The Midnight Feast is an atmospheric, chilling murder mystery with a sprinkling of fun throughout. The characters were great and I love how Lucy Foley ties everything up so neatly at the end of her books! A modern day Christie.

Another hit from Lucy Foley. I saw Lucy talk about the book at Capital Crime so immediately had to read it as she spoke so passionately about it. Really enjoyed the plot & the setting plus all the weird Solstice stuff. Also liked the way the characters used to tell the story were so different & allowed you to see things from all angles. The book definitely kept me guessing until the end which is always a bonus. Highly recommended.

Another fantastic read from Lucy Foley.

A thriller mystery with twists and turns, this has the familiar multi POV that Lucy's books always have, and some intriguing characters for you to love and hate.

An ok read, perfect for pool side. Quite a bit I found to be filler and could have been cut. But some good twists towards the end of the book

A suspenseful almost gothic thriller set in a coastal up market hotel at the time of summer solstice. Lots of twists and turns plus a darkness that underwrites the narrative. Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for the arc.

My thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for my copy of The Midnight Feast. Whilst I enjoyed it. it was not my favourite book by Lucy Foley. I found it to be a really, really slow burner with characters that never really developed. However, the final chapters more than made up for that with so many surprising twists and turns I felt my head was spinning!

Thank you to NetGalley for giving me this book for a fair and honest review.

I had great hopes for this book as I have read other Foley books and enjoined them, however, this one I did not like and dnf which I hate doing. I just feel it went on too long with no read character development. It won’t prevent me from reading her books going forward this one just wasn’t for me.

I have read a couple of Lucy Foleshill and you really have to pay close attention to everything as its all linked. Really enjoyed this book definitely recommend!!

"The Midnight Feast" by Lucy Foley is a captivating and suspenseful tale that keeps readers on the edge of their seats. Foley weaves mystery and drama, with great characters and unexpected twists. This novel is perfect for anyone who enjoys a thrilling and engaging read.

4 Stars!

There's something about Lucy Foley books that I just can't help but enjoy, I think this one definitely had more of an eery feel which was a bit unexpected but I really enjoyed this side of it. What I enjoy so much about this is the multi POVS, I just think it is always done so well and you get such a feel for the characters and can understand motives, backgrounds etc.

My only issue is that I found the start slightly slow, BUT towards the end in true Lucy Foley fashion the spiralling and unravelling was so quick and so engaging which had me turning the pages because I was so invested!

Sorry to say this Lucy as I LOVED The Paris Apartment and gave it 5 stars! But this one wasn't gripping, way too many POVs (5!!) and timelines (3!) so much so it was almost impossible to keep up. Especially when all the characters are SO unlikeable. There was 1 ok plot twist hence the second star but honestly if I cared enough about this book I would have figured it out. Still have no idea who Nate is or his relevance to this story.

2⭐️ absolute maximum

I'll read any Lucy Foley. She's incredibly good at taking a single space and making it a whole world, full of atmosphere, tension and a feeling of being trapped. In this case it's a hotel where the past is coming back to bite. I often struggle with shifting POVs but it worked here to create more suspense. The writing here is sharp, giving you a trail to follow while never being sure where it's going. Definitely recommend.

Offering suspense and drama Midnight Feast is a multiple course meal for the imagination.

The characters were good, well written and well thought out. The divide between the locals and the tourists was well written and played out well in the story.

The folk lore was interesting and woven through the events and the location.

Overall a good story that kept me reading over a few nights.

Grab this book for a bedside table read, snacks are optional.

Another excellent thriller by Lucy Foley.
It is opening day of the Manor, in Dorset, the pride and joy of Francesca. It is a luxury retreat, full of new age rituals, luxuries and pampering.
Everyone is busy getting things ready. Is is a whirlwind of activity and of people. Francesca is in charge and looking stunning, as usual. She, her employees and her guests are the voices of the story and they, in turn, paint this picture where details arise slowly. They all act strangely. Why? And who are they? A body is found and little by little, a dark and uncomfortable past is brought back in the middle of what should have been a wonderful day. Why? Because nothing is what it seems and no one is what they seem. And secrets cannot always be buried for ever.
This is a dark and slow roast of a thriller, with touches of mystery and imaginary creatures meeting in the woods. Dark secrets as well that return to haunt those who have done wrong. And, as in other Lucy Foley's books, this real talent for taking the reader along in the story, create some discomfort and lead us to wrong conclusions and to many questions, right until the end.
It is one of those books you can't put down.

