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    Friends Like These: A Novel
    Friends Like These: A Novel
    Friends Like These: A Novel
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    Friends Like These: A Novel

    By Kimberly McCreight

    3.5/5

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    A GMA Buzz Pick 

    “Kim McCreight's thrillers are smart, propulsive and impossible to put down." —Laura Dave, author of The Last Thing He Told Me

    In this relentlessly twisty literary thriller from New York Times bestselling author Kimberly McCreight, a desperate intervention brings together a group of college friends 10 years after graduation—a reunion marked by lies, betrayal, and murder.

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    Six college friends have reunited for a glamorous weekend in the Catskills, a decade after a fatal accident that nearly destroyed them. Keith, once the ringleader of the group, was a handsome charmer on the fast track to success. Now he’s spiraling into addiction and stands at the edge of losing it all. This weekend is the last chance to save him.

    But Keith, it turns out, is not the only one who needs saving.

    By dawn on Sunday morning, a car has been found deep in the woods—one of the friends is dead, another is missing. When a local detective turns up to investigate, it’s clear the group is hiding something ominous.

    Haunted by her sister’s murder years ago, Detective Julia Scutt has her own share of problems. But she’s a skilled detective, and knows a rehearsed story when she hears one. It is up to Julia to untangle a decade-long web of friendship, lies and betrayals to discover the truth. But first she needs to face her own past—including the secrets that could, in the end, offer the key to everything.

    A story of unconditional love, obsession, and the sometimes-impossible choices we have to make in the name of loyalty, Friends Like These is a relentlessly twisty, roller-coaster of a novel. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateSep 7, 2021
    ISBN9780063061583
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    Kimberly McCreight

    Kimberly McCreight is the New York Times bestselling author of Reconstructing Amelia, which was nominated for the Edgar, Anthony, and Alex Awards; Where They Found Her; and The Outliers young adult trilogy. She attended Vassar College and graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two daughters.

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    • 3/5
      A trip to the Catskills reuniting old school friends takes a sinister turn in Kimberly McCreight’s Friends Like These. As soon as the group arrives, they start discussing the real reason for their gathering: convincing one member to enter Rehab. Being in each other’s orbit brings back fond memories and the intimation of a tragedy that binds them all. Old dynamics, roles, and emotions are resurfaced-each of them carrying a burden of guilt in different ways. When two of the friends end up missing, the investigation unmasks a connection between the shared secret from long ago and the events unfolding at their reunion. McCreight ambitiously attempts to provide depth and histories for each of her many characters. What results is a novel that fails to be truly engaging. Friends Like These confuses the reader with its implausible revelations and concurrent plotlines, scaffolded on a plot that is neither strong nor interesting enough to overcome its deep flaws.Thanks to the author, Harper and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an unbiased review.
    • 4/5
      The story portrays very well the evil in some people, as if we needed any reminding of this with the constant evil in the news of today. The entire story was believable, as was the desperation, and the dedication of a group of like-minded friends. I wish their personalities had been toned-down a bit. Their arrogance is unappealing and the ties that bind them are self-serving, but in spite of that I found myself caring about them. I never, through all the twists, turns and palpable tension, even came close to guessing the ending. The attention to detail, the descriptions, the research all worked together to put the reader right in the story and propel you through it to the absolutely unexpected ending.
    • 3/5
      Friends from Vassar reunite for a weekend 10 years after graduation in an attempt to stage an intervention for their friend, Keith, who is an addict. Their friendship took a turn 10 years earlier when they were partying on the roof of a college building and someone fell to their death. This led to the death, presumably suicide, of their friend Alice. When they take a trip to a town in the Catskills, the police officer assigned to the case has a tragedy trying her to the area. Julia’s sister, Jane, was killed savagely, and her friend, Bethany, was never recovered.Maeve, Jonathan, Derrick, Stephanie, Keith, and an outsider Finch, are in for a terrible weekend. This book has the premise of being great, but there were too many storylines happening. There was a lot of betrayal and backstabbing. Plenty of hints to give you clues to the killer’s identity, but still somewhat surprising.
    • 3/5
      "Everyone has those friends. Doesn’t matter how long it’s been, or how badly they’ve occasionally behaved, or how late it is when that call finally comes—you show up. No questions asked."Oh, there's so many avenues McCreight could take us with a premise like that! Five college friends reunite ten years after they graduated. Secrets, lies, complicated relationships - and a dead friend are part of the past that keeps this group of friends bound to each other.Well, it was very easy to not like any of group. They're all hiding something, they all lie and despite their seeming love for each other, they all have their own agendas. The only character I really liked was the police detective.I found the plot to be a bit confusing at times as the narrative jumped timelines - and there were many timelines. Past, present, and times within the present - days and weeks. For this listener it was just too much, too many, too convoluted. The ending did however, provide a really good twist.One reason I was excited to listen to Friends Like These was the use of multiple readers for this title. Eight to be exact - Carlotta Brentan, Ewan Chung, Susan Dalian, Lauren Fortgang, James Fouhey, Stacey Glemboski, Joe Knezevich and Alex McKenna. I can't tell you who played what role, but their voices all suited the characters they were portraying. The standout for me was the police detective - she has a cigarette and whiskey rasp to her voice that really worked for the role. A few voices did seem somewhat similar, so I had to listen to the name given at the top of each chapter to confirm who was taking center stage. I think all the reader's performances were very good. But for this listener, having so many narrators just exacerbated the 'too much' feeling of the timelines and plotting.

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