The Party

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But then he meets the dazzling, popular and wealthy Ben Fitzmaurice, and gains admission to an exclusive world. Her third, Paradise City was named one of the best novels of 2015 in the Observer, Paste Magazine and the Evening Standard, and was People magazine’s Book of the Week. Martin - the protagonist was interesting in his slightly creepy devotion, but it would have been nice to get a clear sense of where his motives where coming from. Lastly, of course, gradually we learn what actually happened on the night of the party and of the consequences of those events. Maybe, but the sasquatches whom the volcano displaced contributed to the statistics, too, if only out of self-defense.

Martin's inability to accept that he's gay, and his unrequited love for Ben is a frustrating catalyst for me. He disfrutado mucho de esta novela, que es de este tipo de lecturas que la vas saboreando porque te gusta el estilo en el que se desenvuelve la autora, inteligente e irónica, y al mismo tiempo te mantiene enganchada, pero enganchada no de una forma tramposa, sino que Elizabeth Day mantiene el ritmo con una destreza poco habitual, ya que lo habitual es que los autores mantengan el enganche del lector con trampas varias y estiramientos de chicle, pero éste no es el caso. En cualquier caso, es un libro estupendo y espero que traduzcan al castellano más libros de la autora. It’s such a unique friendship that when it came to writing my new book, Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict, I knew I had to include it. What is the secret that has bound obsessed Martin and reluctant Ben together as 'best friends' for a quarter of a century?I found myself becoming a little distracted and losing interest in the characters as they were a dislikeable bunch apart from Lucy. He tells us coldly about his wife Lucy, who was the paper’s arts desk secretary, and whom he disdains as lacking in style — and much more excitedly about the swell hosts of the party, his best friend Ben Fitzmaurice and his wife Serena. The first hint that something is slightly off kilter is Lucy’s feeling that she and Martin have been slighted by the Fitzmaurice’s, who, despite having ample room in their enormous home, they have not invited them to stay overnight, forcing them to make a motel reservation at the last minute. I loved Day's Paradise City, so when I saw this one available on Netgalley I didn't even read about it too much, immediately requesting it. There’s little that’s original here, but having said that I found it readable and reasonably compelling and certainly wanted to find out how it all panned out.

Heavner isn’t exactly mollified when Tempe, aided by retired police detective Skinny Slidell and a host of experts, puts a name to the dead man. Photograph: Sophia Spring/The Observer ‘There is simply no predicting when you might meet a kindred spirit’: Elizabeth Day. When he wins a scholarship to Burtonbury School, he doesn’t wear the right clothes or speak with the right kind of accent.Jennifer, a minor character, is “mildly despised” at Martin’s junior school; the narrator then despises her mightily for having “a pitifully small number of online friends”. There were more than a few times that I wanted to stop reading this book, relegate it to my DNF list, and move on, but I often feel a need to finish books that I've received thanks to NetGalley and each book's publisher.

The real problem with this novel of obsession, friendship, power and privilege is that it’s all been done before, and it all felt very derivative. Yo no lo calificaría de thriller, aunque hay elementos de intriga y muerte, sino que es más bien un retrato de la sociedad de clases actual en Inglaterra y de cómo los ‘ridiculously rich’ siguen constituyendo una oligarquía poderosa y que ejerce su fascinación sobre el resto. It doesn’t matter that we live thousands of miles apart, or that we are separated by two decades, or that sometimes we will go months without speaking. At Ben’s 40th birthday party, the great and the good of British society are gathering to celebrate in a haze of champagne, drugs and glamour. We’d somehow worked out that, because of the eight-hour time difference, I should probably start celebrating earlier (this is actually not how time works, but by that stage, we were too drunk to notice).Brooks is a pro at building suspense even if it plays out in some rather spectacularly yucky episodes, one involving a short spear that takes its name from “the sucking sound of pulling it out of the dead man’s heart and lungs.