Sexual content, Vomit, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Drug use, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Body shaming, Abortion, Classism, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Violence, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, and Suicide

lydias1's review

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

2.0

Ew trigger warnings seriously needed

Not sure how I feel about the use of present tense

I’m not sure I like any of the male characters. I liked Hannah a lot and the sisters a bit. 

I liked having lots of different perspectives and timings, which I don’t usually enjoy. It kept a nice rhythm and pace.

I liked the relationship between Hannah and Olivia 

I like the mystery of who dies

I have so many questions and that pushed me forward throughout the book

I properly celebrated when Will died!!!

The fact that Will was also Hannah’s sister’s bf felt like it pushed me out of how realistic it was. It was too much. I don’t feel an ounce of pity for Will in spite of his father

I was kind of disappointed by the ending. After so much effort went into demonstrating that Will was the most vile horrible person who carries the guilt of so many lives ruined, being quietly and quickly stabbed didn’t feel like justice. I wish the truth had gotten out. I wish they all had their moment to confront him. I don’t like the lack of closure on the trial for Jono - I know he deserved to be sentenced for the manslaughter of the young boy, but I just have to imagine that all the truth came out in the trial and true justice was served after Will’s death. I wish that had played out in the book though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Classism, Death, Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Abortion, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Murder, Rape, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Suicidal thoughts, Gore, Child death, Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Mental illness, Self harm, Violence, Bullying, Child abuse, Body horror, and Emotional abuse

Graphic hazing

annoyedhumanoid's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

major content warning for self harm. check dropdown for others
for the majority of this book i was under the impression that The Guest List was published before The Hunting Party, which made a lot of sense because The Hunting Party felt like a more polished execution of a similar concept. actually, The Guest List came _after_ The Hunting Party. and knowing that her most recent book is The Paris Apartment… 😬

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. i was still surprised by the ending, though

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Gore, Murder, Self harm, Death, Alcohol, and Violence

Moderate: Suicide, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Abortion, Child death, Classism, Cursing, Drug use, Gaslighting, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Pregnancy, Racism, Sexism, Addiction, Body shaming, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Eating disorder, and Fatphobia

alexisgarcia's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Overall, I enjoyed this book. The setting was interesting, characters had some relative depth, and the plot left me guessing quite a bit. I loved the plot twists with the history of each character. A few surprised me! However a felt like not every character needed a connection to one of the main characters. I also felt like the ending was pretty rushed, but I feel like that with most endings in my thrillers. Overall, this was a quick and mysterious read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Self harm, Vomit, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Gore, Grief, Infidelity, Murder, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

valent1ne's review

Not even a quarter of the way through and literally everyoneeeee is obsessed with this teenage girl in an Extremely Weird way. These women are in their 30s they should not resent this 19y/o girl so much for being skinnier or prettier than them!!!!! The men who are in their 30s or older are ALL saying this girl is hot!!!!! Some of them are explicitly trying to have sex with her this is sooooo disgusting and bad. The mystery was vaguely intriguing but I really do not want to hear the rest of this after all that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Gore, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual content, Vomit, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Murder, Pedophilia, and Self harm