A review by jill_rey
The Widow of Wall Street by Randy Susan Meyers

4.0

The Wolf of Wall Street from the wife’s perspective is the purest way to describe this book. Author Randy Susan Meyers, does such an incredible job framing wife, Phoebe, from young childhood love as she falls for Jake Pierce, to the growth of his deceit and ultimate slide from glory.

This book caused me pause as I stopped to think of all that suffered during the heart of the stock market crash in 2008. But, the feelings of empathy and remorse I had for Phoebe, the wife of one of the very men running a Ponzi scheme, were confusing and uncomfortable. The breadth of those affected and the wide-reaching population fooled by Jake Pierce is artfully captured within The Widow of Wall Street. I found this book extremely interesting and especially attractive to myself, a woman in finance. The intricacies of Jake’s corruption are understandably laid out without losing the reader in confusion, while the design of the sale is deviously transmitted to each unsuspecting soul as they are ultimately left with nothing.

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*Disclaimer: A copy of this book was provided to me by the author in exchange for an honest review.