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Lucy Foley

3.72 AVERAGE

msnicole24's review against another edition

4.25

mysterious sad tense medium-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: Yes

Quick easy read. I appreciate that the author wrote who that POF was from at the beginning of the chapters (I have a hard time remembering names with how they're irrelevant in the book)
Good plot twist!

crazyxcrab's review against another edition

2.0

in some ways i was very satisfied with how this came together, and in some ways i was not. it did wrap up the murder mystery perfectly, and the revenge was satisfying. but i was also left with a lot more questions surrounding the rest of the characters. here are my major confusions that were possibly answered in the book but i listened on audio so couldn’t go back to check: -why did olivia suddenly love jules her “big sister” who she is so close to, while jules has never once shown she cares about olivia at all? -who were the people aoife saw that were both cheating, or was it meant to be irrelevant side characters? -just everything about charlie’s character… wtf? -i can see aoife luring them to the island to get revenge on will, and the whole him meeting jules because olivia inadvertently introduced them lines up. but jules’ bestie is also the husband of will’s ex-gf-who-he-drove-to-suicide’s sister??? that part was a little too convenient for me.
this is hard to rate for me because it was enjoyable, but just not memorable. the hunting party wasn’t a fav by any means but i thought it was more suspenseful - this felt a lot more high school drama and less high-stakes/creepy. maybe because we don’t even know someone’s truly dead until like the last quarter of the book, maybe less? the paris apartment remains my favorite of her work, but i would be interested to read more.