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This gets a terrible GR score so I wasn‘t sure if I even wanted to read it, but I‘m a list completist *and* it‘s a NetGalley book so I can tick off that review!

The writing was completely overwrought and flowery - and I nearly gave up after the first two paragraphs that I had to read twice (see above).

I can‘t make other comments without spoilers so I‘ll post those below. ⬇️

I was very excited to read this book based on reviews. The premise is great - two very privileged NYC families where the two fathers are long time best friends. Something happens to one of the children that is creates conflict among the two couples and the four individuals. It was very slow to read and the story line meandered around and resolving the conflict was dragged out. The writing is exceptionally good which saved the day for me.

#ToB26 #16

Two men have become friends at college. Turning 50, they still are. And so are their wives and daughters. During a weekend that the two families spend together something happens that changes everything. All of them have to decide what‘s true and what isn‘t and how to go on from here.

An interesting premise but the author needs way too many words to tell the story. That makes it
an okayish read but not a ToB-worthy one.

#WeeklyForecast 48/25

A #ToB26 week! I am reading and enjoying Lion and listening to Emperor of Gladness, which I am not enjoying at all. Next will be the tagged book, that everyone seems to hate but I already bought it and am curious to see what I‘ll think.
Forbidden Notebook (in Dutch) is my choice for #FoodAndLit (Italy).

Definitely not for everyone. Self-indulgent rich white people problems for sure! But I did love the writing, and the inner monologue of middle-aged married people is my cat nip. Stuff that people would never say out loud. Add complex adult friendship stuff, particularly the two male friends, since college, with their co-dependency and petty jealousies. When a single incident on a family weekend, disrupts the equilibrium, choices must be made.

A sharp cerebral telling of a friendship splintered by class and suspended in crisis. Some insights struck with force out of an impenetrable prose, others were tangled in thickly veiled meaning. I felt that the lack of rawness served as a barrier to feeling invested in the characters or story. 3 ⭐️

It‘s hard to like a book when you don‘t particularly like any of the characters and you‘re a hard no on the choices made. But this book is very well written and it does give you things to ponder when group friendships are so dear and treasured.

#BOTM #BookMail you know you‘re too busy when your June selection & your July selections were just freed from their boxes TODAY! 🙄😞

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Intoxicating and insidious, “Among Friends” casts a spell of simmering, relentless tension, bringing power and group dynamics to a head. The prose could be considered overwritten at times, but it really felt like I was physically inside of each scene with these characters, holding my breath. 🎧

It was between this one and Finding Grace. I was really trying not to add on this month. My credits are going fast! #BOTM