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3.42 AVERAGE
3.42 AVERAGE
Thank you NetGalley and Cornerstone Digital for a free galley in exchange for my honest review. Three Perfect Liars is a perfect little whodunit told from the perspective of three women recounting their stories to a police investigator after an office building goes up in flames and a body is pulled out. Think Big Little Lies plus The Whisper Network! But which one would want to seek revenge on Harry Wood the CEO? Janie, the wife? Laura, his former right-hand go-to gal before being replaced while on maternity leave? or Mia, Laura's usurper? Each have plenty of reason to be angry with Harry and even more secrets of their own that they don't want unveiled, but does that make any one of them a criminal? Three Perfect Liars is a dark and thought-provoking book suited for a quick weekend read.
3.5 stars - I enjoyed how the author unraveled each of the main suspects slowly throughout the story. Laura was pretty damn annoying but Janie and Mia were interesting to follow. The ending was a good twist, but also kind of anti climatic.
3.5 stars.
This was a quick read and kept me engaged to want to find out who did what. At the same time, some pieces just didn’t quite add up. Laura is over the top emotional - yes, she just had a baby, but if she would just speak to her husband without constantly thinking he doesn’t understand her, a lot of her problems could’ve been avoided. Harry is a one dimensional boss whose motivations are unclear. The ending would’ve probably been better if it hadn’t attempted to give a resolution to everyone’s situation.
Thanks to netgalley for the advanced reader copy.
This was a quick read and kept me engaged to want to find out who did what. At the same time, some pieces just didn’t quite add up. Laura is over the top emotional - yes, she just had a baby, but if she would just speak to her husband without constantly thinking he doesn’t understand her, a lot of her problems could’ve been avoided. Harry is a one dimensional boss whose motivations are unclear. The ending would’ve probably been better if it hadn’t attempted to give a resolution to everyone’s situation.
Thanks to netgalley for the advanced reader copy.
A riveting new suspense novel about three ambitious women whose lives are turned upside down in the aftermath of a horrifying fire, which destroys a successful advertising agency and threatens to expose a tangled web of lies.
Laura has returned to work at Morris and Wood after her maternity leave, only to discover that the woman she brought in to cover for her isn’t planning on going anywhere. Despite her close relationship with the agency’s powerful CEO, Harry Wood, she feels sidelined—and outmaneuvered—as she struggles to balance the twin demands of work and motherhood.
Mia was only supposed to be a temporary hire at Morris and Wood, but she’s managed to make herself indispensable to everyone. Everyone, that is, except Laura. If people only knew why she was so desperate to keep her job, they might not want her to stay.
Janie gave up everything to support her husband and the successful agency he runs. But she has her own dark secret to protect…and will go to any lengths to keep it safe.
A book full of very annoying characters! Are we really still reading/writing books about 'motherhood angst'? Just how pathetic could Laura be?
The story about Mia was fairly dull, predictable and the fact that she chose Janie to suffer and not her sister's rapist was just ridiculous.
And then we get to Janie, a defence barrister, who regrets her defence of said rapist. For heavens sake, she must have defended worse people in her time - it's our justice system! The right to a defence!
Honestly, this book was so irritating I'm amazed that I'm even giving it 2 stars! How did Jess, in a wheelchair, set the fire and escape? A better ending would have been if the mother had been the arsonist!
Laura has returned to work at Morris and Wood after her maternity leave, only to discover that the woman she brought in to cover for her isn’t planning on going anywhere. Despite her close relationship with the agency’s powerful CEO, Harry Wood, she feels sidelined—and outmaneuvered—as she struggles to balance the twin demands of work and motherhood.
Mia was only supposed to be a temporary hire at Morris and Wood, but she’s managed to make herself indispensable to everyone. Everyone, that is, except Laura. If people only knew why she was so desperate to keep her job, they might not want her to stay.
Janie gave up everything to support her husband and the successful agency he runs. But she has her own dark secret to protect…and will go to any lengths to keep it safe.
A book full of very annoying characters! Are we really still reading/writing books about 'motherhood angst'? Just how pathetic could Laura be?
