I asked my sister if she read this book, because we both love Liane Moriarty. Her answer was “Ugh, the tennis one?”. Yes dear readers, this is the tennis one. If there are 10,000 words in this book (it’s long, so I’m sure there are way more), 7,500 of them are related to tennis. It didn’t really bother me, but apparently it bothered my sister!
It’s funny, and I know I’ve said this before, but Liane Moriarty is the only author I seem to enjoy where there’s no murder in the story. This book happens to also have a murder mystery though!
I’m not sure how to talk about this book without spoilers though, so if you’re going to read the book, please stop now!
Spoilers below!
I thought it was kinda hilarious, but also awesome that for three quarters of this book the family, the police, and friends are all trying to figure out who murdered Joy Delaney, who was never actually murdered. She basically went on a three week off the grid adventure for charity, poorly communicated the details for her family, and then came back fully unscathed.
The meat of this book is discussing Joy and her husband Stan’s backstory, and diving into the lives of their four kids. Holy crap this book was long. I think it was eighteen hours. It probably could’ve been like six hours and still had the same level of required detail. So I basically didn’t hate it, but I didn’t love it either – 3.5 stars