The Girls in the Garden - Lisa Jewell

The Girls in the Garden

By Lisa Jewell

  • Release Date: 2016-06-07
  • Genre: Fiction & Literature
Score: 4
4
From 865 Ratings

Description

One of People’s, Glamour’s, and BuzzFeed’s Best Reads of Summer, from the New York Times bestselling author of None of This Is True

“Jewell expertly builds suspense by piling up domestic misunderstandings and more plot twists than an SVU episode. It’s a page-turner for readers who like beach reads on the dark side.” —People

“Faithful to the thriller genre, Jewell makes liberal use of red herrings and plot twists… The answer to the whodunit is a sly—and satisfying—surprise.” —The New York Times

Imagine that you live on a picturesque communal garden square, an oasis in urban London where your children run free, in and out of other people’s houses. You’ve known your neighbors for years and you trust them. Implicitly. You think your children are safe. But are they really?

On a midsummer night, as a festive neighborhood party is taking place, preteen Pip discovers her thirteen-year-old sister Grace lying unconscious and bloody in a hidden corner of a lush rose garden. What really happened to her? And who is responsible?

Reviews

  • Meh

    3
    By hollace12
    Very unsatisfactory. To many loose ends.
  • Lisa is awesome!

    4
    By Ms. Archie
    This book had me hooked from the beginning. I enjoyed reading it and I absolutely did not like the ending.
  • Slow but still good!

    3
    By paige<33
    The book kicks off with a super intriguing start and you really want to find out what happened. However, it takes a long time for the story to pick up and to get to the juicy details on what really happened at the beginning. The ending was a little bit of a let down too because the person who caused the trouble at the beginning doesn’t get really caught.
  • Good story but disappointing ending.

    3
    By Sagirlmj
    The ending was lacking. So many aspects being introduced and built upon, only to have it not lead to anything.
  • Hmm

    3
    By CBJones2018
    I started the book so eager to get to the mystery! 20 chapters later I’m wondering when it will begin. Then it finally hit. Very slow start, but once it started it was great!!
  • Fantastic... til the end

    4
    By Emdiggity
    Loved 95% of the book, was nearing the end and was sad it would be over soon. I didn’t love the conclusion, so I gave 4 stars.
  • Another spectacularly suspenseful novel

    5
    By kaykaybean13
    What can I say? I love the way this author writes, the fluidity of her words strung together making clever prose that captures your mind from the start. Her characters lives, personality and emotions are so multifaceted it’s impossible to find them anything but riveting, alluring, sometimes disturbing yet still so incredibly interesting you find yourself nostalgic when too soon the end comes and you carry those characters and think about that plot and how richly layered it truly was for far too many days after putting the book down.
  • Great Plot Twist

    5
    By Jules_R2
    I loved this book! The author did a great job encouraging the reader to suspect certain characters when at the end, the real suspect is brought to light! 🤯
  • Good, not great

    3
    By HMF14
    This has been my least favorite of Lisa Jewell’s books. While I enjoyed the premise and always love her writing style, I wanted way more of the adults’ storylines and much less of the kids’. It also struck me that nothing was resolved in the end - a serious crime was committed and when the book ended, I still wasn’t clear on what had happened.
  • Fun until a flat ending

    4
    By BabyPow
    Love her novels. This one was great but the ending sort of disappointed me. Her characters are so rich and fun. And they just fell off a cliff (not literally) at the end. Still worth the summer read.

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