The story about Mia was fairly dull, predictable and the fact that she chose Janie to suffer and not her sister's rapist was just ridiculous.
And then we get to Janie, a defence barrister, who regrets her defence of said rapist. For heavens sake, she must have defended worse people in her time - it's our justice system! The right to a defence!
Honestly, this book was so irritating I'm amazed that I'm even giving it 2 stars! How did Jess, in a wheelchair, set the fire and escape? A better ending would have been if the mother had been the arsonist!
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
BIG meh.
I read this in one day because I really wanted to see how the plot resolved and it was just a whole let down. Extremely repetitive novel with pretty unlikable characters.
I read this in one day because I really wanted to see how the plot resolved and it was just a whole let down. Extremely repetitive novel with pretty unlikable characters.
Title: Three Perfect Liars
Author: Heidi Perks
Format: Audiobook
Quick Take: Three ambitious women have their lives turned upside down after a horrifying fire destroys a successful advertising agency and threatens to expose a tangled web of lies.
Thoughts: I'm not entirely sure how I feel about Three Perfect Liars. The story was intriguing enough to keep me interested and to keep me listening. But the ending just fell flat. The ending was just so anticlimactic. Overall a decent but slow read.
Rating: 3 out of 5 Stars
Author: Heidi Perks
Format: Audiobook
Quick Take: Three ambitious women have their lives turned upside down after a horrifying fire destroys a successful advertising agency and threatens to expose a tangled web of lies.
Thoughts: I'm not entirely sure how I feel about Three Perfect Liars. The story was intriguing enough to keep me interested and to keep me listening. But the ending just fell flat. The ending was just so anticlimactic. Overall a decent but slow read.
Rating: 3 out of 5 Stars
This novel is like if Big Little Lies and Little Fires Everywhere had a baby.
When I first received Three Perfect Liars by Heidi Perks based on the blurb and the cover I had assumed it would be this fast-paced dynamic psychological thriller. Instead, it quickly revealed itself to be something a lot more. This novel lures you in with the enticing premise about the fateful fire that changed everything but it’s about much more than that. This book is very much centered on the pitfalls of womanhood, the myriad of things that society often forces women to sacrifice and to give up. It’s a very dark novel that brings up a lot of interesting things about what it means to be a working mother, what it means to “have it all” in this day in age, and how hard women have to work to garner the respect that seems to come so easily to the men around them. At the heart of this story are three women, Laura, Janie, and Mia.
At the start of the novel, Laura is returning to her job as a senior executive at Morris & Wood after six months of maternity leave. She is excited about returning to the job she loves so much and that she is extremely good at, but on her first day she soon realizes that the woman that was intended to be her temporary replacement has ingratiated herself into the office in a way she could’ve never anticipated.
That woman is Mia, the mysterious new woman who has come to Morris and Wood with intentions far greater than simply just climbing up the corporate ladder.
And lastly Janie, the wife of Harry Wood, Morris & Wood’s CEO who left her job as a law barrister five and half years ago to be more readily available to her husband and two girls. But now she feels trapped in her marriage and is struggling with the decision she made all those years ago.
As the plot moves forward, the tension mounts and the more these three women’s lives intertwine until everything comes to a head creating (quite literally) an explosive ending.
Though there were aspects of this novel I really liked, particularly with the way Heidi Perks was able to subtly pepper in these blunt truths about motherhood and the realities of the workforce for women vs men, there were also many things I didn’t enjoy. I, of course, am not anywhere near the age of the women central to this story so I can’t say I knew too much about what these women were dealing with going into it, but the feminist in me was happy to see how the author was able to paint such a stark reality for many real-life women in a heartbreaking way.
My main gripe with the story was the way I felt the narration and the way the story rushed along (particularly at the end) really kept you at arm's length. I just didn’t feel like I got to really know the women or I really understood their motivations. Though there was a satisfying conclusion to everything, I’m left feeling like the women remained enigmas to me. I just wish the story was plotted and executed a lot better.
