A review by melissakuzma
A Friend of the Family by Lauren Grodstein

4.0

I originally gave this three stars, but after several of my friends questioned me on it, I decided to change it to four. I loved this book up until the very end, where I think it didn't totally deliver. The book was written so well - you know from page 1 that something terrible has happened, but you have know idea what it is. And the narrator, who is quite an interesting character, doles out the information a bit at a time, in a very suspenseful way. Unfortunately the end, to me, was a bit of a "THAT'S IT?!" moment, which is why my first reaction was to give it only three stars. But when everyone started asking me about it, I had to admit it really was better than that. If the ending had had a little more "oomph", it might have even gotten five!