Author: Liane Moriarty
ISBN: 9781743534922
RRP: $32.99
Publication Date: 18 September 2018
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Copy: Courtesy of the Publisher
Liane Moriarty is a bestselling Australian author with a large fan following who love her writing style and deft story telling. Big Little Lies debuted at number one on the New York Times bestseller list and has been adapted for television, the series won a host of Emmy Awards and screened early last year. Big Little Lies may just be the first of Moriarty’ works to be adapted to screen, and I will definitely be keeping an eye out to watch what comes next.
Nine Perfect Strangers is the latest Liane Moriarty release and it is already garnering some pretty rave reviews on Goodreads. We have thirty of our members delving into the book this month and I know some are huge fans, there was great interest in the book so I look forward to reading what they all think.
Nine Perfect Strangers takes a group of stressed citysiders to a health and wellness resort called Tranquillum House and promises total transformation.
The retreat participants are keen to immerse themselves in the calming atmosphere, soak up the hot stone massages and drop their baggage.
The resort’s director is a woman determined to reinvigorate bodies and minds and these nine perfect strangers have no idea what they have let themselves in for.
Moriarty user her trademark wit and compassion alongside her ability to understand and explore human behaviour and the connections that can be forged in trying circumstances.
If this is anything like the other works of Moriarty I have read, or watched in the case of Big Little Lies, then I am sure I’m going to love it; and I’m sure there’s going to be twists and turns and a whole lot of the unexpected. I look forward to it, and reading what our members have to say.
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Thanks to Pan MacMillan 30 of our Beauty and Lace club members will be reading and reviewing Nine Perfect Strangers so please be aware there may be spoilers in the comments below.
Nine Perfect Strangers is available now through Pan MacMillan, Booktopia, Angus & Robertson and where all good books are sold.
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Thank you to Beauty and Lace and Pan Macmillan for the opportunity to read and review Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty.
From the moment I opened the book I couldn’t put it down. It started by introducing us to different characters who were going to a 10 day health retreat at Tranquillum house and also the staff there.
Each character had their own unique story and reason for needing to go to the retreat and the retreat sounded amazing.
From the moment the guests arrived though things didn’t seem to add up. They were required to give blood every day, go through fasting rituals and even observe silences where they could not even speak to their partner if they had one.
Each character tried to embrace it though and even admitted they started to feel better but then everything changed.
They found they had been drugged the whole time and then had a period of being given different drugs in their smoothies and kept in a locked room where the wellness workers eventually left and the guests had to try to figure a way out.
Through all of this they did learn a lot about themselves, just not quite in the way they expected.
Once this had happened I felt it ended a bit abruptly but all loose ends were tied up.
I guess I just wanted to keep reading.
I definitely recommend Nine Perfect Strangers if you’re looking for a book that’s a bit different and draws you in.
I have read every book Liane has written and loved them all, but this one started too slowly for me. I felt as though I had to meet everyone and hear a lot of backstory before anything happened.
But once it turned that corner I was sucked right in – reading it over two nights. It was very easy to follow, usually having the narrator change so often causes confusion, with this novel, because of the short chapters, it wasn’t a struggle.
I really had no idea what was going to happen so it was great to have the unexpectedness. However I did feel like it wrapped everything up in a pretty bow at the end and thought that was a little too perfect.
I did love the little nod Brontë who is one of my all time favourites.
Nine perfect strangers by Leanne Moriarty was an ineresting read. To be honest it took me a while to get into it but half way through the twist that occurred caught my attention and curiosity and finished in no time.
Nine strangers that choose to attend a 10 day health retreat, each for thier own personal reasons. The book gives us the reason why each and everyone of them has made the choice to be there.
An fantastic and enjjoyable read once I got into it….
I was excited to receive Liane Moriarty’s Nine Perfect Strangers to read and review for Beauty and Lace. A few years ago when I read Big Little Lies I was absolutely hooked from the start and devoured it in no time at all. It was such a great read.
Nine Perfect Strangers had many of the elements that I loved about Big Little Lies. The characters were really well crafted and relatable. A beautiful Australian setting and landscape. Multiple threads twined together. Also some humour thrown in for good measure. But while I really enjoyed this book, it didn’t quite grab me in the same way, and I also found the end a little confusing or somewhat detached as another reviewer has mentioned.
So while in my opinion not quite reaching the lofty heights of her finest work, I will certainly recommend Nine Perfect Strangers as an enjoyable read with great characters. I hope to read more from Liane Moriarty. Thanks for the opportunity Beauty and Lace and Pan Macmillan.
Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty is a fantastic read. I read Big Little Lies over a weekend and t I definitely wanted to read this book too. It did not disappoint.
Although a bit slow in the beginning it definitely had me hooked. From the characters to the setting and the description of the Australian landscape.
This is one book I would definitely recommend. Thank you Beauty and Lace and Pan MacMillan for giving me the opportunity to read and review this book.
This is the first of Liane Moriarty’s books that I have read, and it certainly left me wanting to read more. Although I wasn’t selected to read and review this book, the title and the blurb were enough to make me go out and buy the book, and it did not disappoint.
9 people, most strangers, some related, decide for their own differing reasons to attend a health retreat at Tranquillum House.
No-one could prepare them for what happens next, this is a retreat unlike any other, and will leave none of them, including the retreat personnel and staff the same ever again.
I found it fascinatingly disquieting. An amazing display of madness/narcissistic personality/born again evangelism (Masha), and cult mentality/hero worship (Yao). The 9 attendees of the retreat were wonderful, each bringing their own personality and “issues” to the retreat. Moriarty provides a fascinating insight into how people behave under stress, and how you can never actually be sure who will step up and who will fall apart.
If this book doesn’t make you research thoroughly any wellness/health retreat before you sign up for it then you might be better off going on a cruise!
Absolutely brilliant, 5 stars.
After reading and watching Leanne Moriarty’s Big Little Lies and seeing a story about her new book on 60 Minutes, I was really excited to read Nine Perfect Strangers.
I found it hard to get into this book and to engage with the characters and their back stories, but I persisted and it paid off. It was quick to read once I got going and I really enjoyed the plot twist which keep be reading! I also really enjoyed the Australian scene setting.
It was an enjoyable read, once I got into it, and I would definitely recommend it.
Thank you for the opportunity Beauty and Lace and Pan Macmillan.
Another fantastic read by Liane Moriarty. Once I started reading I could not put the book down. In her style, she tells the story from the different characters perspectives. She created character ‘care factor’ where I really wanted to know what was going to happen to each character and what their back story was and why they were at the health retreat. There are twists and turns that you don’t expect.
I highly recommend reading ‘9 Perfect Strangers.’ 5 stars!
Nothing less than you would expect.
Another amazing book by an amazing author!
So, nine perfect strangers is exactly that. Nine people who meet in peculiar circumstances and by the end are no longer strangers. To be honest it had its twists but we’re more predictable than her other books.
Absolutely loved it and will definitely be in my reread pile! Highly recommend!
I finished this book feeling a bit unsettled. That said, it was well written, an interesting storyline, well developed characters and twists to keep you guessing!
I don’t think I will be booking into a health restore any time soon based on these characters experience – however life changing it was!