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The Invitation by Rachel Abbott

7 reviews

niya_books's review

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dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

Slow at the beginning but that’s is okay because your truly getting to know the characters. The second part does speed up but things are a bit repetitive. 
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collinsd's review against another edition

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

2.5

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reader00's review against another edition

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

4.25

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lindz_reads's review against another edition

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dark mysterious sad tense fast-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? No

4.0

An intriguing and twisty read. It kept me wanting to read more, I did guess one or two twists along the way. But didn't detract from enjoyment.
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gwen87's review against another edition

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

3.5

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sarah984's review

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dark mysterious slow-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

1.0

Just awful. I was expecting this to be a thriller about the murder game, but the game doesn't even start until just before the halfway mark, and it gets derailed so quickly that nothing is really even done with it. The description sounds exciting but everything is so slow-moving, with a bunch of bickering and deliberating before anyone does anything.

The characters are all very boring and stereotypical (almost offensively so with the book’s one Asian character, a quietly inscrutable Korean heiress who is obsessed with herbalism and exclusively eats kimchee). The culprit is glaringly obvious from almost the beginning because they are given these constant cartoonishly villainous descriptions. There is very little indication that this is a book in a series, so the cop’s emotional drama that takes up a huge amount of mid-book real estate and brings the plot to a crushing halt comes out of left field. One character narrates in first person and all other pov characters are third person for no discernible reason. The first-person character makes completely unbelievable decisions.

There are like four thousand plot twists and they're all stupid and boring. I hated this book.
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pagesandpurls's review

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dark mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

The Invitation is a genre-bending book: a detective story that reads like a domestic thriller.

I would recommend The Invitation to readers who enjoy authors like Lucy Foley (The Hunting Party, The Guest List) and Ruth Ware (One by One, The Woman in Cabin 10, In a Dark, Dark Wood). 
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