A review by rachelsread
The Best Way to Bury Your Husband by Alexia Casale

dark funny lighthearted tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

This was a brilliantly hilarious yet eye-opening novel that I am incredibly glad I read! As the author herself says in the postscript of the novel, the main reason that this book is amusing to read is because it feels like an impossible situation to happen in real life - four women within a five-mile block radius of each other all accidentally murdering their husbands. Yet if it were the other way around, and four men had murdered their wives, then nobody would be laughing since that is such a horrifyingly common occurrence. The characters in the book were well-developed and diverse, coming from multiple different walks of life with different backgrounds, ethnicities, religions, etc. Edwina, especially, was my favourite and even though her ending, in particular, was somewhat obvious, it didn't make it any less hilarious when it finally happened on the final few pages. This book is a perfect blend of satire and realism and even though it's a funny, light-hearted read, it will make you think at the end of it about the current domestic violence situation in the world we live in, as well as just how terribly the covid-19 pandemic affected real women everywhere.