The Manor is the newest up and coming holiday hideaway with posh and exclusive accommodations set in the city of Tome. Tome is a city rich with history and traditions, which some of the locals choose to believe and others have chosen to forget about.

The Manor has an opening event during the summer solstice, the hottest night of the year, and everyone attending has secrets. The characters are all at the opening night for a reason. Tome’s oldest legend of The Birds, a group that enacts justice for the town comes to life in this gripping thriller. Written in multiple POV and multiple points of time, including journal entries from years past, the underlying reasons of all of the main characters for being at the opening night are revealed.

Great plot twists and an overall fast, enjoyable read. Perhaps some of the concepts were a little far fetched, but a decent thriller in my opinion.

Coming June 2024!!
In The Midnight Feast, a woman inherits land to which she turns into a boutique-style retreat for the wealthy… and the locals are angry. This is definitely my least favorite of the three Lucy Foley novels I’ve read. The Midnight Feast follows her usual format- slow burn, non-linear timeline, mystery, multiple points of view. I didn’t connect with the plot or any of the characters. I think the slow burn in fact TOO slow to keep my attention- you could skip the middle of the book and not miss out on much information.
Thank you to HarperCollins and NetGalley for the advanced copy in exchange for my review!

This is a knock out book! Wow! I know I like Lucy Foley books but this one is on a different level! I absolutely adored and devoured this one.

With her traditional style of multiple points of view, this books takes you to the opening of a posh new hotel called The Manor in a rural style area.

The characters, Bella, Eddie, Francesca, and Owen were beautifully fleshed out in ways that made them feel realistic and fresh.

The cover was stunning the events in the book were electrifying. She slowly but surely provides just enough in each chapter to keep me guessing and wanting to move onto the next page.

I imagine this will be one of the best books of the summer!

Available June 18, 2024

Thanks to NetGalley and William Morrow for my opportunity to receive an ARC for my opinion!

I want to extend a Thank You to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with this advanced readers copy.

I am a fan of Lucy Foley and her books but this one wasn't a favorite of mine. There were many characters and at times I found it difficult to keep track of who was who. Although I generally enjoy writing styles that include journal entries and multiple POVs I found it to be distracting in this story.

I do enjoy Lucy Foley's writing style so even though this book didn't hit the mark for me I will continue to explore her future writings.

A fantastic thriller that kept me guessing and hooked!! Lucy Foley does a great job writing love-to-hate characters!! Everything Francesca did was so cringe and made me roll my eyes so many times. I was disappointed in the ending until I realized it wasn't the ending at all and kept going! So many surprise twists and turns, another hit from Lucy Foley!

This was one of my favorites of Lucy Foley! What a great setting and premise. Foley knows how to ride out the tension until it explodes in an unforgettable story. I do enjoy a dual storyline where you can see the past as well as the present playing out in the plot. Just a lot of fun! Possible great beach read! #themidnightfeast #lucyfoley #netgalley #goodreads

4.5 ⭐️ My favorite Lucy Foley to date! This is told in same multiple POV style as The Guest List and The Paris Apartment. Foley is a master at slowly and suspense-fully revealing secrets that give you the keys to what is really going on. I loved The Midnight Feast because it felt a little more supernatural than her others and uses fairy tales and Alfred Hitchcock like elements to tell a story about a remote town called Tome (pronounced Tomb). The setting is as beautiful boho retreat that is surrounded by the sea and the woods. The characters are all connected to the town and its dark history. There are so many other things at play including a teenagers journal from many summers ago where some terrible things happened, and some folklore of the birds that live in the forest and seek retribution. I received this ARC on NetGalley.

Lucy Foley at her finest. Told from multiple POV's this book twists and turns through the past and present. Francesca has opened an exclusive nature inspired resort experience, but the locals aren't happy with what she is doing with the sacred land. Eddie is a nineteen year old employee who lives at the farm next to the resort. Bella is a resort guest with a mysterious past, and Owen is Francesca's architect husband who is hiding a secret that could ruin everything he's worked so hard for.

The book starts out with a body being found at the bottom of the cliffs and the resort on fire. Who has died, and who set the fire? The truths are slowly unraveled as each character tells their story. The pacing and story format reminded me a lot of The Guest List by Lucy Foley, so if you were a fan of that book, I'm sure you'll enjoy The Midnight Feast. This was a five star read for me. I thoroughly enjoyed this book.

