I think this is my favorite Jane Green book to date! I absolutely loved this story and the characters. These three friends became my friends. The way the story was told was brilliant. I felt like I have always know these three and that I grow up with them as well. This book truly has it all...friendship, betrayal, relationships, girlfriends/boyfriends, marriage/divorce, motherhood and just life in general. She touches on every human emotion. I can not say enough good things about this book and how much I loved it!

They say the friends we make in college are forever. This is so true for Ellie, Maggie, and Topher. On their separate career paths after college they make their choices and mistakes, some of which create a division. The 30th class reunion brings them back together and together they learn about each other's lives, come apart and then back together. A sweet book.

I love to read stories about friendships and this did not disappoint! Jane Green is a wonderful writer that keeps me wanting to turn the page. I think this would be a great beach read for the summer.

What a great read ! Complex characters, with a wide range of issues that keep you invested in their story. I could not put this down !!!

Jane Green is a spectacular writer and I have reading her books for years! She has never disappointed me and I felt moved by this gorgeous novel. I highly recommend it!

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Friends may not always be with you, but true ones will find their way back to you. The three friends in this book meet at University and are inseparable. Then life happens and they each go their own way. We get to see how their individual lives are lived and how they reunite. Overcoming troubles and travails, the true friendship of decades ago becomes real again and brings each back to life. Highly recommend this one.

Wasn't sure I would like this until after the 1st chapter...then it got a lot more interesting. The development of the characters was well done..."watching" them grow and change through out the book kept me turning the pages.

I've missed Jane Green books. I started way back when with Mr. Maybe and read many. But as the stories changed into ones with motherhood and divorce, I could not relate to them as much. The Friends We Keep is a story that everyone can relate to - friendship. It's a tale of friends who found each other and lost each other. It's about separations that time, distance, and life can create. But's it's also about the truth of connections that can survive time, distance, and life.

I was a little afraid of hating the book after I read the prologue. But the book is not the prologue - thank goodness. Because Ben's toxic point of view would have been very hard to read. And though he plays a very big role, it is not his story. Thank goodness. That's not to say there aren't toxic behaviors - each of our three friends is flawed and suffers from different issues. But this story tells of growth, of survival, and of the love between friends that provides the strength to grow and survive.

This is the Jane Green that I have missed and loved. And I could relate to it. I hope that one day I can come back to those close true friends I once knew and who knew me.

Jane Green is one of my favorite authors of all time. Whenever I hear a new novel is coming from Green, I am instantly excited & impatiently waiting to read it. Unfortunately this one was my least favorite book by her. It was a story that has been repeated many times and while I loved the characters, I found the story boring and was looking forward to finishing the book. I love you Jane... this one was not great. I am looking forward to the next book!

I like to thank NetGalley, the publisher, and the author for giving me the opportunity to read this book in exchange for my honest review.

I liked The Friends We Keep, but it wasn't my favorite Jane Green book. Jane Green tells the story of three college friends who go in and out of friendship for many years after college. I personally found it hard to really like any of the characters and that was one reason I had to give the book three stars. When one of the three has a child with the husband of the other friend, you knew ultimately that it would be the twist at the end that throws their friendships for a loop. There were also a lot of body image issues that had not really been discussed to the full potential, and were left a little unsaid.

That being said, I love Jane's writing and her stories read so easily. It's hard not to fall in love with her books. I would recommend reading this one, if you have the chance to, but it's not her best.

Once Evvie (not Evie!), Maggie, and Topher meet on their first day of uni, a friendship begins that fulfills them in ways they never expected.
Evvie, Maggie and Topher are inseparable during the 3 years they were roommates at university. When Evvie bartends with "Evil Ben", Maggie is the one who falls hopelessly in love with him. Even though the crush is unrequited. The story follows the 3 friends as they move on through their lives, dealing with alcoholism, abuse, drugs, and relationships.
A secret keeps them apart, though only one of them knows the truth. As they come back together in adulthood that secret threatens to tear them apart.
I love Jane Green, always have. She is truly one of may favorite adult authors, and this book did not disappoint. Her writing has really matured over the years, and I think she handles problematic situations very well. This will be a wonderful summer read, and really makes you think about what really makes your family.
I loved it.

This book has a little bit of a twist on the usual chick-lit being that it is a friendship of two girls and a guy who met while in college. That being said, I feel that the author threw a little too much into the story. Gay, alcoholism, drugs, dementia, betrayal were some of the topics brought out in the book. It was an easy read with a lot of cliches and a big happy ending.

I have been reading, and loving, Jane Green's novels for a long time and I hope to continue for a long time more. There are some novels that aren't my favorites but curling up with a Jane Green book, for me, is like cuddling with my cats and a cozy blanket. Her books just make me happy.

The latest novel from the wonderful Ms. Green is set mostly in England following three friend from their college years, to the years beyond and finally to the current time. Evvie is a troubled woman who has never quite settled since moving from Brooklyn back to her Mother's adopted home in England, Maggie who is a tomboy finally breaking free from her house of brothers, and Topher who trying to move beyond a childhood trauma that leaves him keeping everyone at a distance. We follow these three through the good and the bad in their lives and discover how beautifully human they all are at their cores.

