A review by kalisaur
Recipe for a Perfect Wife by Karma Brown

dark emotional
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No

3.0

I found the modern character, Alice, frankly annoying. First she is way too capitalist brainwashed whining that she doesn't know who she is if she isn't working 50 hours a week in her toxic work environment, then she repeated makes idiot plot choices to create conflict in her relationship and then at the end
everything is okay because she gets pregnant, which is was actively avoiding for a good portion of the book
. The 50s character, Nellie, is much more likeable imho because all her problems are concrete. I almost wonder if the author had the plot for her story line, found it to be much too short and then crafted the modern tale around it but didn't really have the same good ideas or passion.
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