Review of The Hunting Party – A murder mystery novel about a group of college friends who vacation together every year for New Years. Trapped together in a snowy Scottish isolated lodge, one memeber of the group is found strangled and dead. Exploring all of the possibilities.
Meh. I liked the writing quite a bit, the style of it anyways. From an American point of view, it's fun to read British and Scottish narrations. The characters are well-written, especially for such a short book. I think they were all at a quite-believable point in their lives, spoiled rich kids all hitting their mid-thirties and realizing how bored and pathetic they are.
It was VERY obvious to me that Emma was the killer, right from the beginning. As soon as it was noticed by Doug (spelling might be incorrect, as I listened to audio book) that she had dyed her hair blonde and looked slightly like Miranda, I knew that she had been the stalker all along and the murderer. So the book was kind of flat for me in terms of there were no real 😮 moments of shock, since the plot was easily discernible from the beginning.
by OGAnimalCrossing
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Fwiw, from my Scottish perspective, take the Scottish perspectives/narrations with a generous pinch of salt. I didn’t hate the book overall but as you say, the twists weren’t so twisty.