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A review by christi_books
The Pretend Wife by Bridget Asher
2.0
I just never got this book. Maybe because I didn't care for the main character?
Basically, she's never really happy. But she's happy settling. Because she just doesn't really do anything about it except change jobs often.
Until one day a guy she dated for 2 weeks (2 weeks!!) in college shows up behind her at an ice cream parlor. And her husband invites this guy to a party. And then this guy tells everyone at the party how he is pretending to be married to make his dying mother happy. So of course one of her drunk friends says she should go pretend to be the wife. And her drunk husband agrees.
Seriously? Only in fiction could this kind of thing happen in the first few pages of a book.
Oh, and that guy she dated in college dumped her after the 2 weeks to go back to his girlfriend but somehow he's been in love with her for all these years and hasn't stopped thinking about her despite being engaged twice. Yeah, that really happens too.
Basically, she's never really happy. But she's happy settling. Because she just doesn't really do anything about it except change jobs often.
Until one day a guy she dated for 2 weeks (2 weeks!!) in college shows up behind her at an ice cream parlor. And her husband invites this guy to a party. And then this guy tells everyone at the party how he is pretending to be married to make his dying mother happy. So of course one of her drunk friends says she should go pretend to be the wife. And her drunk husband agrees.
Seriously? Only in fiction could this kind of thing happen in the first few pages of a book.
Oh, and that guy she dated in college dumped her after the 2 weeks to go back to his girlfriend but somehow he's been in love with her for all these years and hasn't stopped thinking about her despite being engaged twice. Yeah, that really happens too.