The Wives

I know a lot people liked this and gave it rave reviews, but sadly I'm not one of them.

I really tried (I pushed myself to read atleast 40% of it!) but it just didn't do it for me! I found Thursday really annoying and I found it hard to believe that someone would willingly put themselves in the position she puts herself in. Her obsessive, stalkerish behaviour didn't help either.

Anyway, it's a no for me and I personally wouldn't recommend it to others.

Thank you to NetGalley for the chance to read this book.

Thank you Edelweiss and Harper Collins for providing me with an arc for review!

I had such high hopes for this book. I absolutely adore thrillers. This definitely left me completely on the edge of my seat and I finished it within a single day.

However certain things just absolutely rubbed me the wrong way. There was a casually transphobic comment made pretty early on that just took me out of the story. I also couldn't connect to Thursday and her absolute fixation of how a perfect woman is supposed to be as well the expectations she envisions women having. A lot of that is just how her character is and it left me uneasy.

I appreciated this for how easy it was to read but I don't think I would do a re-read however.

The Wives had its' hooks in me up until the last 15 minutes. I was getting excited over dirty dishes simply because it meant I could sneak in a few extra minutes of this audiobook. Not a lot of audiobooks do that for me so kudos to the narrator and the author for telling the story so well.

That ending tho. I'm someone who has to reflect after finishing a book in order to see the big picture so at first I thought my disappointment with the ending was simply that it didn't play out the way I wanted. The more I sat and reflected, the more I realized that the ending leaves way too many loose ends to make sense.

Is a great book with an awful ending worth it? I don't know, but I look forward to reading more from this author (and listening more to this narrator).

I'm torn over what rating to give this. I don't usually read thrillers but Tarryn is one of my favorites so I gave it a shot. I was hoping for something along the lines of I Can Be a Better You and Marrow, with maybe a little hint of Mud Vein, but I felt this book was missing that special Tarryn spark. Perhaps it's because she wrote it intentionally for trade, it just didn't feel as fleshed out as her other books.