This was so different than Foley’s usual whodunnit storyline but I enjoyed it nonetheless. The cast of characters were hard to keep track of at times. I had to keep flipping back to the start of the chapter to see whose perspective I was reading. I enjoyed the mystery element that the journal entries added and the creepy woodsy vibes. Overall, this was a fun little mystery thriller!

Thank you to NetGalley for an e-copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

A dark, twisted murder mystery that reads like a fairytale.

Thank you to the publisher for providing an advanced reading copy in exchange for a review.

Lucy Foley's "The Midnight Feast" is a murder mystery that unfolds in the Manor, a newly opened resort that quickly becomes the scene of a dark and intricate drama. Foley crafts a narrative that's as captivating as it is cunning, with characters that seem to leap from the pages into the reader's imagination, each carrying their own secrets and shadows.

The novel’s initial pace might test some readers' patience, as Foley takes her time laying down the intricate layers of her plot. However, this deliberate pacing is not without purpose; it builds a palpable tension and anticipation that grips the reader until the very end. The multiple points of view presented in the story add a rich texture to the narrative, allowing readers to see the unfolding mystery from various angles and adding depth to the storytelling.

"The Midnight Feast" is a mind-bending journey that cleverly manipulates expectations and perspectives, keeping readers on their toes with its twists and turns. This book was my introduction to Lucy Foley's work, and it has left me eager to dive into her other stories.

I've read a few books by Lucy Foley and they have sucked me in almost immediately, this book didn't do that A few of the chapters felt disconnected from the rest of the book, it was a very slow build up, and I was left with questions to which there were no answers. I had hoped the diary would offer more insight but for the most part, it felt like a typical useless teenage diary.
I think the premise of the book was a great idea but there was so much going on and so many POVs to keep up with, that it fell short for me. This was not my favorite book by Foley, but I'm excited and ready for her next to come out.

Absolutely fantastic! Lucy Foley is a master storyteller and just like every other story I’ve read of hers, the characterization in this one was on point! I found myself loving all of them except Francesca. I mean I REALLY disliked her. She spends the whole story talking about how positive and centered she is with her yoga-crystal-rich-soccer-mom-without-kids vibe, meanwhile she’s sabotaging people and calling them parasites. The hypocrisy was out of control in the best way! She was the epitome of the stereotype we all picture of a person like that. I also loved the introduction of the Birds. The whole story was a bit bananas (again, in the best way), but thoroughly entertaining. I was almost sad when it ended because I just kept wanting more! Read this one, you won’t be sorry!

Huge thanks to William Morrow and NetGalley for sending me this ARC for review! All of my reviews are given honestly!

Opening weekend of The Manor, a swanky, wellness retreat run by Francesca Meadows, a health guru. Francesca had inherited the land, an old family property, and converted it to make money off of elite wellness junkies. Told in multiple POVs and jumping around in timelines, this mystical whodunnit thriller, is full of characters with hidden agendas and secrets. Overall a fun read but the mentions of “The Birds”, the towns sort of urban legend made it hard to follow sometimes.

I appreciate NetGalley and William Morrow Publishing for an advanced reader copy.

The book was so boring I can usually read a book in about two days. This book rook me over a week. Nothing kept my attention at all. About 50% of the way through it slightly picked up, only to start dragging on again.

Thank you to William Morrow and NetGalley for the ARC of The Midnight Feast in exchange for an honest and independent review.

As a huge fan of Lucy Foley's previous novels, The Guest List and The Paris Apartment, I was so excited to get my hands on this much anticipated ARC. Now don't get me wrong, there wasn't anything fundamentally wrong with her most recent release, I just think I had much higher expectations built up in my own head. Lucy is known for her mind bending thrillers and her genius multi-person story telling perspective that helps build the suspense throughout the entire novel. In most cases, her books are incredibly hard to put down and you find yourself reading through them from cover to cover. However, I just didn't get that experience this time around, which was mildly disappointing.

For the most part, the entire book spans the course of about three days, with the occasional jaunt back in time. The Midnight Feast is a fast moving storyline that certainly keeps you on your toes. As the reader, you are transported to the celebratory opening weekend of the posh retreat known as The Manor. Decidedly out of place in Tomb, The Manor is perfectly situated on the cliffs overlooking the sea and gives off an air of pure elegance and arrogance. The Manor has become an eye sore and rather controversial addition to Tomb that leaves the locals up in arms.

All to quickly, secrets of the past unravel one after the other and the guests that have paid a small fortune to attend The Manor on opening weekend are about to get more than they ever bargained for. At the end of this over-priced weekend, not everyone will make it out alive and more than just one or two secrets will be unburied.

