A group of friends are off to spend the weekend in the country. They are going under the guise of getting away from the city and seeing Jonathan's recently renovated country home. Really, the friends are gathering to convince their friend Kieth that he needs to go to rehab. The friends have been through a lot since college. They saw a kid go over the edge of their roof. Then a friend of theirs died by suicide. When they gather at the house on the edge of the Catskills, they realize that they are still keeping secrets and when the weekend turns deadly; they realize that one of their group may not be the friend they all thought. With friends like these, who needs enemies.
With a title like Friends Like These you know you are going to run into some pretty horrible people. And you wouldn't be wrong. The friends in this group are entitled, if nothing else. And they did some pretty dumb things as kids. There are a lot of different narrators in this book, the "friends" as well as Detective Julia Scutt. It makes things a little difficult to follow, especially if you have to stop reading in the middle of a chapter. The timeline jumping around doesn't make it any easier. However, the ending is pretty explosive as past and present collide. CLICK HERE FOR SPOILERS
Bottom Line - My advice, read Friends Like These in as few sittings as possible. You will enjoy it more and be able to keep track of things a lot better. But either way, you will enjoy it. The end was definitely not what I expected.
Details:
- Friends Like These by Kimberly McCreight
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- Pages: 320
- Publisher: Harper
- Publication Date: 9/7/2021
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- Thanks to NetGalley for the book in exchange for a review.
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