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The Club by Ellery Lloyd
3.0

I liked this better than [b:The Heights|59647572|The Heights|Louise Candlish|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1643322709l/59647572._SX50_.jpg|86985860] but that is faint praise. The combining of the past and present narratives is a little clunky, though at least it's consistently clunky. This book does do a decent job of slowly revealing the ugly secret of Home and revealing who killed who.

The way all the characters were interconnected was also a nice touch - it made things more claustrophobic, especially towards the end.

The way that only the 'innocent' escaped unscathed did feel a bit too clean - as if the authors didn't want to make them too grey outside of what they did on the island.

A meh three stars.