Thank you @williammorrowbooks, @netgalley, and @lucyfoleyauthor for an ARC of The Midnight Feast 🫶

I SQUEALED when I opened the email that said I was approved for this ARC. Lucy Foley is one of my thriller queens. I could not put this book down.

🌿🐦‍⬛The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley🐦‍⬛🌿

It’s the opening night of an exclusive resort called The Manor. Everything has been painstakingly planned to give guests a luxurious, elaborate weekend. The infinity pool, the local cocktails infused with CBD, the linen, the crystals and meditations have all been curated to the highest standards. The locals, however, are angry the land has been stolen and treated with disrespect. And then there’s the local folklore about the woods and the giant birds who roam it.

I love a closed-door mystery. The tension and atmosphere that’s created when it’s someone we know is ✨🤌🏻✨ It’s very reminiscent of The Guest List and The Hunting Party. Short chapters. Multiple POV. Multiple twists. I loved it.

I tried I really did. I just am not a fan of this writing style. I made it about 10% though. It’s just a reminder that not every author is for you and that’s ok!

Lucy Foley is one of the most captivating thriller writers out there right now. This book delivered and may be her best novel yet.

Started out very strong, but lost its strength as the book went on. Main characters were not like able at all, and I just couldn’t keep up the pace of reading that I started out with.

If you like twists and turns and old characters returning to the “scene of the crime” then this is the novel for you. I was glad to read this novel by Lucy Foley theu NetGalley. Well written and lots of intrigue made me finish this book very quickly

A midnight feast but really just an elaborate revenge plot? I have to be honest, there wasn’t much I enjoyed about this book. Sure, I kept reading to know what would happen next but that’s about it. Dry writing. Too many POVs and unnecessary details.

This book is set in England at a recently renovated hotel called The Manor. The plot centers around a mysterious event from the past. Periodically, a group of individuals dressed as giant birds appear, and each time they do, a death occurs. Despite Francesca's determination to successfully open her new hotel and the support of her husband Owen, the staff, and her childhood memories of growing up on the estate, a dark presence seems to persistently surround them.

For me, this book offered a different reading experience. The story unfolds through the perspectives of three main characters, with two additional points of view from Eddie and Detective Walker. There is also a Summer Journal from 2009 that reveals secrets from the past when Francesca (Frankie) and Bella (Sparrow) were young girls in the town. While I enjoyed many aspects of the book, I also struggled with scenes that didn't seem to connect and unexplained elements. Additionally, there were frequent changes in perspective, which made it a bit challenging to follow at times. However, I believe the story had a strong foundation, and it provided a unique reading experience from an author I had previously enjoyed.

This dark, twisty, eerie thriller takes place on opening weekend of a new posh hotel/retreat owned by the rich and elite Francesca Meadows.

At the end of opening weekend, the Manor has burned down, guests seem to have lost their minds, and someone is dead.

The POVs jump from Francesca; a dishwasher, Eddie; a hotel guest, Bella; a detective inspector, Walker; Francesca’s husband, Owen; and summer journal entries from 15 years ago, which, in my opinion, is really when the story started to amp up.

I’ll be honest, this was a fine book. Just fine. It didn’t exactly “wow” me, and I expected more out of the premise of it being an Among Us trope. It didn’t feel like a thriller to me, it felt more like an interestingly eerie fiction book.

But I did enjoy the twists, I thought they were very well done and everything came together perfectly in the end. So for that, I’ll round my 3.75 stars up to a 4.

I am such a fan of Lucy Foley's and was excited to get my hands on this ARC. The story is told from multiple POV'S which is a style that has worked well for Foleys previous novels. The Midnight Feast started slowly for me. It is the sort of slow burn thriller that you want to stick with because the pay offs are worth it. The story takes place at a posh getaway retreat where the guests and hosts each have their own secrets and veiled agendas..This is complicated even further when the resort and its guests faces backlash from the locals over the use of the land and the forest surrounding the resort. Foley mixes ancient lore and pagan beliefs to the storyline which adds a level of intrigue and creepiness giving it a sutble nod to Alfred Hitchcocks " The Birds " All of this culminates to a mangled body being found by the local firsherman, and a devastating fire that brings the reader to a conclusion they may not see coming.

I was excited to read this based off the premise. I have not read a book by Lucy Foley yet. It didn’t keep my attention. Expecting to have supernatural elements and disappointed that the story not living up to those expectations. The Midnight Feast has a lot of glowing reviews so I’m deciding it just wasn’t for me.

It was fun to read all the characters POV!
I thought this was really well written and I look forward to reading more from this author in the future.

