{"id":17026,"date":"2021-02-02T09:15:19","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T15:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=17026"},"modified":"2021-01-25T08:21:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T14:21:31","slug":"book-5-of-52-the-guest-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/book-5-of-52-the-guest-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 5 (of 52) &#8211; The Guest List"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17027\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/theguestlist.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17027\" class=\"wp-image-17027 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/theguestlist.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"608\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/theguestlist.jpg 400w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/theguestlist-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17027\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Guest List &#8211; Lucy Foley<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In <em>The Guest List<\/em>, a group of people gather on an island off the coast of Ireland for the wedding of a successful blog owner and an upcoming television star.\u00a0 However, secrets and ghosts from the past threaten to overtake them all.<\/p>\n<p>I first became aware of Lucy Foley&#8217;s latest when it won as 2020&#8217;s Best Mystery &amp; Thriller in the Goodreads Choice Awards.\u00a0 When it went on sale for the Kindle a few weeks later, I picked it up and dug right in.\u00a0 If I have any complaints, it would be about the coincidences of many of the main characters having unknown ties to each other, which leads to the &#8220;mystery&#8221; of who the killer is.\u00a0 And I say &#8220;mystery&#8221; because there is probably about 10 pages between finding out who the victim is and who the killer is.\u00a0 Overall, I enjoyed the effort and I&#8217;ll probably keep a look our for more work from Foley in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The Guest List, a group of people gather on an island off the coast of Ireland for the wedding of a successful blog owner and an upcoming television star.\u00a0 However, secrets and ghosts from the past threaten to overtake them all. I first became aware of Lucy Foley&#8217;s latest when it won as 2020&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9295,5722,2889,9294,9293],"class_list":["post-17026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-goodreads-choice-awards","tag-goodreads-com","tag-kindle","tag-lucy-foley","tag-the-guest-list"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17028,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17026\/revisions\/17028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}