I came across The Club on NetGalley and saw it was a Read Now and after reading the description I thought why not and added it to my DRCs. I don’t usually start in right away but this one seemed to fit my reading mood, so in I went.

Now a locked room mystery is one of my favorites. And while this is not that it is essentially a locked Island one with an added bonus of no cellphones. Set during the opulent opening weekend, The Club reveals not only the mystery of what happens during that time, it peals back the layers of lies and deceptions of the attendees and the owner and his staff.

Rich and famous people behaving badly, those who enable the behaviors and the explosive nature when those secrets start to spill make for an extremely entertaining read. The who done it and why kept me guessing as there were suspects galore with a cause to do so. Fast paced, with a majority of characters you could love to hate for their outrageous behavior, The Club is a mystery/thriller that I quite enjoyed.

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Money may not buy happiness, but I’d rather cry in a sports car than on a bus!

If you’ve ever wondered what it felt like to be a celebrity, living a glamorous life of travel, parties, and exclusive clubs, wonder no longer. Read “The Club”. With a cover just as alluring as the A-lister lifestyle. To make it even more intriguing, this club picks its members!

The cast of characters is devious, backstabbing, and plotting. And those are some of their better qualities. Just working at one of these clubs would be dangerous, especially to your integrity!

This story is still SO entertaining. Everyone is certain they are the smartest, most conniving of the bunch. And these people will stop at nothing to get what they want or hold onto what they have!

This is my first read by this author. It was fast and fun. A great book for the beach or pool!

Thank you to Harper and NetGalley for this electronic ARC. This is my honest opinion.

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What a great book! I devoured it in one sitting. I love books about the glitzy and glamorous behaving badly and that’s exactly what you get here. An exclusive club is opening a new location on a hard-to-reach island when secrets are exposed, resulting in multiple deaths. The reader knows that people have died from the beginning but doesn’t find out who they are until the end. The POV switches between the members exec, the CEO’s assistant, the CEO’s, brother, and the new head of housekeeping. None of these people are super likable but they all draw you in nonetheless.

The pacing of the story is fast from beginning to end, and the alternating of voices was an effective way to tell it. The author did a great job of describing both the island and the atmosphere in a way that I could picture it clearly. Though there were a lot of characters, it was easy to keep them all straight and the characterization was good while not taking away from the action. There were multiple mysteries all wrapped up together and twists that surprised me throughout the book. I found the ending to be satisfying; loose ends were tied up and there was a promise of what else might come.

Overall, fantastic read that I would recommend for those like mysteries and thrillers, not to mention the secret lives of celebrities. I am going to go track down the previous book by this author. Thanks to Netgalley for providing me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Brothers Ned and Adam Groom have created Home Clubs all across the world for the rich and famous to party at. Island Home is the newest addition, and the grand opening weekend is the party to be at. Tensions are high with the stress of a new club opening for not only the Groom brothers but also their staff, who all have secrets of their own. Once secrets start to come out and the body count rises, the sinister side of The Club starts to show.

This book takes place over multiple POVs and I enjoyed how we learn the characters secrets and their motivations and get to see how it plays out throughout the book. While I did enjoy that aspect, unfortunately the book fell a little flat for me and I did not find it kept my attention well. Even though I did not click with the plot I did think this was well written and if you enjoy revenge and blackmail thrillers I think you will enjoy this one!

Thank you @harperbooks and @betgally for an advance e-arc! The Club is out now!

The Club is reminiscent of a locked room Agatha Christie mystery. Taken as a whole, I really enjoyed it..

Home, an exclusive members only club with multiple locations throughout the world, is a haven for celebrities. A place to relax without the prying eyes of the public and paparazzi. No phones allowed, highly vetted member base…the perfect celeb retreat, until it isn’t. At the opening of Island Home, Home’s most exclusive, secluded and coveted yet, we begin to see that Home might be too good to be true.

My only issue with The Club was the third person omniscient style it’s written in. It’s told from various viewpoints and the timeline goes from present to flashback frequently. It took me a third of the way through the book to have the characters and their back stories straight in my head.

There was a bit of foreshadowing in The Club as well. At one point there is a line about real life rarely being wrapped up as neatly as the end of books and movies, so I was prepared to be left wanting more. I did feel the same after People Like Her, so I was prepared.

All in all a great multi-layered claustrophobic type mystery and very fun ride.

Thank you to the authors, Harper Collins and NetGalley for an enjoyable ARC.

Thank you for this arc in exchange for my honest opinion.

I could not get through The Club fast enough. Why? The writing style was bland for me. Unfortunately, I was not connected to this book at all. In addition, the paragraphs were way too long.

Ellery Lloyd is a phenomenal author - I loved “people like us” and “The Club” was an excellent second novel. Drama, suspense, and a great story.