In retrospect, I give The Midnight Feast a solid 3.5-4 out of 5, rounding up. While I thought the storyline was creative and the characters had some unseen, well thought out connections, it ultimately just didn't live up to my expectations. There was just something missing from the storyline of "The Birds" (not going to go into detail here for the sake of the review) that I felt if present or vetted out a little more completely, the story would have come a little more full circle for me. At the end of the day, I will always be overly excited for Lucy Foley releases, as her writing style really does go unmatched when it comes to multi-person perspectives. I love the intricacies that are usually wrapped up in her mysteries, which always leave you guessing or lulling you into a false sense of security where you think you've got it all figured out.

I'm interested to see if others feel the same who have read her previous works. All in all, still a solid read for fans of thriller/mystery genra.

This could be called The Midnight Read, because it’s that hard to put down.

Francesca lives in the present. She’s created a resort from her family’s ancestral home. Tome Manor is packed with wealthy guests for the opening. She’s planned their stay to be full of luxury and spectacle. Meanwhile, the townspeople of Tome remember the past - and what the family in the manor has taken from them. They have a different kind of spectacle planned.

Lucy Foley does everything right to make this a fast-paced read. The chapters are short. The point-of-view swings between characters brimming with secrets. And of course there’s murder.

I enjoyed her other novels in this genre, but this should go right at the top. Five stars and thanks for the advance read to NetGalley and William Morrow.

I swore off Lucy Foley books after The Paris Apartment because of how much I hated it. This redeemed her. The reveals weren’t the most shocking, it wasn’t as scary as I wanted it to be, and part of the ending was a let down. But I enjoyed every character’s perspective, which has been an issue for me in her past books. I also loved everything to do with The Birds, the slow reveals about everything, and the overall vibe and atmosphere. I wouldn’t recommend it if you read lots of mystery/thrillers and want something unique with a twist you won’t see coming. But if you just want a fun read that keeps you engaged and intrigued, this is the perfect book.

I have read many Lucy Foley books, and I think this is my favorite so far! It was a page turner for sure! I loved the storyline and the mystery of the connections between all the characters! This is definitely a must read.

Perched on the precipice of the summer solstice, heiress/influencer/It Girl Francesca Woodland is poised to make certain the whole world knows about her newly renovated, ultra-luxurious resort, where the wealthy escape to get their chakras aligned, fondle energetic, vibe-rich crystals, drink local organic free range gluten-free juices and all sorts of other nonsense that gullible people with more money than sense are into. Her doting architect husband, Owen, is at her to side to ensure everything runs smoothly and continue work on the property. Despite their best efforts to present a perfect facade to the guests and the public, unsettling and disturbing things are happening around the resort. Is it the enigmatic stranger, possibly from Francesca's past, who is slyly disguised as just another guest, ready to exact vengeance for some mysterious event that occurred 15 years prior? Could it be the villagers who were unhappy that Francesca had begun construction in the woods, taking down trees that were sacred to the community and part of their local legend and lore? Could it be Owen himself, who we soon learn is hiding secrets of his own? Told from multiple perspectives and dual timelines, we read as Detective Walker tries to piece together how the posh resort came to be a smoking ruin, with several dead in the fire. What strangeness happened on that solstice evening, and how does an incident from a decade and a half ago fit into this narrative? There's not a single character in this story who is not keeping a secret--from the absolutely awful Francesca to her not-quite-what-he-seems husband, from vengeful Bella to the intrepid detective, to the hotel support staff to the villagers to the haunting entities in the woods--everyone here is a bit of a riddle, has an agenda, and fits into the puzzle in different ways. One of Lucy Foley's finest stories yet.

Thank you to NetGalley and William Morrow for allowing me to read an early copy of The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley in exchange for my honest opionion.



The Midnight Feast is about a small town named Tome, which is steeped in folklore and legends. These legends involve questions about a society that oversaw that justice was fulfilled for the members of the town. Francesca Meadows is a famous holistic influencer who has used her inheritance to set up a retreat in Tome for the extremely wealthy. This retreat for the wealthy isn’t well received by the town residents which most live in a state of poverty. Francesca has a past that involves many people in the town and this past is showing back up.



This was a fun time! It did start kind of slow and a bit confusing. For the first 20%, I had no idea what the mystery was about. This book was in typical Foley format with multiple points of view and every piece of the puzzle is doled out one at a time until it all comes together at the end. After the story got going, I had a hard time putting it down and couldn’t wait to see how it ended. Once you get through the initial setup, the rest of the ride is wild. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in mystery, small towns and folklore.