Sadly this one wasn't for me and I 3nded up giving up on it, it was deathly slow and couldn't hold my interest, also the characters were horrible people.

This was an easy, quick read but I did find it at times predictable in what was happening. However the format was quite unique so I did enjoy that different setting and perspective!

I think this book had a great storyline but I was disappointed in how it seemed to not quite get it right. The three friends who were supposed to be best friends, seemed to have a toxic relationship from the start and I wondered why they were even friends at all as this seemed to be a friendship built on nothing to start with so I found the supposed bond they had hard to believe existed. None of them seemed very nice and I struggled to connect with any of them. I would have like it to have more wow moments as it feel short and I had a lot of unanswered answers at the end, not a terrible read but a bit short of any real wow factor.

A great thriller. Super entertaining with great twists. Less character development than I was expecting but a great read nonetheless.

A chillingly brilliant read that kept me guessing until the end. I've recommended it to my book club. Thanks for the advanced copy.

Perfect Liars is the perfect antidote for anyone who thinks they might want more friends!

Georgia, Nancy and Lila are some of the most odious characters I’ve come across in a long while: not Hannibal Lecter-level, like, just hideously manipulative and unpleasant human beings! That’s not a criticism: Rebecca Reid has crafted them brilliantly.

I would hope that most people reading this have much better relationships with their friends than those depicted here (if you don’t, you have my sympathies) so if you want to read about some toxic AF friendships then this is certainly the book for you. The book covers one dinner party over one evening, acting as a sort of school reunion for our three leads and their husbands/partners, in addition to flashbacks from their time at boarding school.

From the start, you know one of the group has now died and that this is all linked to an incident back at school. I was intrigued by both mysteries – at school and the dinner party – and horrifyingly fascinated by the behaviour, actions and personalities of the characters as they unfold. Only one of the whole cast was remotely likeable (I’ll leave you to work out who that is!) and it was difficult to really root for anyone.

The story plays out well, jumping back and forth in time, with more and more revelations in each timeframe and I was gripped by what was going to happen in the past and how things would resolve in the present.

The ending is pretty twisted and if that sounds like your sort of thing plus you like dual timelines, multiple narrators and nefarious characters, then I highly recommend Perfect Liars.

Thank you to NetGalley and Random House UK, Transworld Publishers for the copy of the book and to Anne Cater for my stop on the blog tour.

A decent thriller but I felt the characters lacked depth and were very hard to relate to. The storyline had pacing issues and it was a all a little meh for me.

The scenes were set in the past and present for the three friends. I struggled to enjoy the characters, or their story, and eventually gave up on it. Just my opinion but not for me

This gets a three and a half stars from me as although I enjoyed what proved to be an easy one day read I felt the ending let it down.
I couldn’t feel any empathy with any of the characters and the “adult”chapters seemed to move too slowly.
Good book to take a n holiday though and they can’t all be masterpieces!

Great thriller with a bitchy schoolgirls and then fast forward 16 years , where they have to bring up something that happened in their past. Very well written and highly recommend.

With thanks to the publisher for the copy received. Perfect Liars was a brilliant twisty novel that had me hooked. It starts with a funeral of an unnamed person. You don’t find out who they are until the end. The rest of the novel is dual time frame with 3 different narrators. I don’t think there will be many readers who like all of them.
I will describe my feelings about each of the three but will keep their identity private, to reveal too much will spoil the read. One of them I quite liked, I understood her a lot more than the others and definitely had more sympathy for her. Another, I preferred as an adult. Still not keen but she showed a softer side. The final one, I disliked her both as a teenager and an adult. A horrible person who didn’t have a good side to her.
I couldn’t work out which of the three would die or what happened at the school. Even though I did have an idea who it would involve. I hope that there aren’t schools like this. I really hope that there aren’t people like this but I suspect I could be wrong on both accounts.

