The Hunting Party - The Library of the Uncommons

Audiobook

English language

Published Dec. 31, 2018 by HarperCollins Publishers Limited.

ISBN:: 978-0-06-289679-7

(2 reviews)

All of them are friends. One of them is a killer.

During the languid days of the Christmas break, a group of thirtysomething friends from Oxford meet to welcome in the New Year together, a tradition they began as students ten years ago. For this vacation, they’ve chosen an idyllic and isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands—the perfect place to get away and unwind by themselves.

They arrive on December 30th, just before a historic blizzard seals the lodge off from the outside world.

Two days later, on New Year’s Day, one of them is dead.

The trip began innocently enough: admiring the stunning if foreboding scenery, champagne in front of a crackling fire, and reminiscences about the past. But after a decade, the weight of secret resentments has grown too heavy for the group’s tenuous nostalgia to bear. Amid the boisterous revelry of New Year’s Eve, the cord holding …

All of them are friends. One of them is a killer.

During the languid days of the Christmas break, a group of thirtysomething friends from Oxford meet to welcome in the New Year together, a tradition they began as students ten years ago. For this vacation, they’ve chosen an idyllic and isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands—the perfect place to get away and unwind by themselves.

They arrive on December 30th, just before a historic blizzard seals the lodge off from the outside world.

Two days later, on New Year’s Day, one of them is dead.

The trip began innocently enough: admiring the stunning if foreboding scenery, champagne in front of a crackling fire, and reminiscences about the past. But after a decade, the weight of secret resentments has grown too heavy for the group’s tenuous nostalgia to bear. Amid the boisterous revelry of New Year’s Eve, the cord holding them together snaps.

Now one of them is dead . . . and another of them did it.

Keep your friends close, the old adage goes. But just how close is too close?

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KnitAFett reviewed The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley

Audiobook made this more enjoyable

3 stars

Rating of the story: 2 Rating of the audiobook :4 So 3 stars it shall be!

Yay another book where I find the MCs insufferable. The whole group consisted of frenemies. Which is fine, but it was very easy to pick up on from the get go.

I did figure out who did it early on, but that doesn't bother me. There were so many red herrings thrown into the book that it made it cumbersome to get through.

The audiobook was great, though. The voice actors they used did a great job, and it was extremely helpful to have a different actor for each character due to the amount of POVs.

I didn't really like how the POVs were handled though. You have more people in the group that do not have a POV and it took out a lot of the mystery for me. I feel like if …

Rating of the story: 2 Rating of the audiobook :4 So 3 stars it shall be!

Yay another book where I find the MCs insufferable. The whole group consisted of frenemies. Which is fine, but it was very easy to pick up on from the get go.

I did figure out who did it early on, but that doesn't bother me. There were so many red herrings thrown into the book that it made it cumbersome to get through.

The audiobook was great, though. The voice actors they used did a great job, and it was extremely helpful to have a different actor for each character due to the amount of POVs.

I didn't really like how the POVs were handled though. You have more people in the group that do not have a POV and it took out a lot of the mystery for me. I feel like if you're going to do 5 POVs, you should just add in the others because you've already lost a few readers because of the amount. Maybe unpopular opinion, but I stand by it.

Overall, if you decide to give this book a go, I highly recommend utilizing the audiobook.

Susanna

rated it

April 12, 2021

Subjects

Scotland, fiction
Fiction, suspense
Fiction, thrillers, general