The Girls in the Garden: A Novel
One of People’s, Glamour’s, and BuzzFeed’s Best Reads of Summer, from the New York Times bestselling author of None of This Is True
“Jewell expertly builds suspense by piling up domestic misunderstandings and more plot twists than an SVU episode. It’s a page-turner for readers who like beach reads on the dark side.” —People
“Faithful to the thriller genre, Jewell makes liberal use of red herrings and plot twists… The answer to the whodunit is a sly—and satisfying—surprise.” —The New York Times
Imagine that you live on a picturesque communal garden square, an oasis in urban London where your children run free, in and out of other people’s houses. You’ve known your neighbors for years and you trust them. Implicitly. You think your children are safe. But are they really?
On a midsummer night, as a festive neighborhood party is taking place, preteen Pip discovers her thirteen-year-old sister Grace lying unconscious and bloody in a hidden corner of a lush rose garden. What really happened to her? And who is responsible?
“Jewell expertly builds suspense by piling up domestic misunderstandings and more plot twists than an SVU episode. It’s a page-turner for readers who like beach reads on the dark side.” —People
“Faithful to the thriller genre, Jewell makes liberal use of red herrings and plot twists… The answer to the whodunit is a sly—and satisfying—surprise.” —The New York Times
Imagine that you live on a picturesque communal garden square, an oasis in urban London where your children run free, in and out of other people’s houses. You’ve known your neighbors for years and you trust them. Implicitly. You think your children are safe. But are they really?
On a midsummer night, as a festive neighborhood party is taking place, preteen Pip discovers her thirteen-year-old sister Grace lying unconscious and bloody in a hidden corner of a lush rose garden. What really happened to her? And who is responsible?
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I wasn’t a huge fan of this book. I went into reading this book with the mindset that it will most likely be slower paced, based off of reviews from a few of her other books. What bothered me was the format of this “thriller.”
The first half (if not more) of this novel, came off as a contemporary. There wasn’t much going on except the lives of a couple families. It was kinda boring haven’t to stay focused on their lives with the hopes of eventually figuring out what happened after the prologue. I was finding it (since this book is based in London) bloody awful. I found that I didn’t care about Adele’s life or her three homeschooled daughters. Or how Clare is just a mess without her husband around. Every feminist in the world would be ripping Clare’s character to shreds.
THEN the last part of the book was the actual mystery. It was the shortest part of the book and it didn’t take long for them to figure out what happened. Plus, I hate when characters who aren’t professional detectives, decide to take over the case and solve it for themselves... which Adele did.
Honestly, I’m getting annoyed and bored just thinking about this book, so I’m going to end it right here.
To sum it up: I wasn’t a fan of this contemporary book that’s trying to pass as a “mystery.”
The first half (if not more) of this novel, came off as a contemporary. There wasn’t much going on except the lives of a couple families. It was kinda boring haven’t to stay focused on their lives with the hopes of eventually figuring out what happened after the prologue. I was finding it (since this book is based in London) bloody awful. I found that I didn’t care about Adele’s life or her three homeschooled daughters. Or how Clare is just a mess without her husband around. Every feminist in the world would be ripping Clare’s character to shreds.
THEN the last part of the book was the actual mystery. It was the shortest part of the book and it didn’t take long for them to figure out what happened. Plus, I hate when characters who aren’t professional detectives, decide to take over the case and solve it for themselves... which Adele did.
Honestly, I’m getting annoyed and bored just thinking about this book, so I’m going to end it right here.
To sum it up: I wasn’t a fan of this contemporary book that’s trying to pass as a “mystery.”
We never really know what our kids are really up to.
This was a good book! It misleads you into thinking that the culprit is one person but it's someone else entirely.
This was a good book! It misleads you into thinking that the culprit is one person but it's someone else entirely.
Another great domestic psych thriller by Jewell. So many suspects right to the end . Potentially a little predictable but a great read. 9/10
The writing was good and kept me listening. Definitely like Lisa Jewell. But I felt like I wanted more..and especially more at the end. It was pretty disappointing. Esp with the good storyline. The narrator did a great job.
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