A review by golem
The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley

  • Loveable characters? No

4.0

So, the audiobook is great. It's just wonderfully entertaining, the actors are delightful, the different accents and voices are pitch-perfect (except for the American accent, which--at least there isn't much of it), it's totally atmospheric and suspenseful. As a book, IDK. The POV characters are the four straight white women and the hunky gamekeeper; the book seems very, very interested in the inner lives of posh white women but not too imaginative about what animates those lives (basically, body issues, class issues, men and sexual jealousy). There are some queer characters and a woman of colour (all of whom seem fairly interesting, if not very nice), but they are background. The plot twists and solution are, to my mind, quite predictable. Still--listen to the audiobook. It's definitely fun.
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