

Apples Never Fall
Books | FICTION / Psychological
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Liane Moriarty
#1 New York Times Bestseller ● A Peacock Original TV Series–Streaming Soon! ● "Gripping."―Oprah.com● From Liane Moriarty, the bestselling author of Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers, comes Apples Never Fall, a novel that looks at marriage, siblings, and how the people we love the most can hurt us the deepest.The Delaney family love one another dearly—it’s just that sometimes they want to murder each other . . .If your mother was missing, would you tell the police? Even if the most obvious suspect was your father?This is the dilemma facing the four grown Delaney siblings.The Delaneys are fixtures in their community. The parents, Stan and Joy, are the envy of all of their friends. They’re killers on the tennis court, and off it their chemistry is palpable. But after fifty years of marriage, they’ve finally sold their famed tennis academy and are ready to start what should be the golden years of their lives. So why are Stan and Joy so miserable?The four Delaney children—Amy, Logan, Troy, and Brooke—were tennis stars in their own right, yet as their father will tell you, none of them had what it took to go all the way. But that’s okay, now that they’re all successful grown-ups and there is the wonderful possibility of grandchildren on the horizon.One night a stranger named Savannah knocks on Stan and Joy’s door, bleeding after a fight with her boyfriend. The Delaneys are more than happy to give her the small kindness she sorely needs. If only that was all she wanted.Later, when Joy goes missing, and Savannah is nowhere to be found, the police question the one person who remains: Stan. But for someone who claims to be innocent, he, like many spouses, seems to have a lot to hide. Two of the Delaney children think their father is innocent, two are not so sure—but as the two sides square off against each other in perhaps their biggest match ever, all of the Delaneys will start to reexamine their shared family history in a very new light.
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Author
Liane Moriarty
Pages
480
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Published Date
2022-07-19
ISBN
1250220270 9781250220271
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"Joy Delaney vanishes and her husband and children reflect on past events trying to uncover the mystery of what happened to her. Here’s the deal. I watched Big Little Lies and absolutely fell in love with the show. I needed more of Moriarty’s storytelling. I didn’t want to read Big Little Lies so soon after watching the show so this is the story I came to. Parts of it were interesting but I got SO tired of tennis and it was so drawn out. By the time I got to the ending of this book I was so done reading it I couldn’t even appreciate the story wrap up. 2/5. "
"I couldn’t even finish the last 20 pages because it was just way too drawn out, basically just skimmed them. It’s like you’re about to climax and right before you get there it just disappears. I thought it was going to be more of a thriller, but it wasn’t. It doesn’t end how you think it will, you might have all these theories but really nothing happens. And then of course right at the end they just start talking about Covid in the story"
"Not the greatest of her books so far. Thought I would really enjoy it because I’ve liked two others of hers and the plot sounded interesting. Very slow, didn’t get interested until maybe 75% of the way through. Really didn’t like the Savannah character and thought the events at the end of the book weren’t realistic. Could have been at least 100 pages shorter. Glad I finished, but probably wouldn’t read again. "
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Marley LaBeau
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