I was so disappointed after reading this novel having loved other books by this author. Maybe I was expecting too much but I never felt compelled to keep reading at any time in the book. You can’t please everyone all of the time I suppose.A group of college friends witness an incident when they were at school and don’t tell anyone. Years later they plan a reunion for all the group bar Alice, who committed suicide. The group have secrets that will end up with one of them dying.I would like to tha...

This novel entails an interesting premise. A group of six friends, each with their own eccentricities and one common secret, slowly unravel in their complicity when an interloper pokes away at them for less than altruistic reasons. A mysterious and thrilling page-turner. Thank you to HarperCollinsPublishers for providing an Advanced Reader Edition.

This was a quick, enjoyable thriller, but I felt like there was way too much going on. Too many POV's, too many characters, and way too many side stories. The characters were so dumb and made choices that were entirely unnecessary and unbelievable. Overall, it was a fun read and the twists were good, but it was nothing to write home about.

DNF about 60% in 🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️

Bizarre, fairly pointless motley of unsympathetic and rather despicable characters and a mystery that easily unravels once the mistaken identity is revealed. Hardly worth the read to get to its climax. A better ending would have been an avalanche that could have killed the entire cast.

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 artist...

feeling pretty lukewarm about this one, tbh. im really drawn to stories about friend groups that are hiding secrets, not only to those outside their circle but also to each other, so i really like the premise of this. the execution, however, not so much.theres just too much going on - too many characters, too many POV shifts, and too many subplots. it honestly just becomes so unrealistic that it takes the reader out of the story. the ending is pretty twisty and i didnt see it coming, but only be...

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 🙌🏻 Anywa...

2.5 stars, rounded upI've had a string of lackluster psychological suspense reads lately. This one is filled with unbelievable circumstances, characters hiding things from the police and from each other that they never would in real life (and never would be able to either), and a wholly unlikable cast of characters, save maybe for the police detective. This is about a group of college friends who witnessed and then hid a terrible incident when they were in school. Keeping the secret led to Alice...

This book was so bad. Literally had 20 pages left and DNF'd it, I just didn't care. A jumbled mess with way too many characters and perspectives, plot lines, that all seemed unrealistic and unoriginal that the overall execution came off as a book that felt rushed to meet a deadline, perhaps??! I've only read two of this author's prior books but this one was so far removed from those works that it almost felt like it came from a different writer. If you're on the fence after reading the synopsis

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 1...

Dnf at 55%. I just could not go on. I have no investment in the characters or plot line.

I was super excited to get an advance copy of this book, but it fell a little short. There was a good story in there, but it was a bit of a convoluted mess.There were just SO many characters to keep straight, all of which had their own POV chapters, plus Alice who died 10 years ago, plus the mystery person, plus the detective, and then the timeline kept jumping back and forth from the beginning of the weekend, to the end of the weekend, to the mystery stalker 2-3 weeks ago, to back when everyone...

In FRIENDS LIKE THESE, a group of college friends witnessed something terrible back in college… then did something worse. It later caused one person in their group (Alice) to take their own life. Now years later, they’re getting together again under the guise of a bachelor party for one friend (Jonathan) but really they’re there to convince another friend (Keith) to go into rehab. I have read other books by Kimberly McCreight before and really enjoyed them. I struggled with this one somewhat. Th...

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

This is a book I read a couple of weeks ago and just realized that I hadn't reviewed it - but oddly, I barely remembered what it was about until I went back and read the back cover blurb and other reviews, so I'm not sure what that says (or doesn't say) about the book! Once it all came back to me, I remembered that I really didn't care for it at all. Normally the premise of a group of college friends, who all share a traumatic past and multiple secrets having a reunion of sorts at a remote locat...

With friends like these… Who needs enemies?Now in their 30s, Keith, Maeve, Jonathan, Stephanie, and Derrick have known each other since college. There used to be a sixth, Alice, but after the group conspired to cover up and keep quiet about a death they witnessed, she couldn’t live with herself. Each now carries around guilt from their action (and inaction) surrounding both the death and Alice’s suicide, as well as a feeling of a lifelong bond with the remaining group. When they all get together...

Definitely Kimberly McCreight’s best book! Unputdownable and a shocker with every page. These characters are complex and so well thought out. I love Detective Julia Scutte, she’s a force to be reckoned with and I hope I read more from. I had no idea where this book was going and I really felt the theme of this book was fresh and the writing so well done. Put this on your tbr for September, this is a thrill ride of a book.Thanks to Edelweiss and Harper for my gifted copy.

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.

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