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A review by jedore
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
When I closed the back cover of this book, I marveled at how it's not until the very end of a book that I really know what rating I’ll bestow upon it. I can be absolutely loving a book up until the end...and then it can suddenly drop to a 4-star within the last few pages. Or, conversely, a book can be holding at a solid 4 when the ending bumps it up to my all time favorites list.
It was the latter with What Alice Forgot. Without spoiling anything, I'll just say that I loved how Liane chose to end this story.
I picked up this book after enjoying the Big Little Lies series on Netflix with my guy (NOTE: I would have totally postponed watching it had I known it was based on a book!!! 🤦♀️). Liane definitely has a formula that works—she utilizes humor and mystery to turn stories about serious issues into pretty light reads. In the case of What Alice Forgot, amnesia, death, divorce, infertility, aging, and parenting, are written about in such a way that reading about them is not depressing. Instead, I found myself relating and chuckling throughout the entire book.
I just added her other books to my imposing TBR list and took The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald off my bookshelf to start in 10, 9, 8...
It was the latter with What Alice Forgot. Without spoiling anything, I'll just say that I loved how Liane chose to end this story.
I picked up this book after enjoying the Big Little Lies series on Netflix with my guy (NOTE: I would have totally postponed watching it had I known it was based on a book!!! 🤦♀️). Liane definitely has a formula that works—she utilizes humor and mystery to turn stories about serious issues into pretty light reads. In the case of What Alice Forgot, amnesia, death, divorce, infertility, aging, and parenting, are written about in such a way that reading about them is not depressing. Instead, I found myself relating and chuckling throughout the entire book.
I just added her other books to my imposing TBR list and took The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald off my bookshelf to start in 10, 9, 8...