And now I’m done with Liane Moriarty’s entire catalog of books. The Last Anniversary is similar to most of Moriarty’s books; there is a mystery that ties a group of people together and is pieced together through various points of view. In this case we have the mystery of the Munro baby; Alice & Jack Munro abandoned their house and child in 1932, the infant was found by Rose and Connie Doughty who raise the child and capitalize on the mystery for the next 73 […]
Now I’ve read all of Moriarty’s books (sadface)
The Last Anniversary stars Sophie Honeywell, who broke up with her boyfriend a few years ago, hours before the elaborate proposal he had planned. Since then, he’s married and had a child. Sophie remains, as she calls it, “mortifyingly single”. Then Tom’s aunt dies, and leaves her house on Scribbly Gum island (damn Australians) to Sophie — along with the mystery associated with the island. “Sometimes a girl has to stop waiting around and come up with her own fairytale ending.” As usual, Moriarty juggles a […]
Another page turner from Liane Moriarty.
After I finished tearing through Big Little Lies a few months ago, my friend Amy told me that she had just done the same, and now couldn’t stop reading all of Liane Moriarty’s back catalog. Armed with her suggestions re: which ones were good and which ones not-so-great, I bought a bunch of them on Kindle and took off on my vacation. The first one I uploaded was The Last Anniversary, which is one of her first novels. Adorable Sophie is nearing forty, and starting to panic because […]
Seeing Triple
There is a big difference, and a lot of growth as an author, between Liane Moriarty’s first work Three Wishes and her most current novel Big Little Lies. That’s not to say I didn’t enjoy Wishes, it just means I sort of forgot the author of one of my favorite books wrote it half way through reading it because it was just OK. Our story begins at a thirty fourth birthday party for the Kettle triplets, there is an argument that leads to a fork […]
Triple Trouble
Three Wishes was cute, if nothing particularly special. Basically a glimpse into some family drama, big and wild at first but everything shakes out fine by the end. Still, it was a fun little read and the characters were overall pretty endearing. “Cat felt that sense of pleasure and pride that she always felt when she saw her sisters in public. “Look at them!” she wanted to say to people. “My sisters. Aren’t they great? Aren’t they annoying?” Triplets Cat, Gemma and Lyn turn 34 at the […]
Would you open Pandora’s Box?
Poor, poor Pandora. Zeus sends her off to Epimetheus, a not especially bright man she’s never even met, along with a mysterious covered jar. Nobody tells Pandora a word about the jar. Nobody tells her not to open the jar. Naturally, she opens the jar. Falling somewhere between What Alice Forgot and Big Little Lies, the Husband’s Secret was leaps and bounds better than the Hypnotist’s Love Story. The secret is pretty predictable but that’s not why you’re reading, you’re reading to see how Moriarty […]
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