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A review by dunnadam
The Silent Wife by A.S.A. Harrison
2.0
Marketed as a "chilling psychological thriller" and it's not. I’m at 72% going “When is the thrill part going to happen?”
One thing I would say is good is it reads like a thriller, it’s a very quick light read that I finished easily in a day and a half.
The negatives, this is not Gone Girl. It’s not better than Gone Girl.
The wife is okay, but the husband was so annoying I wanted to stop reading the book. He would do things wrong and blame the women in his life, which pissed me off. “And he wouldn’t have felt the need to hide it from her, he added, if she weren’t so damn controlling.” At the same time it didn’t piss me off enough, I didn’t hate him, he seemed wishy-washy and like an overgrown baby and I just wanted him out of my life.
I didn’t care about the characters enough. There’s a subplot of childhood trauma that isn’t fully explained and never goes anywhere and has no relevance.
It’s kind of a “So what” book. I’ll forget it by tomorrow.
One thing I would say is good is it reads like a thriller, it’s a very quick light read that I finished easily in a day and a half.
The negatives, this is not Gone Girl. It’s not better than Gone Girl.
The wife is okay, but the husband was so annoying I wanted to stop reading the book. He would do things wrong and blame the women in his life, which pissed me off. “And he wouldn’t have felt the need to hide it from her, he added, if she weren’t so damn controlling.” At the same time it didn’t piss me off enough, I didn’t hate him, he seemed wishy-washy and like an overgrown baby and I just wanted him out of my life.
I didn’t care about the characters enough. There’s a subplot of childhood trauma that isn’t fully explained and never goes anywhere and has no relevance.
It’s kind of a “So what” book. I’ll forget it by tomorrow.