Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion

A Book Set at a Luxury Resort

I feel certain I have read more than one book that fulfills this prompt, but the only one I can currently remember is The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren! I did really enjoy it!
Oh, and The Guest List by Lucy Foley!
And A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles!
So I've read at least 3! 😁

A Goodreads discussion thread to help:
Popsugar 2020 Summer Challenge>A Book Set at a Resort or Hotel

Listopia is HERE

The Woman in Suite 11 will be published in 2025. Ruth Ware uses the same character as in The Woman in Cabin 10. This time she is staying at a luxury hotel. Without reading it yet, I think this book will fit perfectly here.

It seems like Cruel Kiss is set at a luxury hotel, I rated that 5 stars.

Also Catch Her in a Lie was at least partially set at a resort.

Does anyone know if The Wedding People would work for this prompt?

Is The Paradise Problem set in a luxury resort? It's on our listopia, and the cover does sort of say "resort!" but the blurb doesn't mention it.

Nadine in NY wrote: "Is The Paradise Problem set in a luxury resort? It's on our listopia, and the cover does sort of say "resort!" but the blurb doesn't mention it."

Yes. The male MC's family is filthy rich, and they all go to this luxury island resort for a wedding

Nadine in NY wrote: "Is The Paradise Problem set in a luxury resort? It's on our listopia, and the cover does sort of say "resort!" but the blurb doesn't mention it."

Thanks for asking because this book has been on my hold list all year and I want to use it next year! I didn't know if it was in a resort or not

Angie wrote: "Does anyone know if The Wedding People would work for this prompt?"

I saw it as more of a luxury hotel when I read it awhile back, but I have read reviews that referred to it as a resort.

I feel like there was a book (or 2) that was turned into a movie (or 2) about an old resort in India (??). And the premise is that people who had stayed there in their youth come back to it many years later for some reason. Does anyone know what I'm talking about??

Jennifer W wrote: "I feel like there was a book (or 2) that was turned into a movie (or 2) about an old resort in India (??). And the premise is that people who had stayed there in their youth come back to it many ye..."

Was it The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel?

Ellie wrote: "Jennifer W wrote: "I feel like there was a book (or 2) that was turned into a movie (or 2) about an old resort in India (??). And the premise is that people who had stayed there in their youth come..."

Yes!! Thank you! Reading the synopsis, I don't think it fits the prompt, but I can stop wracking my brain now!

Something in the Water - book setting is main characters on their dream honeymoon on the tropical island of Bora Bora

Andrea wrote: "Angie wrote: "Does anyone know if The Wedding People would work for this prompt?"

I saw it as more of a luxury hotel when I read it awhile back, but I have read reviews that refer..."

Thanks, Andrea. This may be one where if you squint, it would fit. Haha

I am going with Murder at the Dolphin Hotel since the description says "She’s expecting her days at the bustling resort to be filled with comfortable chatter with chambermaids as they polish the mahogany desks and glittering candelabras of the elegant foyer. Everything must be perfect for the arrival of a glamourous jazz singer from Chicago and a masked ball that will be the cultural highlight of the season." It sounds luxurious to me.

One of my favorite mysteries this year takes place at a luxury resort in California.

The Unwedding

Has anyone read Shiver by Allie Reynolds, it takes place at a ski resort but not sure it’s a “luxury resort”.

I just read Bad Tourists for a different challenge and it is set at a luxury resort AND AI plays a role in it. Not chosen for me by AI but an interesting coincidence.

Well, I thought this would be a tough one to fill. Then I got my reading list for the reading quiz bowl I judge.

The Getaway by Lamar Giles
It's a YA book about a teenager who lives and works at one of the world's most famous resorts. People start disappearing, and the ultra rich start arriving but not leaving. Karloff Country is now an end-of-the-world oasis.

Interesting prompt. Didn't want fiction though. There are so many fiction books on this topic. Did a search and this one seemed good:

The Last Resort: A Chronicle of Paradise, Profit, and Peril at the Beach

Zero Stars, Do Not Recommend was on my TBR list.

The Last would work here. I haven't read any apocalyptic fiction in awhile. I want to get in a couple this year.

I’m reading And Then There Were None. It’s a private island which is good enough for me

I've started reading South Wind by Norman Douglas, which is set on a Mediterranean island (a fictionalised Capri). The island is portrayed like some kind of resort for wealthy, bored, and artsy people, but it doesn't feel entirely spot-on.

I'm considering The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story as a very interesting-looking alternative!

Here are a few of suggestions that I have read fitting this prompt.

The Club
The Midnight Feast
Fields' Guide to Abduction (this is the one I used)

I might go with Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul. The blurb calls it a "luxurious hotel", close enough for me.

I will be reading The Guest List by Lucy Foley


HAPPY READING!!

I already read a lot of titles listed for this prompt. I expected to struggle to find something of interest to me to fulfill it, but I just found something that might fit: Rental House. In the synopsis, there is a statement that a married couple invites their families on vacation to a beach house in Cape Cod, and later "at a luxury Catskills bungalow". I'm going with it.

This novel also fits prompt #8 as it's 213 pages long.

Finished The Wedding People by Alison Espach

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I read Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

I read The Wedding People Alison Espach

Trouble Has A New Name by Adite Banerjie takes place on a private island in the Bay of Bengal. It involves the "I fell in love with my fake fiance" trope.

Part of me wants to cheat a bit and include a luxury ship. LOL!

I probably won't though.

I read The Reunion. I find this author to be very hit or miss and this one was mostly a miss.

Squeeze Me by Carl Hiaasen would work - it's partially set at a Florida resort owned by an unnamed Republican president with an Eastern European wife.

But I've already read it. Does anyone know if Hiaasen's latest, Fever Beach, would fit the prompt?

I read Here Comes the Sun, which features a luxury hotel in the Caribbean, which has plans for expansion. There is a love story and also a family drama, but the book looks at the way such resorts can exploit local people.

I'm reading And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. It is set on an island with an abandoned resort as a friend described. The blurb reads, "First, there were ten - a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unknown to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they're unwilling to reveal - and a secret that will seal their fate. For each has been marked for murder. One by one they fall prey. Before the weekend is out, there will be none. And only the dead are above suspicion."

I read Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis. This one also works for the "space tourism" category.

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