Mystery

Out of all the books I've read by Nina Laurin is this the one I had the hardest time reading. Both What My Sister Knew and Girl Last Seen are great thrillers, while this took forever for me to get into. Now, I think it's because I right from the start felt very, very annoyed with Claire, the main character. And, the more I read the less I liked her. What kept me going was the fact that I wanted to know what the heck is going one and if Colleen really committed suicide. The best part was the last 1/3 of the book when you got Claire's husband Byron's POV as well. Now the story starts to make more sense, and I started to understand more about those weird chapters when someone is stalking Byron's wife that were interwoven with Claire's chapters.

The Starter Wife is not my favorite Nina Laurin book, the last part of the book did make the reading worthwhile, although I found the ending very abrupt. I found it particularly hard to read the book because of my dislike for Claire (for God's sake she doesn't even like cats), but if the Laurin had that in mind when she created the character. To make her as unlikable as possible, well then she succeeded. I would, however, recommend starting with the author's first two books before going for this one. They are way better!

I want to thank the publisher for providing a free copy for an honest review! ( )

This book was lllooooonnnggggggg and over the top. The main character, Claire, is supposed to be an aspiring writer. In fact, in the book, she gets a rejection notice. Someone should have helped this author. No one has ever heard of Google? If you wonder about the death of a person in your town, Google. Was your husband a suspect? Google. Is your wife an alcoholic? Google. ( )

Really interesting style and the first read by this author. it took a while to understand the tone but I think the story more than made up for that slow start to relate. It was a good cast of characters and enough confusion to mot make it obivous what was going on but not so confusing as to lose your interest.

I found the story short and succint and a good range of emotions on display. If anything I could criticise it would be that the husband did not come off as a very multidimensional character which was a shame as it made him a bit harder to relate to.

I have not read anything from this author before and I will try others now.
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Cuckoo! Cuckoo! :)

This is definitely for all you mystery/thriller fans out there who can't get enough of your CRAZY WOMEN. You know, the Single White Female types, the Fatal Attraction types... or even Gone Girl. :)

All the nastiest tropes of our favorite crazy girls are upped here for our reading pleasure, evoking gales of disturbed laughter from tortured chests. :)

Fun. Good, evil fun. :)
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