If there’s anything they can count on, it’s each other.Ĭlementine and Erika are each other’s oldest friends. Sam and Clementine have a wonderful, albeit busy, life: they have two little girls, Sam has just started a new dream job, and Clementine, a cellist, is busy preparing for the audition of a lifetime. In Truly Madly Guilty, Liane Moriarty turns her unique, razor-sharp eye towards three seemingly happy families. “Captivating, suspenseful…tantalizing.” - People Magazine “ Here’s the best news you’ve heard all year: Not a single page disappoints.The only difficulty with Truly Madly Guilty? Putting it down. Winner of Goodreads Choice Award for Best FictionĮntertainment Weekly's “ Best Beach Bet ”Ī USA Today Hot Books for Summer Selection I never felt invested in the suspense, just irritated by it.THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, FROM THE AUTHOR OF BIG LITTLE LIES, now an HBO series. Keeping it a mystery also kept it at too much of a distance.

This book might actually have worked better had the incident NOT been kept a secret, so I would have known what these people were working through and cared about it. But it was not worth 400 pages of buildup to it. Yes, it was frightening and potentially traumatizing. (view spoiler) But having satisfied that much of my curiosity, I couldn't drum up any more enthusiasm to keep reading.Īs mentioned above, I did go look at the ending. Like Kelly, I was wondering if the proposal would be more of a proposition, which might have explained some of the weirdness among all these people afterward.

I read far enough to get to the Big Proposal prior to the barbecue from Erika and Oliver to Clementine and Sam. But I couldn't care less about Erika, Clementine, Tiffany, their husbands, or their children. Not this one.Sheesh, is this book really by the same person who wrote Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers? Both of those had such interesting characters. Will readers hang on for 400+ pages to find out what it was? Some might. DNF at about one-third skimmed another third to see if it stayed so boring read the ending and was underwhelmed Three couples and three children attend a barbecue and something awful happens that affects them all.

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