Sam and Clementine have a wonderful, albeit, busy life: They have two little girls, Sam has just started a new dream job, and Clementine, a cellist, is busy preparing for the audition of a lifetime.

But this one was three and a half stars, not the usual five. In Truly Madly Guilty, Liane Moriarty turns her unique, razor-sharp eye toward three seemingly happy families. Almost as if someone else had written it and then handed it back to the real author. But the beginning was unforgivably unedited. Read 21,407 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. When the story FINALLY gets going (you still don't know what happened at the bar-b-q, but enough of the characters' past and motivations is revealed so that they're finally interesting), the novel IS great. How is it possible that anything by Liane Moriarty could be awful? But the beginning of this novel truly is: boring and tedious (the characters and the plot), with everyone alluding to something awful that happened at a mysterious bar-b-q but which is not revealed.

Truly Madly Guilty is really better that a 'three star' book but not quite a four mainly because the first part is AWFUL. Truly Madly Guilty - From the bestselling author of Big Little Lies, now an award winning TV series - Liane Moriarty -
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This is one of those books that makes me wish that it was possible to review with half stars.

Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty