A review by outsmartyourshelf
The Perfect Husband by Lisa Gardner

dark tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Theresa (Tess) married Jim Beckett straight out of high school. He was her first and only boyfriend, then husband, they had a daughter called Samantha, and Tess thought everything was perfect. Then she found out what he was really like: controlling, manipulative, abusive, and a killer. She helps put him away but he breaks out of prison and vows he will kill her. Tess flees to JT Dillon, a former soldier and current mercenary for help. She wants Dillon to train her so that she can defend herself but Dillon has problems of his own.

This is one of those books where you just have to know what happens. You know the premise is extremely unlikely and that the sex will get in the way of the story at times, but still you keep reading. I definitely didn't 'ship' Tess and JT - Tess has gotten out of an abusive marriage to a killer and JT is taciturn, drunk at lot of the time, and almost violent in his own way. It would have felt wrong to me to want them to be together, but you know the way the story is going to go. It is what it is.

To say this is the first book in the Quincy & Rainie series, Quincy doesn't appear in it much and Rainie isn't in it at all. 
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