Fantastic book with great core characters. Recommend to friends for anyone who loves this genre of book!

I came into this book with super high expectations after giving Lucy Foley 5 stars multiple times before. However, I had nothing to worry about. I found this book incredibly easy to fly through and gripped me throughout. I decided to give this also 5 stars because of the twists that surprised me, the easy but tense writing and the way Lucy Foley is able to create character dynamics and relations you don't see coming.

Another fantastic book by Lucy Foley! She’s fast become one of my favourite authors, I always look forward to whatever she writes.
This story is full of fantastic, interesting characters you can’t help but find fascinating. Full of intrigue and dark atmosphere, it was a thrilling read and I loved every minute of it.
Can’t wait for Lucy Foley’s next offering!
4.5 ⭐️

When Francesca Meadows decides to convert her family home into a luxury hotel, the opening weekend promises to be a spectacle. But The Manor is hiding many dark secrets, and with the locals up in arms about the closure of local woodland, nothing is going as it was planned.

I’ve read several of Lucy Foley’s novels and The Midnight Feast is another cracking story. Her characters are all hiding secrets from their pasts, and gradually they all intertwine to tell the story. The action jumps around over the course of the Solstice weekend, plus jumping back to events 15 years previously. I will admit to getting a little confused over all the characters and how they relate to each other and the plot, but thankfully everything is explained by the end.

A gripping thriller and great read

I always enjoy Lucy Foley's books and this one was no exception. She is really good at setting up the scene with a range of mysterious characters and in this one she has once again created a wonderful sense of place with the manor hotel, woodland hutches and so on. Full of twists and turns, and very creepy and macabre in places, this is sheer escapism. A perfect holiday read.

Set at a newly opened exclusive wellness retreat, it is immediately clear that there is conflict brewing. The locals despise the wellness retreat and its owners for blocking them off from land which they see as belonging to the community, and the author uses pagan and folklore elements to increase the general sense of unease and to hint that something very bad is about to happen. The number of POVs and the time jumps between present and past made it harder to follow the story until it all comes together more in the final third of the book when the links between the people in the present day and the flashbacks became clearer. Because this did slow down the pace of the book for me and because I felt that many of the characters had quite similar voices, I've subtracted one star but it was nonetheless an enjoyable read.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for the advance copy in return for an honest review.

Just a great read...Lucy Foley does it once again! Starts out at a pace, which never lets go....stunning book! Many thanks to Netgalley.co.uk for the opportunity to read this excellent book!

What a fantastically versatile author Lucy Foley is! Whereas her previous thrillers ‘The Guest List’ and ‘The Hunting Party’ took the discerning readership to the much colder climes of Scotland and Ireland, and ‘The Paris Apartment’ provided a detour to the French capital city, ‘The Midnight Feast’, her latest offering, accompanies us to a tranquil and beautiful setting on the Dorset coast. It is here that local property developer Francesca aspires to open a luxury resort hotel. Drawing on a privileged, often demanding clientele, not dissimilar to the characters from her previous novels, is challenging enough, but soon Francesca finds out that her problems are compounded by old rivalries, overblown expectations and murderous thoughts that erupt at her meticulously planned summer solstice party … As ever, Lucy Foley writes beautifully and poignantly and shines a clear spotlight on human frailties and entitlements. Highly recommended! Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for the free ARC granted in recognition of this honest and unbiased book review.

Written in Lucy Foley's signature style, this engrossing whodunnit brings together a group of people, with grudges, changed identities and dark secrets in their past, in a fabulous location where tragedy strikes. The backstory unfolds through different viewpoints and a teenager's diary. I loved the self-obsessed and unaware Francesca, and enjoyed seeing how the truth was revealed in this spooky, atmospheric story

The story unfolds and keeps you guessing as to what happened all those years ago which is being played out but with different characters. No one is quite who they seem and you don't know how it will all end and if justice will be served.

I've enjoyed Lucy Foley's books in the past, but this one simply isn't working for me. I'm tired of the simplistic trope of bad rich people oppressing good poor people, I'm tired of present tense, I'm tired of multiple narrators who all sound the same, I'm tired of time shifts and I'm so, so tired of authors who think that using foul language makes them look cool. The repeated use of the c-word is unacceptable to me and surely to anyone who thinks books should strive to be entertaining and well written rather than sordid pulp. Not for me - abandoned at page 80. I'll think long and hard before reading another of her books. Because I've abandoned it, I haven't reviewed it on social media.

This was amazing! Intense, gripping, full of twists that kept you turning the page, I didn't want to put it down

A fabulously written gripping story that was a pleasure to read. I would absolutely recommend this book, it was brilliant

The Midnight Feast was a promising murder mysteries take set at wellness resort for wealthy people and local sinister secret society. This is my first read from the author but I hear alot good recommendations read from her work.

Her writing is easy to follow. The plots seem random and dragging. The pace is slower than my usually favorite. Five POVs are too much expecially without any distinction between each voices. Most of them are lack personality and underdevelopment. Overall I think this is not the best work to represent the author.

Thank you Netgalley and Harper Fiction from Harper Collins UK for providing copy of this ebook. I have voluntarily read and reviewed it. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Expecting release date : 6 June 2024

There is a reason why Lucy Foley is known as the modern day Agatha Christie - her books are WITHOUT FAIL outstanding. Gripping, nuanced, clever and intriguing, The Midnight Feast is possibly her best yet. Great stuff.

Another fab read from Lucy Foley!
This has everything you hope for in a thriller - fast paced, page turner, keeps you guessing, and a storyline that sucks you in

Another Lucy Foley that didn’t let me down! I just love the way she writes, it really grips me and keeps me hooked throughout all of her books and this one was really no different, I love the fact you cannot trust anyone in this book and you have a whole pool of suspects to choose from and try and dissect in your head. Another twisty thriller from Lucy that didn’t disappoint, kept the pages turning and guarantees I will purchase her next book! Brilliant!

I usually really love Lucy Foley's work but I have to say that I was disappointed with this novel. It felt predictable and there were gaps structurally. It's great to see an author experimenting with adding new themes into their work - particularly with the supernatural and folk horror aspects of this one - but the novel didn't quite reach the heights it was aspiring to for me. The characters felt uncomplicated in who was a hero and who was a villain and the split narrative never really quite managed to shift the perspectives on this. I also felt that it was a bit of a stretch to have so many people with interconnected lives gathered together and to have no one recognise each other or see the shared stories even when lived closely together. Unfortunately this just didn't feel like a very well thought out premise which is unsual for Lucy Foley as I always think that this is one of her greatest strengths as a writer.

A 5 star read again! Lucy Foley is my auto buy author and indeed for good reason. This book is going to be in my top reads for the year for sure. I couldn't put this down and it moved quite quickly once the story settled.

Foley sets the atmosphere and location amazingly well. The same can be said for the characters who make you question what's going on. The narrative style is brilliantly written and I liked how the mystery was set up. The multiple perspectives and timelines tie up well and made me turn the pages quickly. Also loved how superstitions were integrated into the story without going over the top and just the perfect mix to bring out the thriller and fear that jump out of the pages. Definitely recommend this book. One of my favourite reads from the author for sure.

Thank you HarperCollins UK, HarperFiction and NetGalley for this e-arc in exchange of my unbiased review.

A fascinating premise, great setting, intriguing dynamics and dialogue, and a spiralling storyline, loved it!