412 reviews for:

The Wives

Simone Gorrindo

3.86 AVERAGE

maureenmccombs's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

rebekahbellreadsbooks's review

4.5

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

tyra_b's review

4.0

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I picked this up at the library based on the title and thinking it would be about polyagmy. I was wrong but the topic of army wives appealed to me.

While serving in the military (or being married to someone who enlisted) is a foreign concept....I appreciate those who do serve. Living in San Francisco in the early 1980s, I was friends with army and navy wives through work. This book gave me a glimpse into their home lives

brookske15's review

4.0

emotional reflective sad

readingsusan's review

4.0

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This was a fascinating memoir written by the liberal wife of a military man. It was deeply personal and I appreciated her POV and honesty. It was interesting to see how her perspective changed over the years. So much of what she went through was my worst nightmare. I cannot imagine the anxiety and also the rage of having to go through all that basically alone. She seemed happy in the end but I wonder how it really felt to compromise so much. And I imagine after the book was published she was given a cold shoulder by military people.

kat_learner's review

4.5

informative reflective medium-paced

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I don't know how I came across this book. I think I saw the cover and thought it was a thriller. I'm so glad I judged it by its cover. I could relate to the author, even though our lives are very different. It was interesting reading about the wars that started after 9/11 from the perspective of a soldier's wife, but I feel we also got her husband's (the soldier) perspective too. Great read. Informative. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War

tammybellflower's review against another edition

5.0

medium-paced

hitechredneck's review

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

afwasson's review

3.75

informative sad tense medium-paced

acosimo's review

3.0

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Writing style wasn't for me. Some parts had me interested, some parts had me skipping paragraphs.