My Lovely Wife
by Samantha Downing
Pages: 388
Published by Berkley
Publication Date June 26, 2021
Source: Library
Format: Ebook

Dexter meets Mr. and Mrs. Smith in this wildly compulsive debut thriller about a couple whose fifteen-year marriage has finally gotten too interesting... Our love story is simple. I met a gorgeous woman. We fell in love. We had kids. We moved to the suburbs. We told each other our biggest dreams, and our darkest secrets. And then we got bored.
We look like a normal couple. We're your neighbors, the parents of your kid's friend, the acquaintances you keep meaning to get dinner with.
We all have our secrets to keeping a marriage alive.
Ours just happens to be getting away with murder.

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My Lovely Wife will twist your mind and give you whiplash. I love a good domestic thriller, but Samantha Downing’s book was unhinged. The book had good pacing and snappy dialogue. Unfortunately, the characters were underdeveloped and unlikable. Therefore, despite the plot keeping me on the edge of my seat, I really didn’t care what happened to this despicable husband and wife. The ending was a little predictable and dragged the last 40ish pages. Samantha Downing is a very good writer and knows how to hold suspense, but when I closed the cover of My Lovely Wife, I was underwhelmed.

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