Friends Like These audiobook

With Friends Like These, who needs enemies?!!!Let me just say that the ending of this book just blew my mind 🤯. I seriously did not see that ending coming! This book had been on my want to read list for quite a while, and I am so glad that I finally got to it! At first I wasn’t sure how I was going to feel about it because there may have been two too many characters to keep up with, but once the momentum and flow of the book picked up, I could not turn the pages fast enough! We have a group of friends who share a big secret and seem to stay together for the sake of this secret. Yes, they all generally care for one another (or do they?), and that’s when things start to get a little tense and difficult with each other when they go away for a weekend…I do not like to give away any spoilers in my reviews, all I can say is read this book!! And in the meantime, be careful who your friends are ;)

When I first started this one, I’m talking the first few pages I was interested and then pretty quickly I was confused. There’s a lot of characters who honestly all felt similar in the beginning so it was a little difficult to keep them straight. When I decided to switch to the audio I settled in more, so as always audiobooks are saving my ass! There were several narrators and they were all good, I hate when a book has multiple viewpoints but one narrator and there were like 6 or 7 here 🙌🏻 Anyway I’m glad I stuck with this one through my initial confusion because it had a strong ending and ended up being a solid audio read

Full of twists and turns, and with a tough as nails female detective at its center, Kimberly McCreight's gripping new novel FRIENDS LIKE THESE, a tale of betrayal and murder, is going to be one of the top thrillers of the fall; unputdownable, fast paced, and full of red herrings, It truly does leave you wondering how well you know your own friends....And the ending gave me goosebumps!The novel revolves around a group of 5 college friends who are keeping a dark secret of something that happened 10 years ago, and a reunion in the Catskills while holding an intervention for their drug addicted friend leads to chaos when a dead body is discovered. I loved this book, and fans of domestic thrillers are going to eat this one up. 5 incredible stars for Ms. McCreight’s latest effort, and believe me, she had big shoes to fill, A GOOD MARRIAGE was one of my top 10 reads in 2020!Happy Pub Day!!!

Well, this author took me all the way to the end then dropped me on my butt. I DID NOT see that outcome. Thank you to Edelweiss for approving an early look. Ms. McCreight has not let me down yet. She has been one of my favorite writers ever since Deconstructing Amelia. I highly recommend clearing some sit downtime and give this one a go. She can make you see and feel the characters so clearly in this novel you begin to care for them, well some of them. lol

In recent times, it’s been hard for me to find thrillers I like. There are loads of them around, but they mostly seem to be about either increasingly ludicrous plot twists or fitting into some literary trend, and there doesn’t appear to be much quality control happening when it comes to the writing. Friends Like These, though, I thoroughly enjoyed. It’s about five college friends who meet up 10 years after graduating, supposedly for a stag weekend – except they’re really staging an intervention for one of the group, who has a drug problem. Of course, it all goes wrong and they have to lie to the police... because they’re already hiding a big secret from all those years ago. You know a story like this is good when you don’t care what happens in the end because you’re just having so much fun along the way. I raced through this and had a great time with it.I received an advance review copy of Friends Like These from the publisher through Edelweiss.TinyLetter | Linktree

I love when a book is like a roller coaster. So many twists and turns and things you don't see coming. McCreight has outdone herself with this one.You will not see what is coming, in the end you will be shaking your head and be so mad at yourself for missing this one.I gave this 4 stars and I recommend Friends Like These. A must read.The Mary Reader received this book from the publisher for review. A favorable review was not required and all views expressed are our own.

A fast paced thriller read I enjoyed!

This was another ARC I received from the publisher and I really enjoyed this book. I've read another book by this author and liked it too. This was a quick ready and I did not figure out "who done it" until it got close to the end. That was a surprise. This was a story about a group of people who had been friends since college and they had actually been involved in more than on questionable incident One of the friends was a representer for an art gallery and also a drug addict. One of his artists who also wanted to be in the group did groups of art work and they were about this group of friends. His latest had been called "Friends Like These". And he had figured out a lot of the incidents that had been hidden for years and depicted the story in the paintings but he was not the "one who did it". YOu will be surprised as I was. Definitely a good mystery/thriller with lots of hidden things going on.

