A review by babayagareads
A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal by Jen Waite

1.0

I had to abandon this book, which is something I very rarely do. It's important to remember that this writer is not a doctor or a social science professional - she, just like everyone else, is the star in her own life, and some really terrible, terrible things happen to her. And yes, they are pretty much unforgivable and deplorable. And the text is super triggering, more so because this is a work of nonfiction. But for her to label her husband as a psychopath and continue to seek a medical diagnosis for him using literally WebMD is absurd and I couldn't take it seriously. I appreciate her strife, but sadly this is a pretty common tale, not specific to this individual at all. If this had been posed as more of a common story instead of as something that could have only happened once because "it's just too outrageous to have ever happened to anyone else" then I probably would have been able to get through it.