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A review by aish_dols
The Wives by Tarryn Fisher
4.0
"We busy ourselves trying not to be lonely, trying to find purpose in careers, and lovers, and children, but at any moment, those things we work so hard to possess could be taken from us."
In Tarryn Fisher's psychological thriller, The Wives, Thursday is the middle wife, loving her husband, Seth normally, as if he having two other women whose names she doesn't know or faces she can't put together, is perfectly fine to her mental health.
She is able to meet Seth on Thursdays, and he spends two days with her, all things being equal. Thursday's loneliness spreads through her until curiousity wins the game and destiny helps when she finds a piece of paper in Seth's pocket that gives her the information she needs to know about his third wife, Hannah. The newly pregnant one. The warmth. The one who is fertile enough to give Seth the children he solely desires. The children he wants. Since his first and second wives have unknowingly/knowingly made that difficult not by their hands but twisting ways.
"I cannot pinpoint when or how, but if the shift is noticeable to me, it’s definitely noticeable to my husband, who’s staring at me like I have Egyptian hieroglyphics tattooed on my face. That is male folly; they expect you to always be the same, reliable cow, but women spend their lives changing. Our change can swing for you or against you depending on how fairly we’ve been treated."
Thursday narrated the story in a way that felt real. A woman sharing the man she loves and nearly going crazy, maybe even crazy because not being the only woman in a man's life has effects on her brain and her reactions will get to you, definitely.
The Wives, not only speaks on plural marriage, divorce, affairs, miscarriages, mental health but on parental love and care, the formative years of a child, cheating, love, lust, greed and deceit.
Tarryn Fisher took me into a portal with this one. I did question if Thursday was crazy at a point until I got my answer.
An intriguing read. This is my fifth book of the year.
⭐⭐⭐⭐- 4/5 stars
In Tarryn Fisher's psychological thriller, The Wives, Thursday is the middle wife, loving her husband, Seth normally, as if he having two other women whose names she doesn't know or faces she can't put together, is perfectly fine to her mental health.
She is able to meet Seth on Thursdays, and he spends two days with her, all things being equal. Thursday's loneliness spreads through her until curiousity wins the game and destiny helps when she finds a piece of paper in Seth's pocket that gives her the information she needs to know about his third wife, Hannah. The newly pregnant one. The warmth. The one who is fertile enough to give Seth the children he solely desires. The children he wants. Since his first and second wives have unknowingly/knowingly made that difficult not by their hands but twisting ways.
"I cannot pinpoint when or how, but if the shift is noticeable to me, it’s definitely noticeable to my husband, who’s staring at me like I have Egyptian hieroglyphics tattooed on my face. That is male folly; they expect you to always be the same, reliable cow, but women spend their lives changing. Our change can swing for you or against you depending on how fairly we’ve been treated."
Thursday narrated the story in a way that felt real. A woman sharing the man she loves and nearly going crazy, maybe even crazy because not being the only woman in a man's life has effects on her brain and her reactions will get to you, definitely.
The Wives, not only speaks on plural marriage, divorce, affairs, miscarriages, mental health but on parental love and care, the formative years of a child, cheating, love, lust, greed and deceit.
Tarryn Fisher took me into a portal with this one. I did question if Thursday was crazy at a point until I got my answer.
An intriguing read. This is my fifth book of the year.
⭐⭐⭐⭐- 4/5 stars