This is the 3rd book by Liane Moriarty that our book club has read & members felt it wasn't quite as good as her previous novels - a bit too long & an anticlimactic ending. But the author effectively deals with women's issues & emotions & her characters are fully developed. A very good book club choice - also recommended, "Her Husband's Secret" & "Big Little Lies"

The story line was good, but there was too much delving into emotions and character analyzing. Also I do not care for chapters to go from one view and then another view. It makes it hard to follow the story and remember the characters. It also made the story slow for me.

The ending was disappointing...I thought, "that's it?" The flow was not great with too many add ins of storylines that never turned into anything or connected characters together. There were too many distractions to make it a page turner.

The title makes you think this is a mystery, but it is not. Moriarty 's chatty style of writing allows you to follow 3 couples before and after a bbq , where something happens.. Like big liitle lies, her characters are complex endearing and fun to get to know.

I really liked this book. It's well written and the ending was well done. She knows how to develop characters and like that the characters progress and mature as the book goes along. I also like the way she handled the mystery of what happened the day of the BBQ. It kept me engaged.

I'm not a fan of non-chronological books but although there is good character development, this story seemed to go on & on & on, even after you FINALLY learn what happened "on the day of the barbecue". It was like a very long joke that had a not very funny punch line.

I enjoyed Moriarty’s perspective on the day to day living of us middle class folk. She nailed it. The marriage drama, complicated friendship, infertility issues the fine line of tragedy shifting you out of the happy yet Mondaini lives we live in our society. He characters were very convincing. The day of the BBQ, for peats sake. I can’t believe how long it took to get to what actually happened at the BBQ. There was a good portion of the book I was captivated by but the majority I found dull and slow. The BBQ is a let down. Spice it up with some swingers action or something.

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It was way too slow for my taste. Too many lead-ups to a big climax...then no climax. I couldn’t take one more of the drawn out chapters after another about what happened at the darn BBQ! I love this author and her other books, but did not enjoy this book!

The plot of the book wsn't bad, but it went on for too long. She easily could have cut 100 or more pages out and not lost anything. Our club was pretty unanimous on our opinion of it.

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