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The Club
The Club | Ellery Lloyd
58 posts | 75 read | 34 to read
From the author of People Like Her, a smart and sinister murder mystery set in the secretive world of exclusive celebrity clubs, where the A-list members and the staff who serve them all have something to hide. The Club The A-List is Dying to Join Envisioned as a luxurious home-away from-home for Very Important People, The Home Group is a collection of celebrity members clubs dotted across the globe, from London to Lisbon, Malibu to Manhattan, where the rich and famous can party hard and then crash out in its five-star suites, far from the prying eyes of fans and the media. The most spectacular and exclusive of all is Island Home--a sprawling, closely-guarded complex of faux-rustic guest cabins, spas, bars and restaurants just off the English coast. To mark its opening, Home's mercurial CEO Ned Groom and his team have planned a glamorous three-day launch party, easily the most coveted A-list invite of the year. But behind the scenes, tensions are at breaking point. Years behind schedule and vastly over budget, the project has stretched a long-serving and long-suffering team to their limits. There's Ned's trusted PA, who has over decades maneuvered her way from coat-check girl to Home's inner circle; Ned's younger brother, who has sacrificed his marriage and morals to be Ned's right-hand man; the Head of Membership keeping the world's most spoiled and jaded individuals entertained using any means necessary; the Head of Housekeeping, who plays silent witness to the guests' very worst excesses. All of them have something to hide - and that's before the beautiful people with their own ugly secrets even set foot on the island. As tempers fray and behaviour worsens, as things get more sinister by the hour and the body count piles up, some of Island Home's members begin to wish they'd never RSVP'd at all. Because at this club, if your name's on the list, you're not getting out . . .
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ElizaMarie
The Club | Ellery Lloyd
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Only one Audiobook in November. Kinda shocking. But I think December will be filled with AudioBooks because school started back up.

#NovemberReCap

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ElizaMarie
The Club | Ellery Lloyd
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Mehso-so

Super quick listen. I overall enjoyed it but didn't love it. So I am gonna vote “so-so“. #BookSpin @TheAromaOfBooks

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inthegreensandblues Lobster says, "meh" 1mo
Texreader 🐈‍⬛♥️🐈‍⬛♥️ 1mo
Ruthiella 😻😻😻 1mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 1mo
MemoirsForMe Oh those eyes! 😻 4w
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ElizaMarie
The Club | Ellery Lloyd
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Doing some #AudioCrochet

dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 1mo
KadaGul I crochet 🧶 while watching Football 🏈. #CrochetNFootball 1mo
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ElizaMarie
The Club | Ellery Lloyd
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TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Enjoy!! 1mo
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PageShifter
The Club | Ellery Lloyd
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Pickpick

Characters' backgrounds were slowly revealed and that was intriguing. This was slow paced, I think I ended up liking that. Characters weren't alike to each other, some weren't likable and some were.

This was intriguing to read after the very beginning. The beginning wasn't super captivating but I was soon invested in the story. This was like a soap opera that tells about awful things but at the same time you want to know more.

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Cjbesh
The Club | Ellery Lloyd
Mehso-so

Quick read.

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Acoleman
The Club | Ellery Lloyd
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Mehso-so

Not great, a little pretentious and boring

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Kshakal
The Club | Ellery Lloyd
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Eggs 🖤💚🩷 6mo
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TamTracy
The Club | Ellery Lloyd
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Panpan

I was warned this book wasn‘t great but I gave it a chance anyways. I should have listened. ⭐️⭐️

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Madison91
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Mehso-so

This was a decent story but so many characters I kept getting them confused

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Abailliekaras
The Club | Ellery Lloyd
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Pickpick

A good flight read. Pitched as miss Marple meets Succession. I would say it‘s more Succession meets SoHo House with a Fyre Festival vibe. Like reading breathless vanity Fair article. But well done & full of knowing details that feel authentic & evoke the world of Annabel‘s, SoHo House & those exclusive hotels in the forests of England. I enjoyed the fly on the wall feel but the characters were hard to like.

