Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty (Epub)

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In Truly Madly Guilty, Liane Moriarty turns her unique, razor-sharp eye towards three seemingly happy families.

Sam and Clementine have a wonderful, albeit busy, life: they have two little girls, Sam has just started a new dream job, and Clementine, a cellist, is busy preparing for the audition of a lifetime. If there’s anything they can count on, it’s each other.

Clementine and Erika are each other’s oldest friends. A single look between them can convey an entire conversation. But theirs is a complicated relationship, so when Erika mentions a last-minute invitation to a barbecue with her neighbors, Tiffany and Vid, Clementine and Sam don’t hesitate. Having Tiffany and Vid’s larger-than-life personalities there will be a welcome respite.

Two months later, it won’t stop raining, and Clementine and Sam can’t stop asking themselves the question: What if we hadn’t gone?

In Truly Madly Guilty, Liane Moriarty takes on the foundations of our lives: marriage, sex, parenthood, and friendship. She shows how guilt can expose the fault lines in the most seemingly strong relationships, how what we don’t say can be more powerful than what we do, and how sometimes it is the most innocent of moments that can do the greatest harm.

User’s Reviews

Review #1 New York Times Bestseller Winner of Goodreads Choice Award for Best Fiction“Here’s the best news you’ve heard all year: Not a single page disappoints…The only difficulty with Truly Madly Guilty? Putting it down.” ―Miami Herald”Perfect for those long summer days, but readers will have to pace themselves to not devour it in one sitting.” ―Library Journal (starred review)Entertainment Weekly’s “Best Beach Bet,” Summer ’16A USA Today Hot Books for Summer SelectionA Miami Herald Summer Reads Pick“Liane Moriarty is one of the few writers I’ll drop anything for. Her books are wise, honest, beautifully observed, and―unusually―I can never tell where they’re going to go.” ―Jojo Moyes”The author of Big Little Lies―which is being made into an HBO series starring Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon―brings it again. This time, the lives of a few happy families are changed forever after a barbecue. Well done, in more ways than one.” ―Skimm Reads “Emotionally riveting…Moriarty is a deft storyteller who creates believable, relatable characters. The well-drawn cast here will engage readers and remind them that life halfway around the world isn’t much different from life here―families argue, neighbors meddle and children push boundaries.” ―Washington Post“[A] masterpiece…Extremely relatable and thought-provoking…Ms. Moriarty’s shining talent in Truly Madly Guilty is her uncanny ability to get into the mind of her well-developed characters, turn the mirror on the reader and make you think about your own relationships, both past and present.” ―Pittsburgh Post-Gazette“Moriarty is a talented tale-spinner and a sharp, witty social observer…Moriarty fans, pack Truly Madly in your beach bag.” ―USA Today“Truly Madly Guilty will be widely read…It has all the requisite trademarks of one of her hits…It probes some of the things she writes about best: fraught friendships, covert backbiting, stale marriages.” ―New York Times“Stacked with her signature themes: female friendship, duplicity, the darkness lurking beneath lucky, ordinary suburban lives…The last twist, though, is nearly worth the wait, and what sets Moriarty’s writing apart…has as much to do with her canny insights into human nature as her clever plotting…Compelling.” ―Entertainment Weekly“Moriarty’s fans will rejoice at her latest title as she tackles marriage, parenthood, friendship, and sex, in this provocative and gripping read…This novel sheds light on the truths that we all fear as parents, spouses, and friends. It’s perfect for those long summer days, but readers will have to pace themselves to not devour it in one sitting.” ―Library Journal (starred review)“Perhaps the most anticipated release this summer, Moriarty is at her finest in this keep you guessing multi-family drama surrounding a tragic event at a casual neighborhood barbecue. You will not soon forget this cast of troubled yet very likable characters, and the relationships that both bind and nearly destroy them.” ―Huffington Post”The author of Big Little Lies doing what she does best: unraveling people’s public selves with an urgency that keeps you reading.” ―Glamour Magazine“[A] brilliant story of love, marriage, parenthood and, of course, guilt…It’s wonderfully suspenseful, slyly sentimental, sometimes outright sad―and also truly, madly, amazingly funny.” ―Forth Worth Star-Telegram“Liane Moriarty has done it again. Truly Madly Guilty has it all―suspense, drama, humor, and a cracking story cleverly told.” ―Fabulous Magazine (UK)

