Review: The Dinner Guest - B.P Walter

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Review: The Dinner Guest - B.P Walter - May 2021

I have been in a big reading slump the last two days and I hated it so much, every book I tried was just not grabbing me at all and over the past two days I have put more physical books in my donate pile and Kindle books have been deleted as just nothing was grabbing me at all. I finally this morning found one that kept my interest "The Dinner Guest". The book starts with a punch with Matthew being stabbed at dinner by his partner and the other dinner guest taking the blame. The book then jumps back to a year before the Dinner Party and Matthew's death. I didn't realize until the bookstore scene that our two main characters Matthew and Charlie are in a gay marriage and have a 15-year-old son named Titus. Rachel "our dinner guest" meets Charlie first in the bookstore and then the supermarket and gets herself invited along to Matthew's book club.  Charlie can't quite pinpoint what it is but he feels like she is being suspicious and he knows something is wrong. As the book goes along, we see Rachel putting herself right in the middle of Matthew and Charlie's family, and eventually, we discover the real reason why Rachel has injected herself into this family - it's all about revenge and Rachel has been playing the long game and prepared to go to lengths to get revenge on the person who broke her family. I have to admit, when the reason why the revenge was warranted -I was a little disappointed as it felt like a giant build-up and then a slow let-down like when you let air whoosh out a balloon. If you are looking for a revenge-based slow-burn thriller that will also make you question hosting any dinner parties of your own, then The Dinner Guest by B.P Walter is the UK thriller for you.

Amazon: https://amzn.to/42RRJF0




 

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