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Nine Perfect Strangers
by Liane Moriarty
⭐⭐⭐·75 Tranquil Stars
If you've ever read a book by this author before your know that she is a slow burner, it's not going to jump into a fast paced story straight away she makes you work for it.
The same can be said for this book we meet the characters one by one starting with Frances.
A once famous now washed up author, who has menopausal symptons and a really bad papercut. She is going to Tranquillum House to get away from it all and especially from a really bad review.
Napoleon and Heather are there along with their daughter Zoe.
Young couple Jessica and Ben are also there.
Lars the divorce lawyer and Tony the ex-sportsman, and also Carmel who is trying to be her better self after being traded in for younger model by her husband.
Nine perfect strangers all there for 10 days to be "A better you"
Run by the Russian health freak Masha and her two side kicks, everyone is giving their own "special" personalised diets and are immediately put onto a vow of Silence.
They are taken for long walks and given massages and also one-to-one therapy with the Tranquillum House workers.
Very slowly you start to see different sides of all of the characters and why they are there, you hear their stories and take a peek into their worlds.
Masha was a fabulous character she was so cleverly written.
It's difficult to tell you a lot about this book without going into spoilers, and it's also really difficult to put this book into a specific genre, it is kinda Romance, kinda Thriller, kinda Who-Done-It kinda Contemporary!
It was a very clever story and getting all of these stories interwoven with each other is an art in itself, and again if you've read any of Liane Moriarty books before you know that she's a master at this.
I'm not sure what didn't really work for me in this book as I said before the characters and the story were brilliant, it just needed a little more oompf for me and unfortunately this time it didn't, but I have read all of her other books and loved them, and you should certainly check her out if you haven't done so far.
🎧🎧 Narration of course was done by Caroline Lee who narrates all of Liane Moriarty books, and she did it fantastically as usual.
I love the fact that the author uses the same narrator every for every single one of her books, she is a fantastic narrator and gives a stellar performance Every. Single. Time.
To see my other reviews follow me to www.audiokilledthebookmark.com
If you've ever read a book by this author before your know that she is a slow burner, it's not going to jump into a fast paced story straight away she makes you work for it.
The same can be said for this book we meet the characters one by one starting with Frances.
A once famous now washed up author, who has menopausal symptons and a really bad papercut. She is going to Tranquillum House to get away from it all and especially from a really bad review.
Napoleon and Heather are there along with their daughter Zoe.
Young couple Jessica and Ben are also there.
Lars the divorce lawyer and Tony the ex-sportsman, and also Carmel who is trying to be her better self after being traded in for younger model by her husband.
Nine perfect strangers all there for 10 days to be "A better you"
Run by the Russian health freak Masha and her two side kicks, everyone is giving their own "special" personalised diets and are immediately put onto a vow of Silence.
They are taken for long walks and given massages and also one-to-one therapy with the Tranquillum House workers.
Very slowly you start to see different sides of all of the characters and why they are there, you hear their stories and take a peek into their worlds.
Masha was a fabulous character she was so cleverly written.
It's difficult to tell you a lot about this book without going into spoilers, and it's also really difficult to put this book into a specific genre, it is kinda Romance, kinda Thriller, kinda Who-Done-It kinda Contemporary!
It was a very clever story and getting all of these stories interwoven with each other is an art in itself, and again if you've read any of Liane Moriarty books before you know that she's a master at this.
I'm not sure what didn't really work for me in this book as I said before the characters and the story were brilliant, it just needed a little more oompf for me and unfortunately this time it didn't, but I have read all of her other books and loved them, and you should certainly check her out if you haven't done so far.
🎧🎧 Narration of course was done by Caroline Lee who narrates all of Liane Moriarty books, and she did it fantastically as usual.
I love the fact that the author uses the same narrator every for every single one of her books, she is a fantastic narrator and gives a stellar performance Every. Single. Time.
To see my other reviews follow me to www.audiokilledthebookmark.com