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This story is told through the eyes of several well developed characters and bystanders and evesdroppers. It delves into the psyche of a family who fiercely love one another but can not for the life of them figure out how to show it. When their mother goes missing after an introduction to a stranger the father is accused of murder. The family dysfunction kicks into high gear as they can not communicate & take sides on mom vs dad.

Good. Interesting take on marriage and family life. Such a intense book which keeps you guessing until the very end. Thank you #MichaelJoseph and #Penguin for inviting me to read this via #Netgalley.

#ApplesNeverFall

Entertaining read filled with some unexpected twists and turns

“Never spoil a good story with the facts.“ 🤔

Wagging school (as I do every year) and on my way to the Sydney Writer‘s Festival on the train. Hoping to get this book signed on Sunday. Catching up with a family friend and staying with my beautiful friend and godson who I haven‘t seen since last year when she told me she was pregnant and now she is about to pop. I‘m eating date loaf and drinking Red Rose tea courtesy of #LitsyTeaSwap and @Bookwormjillk It is waking me up too. Thankyou Jill xo

I liked this more than I thought I would! It was light and entertaining, and dramatic in a low stakes way. It could have used some editing - the end especially was massively dragged out, and it would have been really frustrating in print. Audio was a great medium, though.

I had this on hold at the library for 13 weeks? Or maybe more… it was worth it!! #book65of2022

Best book scores from my building‘s book exchange for yonks!

🌟🌟🌟🌟 Aside from being a bit longer than necessary and drawn out, I am happy to say Liane Moriarty is back! After that last disaster of a book, 9 Perfect Strangers, she still has my faith to spin a good story. Recommend

I felt the story was a bit drawn out but overall I enjoyed the mystery and family dynamics. Great distraction to kick off the weekend with.

“The bike lay on the side of the road beneath a great oak, the handle bars at an odd, jutted angle, as if it had been thrown with angry force.”

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2.75⭐️ I thought the premise for the book was interesting, but by the end of the book I really didn‘t care for the family. I thought that the chapters that focused on the individual siblings were too long and found myself not really caring about the siblings. I thought that the chapters should have been shorter and the story shorter as a result. #2022 #fiction #contemporary #bookreview #bookstagram

My plans for #weekendreading is to finish Apples Never Fall and to work on HP & the Deathly Hallows and Booth

This was a riveting book where I wanted to know what happened, but there were times where it moved slowly and felt repetitive. The ending remained a surprise and it was overall a good read even if it wasn‘t one of my favorites

I'm actually mad at the book and that's rare. Lol. Like Big Little Lies, I quite enjoyed the juicy, gossipy tone of the novel. It's Moriarty's style and it's fine if you want a light, relaxing read. However, it's not the ending itself which I disliked—I quite liked that bit—but the ending before the ending, so to speak. Will clarify in spoilers. I felt like I was invested in the book and its characters, only for a lazy whimper of a conclusion.

My first book from this author and it was just meh for me. It‘s very slow and had too many characters to keep track of plus for a mystery it wasn‘t very engrossing. Just a so so from me, almost gave up on this one a couple of times through lack of interest

My #weekendreading.

📚 Apples Never Fall - library book due on Wednesday but it‘s going by really fast.
📱An Impartial Witness - another library book that is due fairly soon and want the download off my phone
📚HP & the Deathly Hallows - My double bookspin book for March; slowly getting through it
📚The Language of Flowers - book club read for next weekend; will probably start it later today or tomorrow.

An enjoyable mixture of mystery, family dynamics, and humor. I listened to it on audio and loved it.

An ok way to pass the time. Stan and Joy are retired and bored. A stranger comes to the door for help and they invite her in to stay with them. This is a questionable decision coming from two people who otherwise seem smart. When Joy goes missing, family secrets come out. Nothing too earth shattering. For a book about a missing person, not much happens.

Completely enjoyed Moriarty‘s latest. Both a mystery and a dysfunctional family saga. Lots of the same vibes as Nine Perfect Strangers. Listened on #audiobook which was 💯

I always feel her books are hard to get through, but when you do, it‘s a nice feeling of “wow I‘m glad i finished that one!” The characters were good, and annoying, which i think was the point. I liked it.

My book buddy Jolene is ready for a nap while I read!
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Glad to read Liane Moriarty‘s new book. She weaves a tale like no other and creates characters that are easy to like. A little twist at the end....wasn‘t sure what to think about that....

I was still excited for this, despite mixed reviews - particularly the ending - and it worked for me. The ending may not have been the strongest Moriarty has come up with but the way things came together was satisfying for me.

Overall, I enjoyed this one. It is long and it does start a little slow, but it kept my interest and I enjoyed seeing everything come together. I wasn‘t a fan of the end part (other than the very last bit), it felt completely unnecessary and kinda dragged for me. Also, it took me an embarrassingly long time, as a resident of the northern hemisphere, to realise that in Australia, “October” and “last spring” were the same thing. 😂

I almost bailed several times. It took a long time to get to the good part. 🍎🍏🍎🍏

You can choose the right shot, you can have a good swing and good technique, you can do everything right, and it can still go wrong. No player, no matter how good, makes one hundred percent of their shots 🎾🏆🍎

I never know how to feel after I read a Moriarty book… did I like that? Did I not like it??? I don‘t know! I definitely kept me reading and guessing the whole way through!

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Just rinse the plate

I think this is my favorite Liane Moriarty book!

This was ok, not Moriartys finest work but it‘ll engage you enough to finish it. The mystery plot, altho it did make me gasp at a couple twists, was secondary, and only mildly interesting. A lot of the book was just character studies, notes on their thoughts, random bits of insights on every-day people, several not even really related to the story. Between the plot and the accent (audiobooker here), it kept me interested enough 🤷🏽‍♀️

Ready to read this book! 🍎 🍏🍎🍏

Enjoyed this more than Nine Perfect Strangers - a well-paced read with believable characters, quite funny in parts

Book 3

Apples Never Fall is an easy-to-read, enjoyable, and light mystery. A woman with grown children goes missing. Is she dead? Who killed her? It's a good, unpredictable novel by Moriarty. ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Trying to read the tagged book. Just got my son and his gf on the road back to college and need to take the tree down first.

@Andrew65 #weekendreading

Amy once told Joy that she had no idea how lonely it felt to be single. Joy had wanted to tell her that you could still be lonely when you were married, that there had been times when she had woken up day after day crushed with loneliness, and still made breakfast for four children.
She didn't say that to Amy. She said, "Yes, darling, you're right. It must be so hard?'

My final #12BooksOf2021 was this family saga from Liane Moriarty @Andrew65 🎧❤️The audio was simply delightful and kept me engaged as I baked, cooked,cleaned and ran errands during December. This was the right blend of lightheartedness, drama, family dynamics and mystery.

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*****

Gripping story that keeps you guessing, a quick read even though it's long.

This could have been really good. The last 30-ish pages though just sent it to hell in a hand basket for me. The pandemic? Really? We had to go there?! Ugh. I actually liked the rest of the book & I had serious concerns based on the mixed reviews. But those last 30 pages took this from 4⭐ to 3⭐ for me.