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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!


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Truly Madly Guilty Liane Moriarty 9781427272874 Books Reviews

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.
I didn't like any of the characters or the book at all until the very last part after the big reveal of what actually happened at the BBQ. Only then did the characters become more than caricatures. I'm a fan of Liane Moriarty but this book should have been a short story maybe. I was happy to be done with it. Skip this one!
"This is a story that begins with a barbeque". So begins Truly Madly Guilty. Erika and Clementine have been friends since school. Erika had a difficult childhood and Clementine's home and family became something of a refuge for her. Now, years later, both are married. Clementine is a cellist, married to Sam, with two young daughters. Erika and her husband Oliver are childless and fanatically tidy and orderly. They invite Clementine and her husband Sam over for afternoon tea, but it evolves into a BBQ at their neighbour's house. And at that BBQ, something will happen. An event which will be extremely traumatic for everyone who is there.

That's the premise for this book. From the start we know that something significant has happened. We know that Erika has problems remembering it, that Clementine doesn't want to think about it, that their husbands are struggling with their feelings. But it will take until over the halfway mark - a looong time - before we find out what happened and after all that build up and suspense the truth is more than a little anticlimatic. Even then, Moriarty teases us with the idea that there is more to be revealed, and while this is true, it's not enough and not sufficiently important. Essentially, it's a book that's structured on a flimsy base.

There are glimpses here and there of Moriarty's trademark humor and relatable characters but somehow I didn't warm to the story as I have to others that she's written.
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!