Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
At first I haaaaaaated this book. I haaaaaated all of the parents and I strongly disliked all of the kids. I thought the pacing was far too slow and I was annoyed by the little blurbs of inserted testimony.
And then about a third of the way in, something magical happened. I started to care about these flawed parents and their goofy kids. More than halfway through, I didn’t want any of the ones I cared about to be the murder/accident victim and I was starting to dread Trivia Night.
Big Little Lies starts out as a toss-away fluff chick-lit book, and then grows into a twisting work of art, interspersing laugh-out-loud moments and dark gut-punch moments together in a way that cheapens neither. While I did guess who the bully was (sort of) early on, the actual death/accident surprised me in a good way. And in the end, the story belongs to the people you’d least expect.
I’m very glad I stuck with it!
I felt the same, no feeling for these frivolous fools at the onset followed by dread of trivia night and then relief in resolution.
I’m definitely going to give her other books a try!
Real book you can share? Nook book you can share? 🙂
It was a library loan. 🙁