Apples Never Fall - Book Review

3.75 stars

Apples Never Fall

Liane Moriarty

 

 

 

I always thought it would be nice to have siblings, but then I met Brooke, Logan, Amy and Troy. I always thought I'd want to have parents that were involved in my life, and then I met Stan and Joy. The disappearance of Joy made me wonder why it took so long.

Interesting characters but so predictable, they lean and depend on each other to just BE. A tennis family, if you don't like tennis, you might give this one a pass.

There's some great humour, Moriarty can do that well but the book was looong, way too loong. And should we expect to see it one day on Netflix? Probably, darn it.

One of the best descriptions in this book was of the family dog! How she ate human food, how she didn't seem to know that she was a dog.
The one time they'd taken her to the local dog park..Steffi had been appalled and sat at their feet with an expression of frozen hauteur on her face, as if she were a society lady at McDonald's.

Now that made me laugh out loud. We've all seen that dog!

Waiting for the next morsel of Moriarty's potential brilliance kept me going:

That was the secret of a happy marriage: step away from the rage.

Her mother specialized in the tiny razor-sharp dig wrapped in a soft compliment, so you didn't notice the blood until afterward.

...because any marriage of that many years has multiple motives for murder. Every police officer and hairdresser knows that.

 
It's this display of the wielding of words that made #ApplesNeverFall worthwhile to read, the story not so much. 

Until next time,


 

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