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How To Be a Good Wife by Emma Chapman

4.0

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While at times I found certain things in this to be a little redundant...overall though it was disturbing and very reminiscent of [b:Dark Places|5886881|Dark Places|Gillian Flynn|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1354988288s/5886881.jpg|6873353] or really any of Gillian Flynn's other works. Considering it's a debut, it really is pretty impressive, and definitely left me wanting more, which is always a refreshing change from just trying to slog through the end of a book and wishing it was a few hundred pages shorter. Ambiguous and unnerving, this novel feels like a slow descent into madness, where you still feel sane just enough but begin to notice whispers and impossible things lingering on your periphery. And ultimately the question is: is she insane, or a tragic victim of something much worse. I tend to believe in the latter.