The ambitious magazine publisher Jules is getting married to the charming TV star Will, and they’ve invited old friends and family along for the occasion. The Guest List sees a number of people gather on an island off the coast of Ireland to celebrate a wedding. Most of this book is a tense, engaging thriller, but it falls short at the last hurdle. It certainly is better, but it still retains (to a lesser extent) the unnecessary structure issues that reduce the story’s impact. I then learned that Foley had written a second book, The Guest List, which was far better received, and I was impressed enough to go and check it out. The book showed a lot of potential and was generally engaging, but it suffered from a number of strange structural choices that took me out of it. I recently read Lucy Foley’s The Hunting Party, a novel take on the crime genre, and found it a middling experience.
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