[REVIEW] My Husband’s Wife by Jane Corry

Genre: Thriller, Mystery, Adult

Series: None

Rating: 4 STARS

Description:

It won’t be so bad when you’re there, says my new husband before kissing me on the mouth. He tastes of Rice Krispies and that strong toothpaste of his which I still haven’t gotten used to.

I know, I say before he peels off to the bus stop on the other side of the road.

Two lies. Small white ones. Designed to make the other feel better.

But that’s how some lies start. Small. Well meaning. Until they get too big to handle. 

When young lawyer Lily marries Ed, she’s determined to make a fresh start. To leave the secrets of the past behind. But then she takes on her first murder case and meets Joe. A convicted murderer whom Lily is strangely drawn to. For whom she will soon be willing to risk almost anything. 

 But Lily is not the only one with secrets. Her next-door neighbor Carla may be only nine, but she has already learned that secrets are powerful things. That they can get her whatever she wants. 

When Lily finds Carla on her doorstep sixteen years later, a chain of events is set in motion that can end only one way.

My Thoughts:

“Flash of metal.”

 WHAT IN THE WORLD HAPPENED IN THIS BOOK? I swear to God, my mind was just blown. And twisted. And my mouth is gaping wide open. And I literally can’t even at every single character because I don’t think I liked even one? This is a world record, you guys; I’m actually proud. But let’s dive into this twisty psychological thriller.

So, about all those characters I hated. Pretty much all of them, in some way, made a stupid decision and/or made me want to punch them in the face. Except Ross. Ross was a pretty good guy. But that was it. We get to be introduced to Lily, one of the main point-of-views of the novel who is completely and totally gullible to literally anything and has a thing for forbidden love between total creeps and/or drunken artists who end up being total assholes. We also have Carla, the other point-of-view, who we see as both a ten-year-old and a twenty-two year-old, and, no surprise, she makes stupid decisions in both those ages. And then there’s Ed, who’s just an asshole…and that’s basically it. He has zero redeeming factors. And, for some reason, that’s what made this book so entertaining. Ranting at people in my head was what made me read on (even though 99% of you will want to smack these characters, I swear to God).

I absolutely loved the plot. It’s very intricate and twisty. Like, there are plot twists everywhere, especially near the end, and I was just like, “What? Wait, what? WHAT????” And face-palming a lot because, again, stupid characters and decisions all over the place. But definitely one of the biggest positives for me was how the plot played together. There are two timelines; the first part of this book takes place in 2000, and the second takes place twelve years later. I loved seeing how the details and the plot in the first part of this book ended up linking up to the second part of this book, and how all the storylines with the characters ended up getting tangled up, but worked themselves out in the end to make a really good story. Not to mention that how the storylines played out was what made me glued to the pages. I just couldn’t stop reading until I reached the very end.

I actually really enjoyed the ending. There weren’t any huge plot twists that took place in the epilogue, which is good, because I really didn’t want one nor did there need to any more than there already was. But, oh my God, some crazy stuff went down in the final thirty to forty pages that just kept me on the edge of my seat. I just needed to know what in the world was going to happen next, and what these stupid characters were going to do in the sticky situations they were caught up in.

Overall, this was a pretty great psychological thriller, especially since I wasn’t even planning to add this one to my TBR, much less actually read it. I highly recommend to those who enjoy the genre; maybe you’ll like it as much as I did (and we can’t rant about how dumb the characters are together!).

Have you read this book? Does it interest you? What is a favorite thriller of yours?