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The Hunting Wives by May Cobb

10 reviews

masch212's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

2.0

DNF. The characters in this book were all hateful. There was no explanation behind their actions, aside from one dealing with a rootless childhood.

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jamiee_f's review against another edition

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dark medium-paced

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

3.0

Everyone in this book was terrible and it somehow wasn't that fun.

Sophie moves back to her hometown and becomes obsessed with sassy gun toting Margot, in a bunny-boiler kind of way. She earns an invite to their Friday night hunting club, where the married ladies all go out and pick up dudes. Sophie, despite being married with a child, is sucked into these girls nights out and keeps missing curfew and blowing off her husband. She then finds out that Margot is having an affair with one of the other women's son! Ick ick ick. She has a brief dalliance with another teen, and I do think pedophilia makes you irredeemable. There is some cat and mouse when the teen boy's girlfriend shows up murdered, with Sophie thinking she's being framed, but ultimately it was the mom of the boy Margot's been sleeping with. Whatever. Messy ladies who did not get their deserved comeupance.

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laurenthompson6290's review against another edition

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0.25

I hate-finished this book. I wanted Sophie to be in any way likable but she wasn't. Perfectly aware that what she is doing is wrong, she still goes ahead and throws away her relationship with a good loving person so that she can have a fling with a teenaged boy and a sociopathic queen bee?

I also can't help but notice that if gender roles were reversed, no one would find this book sexy. Imagine a story where a group of close to 40-year-old wealthy married men lied to and cheated on their wives while preying upon teenaged girls. We would be horrified.

I fully realize that the characters are villains, but viewing it through a lens of sexiness really grossed me out. Sophie's complete inability to make a single logical decision or to have any true concern for how her actions would affect her family was infuriating. She dithered over not wanting Graham to find out what she did and hate her, and therefore lying to the police, while not even considering that the police would absolutely find out that she lied to them, and then she'd have to explain to Graham why she lied to him AND why she lied to the police.

Nothing about this book was enjoyable.

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vj_thompson's review against another edition

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challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

What a ride. After the 250ish page hump, the book picks up. Infidelity is a large plot point for this book, which is why I assume most people rate this book low. I am also not a fan of that plot line either but boy oh boy did the story get good after that. The hunting wives are just a bunch of women who seem perfect but beneath everything, they are hiding secrets and their own guilty pleasures. The ending was crazy. If only you could see my face/reactions after reading some of the plot twists.

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blucbell's review against another edition

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emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

2.0

interesting plot!
there was nothing happen in the first 200 pages.
i agitated how the main character pissed me off too much, thus i hate her and didn't enjoy reading it.

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poisonnv's review against another edition

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Started to see hints of some super uncomfortable content that should never, ever be used to dramatize a plot line. Originally picked this over a year ago and clearly must have missed the warnings. Regardless of that though the flippant nature of conversation used to illustrate underage grooming wasn't something I was willing to continue reading.

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s_lorenz's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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pirate's review against another edition

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dark fast-paced

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

0.5

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heyitsyii's review against another edition

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challenging medium-paced

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

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nerdynatreads's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I think this is the first book I had the most fun reading, where I didn't like a single character. Every one of them was terrible, but I couldn't stop watching the drama unfold. It was a train wreck, but I couldn't look away. There's too much drinking, adultery, tons of gossip, and guns to boot. Such a fun ride to watch this story play out.

Overall, I think I was most impressed with the atmosphere that Cobb created throughout this story, with the constant references to delicious foods and well-crafted settings that were easily visible in my mind. This would make for a beautiful movie.

I think my only real complaint was toward the end of the book, Sophie was just a bit too... dumb. She started to suffer from horror movie syndrome, always making the stupidest decisions and managing to worsen her situation. Just felt a bit too unbelievable that she kept making such stupid mistakes.

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