One of the things I enjoy with Lucy Foleys books is that there’s a sense of fun about them. In ‘The Midnight Feast’ she continually takes aim at the whole ‘New age’ industry, especially through the incredibly annoying Francesca. There’s crystal pouches, while linen, and even a foragers tasting menu amongst the delights to be enjoyed. Guests post pictures on the ‘gram while enjoying the infinity pool.

There’s something of ‘The wicker man’ meets ‘The birds’ about this, a spooky folklore that you aren’t sure still exists. It’s a great setting, with suspicious locals and hints of paganism. Definitely atmospheric and shady.

I wanted a fun, zippy read and that’s what I got with this book, as I have with every other Lucy Foley title. Some of the reveals were a bit more plausible than others, and a couple of them were well signposted, but there were plenty I didn’t see coming.

Another enjoyable and hugely entertaining twisty thriller from an author who is in complete control of her particular brand of storytelling. If you liked her previous books, you’ll love this too.

The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley – 4.5 stars

This is a fantastic mystery thriller with twists that hold me whole weekend to get through it. And so I did. All what I want to say is The Birds??
Go ahead with this book and try to figure out what’s there! You will enjoy it!

Publisher: HarperCollins UK, HarperFiction | HarperCollins
Pages: 416

Thank you NetGalley and publisher for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Lucy Foley has done it again! Her books are one of the things I look forward to every year, and The Midnight Feast is the perfect Summer thriller. Secrets of the past, people masking their identities, the town's myths, and a hip new hotel in Dorset with a cult-leader like owner turn out to be the perfect combination!

‘The Midnight feast’ by Lucy Foley, took me a while to settle into the story and to read. However, Foley has once again does a good job at presenting a multi-POV in weaving of the future, past and present narratives. Set at an exclusive country-side ‘resort’, “The Manor” on the coast of England on their opening weekend, we join a group of staff, guests and locals to celebrate. Is anyone who they seem? And should anyone “go down into the woods today” … you’ll have to read to find out more.

Not Foley’s best book, and I didn’t race through it or get as hooked as quickly as I did with her earlier novels. Nevertheless, it will be a good summer read for any thriller fans - 3.5 rounded to 4.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an advanced copy of this book!! I was really looking forward to this one but I wasn’t totally gripped!! It was a bit unbelievable for my liking! I finished it as I was invested enough to want to know what happened at the end but overall I was a little disappointed.

"The Birds are like nature. And nature always finds a way."

Francesca Meadows has returned home to the English coast, turning her family estate into The Manor, an exclusive and very pricey retreat for those looking to recuperate in the countryside in luxury. It's the opening weekend and Francesca has spared no expense, with the festivities ending in a midnight feast on the summer solstice. She needs to be careful though, because she's made many enemies and some of them will be there.

By the end of the solstice, the building will be in flames, the guests all strung out and a body will have been found at the bottom of a cliff. Who has died? Was it an accident that happened during the debauchery? Or was it something more sinister? And is there anything truth to the rumours of a group called 'The Birds' meeting in the forest, dispensing their own forms of justice?

The story is told from multiple viewpoints: Francesca, her husband Own, staff member, Eddie and Bella, a guest. All of them have secrets they don't want the others to know about. All of them have their own agendas in being at The Manor.

I feel like Lucy Foley is by now an old hand at locked-room mysteries but unfortunately, this one fell a bit flat for me. I recently read and loved 'The Guest List', and there the victim is also not revealed until the end but in this book, I guessed immediately who'd been killed.

The twists were lukewarm and half-baked – I didn't care as much about them as I would have liked and they all kind of came tumbling out at the end together, whereas I think they could have been laid out more carefully. I was also missing the kind of tension that Foley usually excels at building up, but I was never on the edge of my seat.

'The Midnight Feast' is interesting but ultimately lacks the gut-punch twists and intriguing characters a good locked-room mystery has.