Liane Moriarty – Page 3 – Cannonball Read 17

My first five star read of 2022. I did not expect this!

Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty

January 26, 2022 by narfna 4 Comments

So I’ve been bemoaning this all over Goodreads for a couple of weeks now, but I’ve been in a five-star drought since 2022 started. (I wonder if it’s because the last book I read in 2021, Harrow the Ninth, was one of the most five-star books I’ve ever read, and the universe is just balancing itself out . . . ) I’ve been waiting, impatiently, to see what book would capture my emotions enough for me to slap that coveted five-star rating on, as I’ve […]

A pretty good read for the holidays

Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty

December 27, 2021 by kniki Leave a Comment

The Delaneys are a seemingly normal family with four grown up kids and a mum and dad who have just sold up the family business and retired. That is, until mum goes missing. Family secrets start emerging, dad looks guilty, and the children grapple with whose side they’re going to take. The tension builds nicely from the very beginning (making it a real page turner), with two timelines running side by side – the present, in which mum has disappeared and the past, starting around […]

Some Wellness Resort porn for a year of no travel

Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty

December 27, 2021 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

Nine Perfect Strangers is a relatively recent (2018) Liane Moriarty novel. A high powered city career woman, Masha, has a heart attack and is born anew- she loses weight, finds new purpose and opens a small wellness resort in the countryside. The novel follows the arrival of 9 guests who will be staying for a week, all with slightly different backgrounds and goals for the week- there is a couple with marital problems (Ben and Jessica), a writer suffering a crisis of career and life […]

Inoffensive early entry from Liane Moriarty

The Hypnotist’s Love Story by Liane Moriarty

October 28, 2021 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

Can Liane Moriarty write a bad novel? Of all of hers that I’ve read, this was maybe the weakest and it was still solid. It follows a hypnotherapist, Ellen O’Farrell, as she begins a romance with a single-father widower, Patrick. Patrick discloses that he has a stalker, an ex-girlfriend named Saskia, who isn’t dangerous but does seem to be always there. Although ostensibly a love story (hence the name), the story doesn’t focus as much on the romance between Patrick and Ellen as on the […]

Formula Still Works

Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty

October 22, 2021 by ASKReviews Leave a Comment

BINGO: Flora – Apple tree Best for: Fans of the genre. In a nutshell: Joy and Stan have four children, and have recently retired from running a tennis school. All of them have played tennis competitively, though none still play professionally as adults. Last year, a stranger appeared at their door, and Joy and Stan took her in. Six months later, the stranger has been gone for a bit, and Joy has gone missing. Worth quoting: “It happened all the time. Talented kids turned into […]

They Knew Each Other By the End

Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty

September 28, 2021 by Jake Leave a Comment

Read as part of CBR13bingo: flora. There are trees and plants on the cover. If I were to teach a class on creative writing, I would without question assign one of Liane Moriarty’s books. The only other one I’ve read of hers was Big Little Lies, mostly because her accuracy on relationship dynamics is so painfully on point that I can’t stand it. I imagine I’ll finish her catalog someday. Whether I do or not, she’s a writer that perspective writers should study. Her characters are so […]

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