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hmarie93 's review for:
The Hunting Wives
by May Cobb
This book irritated me so much. Not only is there rampant infidelity, but the main character is just so...stupid. She has little personality outside of being a wannabe blogger, an alcoholic and obsessed with Margot Banks.
Side note: if I had to read about her drinking a latte one more time, I think I may have thrown the book across the room. What the fuck is with that?! Why is Sophie drinking lattes somehow so integral to the story that almost every new day starts with the description of her latte?
This author also really missed the mark from a fictional crime/investigative perspective. Sophie is repeatedly stupid enough to believe that the cops (with zero character development other than one of them being named “Wanda” - an odd point of contention for Sophie) like her and are on her side. She goes on to interfere with the investigation and make so many half baked accusations that I almost put the book down.
The storyline had a lot of potential, but it got caught between being a smutty novel on infidelity (with boys that are literal children - 18 may be the age of consent and when children become adults, but it was disgusting and difficult to read about 40 year old women sleeping with high schoolers. Children in high school are children. Period.) and it was also unfortunately a bit bi-phobic, despite the amount of same sex attraction that is discussed. 1 star.
Side note: if I had to read about her drinking a latte one more time, I think I may have thrown the book across the room. What the fuck is with that?! Why is Sophie drinking lattes somehow so integral to the story that almost every new day starts with the description of her latte?
This author also really missed the mark from a fictional crime/investigative perspective. Sophie is repeatedly stupid enough to believe that the cops (with zero character development other than one of them being named “Wanda” - an odd point of contention for Sophie) like her and are on her side. She goes on to interfere with the investigation and make so many half baked accusations that I almost put the book down.
The storyline had a lot of potential, but it got caught between being a smutty novel on infidelity (with boys that are literal children - 18 may be the age of consent and when children become adults, but it was disgusting and difficult to read about 40 year old women sleeping with high schoolers. Children in high school are children. Period.) and it was also unfortunately a bit bi-phobic, despite the amount of same sex attraction that is discussed. 1 star.