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A review by wordaddiction
The Hunting Wives by May Cobb
2.0
TL;DR This book is a suspenseful page turner, but disgusting at the same time. Cheating wives, cougars hooking up with high schoolers, and general whiney pettiness.
I gave it 2 stars because it genuinely is a page turner with curveballs you don’t see coming, but some of the pedo behavior could’ve been left out. Making the teenager boys at least graduated from high school wouldn’t have been hard. Each chapter has a date attached to it (like the date of the events in the chapter) and if she had bumped them up 2-3 months they would’ve been wholly legal, yet the author felt the need to put them in high school and make it creepy…and not in the good way…creepy in the grown women touching children way. It makes you wonder what kind of person the author really is when a 2 month time difference meant the difference between pedo behavior and completely legal and only slightly odd behavior.
Also, zero characters besides the FMC’s husband had any kind of appeal to them. They were all catty bitches hellbent on destroying their own lives and everything in their paths.
The FMC Sophie has no redeeming qualities and no character growth whatsoever. I’m glad the book ended the way it did and I hope in whatever universe this book takes place in it stayed that way afterward because that’s what she gets.
I gave it 2 stars because it genuinely is a page turner with curveballs you don’t see coming, but some of the pedo behavior could’ve been left out. Making the teenager boys at least graduated from high school wouldn’t have been hard. Each chapter has a date attached to it (like the date of the events in the chapter) and if she had bumped them up 2-3 months they would’ve been wholly legal, yet the author felt the need to put them in high school and make it creepy…and not in the good way…creepy in the grown women touching children way. It makes you wonder what kind of person the author really is when a 2 month time difference meant the difference between pedo behavior and completely legal and only slightly odd behavior.
Also, zero characters besides the FMC’s husband had any kind of appeal to them. They were all catty bitches hellbent on destroying their own lives and everything in their paths.
The FMC Sophie has no redeeming qualities and no character growth whatsoever. I’m glad the book ended the way it did and I hope in whatever universe this book takes place in it stayed that way afterward because that’s what she gets.