Unfortunately this audiobook title was archived before I could access and download it. What drew me to it was the cover and description, I love psych thrillers. I will have to find via alternative means.

On the one hand, I like the relationship at the heart of this story. It is interesting to think of how who we are changes and how that effects our relationships. I also like that none of the relationships in this trio are especially healthy.
On the other hand, I didn't especially like this book on the whole. The final reveal was telegraphed pretty early on. And I think that Kahaney tries too hard to keep us questioning reality. Entertaining enough for a single listen but won't hold up to a repeat.

All the Best Liars is a really great twisty mystery/thriller. I think this title would be very popular with teens into this genre. I have purchased it in print for my collection and will probably purchase the audio as well.

Three elementary school classmates grow up on the wrong side of the tracks. The father of one of the girls becomes a wealthy businessman and relocates his daughter to an upper-class area. One of the girls' mothers wins the jackpot and goes to an upper-class area with her daughter. Both females are struggling to adjust to their newfound money, their relationship with one another, and the third girl they left behind. Brie, who is left behind, attempts to make sense of everything after someone dies and is the only one who stays loyal to herself. There's a lot of high school drama, indicated drug usage, and discrimination based on class distinctions. I thought this novel was a touch predictable at the beginning. But then I discovered that I suppose I figured things out right when the book wanted you to. This book was fantastic! Although it was fiction, I could imagine it occurring in real life.

Despite a slightly confusing timeline (we start the day after a fire and then double back, recounting the weeks before the event, slowly working our way back to the start-point), I really enjoyed myself with this book.
I can safely say that I didn't actually see the twist coming and that All the Best Liars is my favourite YA thriller.

This is a pretty standard YA contemporary-mystery. My favorite part is that is felt so distinctly West Coast. It reminded me so much of my own adolescences on the West Coast (but you know, less drama). Perfect vibes. My least favorite part was the characters. I didn't like a single one of them. They are all miserable and awful people in their own ways, but also do fee l pretty true to how teenagers act.

The story itself was just average. The twist was pretty good, but I would have preferred a little more explanation at the end. It definitely wrapped up too quickly and felt a little unsatisfying.

The audiobook was enjoyable, but sometimes it was hard to track which girl we were following. I think it would have benefitted from multiple narrators instead.

Three friends who vow to be friends forever. But this is a thriller, so will they?

I ended up listening to the whole thing on audio while packing and cleaning for my recent vacation. And it was a great distraction very easy to follow and the audio kept my interest through out. My only complaint would have been I wish we had more narrators in this story.

I didn’t realize this was YA going into it. But I really enjoy YA so I was ok with it. I thought the idea and story were pretty unique and I love stories based on female friendships and toxic friendships. Great twists and ending. Great book for those who enjoy YA mystery and suspense novels.

Thank you to @macmillan.audio for my audio copy!

i enjoyed the voice of all the narrators of this book. I found the ending to be quite anticlimactic and frustrating. but besides the last two chapters it was a well-paced mystery!

For someone who says I don’t read a ton of YA, I sure have been reading a ton of YA 😬. This was good! It really captured how fragile friendships in your teens can be and the emotional toll they can have. It brought me back to my senior year as I was leaving the state for college and wasn’t sure how I would maintain friendships with people back home (spoiler: I didn’t). Overall, a solid YA thriller that is well written and suspenseful.

The premise of this book is a familiar one; a high school incident that forever shifts relationships and dynamics of lives going forward. While I did enjoy the book and found some nostalgia in the relatability, it wasn't the suspenseful edge-of-your-seat page-turner I was hoping for. The author does a great job relaying the tones of the relationships. Where i feel it fell short was the length of time it took me to get into it and how the conclusion is explained. Certainly an author I'd read again, though.
#netgalley #AlltheBestLiars

This was an enjoyable psychological story about Syd, Rain, and Bree who were inseparable as kids but have grown apart in their high school years. One day during the tail end of their senior year, one of them is killed in a fire. One is blamed, and the other is lying.

I liked piecing apart this plotline, and even though I'm not a teenager anymore, the characters felt very fleshed out and realistic (for the most part). The ending was compelling but not entirely surprising. Regardless, I did appreciate the build-up.

I gave this book 3 stars. I really wanted to like it, but I could not get past hating all of the characters. I know it’s a YA book, but the drama went way beyond typical high school drama that I wouldn’t completely consider it solely a YA book.

*received for free from netgalley for honest review* This was a great read i hated having to put down! i have read other books similar to this but this was still a great read.

Slow but oh so good burn alert! This one definitely had a great buildup to the end results but it was so worth it!

Sometimes it is hard to follow a book with a million different perspectives & time periods, but this one was well put together and made sense. The way we could hear each girls point of view, makes the reader have to figure out who they side with. The writing makes you see other reasonings and how they looked at things, so you almost sided with them in each chapter.

All in all, this book is heart wrenching but beautiful!

I gave this book 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Thank you to NetGalley && flatiron books for the ARC.

I literally couldn’t put this book down from the moment I picked it up. Best friends for life. Or maybe not? This book follows the lives of three girls transpiring between the past and present to show you the truth of what transpired in their friendship. When we get older we all naturally drift apart sometimes. And sometimes we are brought back together. But is that always a good thing? Honestly this book had me guessing until the end and it was so good. I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

If you like high school drama and coming of age stories mixed with Mean Girls, then this is for you. To me, this was a young adult thriller that was less than thrilling. The high school drama seemed not be as dramatic as I would have like for a psychological thriller. It was mostly about how the girls treat each other. After the first chapter, which did catch my attention, this was a slow burn. Teen girls. Drama with their friendship. Haves’ vs Have nots. One friend is a little crazier than the other and controls the other two. What was good was how the dynamic of their friendship changed over time. The writing itself was good for young adult. Perhaps I would have enjoyed reading this if I too were in high school. Can one be too old for a book? The middle of the story dragged on. With all that said, I did enjoy the twist at the end and was happy that it was not expected.

I’d probably be into this if I were younger. But the mean girl manipulation is too much for me to even finish this story.

It’s trite and annoying.

I’m sure there’s some great twist but I don’t care enough to keep reading.

This is a fantastic psychological thriller! Hand this to older teens who enjoy Mindy McGinnis, Natasha Preston and Karen McManus. Kahaney leaves the reader guessing about what really happened until the final chapters. I really liked that the story was mostly wrapped up and didn't just end as soon as the mystery was solved. The reader is given closure right along side the characters.

I enjoyed this book, I think if I listened at a different time I might have loved it. There was so much going on in the story as well as time changes that it was extremely hard to follow on audio. I got extremely confused and should have followed along with the book at times. The book was a slow burn, like extremely slow! I thought the writing was great, and the characters were well developed... I was just hoping for a little more. I would recommend it to a YA lover! (4 stars). There are some great lessons weaved in the book for teens who might read this story. Thank you Net Galley & Macmillan Audio for an ALC!

-Disclaimer: I won this book for free through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.-

Who you are friends with is who you become.

What begins as drama between girls turns out to be much more than anyone bargained for. It's always interesting how vastly different people grow up to be. You never quite know how the characters would react to the circumstances they were thrown into.

This was partially intriguing. It was a slow burn (I am not into slow burn novels). There was a ton of building that all led up to the last hour and a half. Everything happened all at once. The writing and pacing were the only things I think needed extra work.

I also enjoyed the narrator for the audiobook! I could see this being a TV series. Not bad.