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4.28 AVERAGE
4.28 AVERAGE
mysterious
fast-paced
While not the most intellectually stimulating, this book kept me wanting more. I loved the style of writing and jumping between time periods. You root for the characters even knowing their flaws. Recommend as a fun summer read!
I enjoyed this read. It made me think and I wasn’t sure what was going to happen. Interesting to think about if she never hit her head what would have happened. Losing 10 years of memory.
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Took me a bit to get into it and learn all the characters, but I liked the ending & twist!
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Could not put this down! I only gave it 4.75 stars because I had sussed out a major plot point about 100 pages before it happened, but I still absolutely loved this book.
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
While following Liane Moriarty’s basic framework (three friends/if stories interwoven, all three perspectives alternating, middle-upoer-class setting, motherhood, wifehood, career vs. home success), this is a darker story than most of her books. There is an ugly date-rape told in retrospect, violence in a family, as well as the usual PTA cattiness. One family has a daughter who insists on living with her father and his young, yoga-teaching wife, a cliche of New Age serenity who can’t be faulted, as she is not smug. In another story, a single mother struggles to provide her young son with a happy life just as he begins to ask question ps about his father, who was a very-regretted one-night-stand. And a third family, wealthy and happy, with a beautiful mother and adorable twin boys and an involved dad, hides the darkest secrets of all. There is no doubt that the mix of malice and ego and secrecy will lead to violence—the book begins with witness statements—but what happened is concealed u TIL the end, and whodunnit is a true surprise.
reflective
fast-paced