The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley

The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley

Lucy Foley's most recent novel, The Midnight Feast, was published in June of this year and is already an Amazon Editor's Pick for Mystery, Thriller, and Suspense. Unlike some of her other books, this has a bit of a gothic or supernatural feel to it. We are going to see bullying, animal death, drug use, sexual assault, more than one toxic relationship, blood and a car accident, murder and death, fire, alcohol, and classism.

Francesca has opened an exclusive resort on the land she inherited when her grandmother died, and not everyone is very happy about it. The locals are upset about a number of things: no longer having access to parts of the land, that Francesca touts the resort as an all-natural and wellness location but refuses to use any of the local goods, and that she has tried to intimidate some of them to possibly increase the size of her resort. But Francesca won't let that get to her! She's always been blessed, what she wants just kind of happens to her, she's just so grateful for it. Except, someone from Francesca's past knows that she's not always been so squeaky clean, and that person is about to make Francesca pay.

I was very excited for this book, I've had it on my to be read list since I heard it was coming out, and I was pretty underwhelmed to be quite honest. We get multiple points of view in this book: Francesca the girlboss, as well as a member of Francesca's staff, her husband, and a mystery guest. The writing was good, Lucy Foley always delivers there, but the story left something to be desired. It leaned heavily into the spooky feel of an urban legend but it just didn't deliver for me. It felt like a combination of Lucy Foley's other novel The Guest List and Weyward by Emilia Hart, except that by combining them it lost something and I liked both of those better than this book. It wasn't terrible, it was still a decent book, but nothing like what I was hoping for.

The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley gets 3.5 stars out of 5. It was fine, but nothing I would write home about.

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Pairs well with a Ploughman's sandwich and manifesting positivity, wearing linen, and maybe hexing a milk cow.

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