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I love Foley’s writing! The way she tells the story alternating between past and present, revealing little chunks of the murder details at a time rather than giving too much away at the start. That definitely kept me from knowing/guessing with absolute certainty what had happened and who was involved. I also loved the switching POVs and slow reveals of each secret over the course of the novel. I enjoyed Foley’s first novel, The Hunting Party, and with this book she’s officially become one of my favorites for the genre and an auto read author!

I stayed up way too late reading this and finished in just 2 days! One of the secrets I predicted pretty early on but the others were shocking and I didn’t see them coming. The final twist especially was jaw dropping!!

All the characters are complicated with both likable and unlikeable qualities. One thing I didn’t like however was all the body shaming and fatphobia. It just felt completely unnecessary to include.

Overall it was a quick and enjoyable classic murder mystery. These types of thrillers with the switching POVs and group of people trapped together resulting in a murder are my favorite kind of thriller novel honestly! Highly recommend if you also enjoy classic murder mysteries involving a group of friends/acquaintances, isolated setting, and dark secrets coming to the surface.