The Guest by Emma Cline is a trippy novel.

Alex is a major player. She lands herself a great deal by starting a relationship with a wealthy man named Simon. All is going well until he decides to break up with her.

She can’t go home (she left on bad terms with just about everyone). She decides to stay in the area for the week until Simon’s big Labor Day party. She feels this party will be her moment to win him back. Until then she works her way into various groups of people in order to use them as needed. She manages to botch just about everything that she touches along the way.

Spoiler- the ending is a huge cliffhanger. Maybe I missed something, but I wasn’t sure if she was even alive any more once making it to Simon’s party. Overall this is a decent read with lots of uncertainty to keep you going. Unfortunately for me, the uncertainty remained after finishing!