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Madeline is divorced with a teenager and two younger kids from her second marriage. She's friend with Celeste, a beauty with twins and a seemingly perfect life. They both befriend Jane, a single mom. All three have kids starting kindergarten. From the beginning you know someone dies at the schools trivia night but it takes most of the book to find out who. I liked all three women and their stories. I think the events of the trivia night were a bit of a let down considering all the suspense leadi
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Ok, I hope my wife doesn't read this review, because I read this book because I suffer from the need to know how a story will turn out. We started watching the HBO series and I couldn't resist. Don't worry I won't spoil any plot lines. And the HBO show diverges at some points, so there is that too.
The novel suffers from what I dislike about a lot of contemporary fiction -- there is an inner didactic-ism that makes you feel emotionally manipulated in a way that is not pleasant. Interestingly the ...more
The novel suffers from what I dislike about a lot of contemporary fiction -- there is an inner didactic-ism that makes you feel emotionally manipulated in a way that is not pleasant. Interestingly the ...more
Skilled and entertaining. Read it in exactly 24 hours.
Big Little Liars is a great read. It’s kind of an interesting mix of superficial and serious. The premise of the book is that someone died at an evening trivia night activity for the parents at an elementary school. You don’t know whether it was accidental and you don’t know who the victim was. Then the story is told in mostly chronological order using references like “five months before the a activity night”. Jane moves to a new area in Australia. She is a single mother with a new kindergartene
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One of those books about everyday lives and families. Things happen, sometimes extraordinary things, but life carries on and absorbs them. An interesting read at the time, but I have to admit that a week later I had to read the blurb again to remember the story- enough said.
Picked up this book because I heard such great things about the HBO Limited Series, and I wanted to read the source material first.
I thought it hilarious that all of the drama centers around an elementary school, and the kindergarten parents are the main characters. I thought to myself, "These women are crazy."
Then I realized that these women have lives of their own outside of the Pirriwee school- these women have lives, hobbies, passions, etc. and are just introduced as helicopter parents. Th ...more
I thought it hilarious that all of the drama centers around an elementary school, and the kindergarten parents are the main characters. I thought to myself, "These women are crazy."
Then I realized that these women have lives of their own outside of the Pirriwee school- these women have lives, hobbies, passions, etc. and are just introduced as helicopter parents. Th ...more
Another read-aloud from the Kindle by my wife on our rides in/out of Boston. Excellent book with fascinating characters. We're going to read more of this Australian writer, for sure.
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