The Club

My rating: 2 stars

sigh... Where to even begin with this one? So you know that Dua Lipa “go girl, give us nothing” meme? That's this book.

The idea of a thriller set at an exclusive club for society's wealthiest elite sounds incredibly intriguing, right? Yeah, that's what I thought, too. Instead, we get 320 pages of nothing. Literally nothing happens until maybe 85% into the book. In addition to zero plot, there were way too many characters to keep track of and too many useless backstories. Why did we need to know about all these people? Who cares?? And then the big reveal at the end was so anticlimactic, it didn't even matter at that point. Ugh, this was such a slog to get through, I won't remember anything about it past today and I wouldn't recommend it to anybody.

I read Ellery Lloyd's debut novel “People Like Here” a while back. While it wasn't a favorite, I thought it had some interesting ideas and plot points, and I was looking forward to reading the author duo's sophomore novel. I think, at this point, I need to come to terms with the fact that they are not the authors for me.