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This will inevitably draw comparisons to Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl based on its plot of a dissolving marriage, after reading both I find them to be very different in tone. Flynn's tale is of a marriage that could never have gone right, while Harrison's is of one that needed a specific set of circumstances to go wrong. This one is much more of an inner-world study, and Jodi's an incredibly compelling character considering that she's hardly a whirlwind of action. A different sort of play on how pe
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Silent Wife is the un-Gone Girl. Both books share certain similarities such as state of marriage in today's America, incredibly faulty major characters, marital violence and story told in alternating husband/wife perspectives. Rest of the story is completely different.
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3.5 stars.
When this book is described as a "psychological thriller," it's a little misleading. It's much more psychology than thriller. The murder doesn't happen until the last third of the book (and I couldn't wait for it because the victim was so awful, I wanted to kill him myself). The book is mainly an examination of both the victim's and the murderer's psyches and what led them to this point. Nice little twist at the end. It's also interesting to read Todd's chapters through the lens of ev ...more
When this book is described as a "psychological thriller," it's a little misleading. It's much more psychology than thriller. The murder doesn't happen until the last third of the book (and I couldn't wait for it because the victim was so awful, I wanted to kill him myself). The book is mainly an examination of both the victim's and the murderer's psyches and what led them to this point. Nice little twist at the end. It's also interesting to read Todd's chapters through the lens of ev ...more
This is a book that used Gone Girl phenomenon to increase its sale and popularity :D And for me personally, The Silent Wife failed to deliver the suspense. The main character is soooo boring and I have nothing to root for her. The narrative is very flat, and even the twist at the end of the book? Pretty disappointing. I still read it til the end just for the sake of finishing this book, but surely I will forget it a few months from now :p Also I read this in the midst of a very bad reading slump
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Despicable characters and murder. Woo hoo!!! They billed this book as the new Gone Girl. Not sure about that but it did have a twist and the characters had no redeeming qualities. Love it!
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