As I learn The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley I used to be slightly confused. What WAS I studying? Apparently The Midnight Feast is People Horror. What’s that and the way does The Midnight Feast examine to The Visitor Checklist and The Paris House? Let’s focus on it!
The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley: Abstract
- To be printed on June 18, 2024 by William Morrow
- 368 pages
- Extra books by Lucy Foley: The Looking Social gathering, The Visitor Checklist, The Paris House, plus two earlier works of historic romance.
- The ebook presently has a 3.79 Goodreads ranking, with some readers loving it and others discovering it slow-paced with unlikeable characters.
- Due to the writer for sending me an advance copy for evaluate consideration
The Midnight Feast: Abstract and Jen’s Fast Take
- Sure, The Midnight Feast is people horror, which is “horror fiction that makes use of components of folklore, together with a rural setting, isolation, and themes of superstition, people faith, paganism, sacrifice and the darkish elements of nature.” Test, test, checkity-check.
- If the concept of studying horror scares you, I’m a scaredy cat and the horror in that is extra delicate than wild
- If you happen to ARE a horror fan, The Midnight Feast has a sluggish tempo, making it really feel a bit like sluggish burn suspense with people horror components. Possibly it’s actually people suspense?
- To me, not a lot appeared to be taking place within the current however then (most) every thing tied collectively on the finish. Like Daughter of Mine.
- There WAS loads occurring narrative-wise, with quick chapters, three timelines, an epistolary aspect and 4 POVs.
- I like to recommend this to followers of Alex North as this jogged my memory a little bit of The Angel Maker.
The Midnight Feast: Jen’s Evaluation
I will likely be trustworthy: the primary time I learn The Midnight Feast, I used to be not the largest fan
Regardless of the ebook’s quick chapters and Massive Little Lies-style physique discovery within the opening pages, I used to be not enthralled.
The characters have been mysterious and their motives unclear. I agree with the readers that felt that almost all have been unlikeable, although I feel that was the case in most of Foley’s prior books.
The motion felt mundane: preparations for a flowery summer time solstice celebration, delicate stress between the company of a brand new resort on the Dorset coast and a few disgruntled locals, and the police investigating that physique, which I knew wouldn’t be recognized till the ebook’s final pages.
There have been three timelines: one on the day of the Midnight Feast, a summer time solstice celebration at a brand new resort on the Dorset coast; one the next day, and one which performed out within the pages of a teen’s summer time journal from 2010.
Some readers liked the 2010 journal aspect and others actually disliked it. I used to be impartial. I liked the humorous Y2K references however I wasn’t certain the place issues have been going.
Nonetheless, the journal was needed to know the stunning reveals on the finish and keep away from an enormous info-dump (which I by no means get pleasure from.)
On the optimistic facet, every thing DOES actually come collectively on the finish
There are many tiny clues and breadcrumbs dropped all through all of the completely different narratives. (I’m a quick reader, so I don’t all the time do nicely with subtlety and tiny clues.) However I did respect the craftsmanship of this story.
What concerning the people horror?
Themes of people tales and superstition will not be actually my factor. The ebook references a 2019 Swedish people horror film referred to as Midsommer which sounds actually on the market.
There may be an animal sacrifice (not depicted however a part of the plot) however that stuff will not be actually the middle of the story.
The Midnight Feast: Spoilers and the Ending Defined
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