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My Husband by Maud Ventura
4.5

If you've ever wondered what it's like to have an anxious attachment style, this book is it (though taken to an extreme). My husband spans only a week and revolves around the thoughts and perceptions of the narrator, a wife who is "very passionately in love with her husband" (whatever you say girl, we'll call it passion) . It's almost more a character study than a novel. There isn't a market for books about unhinged women for no reason. I am the target audience, and this was no exception. I love deep dives into a character's psyche and this one was written so that even when the character was being stripped bare, the reader would continue to learn she wasn't giving everything away. 

I may be in the minority by feeling like I could have done without the epilogue, but from a creative stand-point, and if I were in the shoes of the author - I understand it. I can imagine that many people would say the book almost doesn't "make sense" without it.