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Victoriahoperose
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Panpan

Meh. Slow and boring in my opinion. Not really sure what all the hype was about. It read like a tabloid which I guess was the point, but I just couldn‘t get into it.

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Beachbum
The Club | Ellery Lloyd
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Still beach reading in this beautiful hot weather we‘re having. The synopsis intrigues me. First chapter hooked me from the start. Reese‘s Book Club pick, can‘t go wrong. #beachreads #reesesbookclub #bookclubpick #booktock

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Dragon
The Club | Ellery Lloyd
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Pickpick

Just tore through this thriller- it‘s got all kinds of trashy characters who belong to a very exclusive club with “Home” sites in major cities. The Club is opening a new venue on it‘s own island - the elite are going to party and the desperate are going to react. I couldn‘t put it down - I had to know what happened 👍👍💚🐉

fv.reads I removed this book from my TBR, should I put it back? 1y
Dragon Thanks @fv.reads this book seems to be a bit controversial- half like it and half don‘t- I enjoyed the fast pace , awful rich people and the bit of mystery - so it really hit the escapism button for me - I was in the right mood 💚🐉 1y
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VRM1975
The Club | Ellery Lloyd
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. Has

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BeeMagical
The Club | Ellery Lloyd
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Mehso-so

Book 72🎧 2.5⭐️

Bad men being bad.

I wasn‘t shocked.

5feet.of.fury 🤣 I haven‘t read it but your review is hilarious 2y
BeeMagical @5feet.of.fury 😂😂 2y
MMFinck Haha. True. :) 1y
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Melismatic
The Club | Ellery Lloyd
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Pickpick

More a character study than mystery as the whodunnit aspect was relatively obvious on all accounts. Surprised by the low rating here. This was more of the stronger “Reese Picks” to me.

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JHSiess
The Club | Ellery Lloyd
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📬 𝔹𝕠𝕠𝕜 𝕄𝕒𝕚𝕝 📖

Savoring the work of talented authors for the first time is a great joy. Thanks to Harper Perennial & Bibliolifestyle, I will be sampling the writing of 𝐄𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐋𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐝, which is, in actuality, the pseudonym adopted by the husband and wife team of Paul Vlitos and Collette Lyons.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐥𝐮𝐛 was the 03/22 Reese's Book Club pick & a bestseller, available now in paperback.

Discovered any new authors recently?

MMFinck I had no idea! Fun detail! 1y
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Jgacreations
The Club | Ellery Lloyd
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Mehso-so

Started slow but got better half way in. Entertaining

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Laurak0291
The Club | Ellery Lloyd
Mehso-so

3.75/5

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bookandbedandtea
The Club | Ellery Lloyd
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Mehso-so

None of these characters are well developed and VERY few are likeable (and the location of the island club was baffling) yet I was motivated to keep going to find out who was dead and why. But the story lost momentum as it went on and several scenes were just weird. The ending felt too extended- I think the denouements should have been tighter.

Sparklemn I bought it on the cheap. I'll give it a half-hearted try! 2y
bookandbedandtea @Sparklemn I've seen many excellent reviews for this so maybe it wasn't the right book at the right time for me. I hope you enjoy it! 2y
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bookandbedandtea
The Club | Ellery Lloyd
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Feel asleep at 72% last night and now I have to wait all day to get answers. 🙀

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Kshakal
The Club | Ellery Lloyd
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Mehso-so

I have mixed feelings about this book… it took forever for me to get into it but it did pick up at the end…. Overall, not my favorite read!

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Sungirl79
The Club | Ellery Lloyd
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Mehso-so

Not a great read! It seemed like it dragged on and on in some areas. I finished it but was disappointed.

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Lenamarcela339
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Chelsea.Poole
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Panpan

I did not enjoy this book. I listened to the audiobook which may be a reason why I couldn‘t keep all the many characters straight in my mind. I had hoped this would really work for me, as the blurb made me think it may be similar to The Guest List which I really enjoyed. But there were too many threads running through this that switched to a new character‘s perspective. Not enough time with any one to become fully engrossed. Then I didn‘t care.