While I know that some of this review may be tinted by my love for the author I really, truly loved this book. I was utterly charmed by everyone in it and did not want to put it down. While there's a but of mystery and waiting for things to be unveiled, it's not really a twisty book but just a good one about characters I swear are real. Jane Green is SO good at making her characters come to live and this novel is no different. They seem so real that I swear that I'm going to go to where they live and I'm going to find them all in a pub drinking together and laughing. I know I won't but let me have my delusions! *g*

Overall I thought this was a delightful read and I can't recommend it highly enough. It is the best book for your upcoming trip be it far or just to the couch where a cozy blanket and beloved pet await.

I was overjoyed to be able to read an eARC thanks to NetGalley and Berrkley Publishing Group. This book is in exchange for my honest and fair review.

The urge to psychoanalyze the author through her texts is strong; I've been reading Green since Jemima J came out at the top of the millenium. The novel is diverting: the usual label-dropping is present, with the reuse of a major character name and a major character weakness. Wish fulfillment with a strong dose of reality.

Jane Green has been on my must read list since I first read Jemima J in 2001 (I was 14) and I can happily say, all these years later, she is still holding her ground on that list.

The Friends We Keep is a bit of a deviation from Green's other novels, it's focused more on friendship and that friendship over generations, rather than on more romantic situations. Of course, there is plenty of romance, coupling, uncoupling and drama here, but the friendship is really the foreground. The friendship here is between Evvie, Maggie & Topher, who become best friends their first year of college. Many aspects of their friendship are tested over the years and that saga is what unfurls in this story.

In signature Jane Green style, there is just the right amount of cute British information (Maggie is our friendly Brit) coupled with our Evvie who is Jamaican by birth but raised in the USA, and Topher, a Greenwich expat in the UK! On paper, we'd never expect these three to fall into a lifelong friendship, but that is partially what makes their dynamic so interesting.

No matter what topic Jane Green is covering, she has proved to me that I will love her work. The Friends We Keep is one of her best and I hope you will all check it out and agree with me.

Thank you to Berkley for an advanced copy. All opinions are my own.

This is a great book for a quiet afternoon or a beach read. The novel follows the lives of Evvie, Maggie and Topher, longtime college friends who after graduating went on to forge their careers. At a college reunion the friends reunite and decide to once again live together. But everyone has a past and secrets, Do these secrets rip apart the friends bond, or do they help one another forge through their individual troubles?
Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read and review this novel

I was very excited to read this because Jane Green is one of my favorite authors. She did not disappoint, however it isn’t one of her best. The author’s characters came alive for me as they always do, one of the reasons I always look forward to a new Jane Green story. The book follows the lives of Evvie, Maggie and Topher from college, through to their thirtieth college reunion, and then beyond. We follow along as Evvie becomes a supermodel, Maggie marries the man on whom she had a college crush, and Topher becomes a soap opera star. Although the first chapter tells us that Ben and Maggie were married (“…her hair so red it glowed,…” gave it away as Maggie was described early on as having red hair), I was curious as the early chapters went on as to how they eventually got together. Although engrossing, the book merely skimmed along the lives of the central characters to the culmination at their thirtieth reunion, leaving me disappointed in the lack of depth. Jumping through several years at a time was disappointing at best, making the reader fill in several blanks in the character development. It was done so well in the first part of the book, during their college years, but I had to rely on those characterizations to get me through to what I soon realized was the heart of the story. Bringing the characters together, finally, was the anticipation that kept me reading. The ending did not disappoint, even though I knew while reading that it would be sweetly tied up with a bow.

This book was received as an ARC from Berkley Publishing Group in exchange for an honest review. Opinions and thoughts expressed in this review are completely my own.

This book reminded me a lot of the Rom Com back in the 90's Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion. Friends that meet in college inspire to have big dreams but wrong choices at the wrong times leave them with nothing and now they have nothing to show for, in their thirteenth college reunion. I love the concept of this book taking place in college rather than high school because of all the more intense realistic situations that are more believable and relatable to the reader. Also, the message that no matter what life you live if the friendship is strong enough, friends will remain friends forever no matter what.

We will consider adding this title to our Fiction collection at the library. That is why we give this book 5 stars,

Jane Green has come a long way. Her characters and story lines are much more mature and serious in the same sense. I could not put this down it is a very fast moving story about forgiveness, friendship, and love.
I feel that many women are going to be able to relate to one or more of the characters and their flaws. I highly recommend this to someone who is looking for something fresh and new to read.

Maggie, Evie, and Topher are best friends and roommates at university but after graduation part to make their own lives. As time goes by they find themselves living lifes they never expected and are keeping secrets. At their reunion they discover how much they miss each other and make the decision that they are going to live together again. Will the secrets they keep destroy the life they are making? Friendship, loyalty, and love collide in this story of friends that become family.