Big Little Lies

I always find Liane Moriarty to have written a book that captures your imagination. I love how she is able to turn the most innocent of situations into a twisted mess, and all because of human nature and self need. This book was one of my least favourites of Liane's, but the husband's secret kind of set the bar for me, so whilst it wasn't my favourite Liane book, it was a favourite I have read this year, because she is just so good and getting the pages to turn themselves. Really interesting story and would recommend to anyone look for a book with strong characters and storyline.

Very quick and fun read. The author's choice to have a interview statements from after the crime sprinkled throughout the book could have gone badly with a poorer writer, but Liane Moriarty has the right touch to use them to keep us guessing and salivating over the next chapters. The characters are over the top enough to make us smile, but true enough to remind us of all the mother cliques at schools and after-school activities.

So heavy handed, full of stereotypes, and poorly written. so bad it’s good type read

Such a good, good read! I would give it 5 stars, but the beginning was such a slow start, that I almost gave up. I see now, in hindsight, every slow, excruciating dragged out detail was all meticulously planted, placed, brilliantly written for a wonderful purpose. But still.. it was slooowww.
Any who, this was such a enjoyable, dark, very dark, but just as comedic, hysterically comic balance of a book. The content was so real, so contemporary, so now, so current. This what they call "playground scandal," all the dirty grimy thoughts parents, mothers, fathers, on lookers have when encountering other parents and their children were all too real, too dark, too hilarious. How the author so exquisitely interchanged each character's lives was just so clever.
There are several points of view, I can see how this was made into a show, it reminds me of shows like, Pretty little Liars or Scandal. Where you know there is a HUGE, TRAGIC, DRAMATIC end, but do not know the who, they why, or the how, and ever excerpt brings you closer and closer to those answers.
Such a great read, so enticing and addictive! I would highly recommend this book to anyone looking for a good read.

Riveting!