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A review by jmboff
The Hunting Wives by May Cobb
Did not finish book. Stopped at 44%.
Do you have hours to waste reading about a mom who wants to be a stay at home mom, moves her family, just to become obsessed with Facebook and a socialite who is obsessed with herself? Do you want to read about intricate details of the socialite's nipples, extremely descriptive food making? How about just reading about a group of grown women who act like teenagers, go out and get plastered, cheat on their husbands, and have sex with each other's teenagers? No? Me either.
That's why I DNF this awful book at 50% through. I wanted to DNF at 30%, but kept holding out that okay, the "thriller" twist will be coming soon. Nope. Almost 50% through, all I've listened to is grown ass women abandoning their families to get drunk, drive around drunk, shoot guns at things for 5 minutes, cheat on their husbands, and flaunt off in front of and seduce teenagers who happen to also be their friends children.
There is ZERO plot or character development and I hate every single character in this book. Why did we have to deeply describe eye colors and lattes and alcohol and give so much detail to little stupid stuff and not give any to the characters? Can I also add, why would the author choose some of the language the characters use? I don't think an adult who's engaging in this type of behavior would actually use words like "Yummy!!". I typically don't DNF. But this one, I just can't waste any more time with. I can't even describe accurately how much I dislike this book. I don't even care what happened because I can probably imagine it wasn't anything to make it worth my while to finish.
Do yourselves a favor and just skip this one. 🥴
That's why I DNF this awful book at 50% through. I wanted to DNF at 30%, but kept holding out that okay, the "thriller" twist will be coming soon. Nope. Almost 50% through, all I've listened to is grown ass women abandoning their families to get drunk, drive around drunk, shoot guns at things for 5 minutes, cheat on their husbands, and flaunt off in front of and seduce teenagers who happen to also be their friends children.
There is ZERO plot or character development and I hate every single character in this book. Why did we have to deeply describe eye colors and lattes and alcohol and give so much detail to little stupid stuff and not give any to the characters? Can I also add, why would the author choose some of the language the characters use? I don't think an adult who's engaging in this type of behavior would actually use words like "Yummy!!". I typically don't DNF. But this one, I just can't waste any more time with. I can't even describe accurately how much I dislike this book. I don't even care what happened because I can probably imagine it wasn't anything to make it worth my while to finish.
Do yourselves a favor and just skip this one. 🥴
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content, Alcoholism, Toxic friendship, Infidelity, Alcohol, and Gaslighting