Reviews from Amazon users, collected at the time the book is getting published on UniedVRG. It can be related to shiping or paper quality instead of the book content:

⭐ This was my book club’s third foray into Liane Moriarty’s prose, and I wasn’t a fan to begin with. My biggest beef with her work is her character’s lack of likability. I need to care about these people if I’m going to slog through (c’mon!) 520 pages. The cheap, manipulative plot device to keep you reading grew intensely tiresome, and by the time the big reveal was unfurled, more than half way through, who had the strength to care – maybe the few who hadn’t figured it out already? After that, ANY reason to care evaporated. I believe that Moriarty’s penchant for describing (and belaboring) inner turmoil is appreciated by some, this reader grew weary from the get-go, flipping unread pages with increasing frequency, until at last, the beast was conquered. This is her last book for me. Should another club member want to pitch one of her remaining tombs, I will wholeheartedly protest. Life is too short to willingly endure so many hours of handwringing, with a payoff so underwhelming, scratching off a lottery ticket would provide more excitement.

⭐ First of all, I’d like to say that I read the reviews beforehand, but am so happy I bought the book anyway. The biggest complaint seemed to be that it took so long to learn what happened at the barbeque, which is true. However, it is so worth the wait. It seems to be her style to reveal the outcomes and consequences in her books prior to the big reveal. And in this book I was as enthralled with the how’s and why’s as I have been in all of Moriarty’s other books.The beginning takes a little bit to get into, but Moriarty gives so much depth to her characters and their relationships that you really relate to them and their lives. I loved the quirkiness of the kids’ characters and how everyone’s points of view was relevant, even surprising.I was sad when it was over but satisfied with the way things worked out.Give it a try!

⭐ That’s how I felt when reading this book. Frustrated cause it was a hanger after hanger after hanger. It wasn’t until 58% through the book that she revealed what happened that day that changed their lives. They talk about it and talk about it but just keep stringing you along. I couldn’t stop because I was too far in and it better be something good! And it was just disappointment.By far the most frustrating book I’ve ever read. I have never enjoyed a book less than this one. Unfortunately.

⭐ I’m disappointed with this book after reading What Alice Forgot. This plot fell short in many ways and it was painful to get through the first half of the book. Even though it moved faster towards the end, it was terrible to realize that the big reveal I had been waiting for was anticlimactic in every way. We are thrown into the lives of four very dull characters and then forced to go along for a boring ride until the book ends. I wouldn’t recommend. This book was not crafted well, much to my dismay.

⭐ I don’t know if it was the barbecue setting, the over-the-top personality of the (Greek?) character Vid, or something more subtle, but I was haunted throughout reading this book by another Australian novel: The Slap. Although a very different sort of book, The Slap also looks at a certain moment in time through the eyes of everyone present. And I wondered if Liane Moriarty is making a comment about how she believes people really react in such situations. I do believe her interpretation of human nature (that everyone involved in a traumatic event feels personally responsible if not actually guilty in some way) more than Tsiolkas’s (sue ’em!) . . . but alas, that doesn’t make Truly Madly Guilty the better book.As other reviewers have pointed out, the long wait for the revelation — What Happened at the Barbecue — is just too irritating. This technique works well in The Husband’s Secret, because the action is in the present, so we are gaining knowledge and waiting for the revelation right along with the characters. But in Truly Madly Guilty, the barbecue is in the past, and we alternate chapters about that day with incidents in the present, putting us in the voyeuristic role of looking for loss. (Is everyone still alive?) It’s cheap and beneath Moriarty’s skill as a novelist.Of course, what isn’t different about Truly Madly Guilty is the compulsive readability of the book. Even while you’re thinking, “Oh come on, you can do better,” you’re galloping through the pages. I got my copy (400 pages) for Christmas and was done December 26. There was not even a question of not finishing it, and that had nothing to do with the plot revelations. Moriarty writes good hearted, compulsively readable fiction, and I will always read everything she publishes. But I’d love her to get back to the more honest, deeper level of novels such as The Husband’s Secret. Whenever Moriarty falls back on a gimmick (What Alice Forgot is the other example), the story suffers. I wish we could convince her that she doesn’t need such tricks to keep us engaged.

