I received a copy of this book from the publishers via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

William, Brian and Luke Drumm are all brothers but not particulalry close. And now one of them is dead, and his death may not have been an accident.

This book is not a fast-paced action thriller - it's very similar to all of Liz Nugent's other books in that it's very much a character study of the three Drumm brothers and all the nice and horrible parts of their personalities, the complexities of their relationship with each other and their mother, and what could have led to two brothers killing the third.

I really enjoyed examining the three brothers as we heard each of their stories and trying to figure out who could have done what, and honestly which out of the three I'd be tempted to do in myself as they're all so irritating and selfish. The story is not told in a linear way - it jumps back and forth over the years but with each brother we end up getting a really well-rounded version of their life. For example, in William's part we learn about their cousin Paul who died from leukaemia, in Luke's part we learn about the day Paul died and in Brian's we hear how close he was to Paul and the day of Paul's funeral.

There is possibly trigger warnings for extreme mental illness in this book. We learn early on that Luke suffers from depression as well as psychotic episodes which could be linked to some form of schizophrenia. The reader learns from Luke what he's seeing/hearing and struggling with pretty much all the time and how that affects him.

I just love Liz Nugent's style of writing and story-telling. Our Little Cruelties is full of characters so horrible, we can't look away from their ugliness to see how it will all play out. Nugent is a master at wickedly-evil people who are actually very ordinary.