The Guest

 

 I received a copy of this release from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Title: The Guest

Author: Emma Cline

Publisher: Random House

Release Date: 5.16.23

Publisher’s Summary 

A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls.

Summer is coming to a close on the East End of Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome.

A misstep at a dinner party, and the older man she's been staying with dismisses her with a ride to the train station and a ticket back to the city.

With few resources and a waterlogged phone, but gifted with an ability to navigate the desires of others, Alex stays on Long Island and drifts like a ghost through the hedged lanes, gated driveways, and sun-blasted dunes of a rarified world that is, at first, closed to her. Propelled by desperation and a mutable sense of morality, she spends the week leading up to Labor Day moving from one place to the next, a cipher leaving destruction in her wake.

Taut, propulsive, and impossible to look away from, Emma Cline's The Guest is a spellbinding literary achievement.

My Review

I was so looking forward to this novel because I really loved The Girls but *wow* what a letdown. 

When I finished I was perplexed. I thought "Um...is my copy missing its final pages" because WTF?!

I can't even give any spoilers because NOTHING HAPPENS!!

My advice is to take a hard pass on this one...I wish I would have.