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Bev C. (Latrobe, PA)
My Lovely Wife
MY LOVELY WIFE
"Our love story is simple...
We look like a normal couple...
We all have our secrets to keep a marriage alive...
Ours just happens to be getting away with murder" (book jacket)
This stand alone thriller is a debut novel. One moment is total family normalcy and the next is borderline bizarre. Aberrations intensify and becomes the prominent thread. If you carefully observe Millicent and her husband and their behaviors, you'll probably reach conclusions earlier than I did.
It is intense and convoluted and although I have seen this type of ending before, it suited the story well.
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Rebecca H. (Bolton, CT)
My Lovely Wife
Dysfunctional doesn't begin to describe the marriage and family relationships of the two main characters in this novel. Harlan Coben and Meg Gardiner both apparently liked this dark psychological thriller, and I read it with high expectations. It is well written, suspenseful and twisty. However, none of the characters is remotely sympathetic. I don't mind characters with flaws--in fact, they aren't interesting or believable without them--but if I can't find anything to like in them, why should I care what happens to them? A reader has to have at least one character to root for!
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Andrea (Jenkintown, PA)
A Lovely Concept
While the blurb's concept is intriguing, I do not think that its description of this book as a iDexter/i meets iMr. and Mrs. Smith/i cross is entirely accurate. The story does involve a married couple and multiple murders, but it lacks the same conviction and magnetism. The ending, however, does evoke a thoughtful, raised brow.
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Jinny K. (Fremont, CA)
Cure for marital boredom
Couples have many ways to try to add spice to their relationship: Date nights, special trips, fantasies, murder.
But wait! Murder?
Yes, indeed; this couple engages in recreational homicide and that is the theme of this novel.
Although the writing was excellent and the book certainly provided thrills, chills and plot twists, I personally found the theme of murder for thrills on the part of the protagonists distasteful and uncomfortable.
Thus, the "3" rating.
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Christine B. (Lilydale, MN)
Too predictable
This is a hard book to review because I did enjoy it even though the plot is very predictable despite its many twists and turns. Murdering people for "sport" seemed a bit far fetched and the family itself was so dysfunctional they became unbelievable. Not the best whodunit.
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Barbara E. (Rockville, MD)
Married Murder Team
I really wanted to like this book since I love mysteries, especially ones with a twist. The book was well-written and quickly paced, but the characters were both deeply disturbing. They were really sick, and if the husband is to be believed, Millicent was evil. The husband's attempts to wipe his hands of any real responsibility for the murders was disingenuous and annoying.
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Gary R. (Bolingbrook, IL)
So-so
I tried to like this book but been there done that, really couldn't get into the characters, even though they were well developed. A tennis instructor and his wife and their kids in a affluent community who also kill! Not for me. Really was a struggle getting to the end, although a nice twist at the end, it's just not my cup of tea, your choice!
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