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The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty

7 reviews

3shinywindows's review

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adventurous challenging emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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izzyhallow's review

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emotional tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

Another incredible novel from Liane Moriarty. The delicious kind of writing that makes you go over paragraphs again and again just it let it wash over you. A bit slow to get going but truly unputdownable from the mid-point. And with an earth shattering Epilogue which ties everything up in a melancholy bow.

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danajoy's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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skyggsja's review against another edition

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challenging emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

I thought the story was very exciting and when i put down the book i wanted to immediately take it up again. it was my first book by the author and i liked the way the story is told from several points of view. three of them the main ones and every now and again there more pov‘s from characters we already knew. The throwbacks made it all even deeper. The first big blow of the story comes pretty early on and reading about the one main character trying to live with it is a big part of their story line. some things in the story were predictable and some weren‘t. the way the whole story is built makes it so interesting to read it.
what i liked the most was that all of the people were just so very relatable. even the people that aren‘t similar to me as a person, one reads what Liane Moriarty writes about their thoughts, feelings, impressions, etc etc and one can imagine it so well. it was almost like I knew the people in real life.

one thing I always stumbled over was what i marked as fatphobia in the TW‘s. one character used to be fat and became slim and beautiful and the whole thing set one of the characters‘ storyline into motion. The way the ex-obesity of that one character was sometimes talked about was pretty harsh. the whole thing is more complex, though, and it‘s difficult to explain.

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