⭐ This book reads like a TV soap opera. It gives a snippet of plot about one thing, and then moves onto a snippet of a different thing. It is irritating and aggravating because the plot never fully develops or deepens. It takes over half the book to discover the “terrible” thing that happens, and by then it doesn’t seem as terrible as the build up. I gave up reading this about 2/3 the way through because I just didn’t care how story ended. I didn’t care about the characters. They all seemed to be so melodramatic (like a soap opera) and self-absorbed that by that point I was sick of them.

⭐ Like everyone else, this book took far too long to tell us what happened. I just spent 3/4 of the book wondering why everyone was so depressed and hated each other so much. It was just a weird read. The characters weren’t even that likable. The “best friends” seem to hate each other. At least one set of spouses seem to hate each other. Each couple seems to hate the other couples.spoiler sort of–I am a parent, and I completely understand that what happened would be absolutely terrible, BUT, she was ok in the end and I don’t understand hating everyone involved, like the neighbors, months after it happened. They didn’t push her in themselves.

⭐ It’s over. And I am at a loss. What do I do now? My new friends have moved on, but I can’t seem to do the same. I hate it when this happens! And for me, it happens a lot. I get so attached, they become a part of my everyday world. Then, suddenly, they move on and out of my life and I am left wondering if the characters in the next book I read will have such a profound effect on my mind.I have finished Liane Moriarty’s Truly, Madly Guilty and Clementine, Erika, Holly, Ruby and the rest of these amazing characters have left me feeling like I have let go of a few new friends. They came into my life and now, their stories told, have moved on and I miss them.That, to me, is the beauty in the writing of Liane Moriarty. She gets into the minds of the characters and shares both the extreme and trivial details that make each character behave in the way that they do and this gives you a feeling that you actually know these people. You have been with them through thick and thin. You have seen what has brought them to their knees and walked with them as they pulled themselves up, dusted off their britches and moved forward with their lives.This story is written in 3rd person, but each person tells a new chapter and that person has almost 1st person ability to tell not only the background, and what they are thinking, but almost what is going on with everyone else in a 1st person type of viewpoint.This book is a lot like Big Little Lies, in that you know there was something big that happened, but you don’t know exactly what or how, but that it affected everyone who was involved in quite a discernible way. You know that the lives of these people are all different after the Bar-B-Que at Tiffany and Vid’s house. But what you learn are the events that led up to that fateful day and how every person who was there is changed and challenged after that day. What you don’t know is what actually happened.That is the beauty of this both Truly Madly Guilty and Big Little Lies. You know what the outcome is, but you don’t have any real idea of what caused the problem until the characters have pretty much gotten themselves and their lives almost back on track. Add to that all of the background information given through flashbacks leading up to the moment of crisis and you end the story almost back at the beginning, but you know the entire story which leaves you feeling as though you know the cast of characters completely.And, if you are like me, you miss them when they leave.Caroline Lee is the narrator for the Truly Madly Guilty audio, just as she was for Big Little Lies, and she is absolutely magical. Her inflections and change of style for each character exactly matches what you would imagine each of them would sound. Especially her characterization of Vid that is spot on and wonderful. Plus, at the end of the book, there is a Q&A between Lee and Moriarty that is quite interesting and fun to listen to them talk about the characters from their perspectives.And, just like Big Little Lies, Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman have picked up the rights to Truly Madly Guilty for a movie deal. I can hardly wait! Big Little Lies will be a 7 part series on HBO hopefully airing soon!Check out more reviews at […]

