Ratings38
Average rating3.8
Fatphobic farce
Perhaps this book doesn't have a wide demographic, a deeper message (beyond life happens—take the good with the bad), or the complex, interesting characters readers might care about. What it does have is a little bit of a train wreck quality that makes the reader want to know what happens—something that is encouraged by the sprinkling of gossiped conversations about the sisters throughout the book. It meets all of the requirements for a white female with a stable, dysfunctional family looking-for-love/success/self whose only real struggle is some unresolved feelings from that time her parents got divorced kind of book. It was too much about the need to be with a man with literally everyone being matched up by the end. Most of the characters are unlikeable or unrelatable; all of the female characters are portrayed as petty, bitter, controlling, or flighty. Don't get me wrong. There were aspects of this story that felt almost insightful. I laughed, I cried, I gasped once, I think. I wanted to know what happened in a fast-forward the movie kind of way. Now that I think about it, it's not too different from Friends...if it had taken place in Australia, the characters were just a smidge older, and the women were triplet sisters with a shared trauma. If I could've given it 2.5 stars I would have. I rounded up because it wasn't terrible. It just wasn't great.
It took me a little while to warm up to the triplets, but I don't think I enjoyed these characters as much as I have other characters of Moriarty's.
So good. I love the quirkiness of these adult triplets. Liane Moriarty should definitely wrote another book about them so I can know more of their story. This is probably my favorite book of hers!
Very well written, it brings the triplets alive and well into your living room :)