Megabooks Thanks for the honest review. I was on the fence and I think I‘ll skip. 2y
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Smlambert725
The Club | Ellery Lloyd

“We all have versions of ourselves we can bear to look at, versions we prepare for the world‘s consumption, that we hope will make ourselves loved, allow us to be forgiven. Versions of our real selves that allow us to live with the things we have done.”
#August2022

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LitLaur
The Club | Ellery Lloyd
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Pickpick

This is a club you definitely don‘t want to join. It‘s surprising this hasn‘t already happened somewhere (or maybe it has, and we‘re just fortunate enough *not* to know about it). I do wish things were more resolved in the end, but that‘s the way it is sometimes. I give it a 7 out of 10.

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ElleMNOpe
The Club | Ellery Lloyd
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Pickpick

A slow start & lots of characters, but a good closed circle mystery. The plot was fun & interesting with a lot of morally gray characters. If you are bothered by unlikable characters, you'd best steer clear. Some characters were so easily confused that I felt they could have been merged. The pacing moved fairly well once things got going & there were some good complexities in the end. A decent & enjoyable thriller, but not necessarily gripping.

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Kappadeemom
The Club | Ellery Lloyd
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Starting this one today. Celebrities, hanging out in an exotic locale with a murderer on the loose

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ClairesReads
The Club | Ellery Lloyd
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Pickpick

The Club was billed to me as Big Little Lies meets Succession as a novel and it really delivers on this descriptor. It reads like an episodic television series, and is propulsive reading because of this. There are of course, lots of rich people problems, and rich people doing awful things. This is a genre I find particularly compelling, for no specific reason. A bit of a slow burn to start, from the halfway point the pace builds effectively.

BookLineNSinker This was a pick for me too and I am with you on this genre, I'm obsessed. It's definitely a guilty pleasure. My Read list is full of these types of books. Right now I'm reading the tagged book and it had been pretty good a little anticlimactic though. 2y
ClairesReads @BookLineNSinker it‘s such a fun genre- thanks for the recommendation that one looks interesting too. 2y
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lilpumpkin2.0
The Club | Ellery Lloyd
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Mehso-so

June 16, 2022 Boy! Was this hard to get through. Idk why but this book was very slow for me. It did pick up pace like 3/4 in but I didnt feel like I was on my feet or wanting to find out what happened next. I would recommend this book to those who want to read about rich ppl behaving badly. The mystery is still unknown as to where Ned Groom disappeared to.

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Sungirl79
The Club | Ellery Lloyd
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🤔🤔😱❓ NOS4A2 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Sorry this is so late @Bklover @Eggs

Eggs No worries!! Thanks for joining in 💕📚👍🏼 2y
Bklover ❤️ 2y
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Julsmarshall
The Club | Ellery Lloyd
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Mehso-so

This was good, but felt a little predictable and tidied up too easily at the end for me. I liked the gossipy, cult of celebrity piece, it was unique and fun, but it just fell short. The #audio was good, I loved the cover, enjoyed the narrator and it kept me walking. I might try another from Lloyd, maybe I just wasn‘t in the mood for this one now. #BookpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks #Doublespin

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 3y
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lilpumpkin2.0
The Club | Ellery Lloyd
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June 9, 2022 Can somebody, anybody, tell me whether they have read this book and what they thought about it? So far, nothing exciting has happened and I am getting impatient. I mean, it seems kind of slow and ugh i just want to get to the climax of the book already.

lilpumpkin2.0 @marleed Have you read this book before? Any spoilers? Good ending or bad ending? 3y
marleed I read this last March and thought it was a fun read. It‘s best if you are in a mood for a rich people behaving badly kind of story. I did like the twists at the end and how it all resolved. 3y
lilpumpkin2.0 @marleed thanks for the response. I am not quite "getting into" the book. Idk it isnt like "striking" 2y
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GidgetsTreasures75
The Club | Ellery Lloyd
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Pickpick

