Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing

39 reviews

nkg202's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Child abuse, Classism, Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Violence, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Murder, Death of parent, and Infidelity

madluck's review

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

Lost half a star because it was slow going for my liking and because I was spoiled by

the review on the front cover: “dexter meets gone girl”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Murder, Toxic relationship, Violence, Torture, Death, Domestic abuse, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, and Stalking

katiea714'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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Vomit, Forced institutionalization, Infidelity, Torture, Death, Child abuse, Confinement, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Slavery, Suicide, Blood, Body horror, Kidnapping, Murder, Violence, Addiction, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, and Stalking

Moderate: Addiction, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Gaslighting, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Deadnaming, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Bullying, Alcohol, Car accident, Chronic illness, Classism, and Death of parent

Minor: Alcohol and Vomit

corpseparty's review against another edition

4.5

A thrilling read, although every twist is predictable

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Stalking, Self harm, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, and Kidnapping

frantically's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-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

2.5

proud misandrist

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Infidelity

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Injury/Injury detail and Torture

wrestleacademic's review

dark mysterious tense fast-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Murder, and Blood

Moderate: Infidelity

rainstormdragon's review

dark mysterious tense fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Murder, Kidnapping, and Death

Moderate: Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Violence, Sexual content, Gun violence, Gore, Gaslighting, and Blood

hamletslover's review

mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Infidelity, Gaslighting, and Stalking

ireadinbed's review

dark 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

3.5

So I saw 99.9% of the big twists coming a mile away. Which isn't what I like in a thriller tbh. I like to figure it out slowly. 

Literally one line was all I didn't predict. 

That said I enjoyed watching it slowly dawn on the extremely ridiculous main character that he had made big mistakes and was in serious danger. It felt like every chapter past a certain point was just another nail in the coffin. Fun to unravel. 

 
He was really unlikable and not in a fun way so I didn't exactly feel bad for him, even if I couldn't root for this particular woman's wrongs. 

His wife wasn't even really a person. She was a weird obvious murderer. Such a minimal personality beyond control freak. And I like control freaks! 

That said he felt unbelievably dense. 

Overall was hooked in and didn't want to stop reading but also just felt really disappointed in the end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity

Moderate: Death, Vomit, and Violence

Minor: Torture

nickoliver's review against another edition

tense 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

2.75

I expected more from this. It was a bit boring, and not much happened, and I could see the plot twist from honestly pretty much the beginning. (And honestly,

the fact that the book was called "My Lovely Wife" didn't really help, either. It was a dead giveaway that Millicent was more sinister than the main character assumed

.) There were a few twists and turns that were intriguing, but Downing kind of concentrated on the wrong things all the time, and a lot of things didn't really make sense. For example, the reason why they started killing in the first place. (Also. Almost everything could've been prevented if the main character had actually communicated with his wife sometimes.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Stalking, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Torture

Minor: Alcohol, Car accident, Gun violence, and Sexual content