My Rating: 2
So
I’m going to be completely honest with this one- I haven’t been this disappointed
in a book in a long time.
After
reading and loving Big Little Lies, I
knew that I wanted to read another one of Liane Moriarty’s works when I saw it.
Truly Madly Guilty started out
interesting enough, it hops back and forth between present time and what seems
like a few months ago at a friendly neighborly barbecue. We are made aware
early on that something traumatic happened at the barbecue but must try to put
the pieces together throughout the story to discover what that was.
True
to form, each chapter is from a different character’s perspective, rotating
mainly between the six adults that were there that day, each trying to come to
grips with what happened and how it affected their lives, and marriages,
forever. The mystery intrigued me enough to keep reading, but to me it was
really slow and took a lot of effort to keep pushing on. About halfway through, you finally find out what happened at the bbq, and I was basically
done reading at that point. I did end up finishing it but it felt like a chore.
Overall,
I was really bummed out about this book. I loved her other book so kept hoping
this one would get better, but… it didn’t. The twists were so slow in the
making and then they weren’t that shocking once they did happen. The characters
weren’t very likable and the mystery wasn’t that huge. Sorry to be so negative!
When it comes to not being a fan of this book, I am truly madly guilty.
-Busy
Brunette 
Labels: Fiction, Rating 2