This was such a good read! Maybe because I picked it up not knowing anything about it and not having any expectations, but it was a perfect read for this genre.
Heavily psychological, Perfect Liars is the story of 3 close friends, Nancy, the leader of the group, fragile Lila and determined Georgia. The girls are friends in boarding school. Lila and Nancy are coming from money and Georgia has a working class family and being sponsored in the prestigious girls boarding school.
16 years on, now, they're all grown up and have their lives set up, but there is something in the past that haunts them all. When Georgia invites Nancy with a bit of urgency, she comes from States to Britain with her toy boy. They meet in Georgia's house for a dinner party, and things develop.
I don't want to say more and spoil it read it for your own pleasure.

For me this was a very good mystery and it's a shame that the tagline on Amazon is comparing it with Big Little Lies: wrong. The books have very different tones.

I'll definitely read from Reid again Thanks to Transworld and NetGalley for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Great book and characters - was hard to know where it was heading and how and the twists and turns on the way kept you guessing.

Who needs enemies with besties like these?

Three girls grew up into three young women. They have their own lives, loves, failures and losses. Their lives are not perfect. They are… lives. However, those three girls are connected to each other forever and ever. They are tied together and tied down by a shared secret, by a lot of shared secrets.

A story of dangerous friendship where each girls skates on thin ice every step of the way. What to say? What to wear? How to look? How to pretend? Those three are playing a dangerous game with each other and people around them. They are playing for keeps. They are playing to death.

It all ends very badly, very badly indeed. A dinner party quickly turns into a rescue/crisis avoidance mission with S.W.A.T. resources and power.

Do they hate each other that much? Do they even like each other? Have they ever? I do not think so.

It was all about elonging and fitting in. It was all about acting grown up rather than actually growing up.

I read this book and shivered. Being a mum of 17 year old young lady (just the age the characters of this book where when it all started), this book made me feel angry and sad. I was sad for girls and angry at their parents. They have lost their girls long before those girls made horrible mistakes, long before they grew up into hollograms of people they wanted to pretend to be.

A story of pretence, secret, lies, fears and inferiorities of various grades. Perfect Liars is a roller-coster ride for all who dares to read it.

This felt so much longer than it really was. I’m not entirely sure why the author didn’t elongate her narrative and the story flowed but never seemed to pick up pace. This took some of the enjoyment out of it for me but it held a few little twists towards the end as a reward for persevering.
The premise of 3 high school girls bound by a secret certainly isn’t new but the plot and the ending were and made it a memorable read

I enjoyed Rebecca Reid’s compelling debut novel Perfect Liars.

Perfect Liars is a thoroughly satisfying character driven psychological thriller. It’s cleverly plotted and clear from the beginning, despite being paced on the slow side, that it is a compelling tale.

The characters are somewhat unlikeable in that they are typical stereotypical pretentious, entitled, self-centered women. The story is told using a dual timeline, past and present. Whilst they display a close friendship to the world it is deeply flawed.

There are certain parts of the storyline that I felt were a little too unbelievable and that is why this does not get a full five stars from me.

Aren't you supposed to like your friends !!! A good story even though the characters were all pretty nasty and unlikable

Perfect Liars is a book about toxic and dangerous female friendships. Set within the confines of Lila, Nancy and Georgia's boarding school days and their present day lives this is a book that will have you truly wondering why on earth these women are even friends.

Their desire to harbor their deepest and darkest secret from their school days means that these three women will forever be entangled in each other's lives as they try to avoid a scandal over their past dealings.

I enjoyed the two different time frames that the book seemed to alternate between however each of the characters were extremely unlikeable and I found it difficult to feel sorry for them. However I also majorly disliked the character of Miss Brandon. Perhaps the class difference is something that I just didn't understand. I'm just glad that none of these women are friends of mine.

The book did make for a shocking ending and although I disliked the characters I was completely hooked until the very end.

Perfect Liars was a great read, well written and interesting. Three friends are forever bonded by someone terrible that happened years earlier at boarding school. The story flits between the now and then and discusses what went on that night.

I really enjoyed this book, although I didn’t like the characters very much. The two different time frames were interesting in that the reader got to really understand how the three girls became the women they would be as adults. The boarding school pages were far easier to read for me, the adult versions of all three girls were just not particularly nice. The ending left me with a feeling of “is that it?” though, which was a shame.