An edge-of-your-seat read that I couldn't put down, Friends Like These is twisty and gripping from start to finish. It's not just the propulsive plot that pulled me in but the well-drawn characters and rich relationships McCreight illuminates as she explores themes of friendship, loyalty and loss. High recommend!

Thank you SO much to the author for sending me an ARC in exchange for an honest review.Friends Like These is an unputdownable thriller that will keep you guessing until the end. I love a good thriller that revolves around a super close knit group of friends that all have a lot of secrets to hide and a murder or two. I love the author’s writing and got completely sucked in right from the beginning. Five friends that met in college are having a reunion, and a drug intervention for their friend at the same time in a remote little town in the mountains. They were a group of six until Alice committed suicide after something they all did together. She couldn’t handle the guilt and jumped off a bridge. Now years later the group is back together and they all have some dark secrets to hide. When a dead body is discovered and some people missing it leads to absolute chaos and no one will be leaving without every secret being spilled.I devoured this book in one sitting and had no idea where it was going. I thought I figured it out and then another twist would come out of no where leaving me shook. In my head I kept saying, “How well does anyone really know their friends?”. I really loved the ending and when I say I was shocked, I actually gasped because the ending was insane and took me completely by surprise. I definitely did not expect so many shocking secrets and turns throughout this book. If you’re looking for an amazing thriller that is well written with some complex characters this is for you.

Six college friends, one massive secret kept between them for over a decade. What could possibly go wrong when they all meet up for a weekend away? Wellllll let me tell you, ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING. With friends like this, what more could they possibly need? Jk they were all absolutely HORRIBLE with sooo many friggen secrets, but being stuck together because of the biggest secret of all..Literally so much friggen drama in this one but I was sooo here for it. Also, that twist at the end had me completely shocked, I did not see that coming.

3.5 stars. A lot of mixed reviews of this book, but I found it to be a quick, entertaining read. The characters are not particularly likeable, and there was a lot going on, but I didn't find it confusing. Implausible at times, but I enjoyed the mystery and the ending was a surprise to me.

I was skeptical after seeing mixed reviews but I really enjoyed this one! The story was easy to follow once I became familiar with the large cast and got into the rhythm of things (though I had difficulty telling Maeve and Steph apart at first). There was a lot going on, which kept me flipping the pages. I loved trying to connect the pieces and join the dots.My favourite mystery here would be the one involving the detective's sister, but I couldn't figure out how it was linked to the present-day cases. I loved how everything tied together at the end and overall it was a satisfying read for me.This is my first Kimberly McCreight book but definitely not the last!Favourite quotes:✨ "But some things couldn't be fixed. Sometimes your apology meant nothing, to anyone. The only option was to learn to live around the awfulness, like a river flowing over stones."✨ "But a bigger part of me knows that people get attached to the lies they tell themselves. The last thing they want is somebody picking at their scabs — even if it is for their own good. And I know firsthand, old wounds sometimes bleed harder the second time around."

3.5 starsIt’s probably my own fault for having such high expectations for this after A Good Marriage was one of my top 5 books of last year, but I can’t help feeling disappointed in this one.It’s a solid, interesting enough, murder mystery, following a group of friends (similar to the recent Lucy Foley mysteries), but I think the issue here is that there are just too many POVs to follow and it not only gets confusing at times but I never really felt like I got enough time with any of the characters to really care that much about them. I think what made A Good Marriage so stellar is that it had a lawyer/legal aspect to the plot that was SO well done (McCreight herself is a law school graduate) and that was something that was completely missing from this book. I still had a fun time with this one (hence 3.5 stars) but it’s definitely nowhere near as memorable as her previous novel, and I really hope McCreight sticks to including legal aspects in her books because that’s where her stories really shine.

This mystery/thriller is about a group of friends from college, bonded by a shared secret that caused one of their group to commit suicide. Years later, they gather at one of their weekend houses to stage an intervention - but before the weekend is over, one of them is found dead and it takes quite a while into the book to find out who. The book alternates perspectives of the different characters during the weekend, plus the detective investigating the crime who is haunted by her own family tragedy, plus flashbacks. And that’s not even all! So clearly, there is A LOT going on in this one, maybe even a little too much. Took a little while to settle in and to get a handle on what was going on, and none of the characters were particularly likeable. But like all of McCreight’s books, it was an extremely twisty and entertaining read and everything came together in the end. 3.75 stars.