The Wife Between Us | Greer Hendricks | Sarah Pekkanen | Book Review

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 **WARNING - THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS**

Another domestic thriller featuring a married couple with a dark past, the layers of secrets shedding off slowly as the story progresses, and none of the characters are what they seem like. The plot of this story reminded me heavily of The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine (you’ll know why if you have read it). Nevertheless, tropes like that are my guilty pleasure and additionally, the story has major plot twists so it’s no surprise that I liked it.

The plot goes like this – Vanessa’s ex husband Richard is getting married to a young woman. Seemingly, she is jealous of her replacement and decides to sabotage their marriage. The plot keeps on switching from present to flashback and back, and you steadily learn about the pasts of our main characters. There is a major twist about halfway through the book which I absolutely loved! From there, as events unfold and a lot of things are going on, you would expect an ending which will complete the entire picture, as also promised by the blurb of the book. But that doesn’t happen fully.



Certain loopholes that I felt in the story:

1.    I was really hoping that Aunt Charlotte’s illness plot was going somewhere, but it was eventually just lost.

2.     Why did Maureen tell the photographer that the wedding had been postponed?

3.    Nothing is mentioned of Richard’s wife before Vanessa, except the fact that Richard was unhappy in the marriage and he didn’t really like to talk much about her.

4.    What actually happened to the dog? Did Richard harm him? If so, why? I needed a little closure there.

5.     Also, after learning that Nellie is actually Vanessa, I really thought that Emma would be Samantha. :P That would explain all the time given into developing her character, her calling Richard “The Prince”, someone who is too good to be true, her constant reluctance to be around him, but when it turned out otherwise, I kinda felt that all the time and space given to Samantha were really futile.

 

Nevertheless, I liked the ending twist and all in all, it was a good book for me. If you enjoyed books like The Girl On The Train and The Last Mrs. Parrish, you’ll like The Wife Between Us.

My Rating – 3/5


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