A review by jaclynday
The Daylight Marriage by Heidi Pitlor

3.0

If you go into this expecting it to be suspenseful, with the type of twists and turns reminiscent of Gone Girl, you’ll be sorely disappointed. The publicists for this book seem to have marketed it as such and that’s too bad. The book can stand alone without needing to link it to best-selling books in a genre it doesn’t even really belong in. Instead, The Daylight Marriage is about regret and introspection: the small and large decisions that shape who we are. It’s not a fast read. We are mostly seeing the world through Lovell’s eyes, and he’s not a fast-paced guy. He’s doing a lot of deep thinking much of the time–about his wife and their marriage and how they met and how it ended up. It’s short and well-edited. It’s easier to write a Gone Girl-type book, I think. A book filled with drama and wild twists. It’s harder to get this kind of book to work. The quiet drama of life is much more difficult to write, I’d imagine. Pitlor has done a good job.