The Guest Book by Sarah Blake - 1/5 stars

The Guest Book 
by Sarah Blake
1/5 stars
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The Guest Book was a complete stinker for me.
I would absolutely not have wasted my time finishing this book if not for the fact that my book club had picked it.

SO BORING.
I just kept thinking, why should I care about these people?
It was like the first 7/8 of this interminable volume was the setup and you finally got the pay-off only at the very end, and even that wasn't much of a pay-off.
The characters I was really interested in, (Elsa and Willy) we never really find out much about, and the other characters, Reg and Len, just sort of disappear after a pivotal scene.
Just a lot of blather about guilt because we are so white and so privileged, blah, blah, boring.

I don't even really understand why the title is the Guest Book.
They should have called it "The Island" or "Guilty Island"
They only even refer to the eponymous guest book maybe once in this whole bloated tome.
Anyhow, this is a phenomenal stinker- don't waste your time!