A murder...A tragic accident...Or just parents behaving badly? What’s indisputable is that someone is dead.
Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. She’s funny, biting, and passionate; she remembers everything and forgives no one. Celeste is the kind of beautiful woman who makes the world stop and stare but she is paying a price for the illusion of perfection. New to town, single mom Jane is so young that another mother mistakes her for a nanny. She comes with a mysterious past and a sadness beyond her years. These three women are at different crossroads, but they will all wind up in the same shocking place.
Big Little Lies is a brilliant take on ex-husbands and second wives, mothers and daughters, schoolyard scandal, and the little lies that can turn lethal.
Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. She’s funny, biting, and passionate; she remembers everything and forgives no one. Celeste is the kind of beautiful woman who makes the world stop and stare but she is paying a price for the illusion of perfection. New to town, single mom Jane is so young that another mother mistakes her for a nanny. She comes with a mysterious past and a sadness beyond her years. These three women are at different crossroads, but they will all wind up in the same shocking place.
Big Little Lies is a brilliant take on ex-husbands and second wives, mothers and daughters, schoolyard scandal, and the little lies that can turn lethal.
Book Review:
The only way to describe Big Little Lies is by saying it's a contemporary thriller. It has all of the wonderous tropes that we love in a good contemporary: relationships, friendships, frenemies, bitchy kindergarten moms, etc. It also has that "keep you on the edge of your seat" feeling as you try to figure out what the hell is actually going on, which you don't figure out until the very end and it's absolutely unexpected.
The characters are so easy to love and hate. Jane, my favorite, is a single mom who is just trying to figure out how to not screw her kid up. She makes friends and enemies with the other characters. Madeline is spunky and still so in love with her husband. Celeste has some issues but you can see that she means well. I hate Renata and Harper, no more to say there. The small coastal community gives the book a cozy feeling with darker elements based on the plot. While reading it, I could actually see this little town in my head, like a map was in my hands.
Although there was so much to love about the book, I did feel that it was a slower read. It took me a while to actually care about picking it up. I am excited to watch the HBO series based off of the book though.
Pages: 458 Rate:4/5
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