A review by poisonenvy
Recipe for a Perfect Wife by Karma Brown

mysterious medium-paced

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

2.0

This was... Not great.  Whether it was the simple, blunt prose, or the fact that the twist was telegraphed so loudly that at one point I went "maybe the twist is that this actually ISN'T the twist after all!", or the fact that by the end of the book I really, truly, loathed the main character, and not in the fun way, I couldn't say. Maybe it was the part where we find out that

Alice Hale is actually just Karma Brown after all? Is that what I was <I>supposed</I> to take away from this book?

.  Who knows? 

There was a <I>lot</I> in this book that just didn't work. But the recipes my book club and I tried were very tasty, and there were a bunch that I was so very eager to try in the future, so at least there's that.