Today I finished Last Chance Saloon

 Last Chance Saloon by Marian Keyes

https://www.mariankeyes.com/

https://www.mariankeyes.com/books/last-chance-saloon/

The book description from the author's website:

"Tara, Katherine and Fintan have been best friends since they were teenagers. Now in their early thirties, they’ve been living it up in London for ten years. But what have they to show for a decade of hedonism?

Sure, Tara’s got a boyfriend – but only because she’s terrified of spending five minutes alone. Katherine, on the other hand, has a neatness fetish that won’t let anyone too close to mess up her life. And Fintan? Well, he has everything. Until he learns that without your health, you’ve got nothing . . .

All three are drinking in the last chance saloon and they’re about to discover that if you don’t change your life, life has a way of changing you . . ."

I own a paperback copy of this book, although I'm not sure where I got it - from a book sale or my daughter passed it down to me after she was done with it. When I chose this book, I assumed from the cover it was going to be about young adults, possibly in their early 20s. I learned at the beginning they were actually in their early 30s. That didn't bother me, but I can see some readers who chose based on the cover being disappointed.

This was one of my "listen to what I own books." (In an effort to try and get through my vast collection of books, I search Hoopla for audio books of books I already own.) This was 18 hours 0 minutes.

I had a little trouble getting interested in the book at first, but that might have been because I've been listening to a few books in two series and this was a break from that.

The characters were interesting and sympathetic. Tara and Katherine were fleshed out more so than the others. For all the characters we do get their backstory and motivations, if only through other people's eyes.

A life-altering event for one character forces all the characters to face their mortality.

Overall it was an ok book.