I really enjoy this author. Another twisty story filled with secrets. A great summer beach read! If you are a fan of her other books you will enjoy this for sure.

A group of college friends get together some years after graduation for a weekend in the Catskills. They are there for an intervention for one friend, masked as a bachelor party for another friend. As events start to unfold, old secrets from their past resurface, adding to the havoc of what is taking place in the present.

I was so excited to receive an ARC of Kimberly McCreight's new book because I loved her other books, Reconstructing Amelia and A Good Marriage! The start of the book was very slow and hard to get into. There are several different narrators: each of the friends and a police officer who is investigating a crime scene. The story also went back and forth between 3 different time periods, with a great deal of the plot focusing on something that happened on the roof of a building to a man the group of friends was with when they were in college. I honestly found all of this to be pretty confusing and had trouble keeping track of everything. I found that so many narrators and the 3 different time periods was too much for me and had me all mixed up. There were no outstanding characteristics to differentiate between them. I had to keep going back and checking the beginning of the chapter where it told whose POV you were reading because it was hard to distinguish one person from another. I will say that I did not see the twist at the end coming, I was totally surprised by it. Many thanks to Netgalley, Edelweiss, Harper and Kimberly McCreight for my complimentary e-ARC in exchange for my honest thoughts.

Talk about twisty! This story has more twists and turns than any other book I have ready lately. You will not know who to trust until the very end!

When friends meet in upstate New York, years of secrets begin to unfold. The problem is that these secrets are often absurd and irrational. So, even a reader like me found the book difficult to relate to and downright silly in the way closure was injected into the plot.

The characters were unlikable and hard to identify with. It is only the detective, Julia, who provides the linchpin for the plot. The author tries to make the cast of characters diverse, which fails miserably and is somewhat laughable. She provides backstories for the reader and then she upends them.

Thank you Netgalley for the opportunity to read this book. I found it disappointing and can’t imagine readers enjoying it as much as other books by the author.

I am a big fan of McCreight having really loved all of her other books but for some reason, I just didn't like this one as much. It was a bit too much for me with so many crazy things happening to a group of people. I skimmed to the end after about the halfway mark. This just wasn't for me.

I used to like this author, but I felt this book was just a mess. Also the big reveal was a bit much. ARC provided by NetGalley in exchange for a fair review.

Another excellent offering from Kimberly McCreight. A recommended first purchase for collections where thrillers are popular.

Kimberly McCreight does it again! I could not put this book down, it was amazing! This book should be at the top of everyone's must read list!

I have conflicting opinions about this book. I really liked the premise of it, a group of friends with secrets that share a traumatic past. And while I love twists and turns and surprises in a thriller, this one just had too many. Eventually it just became too implausible for me to buy into and I knew there would have to another huge one at the end in order to wrap everything up and try to make sense of the whole thing. And I was right and it was one noone will see coming and this will appeal to certain readers but to me it just felt like a cop out and was done because there had been too many twists that had come before and the author had to wrap it up. I will still order this book for our library because I think for some readers the shocking ending will be enough. For me it wasn't. I appreciate NetGalley and the publisher giving me an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

How can so many bad things happen to the same group of people? I'm a big fan of Kimberly McCreight's books but I didn't love Friends Like These.

There were way too many characters with not enough unique personalities or defining characteristics for me to easily keep track of them. I always dig chapters that alternate between various POV, but they were too short and could have been fleshed out a little more--I would get into a character and then it would jump to someone else too quickly.

I did like the the detective and her backstory. I was disappointed with how that ended up playing out though, for reasons I can't dive into because of spoilers. Overall, the story as a whole was melodramatic and not terribly thrilling.

Gonna keep reading her books, though.

I was so excited to receive Kimberly McCreight’s latest psychological thrillers, as she is one of my favorite authors. This one had a bit of a slow start and ambling middle for me. The story revolves around a group of friends, all of whom are hiding secrets. When they meet for an intervention for one of them, things go completely awry and the scene turns deadly with one of the friends found stabbed and another one missing.

This had several different narrators: each of the friends and a police officer who is investigating a crime scene. This also went back forth between 3 different time periods, with a great deal of the plot focusing on something that happened on the roof of a building to a man the group of friends was with when they were in college. I honestly found all of this to be pretty confusing and had trouble keeping track of everything. I found that so many narrators and the 3 different time periods was too much for me. I stuck with this as McCreight is a maestro of this genre and I was rewarded by an amazing ending that came together brilliantly.

Don’t think I’ll finish. Read about 20% but just have so much to read. It hits all the right notes. You know the drill: multiple perspectives; secrets from the past that a current, unrelated investigation threaten to expose; group of friends. That’s not to say it’s bad or not worth a read, it's good fun, I can tell. It’s well-written with what will almost have to be a twisty final act.
Like I said, didn’t finish but still recommend for those who are hooked on thrillers.