The Guest List
By Lucey Foley
Overall Rating: 3
Grip Factor: 3
Writing Style: 3
Engaging Plot: 3.5
Characters: 3
Satisfying End: 2.5
You might think you are going ahead in life by bringing harm to people. You can show love on your face and complete malice at the back and think that you can get away with it but life catches on and punishes you for it.
Classic Mystery setup: This is a classic nail biting page turner mystery setup where first we don't know who gets killed and then we don't know who kills. A wedding party all full of rich, high profile, egoistic people go to a little island to celebrate and end up getting involved in a murder. Everyone who is part of the guest list has one or the other agenda and is out to kill or let down someone.
Wedding celebration turned into murder: Talk about an isolated island and a wedding and the first thing that comes to mind is romance. That is what the initial section of the book is all about. But when there is so much history behind people on the guest list, there are bound to be some surprises. The book starts with a hearth throb getting hitched and finally tying the knot. The story is first revolved around all the good things in a couples life and then slowly the darkness starts creeping in.
The past always creeps up: The writer has brought up the issues of almost each and every member of the party. The bunch of bullies who even though have grown up physically still live in the world with a view that they can go around and mess with people. A section of people who consider themselves to be privileged enough to be able to do anything they fancy doing with even a slightest bit of remorse.
Predictable: Good read but was predictable at many sections. Did not understand the location of the wedding as to how come such a remote island where it is even tough to get to could be chosen as a high profile wedding location. Then there was a huge discussion about a storm coming up which mysteriously went away at the end.
