Book Review on The Guest List by Lucy Foley

 

The Guest list by Lucy Foley lays us in a trap with the wedding guest and the death mystery which involves chain of events that happens in the lives of the main characters of the novel leads us to the mystery murder. The novel moves with multi- stranded narrative mode that keeps us engaging and reveals the indignation, remorse and anxiety of the narrators.

Will Slater a handsome guy and a rising star, Julia Keegan (Jules) a beautiful woman and an aspiring editor of a magazine, plans their wedding at an Irish Island. Unknown about the tragedy that is waiting for them, they prepare for their wedding with the guest list and all other arrangements for their marriage.

Aoife the wedding planner, Johnno - Will’s friend, Olivia step sister of Jules’s, Hannah wife of Charlie a guest from Jules side are the main narrative characters each possessing some hidden past & dark secrets that they carry throughout the story.

A page turner with so many knots and each removed one by one at each stage of the events are exciting. Yet the story is bit dragging and annoying at some places leaving readers at exasperation.

The novel engages the reader to suspect all the main characters and till the end one is unable to come to a conclusion of who did this murder and why? All remains a mystery till the end and that is how Lucy Foley makes the reader occupied throughout the book.

An exemplary whodunnit, mirroring Agatha Christie’s style with so many twist and turns that leaves the story unpredictable. It makes us guessing the murderer from the beginning till the end and reveals the suspense with an unexpected twist.

My rating is four stars for this agog read.