A confidently written debut work of high quality.
But on a deeper level, it’s a greater exploration of Asian identity and the power of family throughout generations. On the surface, this is a twisty time travel mystery.
She’s a talented writer but she writes the ugliest endings. Lucy Foley’s books have a low ceiling that she can’t help but hit. But then the killer is revealed and their motivations are garbage at best and problematic at worse and it soured me on the whole thing. I was prepared to write about this being a decent read. (Feb.So after two books and almost 2k pages of enough internalized misogyny to make Phyllis Schlafly blush, with stories chock full of men and women who will literally hump anyone and anything, Jackie Collins suddenly decides to make Lucky purchase a movie studio…in order to get rid of casting couches and male dominance in favor of female-driven movies that are less horny. Agent: Alexandra Machinist, ICM Partners. Foley spins her story skillfully through multiple narrators, and if she’s less sure-handed with character, this still makes for a cracklingly suspenseful story for a long winter’s night. Things start to go seriously wrong with the arrival of a blizzard that will soon cut off the 50,000-acre spread from the outside world. At the Loch Corrin station, they’re met by Doug, the estate’s odd, though hunky, gamekeeper at Loch Corrin, they encounter unexpected additional guests: a pair of strange Icelandic backpackers. Tensions, sexual and otherwise, first flare during the lengthy, alcohol-lubricated train trip from London on December 30, fanned by charismatic, capricious Miranda-the golden girl most men want to be with and more than a few women long to become. Nine close friends, four of them couples, gather for their extravagant annual New Year’s getaway-this time at Loch Corrin, a remote estate in the Scottish Highlands-a decade after most of them graduated from Oxford.
Historical novelist Foley ( The Invitation) makes an auspicious thriller debut.
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