Go now! Go order this book! It’s creepy. It’s twisted. The revenge! The surprises! I always love Foley’s novels but this was her best yet. You’ll never walk through the woods the same way!

Creepy, spooky, new thriller by Lucy Foley! Things the perfect summertime thriller, and it all tied together perfectly at the end. The idea of The Birds being vigilante justice in the small village was awesome and some of the characters absolutely got what they deserved. It was a slow beginning at first, but that ending was fantastic!

In true Lucy Foley fashion this book was atmospheric and the setting was a character all on its own. Which made for such an interesting read. However, this one fell a bit flat for me. It was extremely over the top and out there which I just didn’t vibe with. The characters were hard to follow at times and the dual timelines also made things a little confusing. I was still entertained until the very end but just didn’t love it.

The Midnight Feast has the perfect combination blend of mystery, revenge, folklore superstition and thriller that creates an intriguing story. Francesca and her architect husband Owen are on the cusp of opening Francesca's inherited family manor as a luxury resort on the summer solstice. All has been created with exclusivity and over the top luxury for their guests. Bella, an old friend of Francesca's has secretly joined the manors guests with a score to settle, but what could that be? As grand opening unfolds things start to unravel and the we are left to wonder who is who, and what is what. Are all the characters really who they appear to be? The story is told in flashback journal entries from fifteen years ago and then to present day. I really enjoyed this novel. It made me think and try to figure the mystery out for my self without being obvious. The mood is spooky, atmospheric and a bit gothic which I really enjoyed. Highly recommended. 4 solid stars.

#MiniReviews:

Thanks William Morrow for my gifted copies.

Super short sweet reviews to close out the week.

🍽️ The Midnight Feast:

Queue another book that I call by the wrong title very boldly to everyone. It is not The Midnight Party, but a feast.

I love a remote/isolated location and a whodunnit. Felt like this one was a bit slow, but I enjoyed the vibes. It’s a very on brand book for Lucy Foley. We have multiple POVs and we have a dualish type timeline. I bet the audio would have been amazing for this one.

I definitely will try again on audio because the full cast is usually what sets Foley’s apart for me.

I feel pretty exhausted after this week, so these mini reviews are all I can muster.

QOTD: How do you “recharge?

I just couldn’t get into this one… I am disappointed. I really liked the Guest List and the Hunting Party. I didn’t like the Paris Apartment but I had higher hopes for this one.

This book had a dozen twist and turns that I never saw coming, and I’m one who likes to think I can see those coming! Just when you think you know what’s coming next, you don’t. I love Foley’s writing style and how often the book jumps from one perspective to the next. The only reason it got a couple of stars knocked off was because I felt like the plot dipped too much into fantasy in the middle of it and didn’t grab my attention back until the last 5% of the book. Thank you to NetGalley for allowing me to read the ARC ahead of release!

I started reading the Netgalley ebook, but was very quickly confused by all the POVs. I switched to audio when the book came out hoping it would help, but the story felt jumbled, confusing and overall hard to follow. I had higher hopes!

I’m going to cut to the chase: “The Midnight Feast” was a struggle to get through. Admittedly, I was not a big fan of “The Paris Apartment” but went into reading this book with high hopes and low expectations and even this did not help me like this book more. The character count is prohibitive to have any one character mean much to the reader, and the way the story jumps around could be hard to follow. It took me 2 weeks to get through the first 45% of this book because the story was so slow and it lost my attention within a few pages. The actual plot was a bit more outlandish than my imagination tolerates, but I can see others thinking it was interesting. If that was the only thing I didn’t like about this book, I’d put it off as just not my cup of tea. Unfortunately it wasn’t.

The good news, and the reason I am giving this 2 stars, is that that after the first half, the story started going somewhere and there were a few twists that peaked my interest…not enough to like the book but at enough to have me keep going. I felt accomplished powering through this book, but from an author like Lucy Foley I do expect more.

