The Silent Wife by A.S.A. Harrison
I am drawn to book lists in the newspaper, a magazine, on the Internet. Any book list will do but not necessarily the New York Times Bestseller list, even though I peruse it often. I'm fascinated books others consider worth reading. That doesn't mean I read everything on a list but I pick and choose. My own personal preference is fairly broad and there are only a few topics I automatically bypass. For example, even though Stephen King is a brilliant and popular author and appears on all sorts of book lists, his stories scare the bejesus out of me so I won't ever read them.
Most of the titles currently on my Kindle have come from lists in O Magazine, USA Today, or book articles tucked into the final pages of Time. I have to admit though that I have no idea who or what turned me on to The Silent Wife. In fact after I started to read it I had to keep referring back to my Kindle home page because I couldn't remember the title. That I can't remember might be attributed to a variety of things but that I don't know where I found this book or even why I downloaded it, is a mystery. It seems there are an awful lot of books right now with the word 'husband' or 'wife' in the title so maybe I got confused. Menopause has a tendency to do that.
I couldn't put down The Silent Wife. I stayed up way past my bedtime reading and woke up early to read some more. Jodi is a psychologist who likes her life orderly and precise. She been with Todd for twenty years and he too likes the routine that life with Jodi provides. However, now middle aged, Todd has a wandering eye and when he becomes involved with a much younger Natasha, life as they know it falls apart.
That is all I am going to tell you about the plot. The Silent Wife is full of twists and surprises. The story is perfectly written first from Jodi's and then Todd's point of view. The author paced the story with such care, I remained on the edge of my seat from start to finish. It's rare that a book can make me drop everything else in my life until I find out what happens next. The Silent Wife did exactly that up until the very end. Even though I can't remember how I stumbled upon The Silent Wife, I'm certainly glad I did. This book is a fabulous find no matter how it made its way onto my Kindle.
I am drawn to book lists in the newspaper, a magazine, on the Internet. Any book list will do but not necessarily the New York Times Bestseller list, even though I peruse it often. I'm fascinated books others consider worth reading. That doesn't mean I read everything on a list but I pick and choose. My own personal preference is fairly broad and there are only a few topics I automatically bypass. For example, even though Stephen King is a brilliant and popular author and appears on all sorts of book lists, his stories scare the bejesus out of me so I won't ever read them.
Most of the titles currently on my Kindle have come from lists in O Magazine, USA Today, or book articles tucked into the final pages of Time. I have to admit though that I have no idea who or what turned me on to The Silent Wife. In fact after I started to read it I had to keep referring back to my Kindle home page because I couldn't remember the title. That I can't remember might be attributed to a variety of things but that I don't know where I found this book or even why I downloaded it, is a mystery. It seems there are an awful lot of books right now with the word 'husband' or 'wife' in the title so maybe I got confused. Menopause has a tendency to do that.
I couldn't put down The Silent Wife. I stayed up way past my bedtime reading and woke up early to read some more. Jodi is a psychologist who likes her life orderly and precise. She been with Todd for twenty years and he too likes the routine that life with Jodi provides. However, now middle aged, Todd has a wandering eye and when he becomes involved with a much younger Natasha, life as they know it falls apart.
That is all I am going to tell you about the plot. The Silent Wife is full of twists and surprises. The story is perfectly written first from Jodi's and then Todd's point of view. The author paced the story with such care, I remained on the edge of my seat from start to finish. It's rare that a book can make me drop everything else in my life until I find out what happens next. The Silent Wife did exactly that up until the very end. Even though I can't remember how I stumbled upon The Silent Wife, I'm certainly glad I did. This book is a fabulous find no matter how it made its way onto my Kindle.
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