A review by andrea0301
The Silent Wife by A.S.A. Harrison

4.0

This was an interesting read that started off slow and then at some point, I simply couldn't put it down. I bought this at a sale at my local library for $2, for a toonie I felt like it wouldn't make me upset whether it was a good or bad read. Thankfully, it wasn't bad. This story is told from two different perspectives, the man and the woman's. The characters felt a bit wooden, but eventually, I felt like they were fleshed out a bit. Todd I simply didn't like at all, but I was curious enough to see what was to become of him and his philandering. Jodi took me by surprise and there was an explanation 3/4 of the way through on why she is the way she is or what I thought was an explanation, but then the grand reveal at the very end told me the truth which explained even further why she was the way she was throughout. This is no "the next Gone Girl" I really wish the publishers/authors would stop saying that, nothing can compare to Gone Girl, at least nothing I have read thus far. This author also sadly died after this books success, which makes me sad for she may have written even better books to come (and it is just sad in general that she may not have seen the success of this novel and she was also a fellow Torontonian). I was torn throughout on whether to give it a 3 or 4 star read...it is more 3.5-4 to me mostly because it grabbed my attention in atleast the last 1/2 of the novel. If anyone is interested, you are welcome to borrow it.