Liane Moriarty
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Fun backstory to this favorite:
I used to work for Barnes and Noble, indirectly, you could say. If you do a quick search for Needle and Barnes and Noble, you will see the company used to have a book advocate service they would offer to people browsing their site.
How did it work? You go to the Barnes and Noble website and a chat box pops up. You initiate a conversation if desired with the individual, and I was on the other end.
Why is this relevant?
A lot of my job became helping people find a book they had been looking for for ages and could not find because the title either was forgotten or they hadn’t seen the book anywhere. I would ask as many questions as possible about the genre, when they thought it was published, etc, and within 5 minutes about 80% of the time I could find their book. It became a weird flex and super power.
Now, I really wanted to find this specific book. Why?
The husband didn’t kill the daughter. This was such a creative book. It was the first book I wasn’t forced to read as a teenager and wasn’t hyped up to me. I chose it personally without anyone’s influence and that I think made it special.
Now, I could not for the life of me find this book no matter how much of the plot I could remember.
I actually ended up purchasing other books from Liane Moriarty thinking I had found it and then immediately realized it wasn’t the right one.
This was the book I had been looking for the whole time. Yes I own the paperback. Yes it goes in my favorite’s list. It will forever live rent free as the first moment my jaw DROPPED while reading a book.
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