The Guest List

De: Lucy Foley

Narrado por: Olivia Dowd, Aoife McMahon, Chloe Massey, Sarah Ovens, Rich Keeble, Jot Davies

The number one Sunday Times best seller.

Waterstone's Thriller of the Month.

The June 2020 Reese's Book Club pick.

The Times Best Crime Fiction of the Year pick.

Goodreads Choice Awards winner for Crime & Mystery 2020.

Longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger award.

On an island off the windswept Irish coast, guests gather for the wedding of the year – the marriage of Jules Keegan and Will Slater. Old friends.

Past grudges. Happy families.Hidden jealousies. Thirteen guests.One body. The wedding cake has barely been cut when one of the guests is found dead. And as a storm unleashes its fury on the island, everyone is trapped.

All have a secret. All have a motive.One guest won’t leave this wedding alive....

©2020 Lucy Foley (P)2019 HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Both a classic whodunnit and a very contemporary psychological thriller that left me guessing right to the end – a wonderful read." (Kate Mosse)

"Great fun. Lucy Foley is really very clever." (Anthony Horowitz)

"A very modern Agatha Christie for the new roaring 20s...secrets and lies at every turn." (Sarah Pinborough)

Entertaining but far-fetched

Overall, the story was quite interesting, but by the end there were too many subplots and coincidences and it all felt implausible.

Not too bad

I wouldn’t call it a murder mystery, since the whole murder was kind of pinned there as if something reminded the writer of it last minute.
Performances are good, though, mostly the female ones. And I liked the characters, too

Love love LOVE

This is one where the audiobook is essential! Loved the different voices, the different secrets and the crazy twists! Wow!

Beautifully narrated

I loved The Guest List. The narration was great and the story kept me hooked right to the end.

Very good!

I really liked this story. It reminded me of “Murder on the Orient Express” where there is a murder that everyone on the island had a motive to commit. The truth of each character unravels as the story evolves revealing who the victim is, the ties of the victim to each of the party guests, and ultimately the final showdown. It was interesting and entertaining listening to the different perspectives of the characters with the different narrators. Overall, a very good listen.

Exceptionally good!

Loved the story and the narration was outstanding. I did not want this book to finish, it was so good.

It came good

in order to build the characters and detail their history, the 1st part is incredibly slow and boring. To be fair, there is no easy way around this. As we near the end, the switching between character narratives is more frequent which adds to the sense of increased pace and I was more engaged. I feared that the ending would be over the top but it was neatly handled.

Great story, narrators leave much to be desired

Loved this story, but couldn’t help being jarred throughout by the shoddy narration. I found some of the voices very false and ‘try hard’, sort of reminiscent of a high school dramatic reading. I don’t want to detract from the book too much though - the plot and story were fantastic.

Unlikeable characters

What a bunch of unlikeable characters. So glad I’m not spending any more time with them!

An Excellent Listen

Struggled to get started with the way it was narrated, but within a couple of chapters, couldn't stop listening.