Big Little Lies is about a whole load of busybody parents, a bullying incident and a parent's night that turned into a police investigation. And it's the kind of story that really leaves you gripped from start to finish.

I'd heard a lot of hype about this book so when I saw it on my library's new app for eaudiobooks, I decided to give it a go. And I'm really glad I did...and I'm really glad I decided to listen to it on audiobook as I felt like the audio really dragged out some of the intense scenes and really gave me that OMG feel at parts.

All the characters in this book are wonderfully developed and I marveled at Liane Moriarty's ability to not only give our main three moms - Madeline, Celeste and Jane - strong personalities but also the other moms who got some interview tidbits near the end of each chapter like Gabrielle, Harper and so on. This book is full of the kind of parenting politics one would expect but also dread to combat in the playground and the way the mother's react with one another and deal with certain situations was remarkably frustration, they almost had me tearing my hair out at parts. It was an interesting arc to see Ziggy's bullying end up in the parents bullying Jane and Ziggy and really become even worse than the 6-year-old child that was bullying in the first place. I was really guessing all over the place about who could have been the tragic outcome of the Trivia Night and I love when a book has me jump from character to character like that. It makes it rather fun. I also had the same experience with trying to figure out who the real bully was.

This book touched on a lot of issues such as bullying, domestic violence, sexual violence and even child marriage and sex slavery (though can we talk about how STUPID Abigail was for a minute? Like how....HOW can she have thought that website was a good idea? Like really?)

I think this is going to be a great mini-series (I think it's going to be a mini-series over a movie?) and I can't wait to see all the characters come to life!