So I found it pretty easy to figure out who the bad guy must be. The book is told in third person omniscient narration style, and of all of these characters, one person’s perspective and back story isn’t examined as closely as any of the others. I think this was meant to provide some red herrings. A lot of these people have really terrible backstories that the author reveals a little bit at a time. The other characters in the book are made up of an unhappy couple on the verge of divorce, two women trying to rekindle their friendship (although one is obviously suffering from PTSD and the other one sort of abandons her to get laid), an attorney, a boyfriend / girlfriend couple, and the owner of the inn and his son. She wants to live, but she hopes that if she has to die, she isn’t the last one. “Is someone else dead? She wonders if soon there will be no one left at all. Everyone suspects her fiance until an author working on her latest book is found dead as well. First, the beautiful engaged woman falls down the stairs. Unfortunately, that’s right around when people start dying. They lose power and the roads are unpassable. The story was decent but pretty predictable.Īn Unwanted Guest takes place in a small family-run inn on a night when the weather is so bad that all the guests are trapped inside. This was probably two and a half stars, but I’m rounding up. (3 stars) An Unwanted Guest by Shari Lapena
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