The Wife by Alafair Burke -- Battle of the Book

Hello Deweys!  And now for a short spine breaking review.....

The Spine Breakers Book Club chose The Wife by Alafair Burke as their latest selection.  I was apprehensive.  I'm starting to not find the thrillers so thrilling anymore.  But this book was different, it was fresh, and I liked it.

So rather than a thriller that centers so heavily of the psychological aspect of the novel, or on strange murders, this novel uses a marital relationship between two people.  So, your wife or your husband...How much can you really trust someone?  And how well do you really know your loved ones?  

So you can probably guess that this book centers around suspected infidelity at the fault of the husband of course.  *(Inset emoji with two hands up in the air here!)* But how far over the line was this infidelity? Was it flirtation?  Was it an affair?  Was it sexual harassment of the workplace? Was it rape?  So yeah, the novel does center around murder, disappearances, and "thrilling" thriller things, but it also centers around something which is so prevalent relationships, trust & cheating,  which makes the novel as a whole more believable.  

But, I didn't like the end.  I could do without the "twisty" endings.  It would have been more spine breaking without it.  

So Dewey Readers, I give you a rating of 4 out of 5 Coffee Beans. Let's see what Jillian thinks! 

~Jessica  

P.S.  I returned my copy to the library before I could take a #Bookstagram :(