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The Wives by Tarryn Fisher

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carabrooke's review against another edition

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5.0

What the actual F!!!

gigi43's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

4.0

smilesgiggle's review against another edition

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4.0

Thursday is wife number two of three. Wife one is Regina, third Hannah. They live in Portland, Thursday Seattle. Seth spends time with each, working his way around.
Curiosity. Thursday just can't help but look up Hannah's information when she finds a medical bill receipt. After scouring the internet, Thursday drives to Portland. And so it begins. Obsession. Violence. What is really going on with Seth and his three wives?
It was a guilty pleasure - I loved Thursday digging up dirt, chasing down information, working her husband for details.
Somewhat predictable but enjoyable.

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dark mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

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challenging mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

This was interesting and very well executed. But it took me a while to be invested in the story to the main character.

Because girl— no one care how much Coca Cola you wanna drink. 🤣

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3.0

Knowing someone completely is difficult even in the best of circumstances, but when competing for a husband's attention like in Tarryn Fisher's The Wives it would be challenging to parse lies from truth.

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Thursday shares her husband Seth with two other women, willingly, because of how much she loves him. She hasn't met them and knows nothing about them apart from what Seth might mention, as part of their arrangement for making their plural marriage work. She puts forth a lot of effort to be the best wife possible and imagines what each of the other women are like and contribute to their unique relationship with Seth. When Thursday finds a receipt that has the name of Seth's newest wife, she can't help her curiosity and begins researching her. The information she finds leads her to discover some startling information about her husband, who no longer seems to be the man she thought he was. As her pursuit of the truth continues and new details emerge, Thursday has to face a harsh reality about her relationship with Seth.

A fast-paced story, the narrative is easy to rapidly consume and get carried away with. With an unreliable narrator, an unconventional situation, and some misdirections springing from the information obscured from the unreliable narrator, there are plenty of components that contribute to the thriller aspect of the story and capture the reader's attention; however, for those more familiar with the genre, much of the premise was easily predicted and not thrilling so much as simply unbelievable to the point where suspension of disbelief struggles to overcome it. The reveal of the truth at the end is a bit too rushed, and coupled with the more surface level explanations for the dysfunctional behavior, leaves the story lacking in substantive depth but instead rife with shock and chaos, for what seems more like the sake of being shocking and chaotic than to serve a purpose.