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4.28 AVERAGE
4.28 AVERAGE
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
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
medium-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:
Complicated
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Loveable characters:
No
Trashy but could not put down
One of the best audiobooks I've listened to! Great story! Compelling characters! Wonderful performance!
A twisty and twisted book. Quite entertaining, especially once I figured out that it was set in Australia and that I could give the characters Australian accents in my head.