At this point, I’ve read a lot of books by Liane Moriarty. I’ve liked some better than others, but I’ve found them all interesting. So, it wasn’t difficult to pick up Apples Never Fall (2021) when I saw it was at the library. Although Apples Never Fall wasn’t as compulsively readable as some of her books, there were some good characters with some dysfunctional family dynamics. Stan and Joy Delaney just sold their tennis school, and are figuring out retirement in their empty nest. Their four children: Amy, Logan, […]

Can Liane Moriarty write a bad novel? Of all of hers that I’ve read, this was maybe the weakest and it was still solid. It follows a hypnotherapist, Ellen O’Farrell, as she begins a romance with a single-father widower, Patrick. Patrick discloses that he has a stalker, an ex-girlfriend named Saskia, who isn’t dangerous but does seem to be always there. Although ostensibly a love story (hence the name), the story doesn’t focus as much on the romance between Patrick and Ellen as on the […]