The Wife

The book that I stayed up into the night reading and FINISHED because I was in total suspense. This is Alafair Burke's novel THE WIFE.

Without revealing too much. Nice girl with a young son – meet cute nice guy with career about to skyrocket. This is her moment to move on. Just as his career is sky-high... Let's just say the subject is current, you might change who you're rooting for from chapter to chapter, and it is full of plenty of creepiness and intrigue to hold your attention. I love when a buddy read turns into a book that I need more of thanks girls! The Husband anyone???

I enjoyed the book overall but I do think that the eventual revelation that the women were lying, while maybe necessary to keep the twists coming and reveal the big twist (which was an interesting if not entirely unpredictable one), wasn't really twisty itself and is obviously problematic. I spent a lot of the book wondering if the author would reveal their politics, and while I don't think the twist is an endorsement, it builds up these women to a real extent, somewhat intelligently presents all the things people tell themselves so as not to believe the victim, while presenting them in a way that seems to indicate it's not a great thing... and then says “yep that's right they weren't a victim” and that sucked