6-7-22: My 55th finished book of 2022! Fast paced story told from the perspective of 4 people. The opening of an exclusive club on an island. The PA, the manager, the brother of the owner and the head of house keeping, take turns describing the launch weekend that will end in death and confusion. Kept me guessing until the end with lots of twists along the way. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️📖#️⃣5️⃣5️⃣

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lilpumpkin2.0
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June 5, 2022 Woop woop Today the Warriors won Game 3 of the playoffs against the Boston Celtics. Man was it a intense game! I am not an avid watcher of basketball but today I WAS. This is actually my new book. The other book, The Impossible City by Karen Cheung, I will read at a later time ✌🏻

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swishandflick
The Club | Ellery Lloyd
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Pickpick

When a highly exclusive members only club opens up a new location on a swanky island, everyone wants in. Until multiple people turn up dead and a lot of secrets come pouring out of the closets. This is one of those solid page-turner mysteries... nothing Earth shattering, but an entertaining palate cleanser of a thriller. 3.5⭐️

BarbaraBB Sounds good. And looks good too! Have you moved south yet? 3y
swishandflick @BarbaraBB Almost! I've been in TN for a week and a half, and I'll fly to NYC this weekend just to meet the movers. And then that'll be that! 3y
BarbaraBB That must feel strange, saying goodbye to NYC. Wishing you all the best in TN 🤍 3y
swishandflick @BarbaraBB Thank you! It definitely feels strange but I'm more excited than not ♥️ 3y
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LatrelWhite
The Club | Ellery Lloyd
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🎧What‘s next!

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Lesliereadsalot
The Club | Ellery Lloyd
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Mehso-so

This is light summer reading. It‘s a mystery taking place in an exclusive club on an island. Over the top characters in an over the top setting, but lots of interesting little twists along the way were enough to keep me reading to the end.

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Kshakal
The Club | Ellery Lloyd
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My book haul!! 🤓

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jdiehr
The Club | Ellery Lloyd
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Pickpick

An elite club for the rich and famous where there is a lot going on behind the scenes.

Secrets, blackmail, murder, oh my!

I enjoyed this story, but my only complaint is that it took a while to remember and keep track of who was who.

PS - I placed the book on top of an old hotel directory. Definitely NOT how people sign in these days! 😄

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AvidReader25
The Club | Ellery Lloyd
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Pickpick

A fun, murder mystery thriller set on an island. This one was perfect on audio and reminded me so much of The Guest List. Hollywood stars belonging to an exclusive club have secrets and sordid histories that complicate the opening of a new location. It was just what I was in the mood for and I loved each twisty reveal. The different POVs and red herrings made for a fast and entertaining read!

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Booknerd222
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Hooked_on_books
The Club | Ellery Lloyd
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Pickpick

Home is an exclusive club catering to super rich celebrities and opening a brand new island location in England. At the grand opening weekend, things go awry and we know from the start that more than one person is dead. This is an entertaining, good but not great thriller. I enjoyed it, but it could have been tightened up a bit.

#bookspin

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 3y
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Hooked_on_books
The Club | Ellery Lloyd
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Here‘s my living #bookspinbingo card for April! 🥳 The tagged is my #bookspin, and O Beautiful is my #doublespin, which is fab since I started it yesterday!

Megabooks Interested to see what you say about both! 3y
Librariana Thank you for continuing to tag me on these 😊 I always find your title choices so interesting! 3y
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 3y
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wallacereads
The Club | Ellery Lloyd
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Pickpick

The Home Group is about to launch its latest club just off the English coast. The invite list is super exclusive and it seems everyone attending has something to hide. This was a fun popcorn thriller.

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angieinwonderland
The Club | Ellery Lloyd
Panpan

It took me a while to read this because I couldn't get into it. The writing didn't get me rooting for anyone or invested in the plot. The storyline seemed promising, but I think it would be a better movie than a book.