09/06/2026
📚🍷 Such a lovely evening at Book Club last night! 🍰📚
By complete coincidence, we ended up discussing two books where the setting was almost as important as the characters themselves. In fact, the island in Wild Dark Shore may have been my favourite character of all!
So what did we think? We thought a lot. Everyone was very tolerant of just how much I hated Dom in Wild Dark Shore (possibly even more than everyone hated Will in The Guest List 😆), but I’ll keep it brief to avoid spoilers...
🔪 The Guest List - Lucy Foley
A slow start, but it definitely picked up in the second half. We enjoyed how everything came together, although none of us were particularly fond of the characters!
😂 Favourite comment of the night: “It was so boring I actually wanted all of them to be killed by the end.”
⭐️ 3/5
🌊 Wild Dark Shore - Charlotte McConaghy
This ended up being a brilliant discussion. We loved the vivid island setting, the children and the wildlife, and talked a lot about the contrast between the island’s harshness, Dom’s masculine toughness, and Rowan’s instinct to nurture and protect - even though she was as hard as nails herself.
The ending left some of us wishing things had turned out differently.
⭐️ 4/5
Thank you to everyone who came along. I had a brilliant evening chatting books with you all.
📖 Have you read either of these? I’d love to know what you thought!
A x
