The Wives by Tarryn Fisher
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
**3.5-stars**
Confession: I didn’t realize the protagonist’s real name was Thursday until the very end of the book.
How did I miss that?
I just thought that was the day her husband slept with her…
Moving along, this story was something else. I have to give it points for being unique.
Thursday is married to Seth. Seth has two other spouses. None of them know one another, but as far as Thursday is concerned they are all living in this arrangement by mutual agreement.
As Thursday grows less and less enamored with her situation, she becomes curious about who she is sharing her husband with.
Upon doing some online research, as you do, she manages to track down his third wife, the youngest and the one currently carrying his baby.
Befriending this young woman, Hannah, she begins to suspect that Seth may be physically abusive to her. This leads Thursday to take off her rose colored glasses.
There’s some fighting, a lot of drama, a stay at a mental institution, it’s a lot. Ultimately, even though I love an unreliable narrator, the ending of this didn’t sit right with me.
There were a lot of twists and turns along the way, but still something about that ending…
Certainly twisted, so if that is what you love in a thriller, this one could be right up your alley. Check it out, you never know until you try.
Thank you so much to the publisher, Graydon House Books, for providing me with a copy of this to read and review. I appreciate the opportunity and this one was definitely a ride!