I couldn’t get into this book. I got pretty far into it and still didn’t see the point of it. No suspense at all. Way too over descriptive. The chapters are extremely long and the book itself is only 9 chapters. I was very bored.

i was a little skeptical going in because the last book i read by ellery lloyd was not my favorite, but this book was far better! i enjoyed how real it almost felt - there most definitely could be something like HOME for celebrities, and the characters seemed so real. i loved how the story was told my multiple points of view, and loved that more often than not there was a small plot twist at the end of each characters segment. some parts and some characters i wish got a bit more development, and i would have really liked a little more to the ending, but that could just be me getting greedy because i enjoyed the book so much.

It had a very slow start! But had a-lot of twisty turns once you got into it. Overall I good thriller just slow at the beginning.

3/5 stars

This book sucked me in and I found super entertaining. But it felt like it completely petered out at the end. Like I reread the last few chapters to see if I missed something. Overall the premise was good, but I wanted a stronger ending.

This is a mystery/thriller about a group of Home Clubs around the world for just the rich and famous (A-Listers). The story is about the opening of the latest club. The man Character, Ned Groom, is so unlikeable to the extreme! The rest of the cast is not much better, it is basically rich people doing dark and messed up things throughout this whole book!
To be honest I was not liking it much at the beginning, just too much of such awful entitled people, but that is the point of this book, to show the dark side of the rich in my opinion.
Lots of temper tantrums, deaths and mayhem all during the opening weekend. I read a lot of thrillers, this was enjoyable. 3.5 stars

“The Club” has plenty of suspense and intrigue, as the reader tries to puzzle out what happened during the opening weekend for Island Home, who died, and why. Beneath the glitz and glamor of the Homes are a lot of misbehavior, some criminal, and secrets — drugs, abusive behavior, affairs, blackmail, arson, and even murder. The story is filled with reprehensible characters, some of whom will finally have to answer for their behavior.

I received a copy of the e-book via NetGalley in exchange for a review.

Overall, I enjoyed this one. I went into it thinking it would be more of a thriller but the plot of how dark humans can be kept it interesting.
Everyone that works for or attends the Home clubs hold some serious secrets. They will do anything to keep those secrets. The amount of backstabbing, betrayal, and overall insanity that these characters go to in order to keep their power and image is gross. None of the characters are likeable so I felt like it was hard to care what happened to any of them. It's really just about how horrible humans can be to each other.

I wanted to like it. I really did. It had just the right combination to make it a quick, easy read. A juicy Hollywood vibe, an island, and intrigue, but I didn't love any of the characters, which made it hard to connect with the story. I wasn't really rooting for anyone. I was indifferent to their plight. On a good note, it was a quick easy read and it did have layered mystery and intrigue, but overall, it didn't work for me.

The Club is the kind of book I think of as a 'beach read.' If you want to clear your head and escape into another world for a few hours, The Club will fit the bill. What did get my attention, however, was that it flipped the trope of men being black hats and women being white hats. For a change, the people who are tortured and/or killed in this novel are men!! And the characters pulling all the strings are women!! I loved it!

The Club is an exclusive private club -- actually multiple private clubs around the world -- that is open to only the wealthiest members. In this novel, The Club is the latest to be open. It's located about 90 minutes from London and to reach it, you need to time it to the causeway being accessible between tides. The owners are brothers Ned and Adam Groom, although Ned is clearly the majority owner and alpha. And he is not a good guy. He runs The Club solely for his own financial benefit above and beyond the pricy entrance fees. The guests are all rich and famous -- artists, directors, actors, etc. And the staff are all incredibly deft at anticipating and fulfilling the guest's every whim.

By the end of the novel, four men will be dead. The who, how, and why are the meat of the story. It is a tale well-told and entertaining. If you're looking for something deep, you probably won't enjoy The Club. However, if you just want a short escape from ordinary life, give it a try. I enjoyed it!

Thanks to NetGalley and Harper Collins for providing me an eGalley in exchange for posting a review.

I really love trashy ridiculousness about Hollywood types so I thought this would be fun but it just didn’ deliver for me. What I liked-the middle of the book when things started to come together and for a twist. what I didn’t like-that there were many slow starts and plot lines that went nowhere or the twists were kinda blah. Didn’t hate/didn’t love it.

I was intrigued by the premise of a suspense thriller set in a luxurious private resort for the wealthy and famous. The prologue hooked me in, and I thought …. this is going to be a wild ride! Wrong. I did not enjoy this one. I found the timeline disjointed, the characters unlikable, and it was not for me.

I really liked the premise of this book! The cover is beautiful, and the description was captivating. It was a slower burn of a book for me, and more so of a mystery story instead of a thriller in my opinion. It did seem as though there were more details than necessary (where I would have preferred a more exciting climax in the book as opposed to the slow burn with so much detail). However, all in all, I did enjoy this book! This is an author I will definitely watch for and read their next novels. Thank you for letting me read and review!

This book is great! Would definitely recommend. Thanks so much to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.