A review by juniper00
The False Friend by Myla Goldberg

3.0

I kept hoping that I would feel something for the characters, but I didn't develop a real concern for their outcomes in the story. The use of the unreliable narrator, due to repressed memory, could have been much more powerful. I was puzzled by some of the plot moments, which didn't really propel the story forward (i.e. phone sex scene). Furthermore, does the narrator call her parents "mommy" and "daddy" at 32 due to some psychological reason? We never really delve deeply enough into the character, due to limited development, to care.