I just finished "Nine Perfect Strangers" by Liane Moriarty. I’m a fan of the other books of hers that I have read, but I’m having a hard time describing how I feel about this one. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed reading this book. I was intrigued and wanted to keep reading once I got into it, but the “twist” kind of threw me for a loop. I wasn’t expecting where it went, but still wanted to keep reading to see what would happen to the characters.

This is the story of nine people who head to a health resort Tranquillum House all for different reasons, but mostly to better themselves. They are there for 10 days and upon arrival each guest learns this is not a conventional health resort. The owner of Tranquillum House, Masha, has an intense 10 days planned for them with some unexpected “treatments” along the way.

Each chapter is told by the perspective of one of the guests as well as Masha and her two wellness coaches. I felt the chapters flowed well and although they were not very long there was plenty of character development. There were some characters that I really liked, Frances, Tony, Yao, and the Marconis – Napoleon, Heather, and Zoe. There were some characters I didn’t like at all, namely Masha. And there were some characters that I didn’t feel were developed enough until the end to say whether I liked them or not including Lars, Carmel, Ben and Jessica.

If you are a fan of Liane Moriarty’s novels like I am I definitely recommend reading this and forming your own opinion of it. In my opinion it was not as good as her other books that I have read, but it still kept me interested enough in the characters to keep reading on.