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A review by amyredgreen
The Silent Wife by A.S.A. Harrison
2.0
Alternate title: The Dirtbag and The Doormat
Decent plot, and it moves quickly, but the characters are just bad. Not bad in an interesting, love to hate kind of way, just basically a couple of losers. The husband is an adulterous jerk; it's really hard to get why he has his pick of women half his age since he's utterly charmless. The wife is just a total doormat who knowingly puts herself in a position where she's completely dependent on someone who she knows from day one is unreliable. It feels like at the end there's a tacked on subplot meant to explain that she's damaged, but she's still an inexcusably awful person in the end.
Decent plot, and it moves quickly, but the characters are just bad. Not bad in an interesting, love to hate kind of way, just basically a couple of losers. The husband is an adulterous jerk; it's really hard to get why he has his pick of women half his age since he's utterly charmless. The wife is just a total doormat who knowingly puts herself in a position where she's completely dependent on someone who she knows from day one is unreliable. It feels like at the end there's a tacked on subplot meant to explain that she's damaged, but she's still an inexcusably awful person in the end.