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A review by bethreadsandnaps
The Perfect Neighbors by Sarah Pekkanen
3.0
The setting: An idyllic neighborhood in Nowhere, USA, with an email listserv (instead of a Facebook group) and a few families who you learn about in depth. Susan is a recently divorced, bitter woman whose husband left her for her friend. Gigi is married to a promising politician and is struggling with her older daughter. Kellie recently went back to work after having two kids to find herself again. And the new neighbors Tessa and Harry moved to the neighborhood after a tragedy at their old neighborhood.
At first I thought this was going to be a whodunit. And then you realize that it's a smaller (and larger) story than that. It's the average lives of everyone you know. There's no psycho killer. There are just people who made small and big mistakes, just like everyone.
I enjoyed reading the commentary from the listserv. It was realistic and funny.
The audiobook narrator did some voices in a strange way. I can see trying to make your voice deeper when you're doing a man's voice. But especially at the beginning with the character of Tessa, the narrator would sound like a robot when she did Tessa's voice.
At first I thought this was going to be a whodunit. And then you realize that it's a smaller (and larger) story than that. It's the average lives of everyone you know. There's no psycho killer. There are just people who made small and big mistakes, just like everyone.
I enjoyed reading the commentary from the listserv. It was realistic and funny.
The audiobook narrator did some voices in a strange way. I can see trying to make your voice deeper when you're doing a man's voice. But especially at the beginning with the character of Tessa, the narrator would sound like a robot when she did Tessa's voice.