Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

The Guest List by Lucy Foley

80 reviews

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

mftraveller3500's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Violence, Murder, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Body shaming, and Kidnapping

laceym18's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

chloek608's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-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

I recommend this book if you like:
-adult murder mystery with multiple points of view
-island and private school settings
-whodunnit that has a big backstory but intertwines amazingly at the end

This is quite a big book and I must admit it took me a while to get into. The story is told by multiple characters and each give their backstory of how they know the couple getting married and how they have ended up on the island for this wedding. The last third of this book was enthralling and the way it set up many characters for a motive for the murder, it had me guessing right to the end. I do think the story could have been shorter though.

We have TV famous Will marrying Jules the successful magazine owner. The perfect couple, or so it seems. Their whirlwind romance has led to this hasty marriage.

Will’s best man Johnno has not been able to move past an incident that occurred during their school days. They went to an all-boys boarding school that had traditions and pranks that sometimes took it too far.

Johnno held a lot of guilt for a prank he helped Will pull off at high school and in hindsight he knew Will had tricked him into doing his dirty work, all to cover up him stealing exam papers to cheat in his GCSE’s.

The prank involved taking a 1st year down onto the beach and tying them against the railings. The prank was called survival. It was meant to be a test of courage and they find their way back to school. Johnno realised too late that the tide coming in would make it impossible for the boy to survive.

The bride’s sister and Hannah both have similar reasons to hate Will. He’d seduced Olivia and Hannah’s sister, ruined their lives, abandoned them and moved on. Both girls were suicidal because of him.

The amazing twist I did not see coming was that Aoife, the wedding host had lured the couple their just to confront Will, you see as it turns out she is the little boy’s sister. She finally got revenge. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Alcohol, Drug use, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Bullying, Toxic relationship, Death, Mental illness, Murder, Suicide, and Vomit

mynameisrebecca's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Murder, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Self harm, and Death

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Adult/minor relationship, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Vomit, Drug use, and Alcohol

celestialjane's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

😱

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm

Moderate: Child death, Abortion, Murder, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Gaslighting, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

doomluz's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

I loved the setting, it was very atmospheric. I liked the multiple perspectives, though I didn't like or didn't care for most of the characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Self harm, Bullying, Murder, Alcoholism, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Abortion, and Vomit

brookebatesratesbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing

Moderate: Drug abuse

Minor: Murder, Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, and Suicide

ahbmacgregor's review

dark emotional mysterious sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm and Alcohol

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Suicide, Sexual violence, Abortion, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Child death and Vomit

meaghanslibrary's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

4.25

Compared to the Paris Apartment, this book had a more keeping me on my toes feel. It reminded me a lot of how big little lies the tv show starts where you know there is someone who has been hurt you don’t know who and the book flashes backwards and forwards in time across different viewpoints to give you pieces of the puzzle.

The fact that Will was Steve, the same person the younger sister used to date and got her pregnant - that was a huge twist that I didn’t see coming! The twist was also great because it explained so much of the younger sisters actions. Compared to the big reveal in the Paris Apartment that they were all a family that didn’t make me reflect so much on the characters past actions in the book as the big twist in the guest list did. Once that big reveal happened, and I think because I just read the authors other work, I realized that other parts must be connected - for example I had a eeey feeling that Hannah’s sister dated Will who spread the horrific video. Then the rest of the pieces started to click together. I didn’t fully piece that Aoife was the main killer for her brother, I still feel like there could have been more backstory with her and the connection to the island. Her slaying came and the motivations came about very abruptly. So that knocked off points for my rating. Most of my rating is bumped up from the big sister reveal. I thought that was very clever. Also the fact that the best man was supposed to be on the show that became more obvious as a secret once the sister reveal. That’s why I liked that reveal so much it gave me a sense of what was happening but still kept me on my seat to figure out who died and who the killer was.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Murder, Classism, Death, Grief, Body horror, Child death, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Adult/minor relationship, Self harm, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic friendship, Child abuse, Cursing, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Violence