A review by lilmooniex
The Wives by Tarryn Fisher

challenging emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Spoiler filled summary! 

Three wives take turns seeing their husband Seth on a certain day of the week. In the story we follow the wife called Thursday. She is beginning to get jealous thinking of the other women. Monday is currently pregnant with Seth's baby. Thursday's mother oversteps on her relationship with Seth and honestly - mother's intuition is usually right. (We are this deep and I still don't know Thursday's real name) Thursday finds a doctor's bill in Seth's jacket pocket the name is Hannah and she believes it is to be Monday. Her friend Anna liked Seth in the beginning but for some reason no longer does - Thursday hasn't even told her about the other wives. Thursday drove to Hannah's house and is shocked to find her behind her - telling her about how her husband and her worked on the remodel of the house after marriage. Knowing damn well Thursday lives in a high rise apartment she feels loved less than the others. She noticed bruises on Hannah's arm and it's possible that it was Seth's doing. Seth and Thursday get into their first fight when he tells her he has to cancel their trip because of the upcoming baby with Monday as he needs the vacation days. Thursday founds out that it WAS Monday she met up with as she verified she was pregnant. But the shocking news out of that is she told her that Seth hides her birth control pills. Thursday thinks there is something off about Hannah/Monday. Seth tells Thursday Hannah's real name as an apology for cancelling their vacation. Thursday sees that her husband's phone lit up at midnight for someone named Regina and she believes that is Tuesday's name. Seth ended up hurting Thursday after they got into an argument about the other wives and he swatted her away after she rushed toward him trying to stop him from leaving, making her hit her ear on the nightstand dresser, hard enough for her to bleed. Thursday found Regina / Monday on a dating app after snooping. In one of the photos on her dating profile she found that Regina is standing next to a person that looks an awful lot like Hannah. Thursday finds out that Regina DOES want kids from her message back to her after she created a fake dating profile to get back at her. It's possible that Seth is only completely hiding Thursday which is why we still don't know her name almost 300 pages in. Hannah told Thursday that her husband had been molested and that his older brother tormented him and almost drowned him in his own bath tub. Hannah left a voicemail on Thursday's phone saying she felt unsafe and that they got into a fight after she went out with a friend. After speaking to her friend Thursday is finally coming to terms that her husband isn't who she thought he was. Seth comes back early when Thursday went to visit Hannah to see if she was okay - he has bruised knuckles and he lunches at her thinking she was cheating - digging his fingers into her skin, not actually hitting her but enough to surely bruise. Seth claims that Thursday is having delusions and that she needs her pills AGAIN she woke up in the hospital without her husband. Wtf is happening. Apparently Thursday is her LEGAL name ?? wtf. She's in the mental institute now denying everything saying he never even had another wife other than Wednesday. He claimed that the game is because her name is Thursday he would joke about there being a Monday and Tuesday after his long trip of working - like that sounds dumb as fuck come on. Thursday is starting to second guess whether the other two wives even know about her because of the fact. Lauren reports back and says the house that was Hannah's is in HER name and that her profiles on social media are all gone. Thursday becomes part of the "Seth ain't shit" movement lmao. It's looking like Thursday might actually be crazy. Thursday follows Regina home, forcing her way into her home. Regina doubles down and calls her crazy, but she may have slept with Seth when he came over. Not in the way Thursday thinks with the two other wives but possibly in a cheaty way. Thursday's trauma may stem from her losing the baby after 5 months and still having to give birth to him. Regina agreed to meet back up with Thursday and asked about the "herbal tea" Seth had given her, telling her that she also miscarried after drinking the mysterious tea. Regina said no to a plural marriage and they grew apart, eventually Seth kept making moves until he was finally back into bed with her. Thursday shows up at Hannah's new place (thanks to the intel from Regina) and confronts Hannah and Seth, he still claims she's crazy and says he only liked fucking her but some things still don't add up frankly. He still is a crazy abortionist. Regina shows up at the house and says that Thursday was Seth's mistress!! and she let him and his new wife live in her house. In the end she WAS crazy. She remembered that she met Seth in a coffee shop and telling her he was married then they had an affair and Regina left him. After she lost the baby he left her for Hannah and she claimed that she didn't care and that she would stay with him - that was the second affair they had. Seth had been telling the truth but during the crazy tussle her memory hadn't been jogged until after she had already shot Seth. The doctor tells her that it WAS her dad taking care of her and not Seth and it was really just her own father who she crushed up ambien on and caused him to go to sleep so she could sneak out. Seth will never walk again, the bullet passed through his spine but he's alive. Thursday slammed her head into Regina's nose when she came to visit just to talk shit, basically. When she laughed in her face Thursday finally reached her own breaking point. In the end she grips Regina's head and bang it into the floor - the only thing left being the shouts of the workers in the mental institute.

 

Final thoughts: 

In the end this book was NOTHING like i expected and I am pleasantly surprised. I honestly can't wait to read more from this author. At times it felt a tad draggy but I feel like the story really mattered in this case to get complete facts, even when it felt minuscule it mattered.