Thank you to HarperCollins + Lucy Foley for this Advanced Reader's Copy in exchange for an honest review. I was thrilled to receive it and thrilled while reading it.

Lucy Foley's latest book is her best yet! It's reminiscent of Liane Moriarty's "Nine Perfect Strangers" but manages to actually live up to the promised premise. Foley delivers a story that's like a campfire tale, blending mystery with folklore about the legend of the Birds, echoing the Hitchcock classic. With dual timelines, including journal entries, and multiple viewpoints, Foley keeps the story clear and engaging. This book is like a midnight feast in and of itself—a satisfying treat you won't want to put down.

Oh my goodness, Lucy Foley never fails. Wow. She so beautifully blends several perspectives and timelines to create a captivating and un-put-down-able story. Every time I thought I had a grasp on where this was going, she proved she's far more clever than I. I loved the little bit of paranormality (The Birds, what the actual ffff was that?! Nightmares. Straight nightmares.), the juxtaposition of the presumptuous rich and the poor, rugged locals, and the levels of mystery throughout each timeline. I usually go into mysteries expecting one main mystery to carry the story, but "The Midnight Feast" had me wondering what the one true big mystery was going to be. Spoiler alert, it's ALL the mystery and it's a WILD ride.

Foley does an incredible job at creating an unsettled feeling even in seemingly mundane moments. We all know of that creepy sixth-sense feeling that we're being watched or something isn't quite right. Somehow she's managed to capture that exact feeling in these chapters. Actually chill-inducing.

There's also an interesting moral dilemma to this story. Should we feel bad that careless rich people (who exploited this quiet and quaint town) have bad things happening to them? They were warned by locals, they were encouraged to find somewhere else. Should we feel bad that they kinda got what was coming to them? Is it bad to feel a bit vindicated by their suffering? Personally, I take the side of the locals, but that's neither here nor there. Where it gets a bit hairy for me is in how to feel about things that happened to the locals, but I opt to linger in moral ambiguity and not think to much on it. It all just adds to the unsettled feeling of the book.

The CHOKE HOLD that this book had on me!! I read it in one night; I just could not put it down! It was suspenseful and gripping, with a hint of the supernatural and a dark and twisty past that kept you guessing. The writing from the different points of view was so good... I can't explain it, other than to say I had completely different accents in my head reading it. I'm always a huge fan of Lucy Foley, but this book was my favorite of hers yet!

This is a perfect breezy vacation thriller set at a remote posh wellness retreat where everyone is hiding something. Though a bit predictable and silly at times, this was a fun and entertaining read and hard to put down. Thank you to Net Galley for a chance to read and review this book!

This book just wasn’t my cup of tea. The writing was good, I just wasn’t the biggest fan of the story.

There's something about books with "midnight" in the title that are automatic reads to me. Not sure why that is!

And any book with Lucy Foley's name on the cover will be an automatic read for me too. Her mysteries, The Guest List and The Hunting Party, are two of my favorites. I love the Britishisms, love the voices, love the settings.

This one, in particular, had a really intriguing premise with some familiar details like local residents of a small town vs. the super rich entitled landowners, old flings and personal reinventions, and of course, a long-ago secret that not everyone has forgotten. Although everyone in this book is pretending to be someone else, I think my favorite character was Francesca even though I knew she was an awful person. Her voice and personality were fiery and multi-dimensional.

Definitely recommend! Thanks to Netgalley for the arc to review.

I loved this book. It was creepier than expected and the “birds” were hard for me to wrap my head around. I loved the development of the story and all of the surprise connections that were made. Great read!

This was quite enjoyable! The secret/resolution was unexpected and I liked seeing how everything fell into place. I really liked the setting/aesthetic and wondering if it would end up being supernatural. The different POVs were fun but ngl Francesca’s might have been my favorite, she’s so terrible and deluded and full of herself.

Thanks to NetGalley and William Morrow for the digital ARC; all opinions are my own.

The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley is a well done thriller that is highly entertaining and intriguing.

I’m a big fan of Lucy Foley’s novels! From The Hunting Party to The Guest List, I think her thrillers all have that readability, can’t-put-down quality to them. There’s always a big mystery, and she provides plenty of character development and context as well. She also writes vivid settings. And it was especially so with The Midnight Feast.

I keep these spoiler-free so I can’t go into too much detail but overall, I thought this was an entertaining thriller. It had a unique premise with a vivid setting. And I also think she gave plenty of backstory as well and motivations for all the characters. It felt very much like a complete story too.

Overall, an entertaining thriller!