Ok, sorry, but no! This was a snoozefest. I consider myself a fan of the ‘whodunit’ genre and of course I don’t expect every ‘whodunit’ story to be the next “And Then There Were None” caliber, but “The Guest List” just didn’t work for me.
The first 20-25% of the book was engaging, the setting was sufficiently creepy, the characters just the right amount of quirky, but my interest started to wane as the plot took forever to get going, the characters and the story slowly became too campy. And don’t even get me started on the coincidences! Even a cheesy, sugary 90s romcom has fewer coincidences than this story.
Maybe it is me. Maybe I shouldn’t have gone in with high expectations based on the reviews and I shouldn’t have been expecting the next “Gone Girl”. There’s definitely some good stuff here (and for sure a ‘racy’ low-budget Hollywood movie in near future). But if you want to dive in, then do so with lowered expectations - you have been warned.
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