A review by thecontrarybookworm
The Guest List by Lucy Foley

2.0

There wasn't really much I enjoyed about The Guest List - the characters are annoying and unlikeable (any one of them could be murdered or go to jail for all I care), and the book itself is told in a really frustrating way. Instead of the murder occurring at the beginning and the characters having to figure it out, it's told in flashbacks, so it switches back and forth between the night of the murder, when they set out to look for a body in the dark, and the day before, where all the characters are introduced. It was especially annoying because you as the reader don't even know who dies until the last twenty pages of the book. There's not really any time to parse out who the murderer will be - all the information is just shoved in your face.
SpoilerI hated how Will is literally the source of all evil for the characters' lives. By the end, we figure out that he is just a horrible person with no morals, so he deserved to die. People aren't so black and white; he was written so one-dimensionally in this aspect.