Reviews

The Wives by Tarryn Fisher

marshacasner's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

erinbrook's review against another edition

3.0

2.5 stars rounded up. This is my first Tarryn Fisher book, and honestly I wasn’t really impressed. Loved the writing and tone, so I’ll def pick up other books by her, but I thought this one was a little bland. The beginning was exciting but the end fell really flat. Maybe it needed to be a little longer to flush HUGE pot holes?

sarahjoyful's review against another edition

challenging tense fast-paced

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

1.0

kimmis_bookshelf's review against another edition

5.0

Holy... Finished in a little over 24 hours. Such a good read. My mind is blown

alli_thebookgiraffe's review against another edition

2.0

This book had me in the beginning and took a left turn half way through and I didn't like it at all. I don't like the type of twist that this book entailed and I thought it was going to take it back and it did the twist again. WTF.

rembrandt1881's review against another edition

3.0

The blurb and the nomination for novel of the year got me to read this. First things first, I'm not the target audience for this novel and to an extent it colors my perception of this book.

For me it starts off really slowly, I was terribly just bored for the first three or four chapters as I awaited the story to really take off. Once it finally got started I was into it at times. The mystery was there and there was a good amount of tension in what the story could be for a while. However for me there were moments of rambling and meandering. I chalk that up to this style of book not being for me in particular even though there were some mystery elements that I like.

About this main character, for me I like stories with more 'normal' people in wild situations although most of the time they are seemingly more competent and figure things out easier. Now, I will say I think there are reasons for this that the story will reveal but I didn't like it.

The story did have me guessing which way it would go and I think my penchant towards certain protagonists turns me off from the novel overall. The ending is what it is and at the end of the day I felt slightly let down in the direction that it actually took.

vlc91199's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

4.0

Lots of twists!

gillianw's review against another edition

2.0

I had high hopes this would be the type of book where women band together after finding out their husband/lover/ex is a conniving, sociopathic con man. And until the end that’s what I was rooting for. Instead I got the crazy ex-girlfriend/ex-wife kind of story men tell each other all the time to cover up past bad behaviour. It was gross and disappointing.

drjamila's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

3.5

jacyrenee's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0