A review by todallyanika
The Hunting Wives by May Cobb

2.0

More of a 2.5 than a 2. The description of this book is not accurate. For a murder mystery, a body isn’t discovered until you’re 60% through the book! The victim doesn’t even go missing until 55% through. Instead, you have to read about a lesbian MILF and high school boys game of spin the bottle and process the narrator destroying her marriage for a schoolgirl crush on the popular girl. I thought I was getting a suburban thriller, not a novel about a wannabe influencer debating between having sex with her rich new friend who she’s obsessed with or the teenage best friend of one of her new friend’s son. She’s drunk constantly, drives drunk, lies to her loving husband, constantly leaving him to take care of their toddler son while she’s passed out after partying and doesn’t arrive home until late the next morning. The narrator is just unlikeable, this book is confusing and made me deeply uncomfortable to read.