Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

There is a line in Lucy Foley's 2019 novel The Hunting Party "...the remembered one and the one in front of me, seem to converge on one another." which really resonated with me because 'The Hunting Party' and `The Guest List' are, essentially, the same book. Foley has simply recycled her cardboard, cliched characters from `The Hunting Party', changed the names and PC details and plugged them into relationships with the SAME EXACT DYNAMICS as in `The Guest List'. These books seem to have more in common with a paint by numbers kit than a creative endeavor. Eventually, I just started laughing out loud as yet another setting, character, and plot point resurfaced with the scantest of disguises. It's not that funny, though, as I notice that the book is on the NY Times Best Seller list. That this mediocre rehash has sold so well is truly dispiriting. What is also not so amusing is that, since the Quarantine I've been buying books (library is out for now) so I purchased both `The Guest List' and `The Hunting Party'. Instead of `Two books for the Price of One!' it's more like `One Book for the Price of Two!'. I actually feel ripped off. I am tempted to go through all the ways in which these two books are the same but that would involve spoilers and it might make the book more enjoyable for some to spot the recycled parts on their own. I, of course, will not be reading any future books by Lucy Foley because I am pretty sure I've already read them.