Much like everything I've been reading lately, this book has been on my to be read pile since it's publication all thise years ago. Before I picked this one up and actually started reading it, I thought it was going to be like 13 Reasons Why, but it really wasn't. Yes, each of these characters have secrets, but they're not the juicy secrets I expected. I honestly expected that one of the characters would have murdered someone, and this is the plot that the book would follow. Instead, the dead person committed suicide, and was the only person who seemed to know each of his friends' secrets that they'd much rather have hidden.
I'm usually drawn to books that showcase the characters as liars, as I love being able to guess where the story is going to go and what each person is hiding, but this books reveal was kind of underwhelming.
Friends and Liars opens with Danny's funeral, and it's the first time that his old friend group, the one's with the secrets, have been together in years, so it is expected that things are going to be tense with them, and after hinting at a rocky past, it seems to be that it is nice for them, all being back together, all things considered.
Over the course of this book, we mostly follow Ruby St. James, through both her past and present day, with her past almost a jigsaw piece as to why she is reclusive and isolates herself from her former friend group, but with the help of the occasional chapter from someone else in the friend group, we are able to eventually piece together when and why the group split and subtly went their separate ways.
I thought I'd enjoy this book as it promised a mystery, but I only ended up rating it 2 stars in the end, which is a shame, because I truly have been wanting to read it since I received it all the way back when.
I'm usually drawn to books that showcase the characters as liars, as I love being able to guess where the story is going to go and what each person is hiding, but this books reveal was kind of underwhelming.
Friends and Liars opens with Danny's funeral, and it's the first time that his old friend group, the one's with the secrets, have been together in years, so it is expected that things are going to be tense with them, and after hinting at a rocky past, it seems to be that it is nice for them, all being back together, all things considered.
Over the course of this book, we mostly follow Ruby St. James, through both her past and present day, with her past almost a jigsaw piece as to why she is reclusive and isolates herself from her former friend group, but with the help of the occasional chapter from someone else in the friend group, we are able to eventually piece together when and why the group split and subtly went their separate ways.
I thought I'd enjoy this book as it promised a mystery, but I only ended up rating it 2 stars in the end, which is a shame, because I truly have been wanting to read it since I received it all the way back when.