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A review by shelf_love
My Husband's Wife by Jane Corry
2.0
Free ARC e-book from Penguin First to Read in exchange for an honest review.
A lawyer, Lily, marries a wannabe artist, Ed, very quickly. She is second guessing her marriage since she knows the lies by omission she started the marriage with she can only assume that Ed brought some too. Coming home from a less than stellar honeymoon Lily is given her first murder case. On top of all this, Carla, the nine year old neighbor girl who Lily and Ed take on as their Sunday child and buffer for their already deteriorating marriage is learning how powerful a secret can be.
Though the synopsis of the story is interesting this book was surprisingly hard to get into. The story line meanders and jumps between POV of Lily and Carla. Carla’s voice is age appropriate and her conflicts are innocent enough to be believable of a real pre-pubescent girl. The hints of secrets and half hints of lies and seeing the past on Lily’s side of the story though just seemed to drag on… the last 100 pages does help redeem the novel. Maybe if more pages were dedicated to that instead of all the buildup in the beginning?
A lawyer, Lily, marries a wannabe artist, Ed, very quickly. She is second guessing her marriage since she knows the lies by omission she started the marriage with she can only assume that Ed brought some too. Coming home from a less than stellar honeymoon Lily is given her first murder case. On top of all this, Carla, the nine year old neighbor girl who Lily and Ed take on as their Sunday child and buffer for their already deteriorating marriage is learning how powerful a secret can be.
Though the synopsis of the story is interesting this book was surprisingly hard to get into. The story line meanders and jumps between POV of Lily and Carla. Carla’s voice is age appropriate and her conflicts are innocent enough to be believable of a real pre-pubescent girl. The hints of secrets and half hints of lies and seeing the past on Lily’s side of the story though just seemed to drag on… the last 100 pages does help redeem the novel. Maybe if more pages were dedicated to that instead of all the buildup in the beginning?