Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing

40 reviews

luna_98's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.25

this gave me strong “right book, wrong time”. i couldn’t get into it until after the halfway point and then i was so curious for the ending. the twist was great, but i just felt “ehh” about the book as a whole and i don’t know why!! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Death

Moderate: Torture, Confinement, and Vomit

Minor: Suicide, Infidelity, and Mental illness

monicabach's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-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

What a ride! Loved it. Couldn’t put it down. I like the author’s writing style.

Content warnings: implied sex, nothing graphic; infrequent cursing, no F bombs; violence is not graphic.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Infidelity, Death, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Suicide

jj_tj's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Violence

Moderate: Stalking, Infidelity, and Torture

Minor: Blood and Drug use

kashcraft's review against another edition

dark slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Infidelity, and Murder

d0505's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-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

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Infidelity, and Murder

Minor: Blood

mrsmishler's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Torture, and Infidelity

lily_peach's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Vomit, Infidelity, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual content, and Gun violence

Minor: Sexism

ramreadsagain's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.5

A solid thriller, manages to bring something fresh to the genre, and not feel “tropey”. I also liked how the violence towards women was never a main part of the book, unlike with some thrillers that often have a lot of gory detail. 

Great twists and a good page turner. Definitely recommend for fans of the genre. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Torture, Blood, Toxic relationship, Infidelity, and Violence

Minor: Vomit, Suicide, and Gun violence

cyancookie's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Stalking, and Murder

Moderate: Infidelity

minimicropup's review against another edition

dark emotional tense 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

1.0

I listened to the audiobook and the first bit was great - I was expecting it to continue where…

this couple starts off at super toxic codependent relationship vibes where you hate them but can’t look away as the husband scouts out vulnerable women and the wife kills them out of a mish-mashed motive of personality disordered revenge/rage/past trauma and they get away with it by copycat murdering

. Instead it was one of the most child-centric parenting struggle motif books I’ve ever read. Like a weird slowly evolving custody battle…It’s kind of impressive, that someone could write a serial killer duo turned spousal revenge story into a drama about the struggle of parents who probably don’t even want kids but have them now so they over-compensate and resent. That’s my take on it at least. Somehow this story was so boring, I kept waiting for the good parts to morph into something but it didn’t and there was a bit of villain monologue at the end. Mid book felt like a lot of Rory being into video games, bribing his dad, and sucking at school, and Jenna being too dense to read the room that no one cares about her sports points. Oh and the parents are so focused on hiding their serial killer lifestyle from their children that the kids are written as if they’re their landlord/boss/religious deity in a way. Sorry, it just wasn’t for me but I thought the premise was unique

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Torture

Moderate: Infidelity and Toxic relationship

Minor: Bullying and Domestic abuse