Listen to Me

The book's premise seemed promising but unfortunately it fell apart.

I see now why this book has been rated so poorly by fellow Goodreads users. I'm always happy to give a book a fair chance, but nothing about the plot or characters' actions made sense. I know there's a bit of irrationality involved with strife but this takes it to new levels. The climax of the book hits in the last 15 pages or so, and then collapses fast.

Also, can authors please stop this annoying tendency to cite classics for no real reason? It just feels like a thin ploy to show that they've read the classics.

For a quote that pissed me off so much when I read it, I'm putting my own spin on it by saying:
“I had a sudden sinking feeling that this book was a loser.”

Husband is a worthless piece of shit who essentially tortures his wife, mentally/emotionally.

And it's like, I'm all for unlikeable characters but with the husband his sole purpose in the novel was just to be like that guy who says the shittiest things and once you confront them on it, they'll go “it's just a joke...”. That's not what I would consider for “unlikeable”, it's a flat character put in just to add drama and misery. You have to have the ability to create a scene to back up unlikeable people, you have to make it make sense.

That's all my thoughts on this. There was nothing to this. Don't bother.