There Are No Rules For This, JJ Elliott
There Are No Rules For This, JJ Elliott
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There Are No Rules For This
A Novel

Author: JJ Elliott

Narrator: Amélie Trufant Dawson

Unabridged: 8 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/17/2023


Synopsis

People like Feeney Simms don’t die by suicide. Beautiful, charismatic, mother of two, wife to a handsome, successful husband, beloved by her friends—this is not the typical picture of a tortured soul. But one summer night, Feeney drives to the beach and swallows a handful of pills. No note, no explanation, nothing. Like that, she’s gone.Faced with this loss, Ali, Max, and Liddy, Feeney’s closest friends, are left reeling, grappling with the devastating cocktail of grief, guilt, and anger that’s left in the wake of a suicide. In a desperate attempt to avoid further loss, the three women make the unorthodox (and very Feeney-like) decision to hold their own funerals while they are still alive—and the experience changes each of them in ways they couldn’t have imagined. 

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mary on April 16, 2024

I wish I had friends like the ones in “There Are No Ruled For This.” Friends to act silly with, friends who force you out of your comfort zone, and friends who know everything about you and still love you. Except as it turns out, we don’t always know as much as we think we do, especially when there......more

Goodreads review by Katie on December 31, 2024

Please don't let the subject matter shoo you away from this book. At its heart, for me, it is a love letter to our female friendships. I laughed. I cried. For all of the weight of this topic I left the book not feeling anchored down. Instead I felt like I had been buoyed. Lifted up. I wanted to call......more

Goodreads review by Pallu on February 09, 2024

An easy read and a heavy topic of losing someone you love. It made me wish my best friends lived in the same city. It started and ended strong, but in the middle it dragged a bit.......more

Goodreads review by Mary on June 27, 2023

TW: Suicide An inexplicable event is the catalyst for this engaging story which weaves together the before and after of rich female friendships in the aftermath of a friend's suicide. JJ Elliot weaves her tale between the past and the present with poignancy and humor as the missing main character's f......more

Goodreads review by Lauren on September 25, 2023

Oh. My. God. This book. I read the entire book in one sitting on a flight. I laughed out loud more than once, and I cried conspicuously more than twice. Thank god I was sitting next to someone I knew. I immediately told everyone in all of my book clubs to get this book and read it, and then I texted......more