Review of The Wife Between Us

I’ve always loved domestic suspense books and have been trying to work more of them into my reading line-up. This book definitely had some twists and turns that I didn’t see coming. Check out my Review of The Wife Between Us with SPOILERS!

Jen’s Quick Take on The Wife Between Us

• A fun sleight-of-hand story about three people: an ex wife, her husband and his new fiance
• A fun twist
• But I think character development suffered a little
• Not the best book ever, but I really loved the twist

The Wife Between Us by Sarah Pekkanen and Greer Hendricks

To be published by St. Martins Press on January 9, 2017. Thanks to the publisher for providing a review copy. This post contains affiliate links.

Review of The Wife Between Us

YOU CAN SAFELY READ THIS PART. The spoiler section is below and will be marked.

I will try to tread carefully up here, because I don’t want to spoil any of the reveals in The Wife Between Us.

At the outset, this seems to be about an unhappy, divorced woman who is a little too obsessed with her husband’s new fiancé.

Vanessa once had it all – an adoring, successful husband and a comfortable life. Now divorced, she works in a upscale department store, waiting on the type of woman she once was. She seems a little unstable and more than a little obsessed with Nellie, the young teacher her husband is about to marry.

But this book definitely has surprises up its sleeve. The first reveal I found pretty perplexing at first, then ultimately decided it was kind of intriguing. After that, the story takes a different turn and becomes pretty suspenseful.

Sorry if this is vague, but I don’t want to spoil anything.

The one thing I would say is that in a book like this, achieving the surprises can come at the expense of other things.

I felt that the character development suffered a bit in order to keep the reader in the dark for a large part of the book. It’s sort of an inevitable trade-off.

But I still found this an interesting story that should appeal to those who enjoyed suspenseful “girl” books like Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train and “wife” books like The Wife Stalker, Pretty Little Wife, The Wife Who Knew Too Much and The Wife Upstairs you should definitely check this one out!

SPOILERS FOR THE WIFE BETWEEN US!

OMG – so Nellie is Vanessa’s younger self? They are the same person. You assume that Nellie is stealing Richard away, but nope. Also, Richard is abusive and Vanessa is trying to get him to fall in love with Emma so she can make her escape!

Love these authors?

Check out the new release by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen! You can find my review of The Golden Couple here and my Spoiler Discussion of The Golden Couple here.

And here’s my review of a solo title by Sarah Pekkanen, Gone Tonight!