{"id":4809,"date":"2025-11-20T21:50:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T21:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=4809"},"modified":"2025-11-20T22:03:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T22:03:03","slug":"we-were-never-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=4809","title":{"rendered":"We Were Never Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of sorority sisters gets together to celebrate queen bee Roxy\u2019s son&#8217;s engagement to Celeste, the daughter of her Theta Mu sister Beth\u2014or at least that&#8217;s what the event appears to be on the surface. But there is something odd about the estate, recently renovated by Roxy\u2019s husband, Ryan, that reminds them all of the tragedy that happened many years ago during spring break, when their sorority sister Sunny was found dead in the pool at the Desert Inn. Nothing about these \u201csisters\u201d is what it seems, and all have their own stories about the night that Sunny died. Rouda packs a lot of drama into the slow unraveling of the characters\u2014the successful doctor, the Beltway not-really-grieving widow, the scholarship girl, the victim, the drug dealer\u2014until the real crime comes into view. Including a ghost seems like cheating, but the woman in a green gown who looks just like Sunny cannot be an apparition, can she? <strong><em>Mean Girls<\/em> has nothing on <em>We Were Never Friends<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a9 2025\u00a0<em><strong>firstCLUE Reviews<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/gmail.us21.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=fdc4244772426f53bc39aadc9&#038;id=46d155883c\">Subscribe to our newsletter today!<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4759 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/First-Clue-Logo-scaled-e1762539544221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"31\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of sorority sisters gets together to celebrate queen bee Roxy\u2019s son&#8217;s engagement to Celeste, the daughter of her Theta Mu sister Beth\u2014or at least that&#8217;s what the event&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":4808,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[57,51],"class_list":["post-4809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-domestic","tag-thrillers"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Friends-1-388x400.jpeg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Friends-1.jpeg","author_info":{"display_name":"Dodie Ownes","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=15"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}