I was really looking forward to reading this book. I absolutely loved Big Little Lies and have tried really hard to love Liane Moriarty’s other books as much as that one. I thought this would be her redemption after Nine Perfect Strangers. Sadly, not so much.

Don’t get me wrong. I didn’t hate this book, but I also didn’t love it. I was expecting more of a mystery and less of a tennis lesson. When Joy Delaney goes missing, I thought the story would be more about which siblings blamed their father and which supported him and all of them trying to figure out what happened to her. Sadly it was more about their tennis backgrounds and less about what happened to their mother.

I really couldn’t understand why Joy & Stan let Savannah stay with them. Why not just call the cops to get her help? The ending was disappointing to me. Like I just read this longish book and that’s how the mystery is solved? I was just hoping for more since I invested so much time.

There are parts of this book I liked as well. Moriarty’s writing of the family dynamics was done very well. However, I personally thought we needed more mystery and less tennis. I would classify this more as family drama then a mystery, but that’s just my opinion.

I listened to the audiobook, and felt that the narrator, Caroline Lee did a nice job. She is able to make the listener understand the characters emotions with her tone and inflection.

Thank you Libro.fm for an advanced listeners copy in exchange for my honest review.