The pacing too was just very off. The beginning felt very long and drawn out, the author giving you just enough crumbs to keep you intrigued but it often felt like we were going in circles in terms of the plot, some of the chapters felt very repetitive, especially Laura’s and it just felt like once we reached the middle of the story the author was just harping on the same thing over and over again. Then around 60% into the story, when we finally got some forward momentum it felt like Heidi Perks was skipping along with certain elements that I would’ve liked to have more detail on, breathlessly racing past all of these huge plot points. Sometimes I would have to re-read certain paragraphs just to firmly get a grasp on what was going on.
Ultimately the story had a great set up and an intriguing premise but in the end, it left me a little cold and disappointed.
Thank you to Netgalley and Simon & Schuster for providing me with an ARC
Rating: 2 1/2 stars
When I first received Three Perfect Liars by Heidi Perks based on the blurb and the cover I had assumed it would be this fast-paced dynamic psychological thriller. Instead, it quickly revealed itself to be something a lot more. This novel lures you in with the enticing premise about the fateful fire that changed everything but it’s about much more than that. This book is very much centered on the pitfalls of womanhood, the myriad of things that society often forces women to sacrifice and to give up. It’s a very dark novel that brings up a lot of interesting things about what it means to be a working mother, what it means to “have it all” in this day in age, and how hard women have to work to garner the respect that seems to come so easily to the men around them. At the heart of this story are three women, Laura, Janie, and Mia.
At the start of the novel, Laura is returning to her job as a senior executive at Morris & Wood after six months of maternity leave. She is excited about returning to the job she loves so much and that she is extremely good at, but on her first day she soon realizes that the woman that was intended to be her temporary replacement has ingratiated herself into the office in a way she could’ve never anticipated.
That woman is Mia, the mysterious new woman who has come to Morris and Wood with intentions far greater than simply just climbing up the corporate ladder.
And lastly Janie, the wife of Harry Wood, Morris & Wood’s CEO who left her job as a law barrister five and half years ago to be more readily available to her husband and two girls. But now she feels trapped in her marriage and is struggling with the decision she made all those years ago.
As the plot moves forward, the tension mounts and the more these three women’s lives intertwine until everything comes to a head creating (quite literally) an explosive ending.
Though there were aspects of this novel I really liked, particularly with the way Heidi Perks was able to subtly pepper in these blunt truths about motherhood and the realities of the workforce for women vs men, there were also many things I didn’t enjoy. I, of course, am not anywhere near the age of the women central to this story so I can’t say I knew too much about what these women were dealing with going into it, but the feminist in me was happy to see how the author was able to paint such a stark reality for many real-life women in a heartbreaking way.
My main gripe with the story was the way I felt the narration and the way the story rushed along (particularly at the end) really kept you at arm's length. I just didn’t feel like I got to really know the women or I really understood their motivations. Though there was a satisfying conclusion to everything, I’m left feeling like the women remained enigmas to me. I just wish the story was plotted and executed a lot better.
The pacing too was just very off. The beginning felt very long and drawn out, the author giving you just enough crumbs to keep you intrigued but it often felt like we were going in circles in terms of the plot, some of the chapters felt very repetitive, especially Laura’s and it just felt like once we reached the middle of the story the author was just harping on the same thing over and over again. Then around 60% into the story, when we finally got some forward momentum it felt like Heidi Perks was skipping along with certain elements that I would’ve liked to have more detail on, breathlessly racing past all of these huge plot points. Sometimes I would have to re-read certain paragraphs just to firmly get a grasp on what was going on.
Ultimately the story had a great set up and an intriguing premise but in the end, it left me a little cold and disappointed.
Thank you to Netgalley and Simon & Schuster for providing me with an ARC
Rating: 2 1/2 stars
Received an ARC via NetGalley.
The book started a little slow and I found the office drama a little tiresome, but only until things began to get underway.
What I found relatable was the work-life struggles of mothers. I think it captured the expectations of both working mothers and stay-at-home mothers well. I felt their frustrations fully.
The book started a little slow and I found the office drama a little tiresome, but only until things began to get underway.
What I found relatable was the work-life struggles of mothers. I think it captured the expectations of both working mothers and stay-at-home mothers well. I felt their frustrations fully.
Kept me guessing all the way through. Interesting characters with intriguing back stories.