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A review by kylajfountain
My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing
4.0
it's not often i read a book that actually manages to genuinely surprise me. this book does just that. i was constantly in awe at some of the decisions these characters make. Definitely a quick-to-read, shocking, and grotesque novel. 4 stars.
THINGS I LIKED
-the unnamed narrator. at first i didn't even notice that we didn't get his real name, but i actually like this. not only does it further push him as not his own person, but the other part of his wife, Millicent, but it also adds to his almost-unreliable narrator feel.
-the ending. the last line, more specifically. it reminds us that while he may not be as guilty as his wife, he is not entirely innocent. (thinking back to the incident with the frog that he talks about in the beginning of the story.)
-the children. they remind us that these people have regular lives and things to take care of. I feel like they also act sort of like a base for the humanity of the main characters. It is hard to forget that they are heinous people committing heinous acts when they have such typical, normal children.
THINGS I LIKED
-the unnamed narrator. at first i didn't even notice that we didn't get his real name, but i actually like this. not only does it further push him as not his own person, but the other part of his wife, Millicent, but it also adds to his almost-unreliable narrator feel.
-the ending. the last line, more specifically. it reminds us that while he may not be as guilty as his wife, he is not entirely innocent. (thinking back to the incident with the frog that he talks about in the beginning of the story.)
-the children. they remind us that these people have regular lives and things to take care of. I feel like they also act sort of like a base for the humanity of the main characters. It is hard to forget that they are heinous people committing heinous acts when they have such typical, normal children.