⭐ This book definitely wasn’t one of her best. I have become a fan of Ms. Moriarty and expect a certain caliber of writing from her. Up until this book I really enjoyed reading and learning the characters. She could take even the most unlikeable characters and still make you want to find some good in them. This book felt like that got glazed over a bit. You just didn’t feel like you were really getting to know all of the character, she just scratched the surface of a few and when she did offer a hint into their true selves it seemed like more of an afterthought, a way to tie up loose ends. I particularly found one of her main characters very unlikeable. Even when she “redeemed herself” it didn’t help. She was just flat out dull and no matter how hard I tried I just could not root for her.As for what happens at the barbecue, well… She seems to be leading you in so many directions that by the time you get there it isn’t what your expecting and you feel like you’ve been sent on a wild goose chase. And after building up to it so much she doesn’t seem to give it the proper attention or really get into how it effects everyone. Yes, you know they all feel guilty, but you don’t get what Ms. Moriarty is usually so good at, which is letting you in to each characters thoughts and feelings and how they have truly been affected by the incident. Ms. Moriarty usually puts so much into truly developing a character, to the point that you feel a connection to them, and I didn’t get that in this book. I feel like, in just over 500 pages she wasted a lot of time harping on topics that really ended up going nowhere and neglected character development. And you also have these other “side stories” that really don’t bring anything to the story. I feel like she has gotten so popular that she may be trying to put out books faster and she isn’t giving them the love and attention that we saw in earlier books.One other thing that really bothered me is that there is a character in the story that is played down as being rather insignificant when, in fact, he is crucial to the story. Once it is clear he played a very important part in the story she gives him a short chapter and skims over his life and other things (don’t want to give any spoilers). I feel like he definitely deserved more attention and I was quite surprised to see that he wasn’t a part of the reader’s guide questions in the end.All in all I’m not disappointed that I read it, but I think she can do better.

⭐ Disclaimer: Truly, Madly, Guilty is not a suspenseful whodunnit, but there is mystery.I’ve read most of Liane Moriarty’s works and I am a fan. I’d come across this one before, but opted to not buy it because it doesn’t have stellar reviews. However, I recently read Nine Perfect Strangers and liked it (4 stars from me), despite the fact that the novel also didn’t get super high marks. With that in mind, I decided to give this story a whirl and form my own opinion. I’ve read enough of Liane to know that I never regret my purchase and find value in the reading, even if I don’t completely love the novel (e.g. Three Wishes). The author has a knack for creating believable characters with conversations that flow and relational dynamics that make sense.I’d read in other reviews that the “big occurrence” at the BBQ was anti-climactic, so I decided to just see how everything unfolded without any expectation of some big twist; instead, I just read along with curiosity about why certain characters behaved the way they did, and with genuine interest in the lives of other characters.It’s true that pretty much most (or maybe all) chapters leave off on some sort of cliffhanger (both in the past at the BBQ and in the characters’ present). It’s as though all of the characters are in on some secret and the reader is left in the dark. Normally that setup annoys me and gets tedious after awhile because usually I don’t have the same level of interest in all of the storylines (e.g. The Perfect Couple). Due to my enjoyment of Liane’s storytelling, I didn’t have that problem with Truly, Madly, Guilty. Do note, though, that most of the secrets aren’t shocking or life-changing; it’s more just nice to get to the bottom of the mini cliffhangers. The progression of the chapters also provide an unfurling of the complexities in the dynamic between Erika and Clementine; I found it enjoyable to see three different households and their reactions to similar situations, as well as the temperature of the different spousal relationships (those that are strengthened, one that seems like it’s falling apart).What I love about Liane Moriarity’s work is that her characters are real. Even when they’re flawed or unlikable at points, there’s always a redeemable factor or a character development that keeps me from writing them off; and when I finish one of Liane’s novels, I feel as though I’ve read a complete story with no gaps or things that were left undone. Truly, Madly, Guilty was no exception.

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