Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Nine Perfect Strangers - Liane Moriarty

9 people gather at a rural Australian retreat to refresh their lives.  Cellphones are turned off and all are hoping in some way to have their lives changed after 10 days of yoga and salads.  Some are here to save their marriages, some to lose weight, others to help grieve, a variety of reasons to escape and regroup.

I did enjoy the first half of the book, but felt the last half was a bit of a letdown.  It felt like the author had a great idea but was unsure of how the story would finish and it all felt a bit overworked to me and turned a bit into silliness, which was a shame.  Not my favorite by Liane Moriarty.   2/5

1 comment:

John Bellen said...

There are always a number of books that are based on good ideas but don't have the plots to go with them.