Happy hump day book friends!
Delighted to share my review with you today for this book that is all about the complexities of female friendship!š
Girls Night Out by Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke
My Thoughts
4 Stars and A Margaritaš¹ šššš
First of all where can I get me one of these BLOWN brush things? Seriously the curly hair struggle is real!!!
My daughter and I were out to dinner tonight and we were talking about things and it came up that I am a girls girl, her… not so much… iāve always had strong female friendships, and Iāve been beyond blessed to have had the amazing friends that I have had throughout my entire life…. yes even in high school! However even the strongest of friendships can be complex… and the more friends you add to the group the more challenging it can become, itās hard to maintain a balance… sometimes even the most innocent of actions can cause a great deal of hurt… The fact that the authors of this book are friends added so much authenticity to the book, their friendship poured through the pages…
Ashley, Natalie, and Lauren have been the best of friends for decades… and even though they have been estrange from Lauren for the past year, Ashley is convinced she can rectify this with a fabulous girls getaway to Mexico… some sun, some sand, some tequila, and things will be as good as they used to be, right? Wrong! There are a lot of secrets and hurt between these girls, and even the best of margaritas cannot quickly fix this…
This really was a book about secrets and forgiveness… now I am a true oversharer so I wasnāt always sure why they didnāt share some of this information with one another? especially if they are friends? Just seems like a lot of problems could have been solved if everyone knew what was going on… but this seems to be very common in books and in life… seriously these girls knew how to keep a secret after three margaritas Iād be spilling my secrets to whoever would listen, LOL…. The forgiveness in this book was interesting, I felt some things were more forgivable than others…. how far can you push someone before theyāve had enough?
I liked how we got all three of the girls perspectives… Ashley was a hard character to have much sympathy for… she kept saying how much she wanted to repair their friendship, and then she had a guy spend most of their vacation with them? I would have found this so annoying! A girls vacation should be just that… a GIRLS vacation! Natalie and Lauren were much more likable and relatable, there were times in this book I thought they should just be BFFs and forget about Ashley!
This book really had a bit of everything friendship, secrets, forgiveness and a mystery… where is Ashley? And will Natalie recover her memory? This was just such a good story that truly explored the complexities of female friendship…. the good, the bad, and the ugly…. cannot wait to see what these authors have in store for us next!
Absolutely recommend to everyone who loves a book filled with secrets, mystery, and complicated female relationships…
*** Many thanks to Lake Union for my copy of this book ***
About the Book
For estranged friends Ashley, Natalie, and Lauren, itās time to heal the old wounds between them. Where better to repair those severed ties than on a girlsā getaway to the beautiful paradise of Tulum, Mexico? But even after theyāre reunited, no one is being completely honest about the past or the secrets theyāre hiding. When Ashley disappears on their girlsā night out, Natalie and Lauren have to try to piece together their hazy memories to figure out what could have happened to her, while also reconciling their feelings of guilt over their last moments together.
Was Ashley with the man sheād met only days before? Did she pack up and leave? Was she kidnapped? Or worseācould Natalie or Lauren have snapped under the weight of her own lies?
As the clock ticks, hour by hour, Natalie and Laurenās search rushes headlong into growing suspicion and dread. Maybe their secrets run deeper and more dangerous than one of them is willingāor too afraidāto admit.
Friendship Never Ends! BeritāļøāØ
