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A review by laurenthompson6290
The Hunting Wives by May Cobb
0.25
I hate-finished this book. I wanted Sophie to be in any way likable but she wasn't. Perfectly aware that what she is doing is wrong, she still goes ahead and throws away her relationship with a good loving person so that she can have a fling with a teenaged boy and a sociopathic queen bee?
I also can't help but notice that if gender roles were reversed, no one would find this book sexy. Imagine a story where a group of close to 40-year-old wealthy married men lied to and cheated on their wives while preying upon teenaged girls. We would be horrified.
I fully realize that the characters are villains, but viewing it through a lens of sexiness really grossed me out. Sophie's complete inability to make a single logical decision or to have any true concern for how her actions would affect her family was infuriating. She dithered over not wanting Graham to find out what she did and hate her, and therefore lying to the police, while not even considering that the police would absolutely find out that she lied to them, and then she'd have to explain to Graham why she lied to him AND why she lied to the police.
Nothing about this book was enjoyable.
I also can't help but notice that if gender roles were reversed, no one would find this book sexy. Imagine a story where a group of close to 40-year-old wealthy married men lied to and cheated on their wives while preying upon teenaged girls. We would be horrified.
I fully realize that the characters are villains, but viewing it through a lens of sexiness really grossed me out. Sophie's complete inability to make a single logical decision or to have any true concern for how her actions would affect her family was infuriating. She dithered over not wanting Graham to find out what she did and hate her, and therefore lying to the police, while not even considering that the police would absolutely find out that she lied to them, and then she'd have to explain to Graham why she lied to him AND why she lied to the police.
Nothing about this book was enjoyable.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Pedophilia and Sexual assault