**Thank you to William Morrow, NetGalley and Lucy Foley for the advanced reader copy in exchange for my honest opinion.**

A fun and twisty mystery! With just the perfect touch of gothic spookiness. An absolute must read mystery in the Fall. If you are a fan of Lucy Foley this book will not disappoint. It has her usual structure of flipping back and forth thru the timeline. Revealing just enough to keep you going, wanting for more pieces of the puzzle. With this structure and her use of shorter chapters, the book sucks you in and entices you to finish it all in a single sitting. Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for such a wonderfully good time!

I enjoy Lucy Foley's writing style. She does a good job at teasing out details, differentiating between characters, and building a good story with great twists and turns. It's the day after the Summer Solstice and after the big Midnight Feast at a new wellness-type retreat run by Francesca Meadows. A body has been discovered at the base of the cliffs. Lucy Foley does a good job at writing multiple timelines. I enjoyed trying to piece together all the moving parts. This was a fun book to read and I can't wait for friends to read it so we can talk about it!

A fun, whimsical and twisty (and twisted) mystery that kept me guessing until the very end. Foley's settings are always so vibrant, you can feel the oppressive heat and humidity in this book. Would be fun as a movie!

Opening weekend at a resort surrounded by the forest ends with a fire and a dead body. What happened?

This is a fairly solid thriller. The basic plot was interesting and I love a story where the past comes back to haunt someone and it's slowly revealed how different characters are connected to each other. This book definitely provides that. What it didn't allow me was to feel any really connection to the characters themselves. The "past" portions of the narrative are told through an old journal. These were BY FAR the most compelling sections. When we flash back to the present where they're either building up to the fire or investigating what's happened, I found myself way less interested. I can't quite figure out exactly what took me out of the story in those parts but I found myself looking forward to see how far until we got back to the chapters set in the past. It's a quick read and I think if you like Lucy Foley's other books outside of The Guest List, you might like this.

This is one of the better Lucy Foley books I have read! I really enjoyed how everybody was interconnected-it was twisty whilst being the perfect amount of “on the nose”. Great fast paced beach read thriller.

I really wanted to like this book but I could not get into it.

I came back to it multiple times and finally DNF at 45%. The timeline and characters were difficult to follow and never really drew me into the plot.

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC!

Lucy Foley can do no wrong!! I will read everything she publishes. I love large casts in books and so appreciate that she doesn’t shy away from that.

The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley 4/5 ✨

“They haven’t failed yet to find justice. They are one with nature. And nature always finds a way.”

Okay I need to finish the hunting party to figure out which of Lucy’s books are my favorites, but I really enjoyed this one! I loved that I know most of the British references now (lol), I loved that I absolutely loathed one of the main characters and her atrocious behavior made sense for how she was written, and I also loved the blend between local legends and what happens when they’re brushed aside because they’re inconvenient for the posh assholes who disrupt nature and are incredibly messed up towards the local community lmao. I enjoyed that I didn’t really see a lot of the twists coming.

The one thing I didn’t like was how one of the characters who wanted to find justice became a detective/cop #yuck and #acab

Thank you to the author, NetGalley and William Morrow for an ARC that I’m getting to almost a month later 😂
#lucyfoley #themidnightfeastbook #booksbooksbooks #netgalley

An edge of your seat suspense that will won’t want to put down. The setting and characters were excellently written. You feel like you were there.

Omg! This is one of my favorite thrillers I have read this year. All of the twist and turns. Lucy Foley is definitely one of my auto buy authors for a reason.

I tried!!!!!!!!!!!!! I gave up around 40% because I could not understand what the heck was going on. Maybe it's my mood, maybe it's the way I was in a huge slump prior to picking this up... but I could not get into it. I tried so hard I think I broke my brain. Was this a thriller? I don't even know. But I think I'm done with this author since the Paris Apartment was also a DNF. UGH! Bummer.