📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚 The Replacement Wife
AUTHOR: Darby Kane
Publisher: William Morrow
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐1/2 + 🐰
Published: December 28, 2021
The Review 📚 The Replacement Wife
✨ The Title/Cover Draw:
- I had DNF’d a previous book by this author, but I am a mood reader so I wanted to give them another chance.
💜 What I liked:
- The twists in this book were really cool and the author did a good job of throwing suspicion on various people. You even start to suspect the main character, Elisa, as being a little unreliable as well. The pacing is good which makes it a fast read.
😱 What I didn’t like:
- It has been harder and harder to enjoy domestic thrillers as they seem to blend together after awhile. This one does seem to be in the same category of others I have read recently, but it was a solid read and very enjoyable!
🚦 My face at the end: ☠️
💭 3 Reasons to Read:
- 1. Multiple dead / Missing significant others
- 2. Possible Unreliable narrator
- 3. PTSD
🕧 Mini-Summary:
- Elisa thinks her brother-in-law is killing his wives and getting away with it. Can she save his newest fiance before it’s too late?
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Received from Netgalley.
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📘 Summary 📚 The Replacement Wife
A domestic suspense novel that asks, how many wives and girlfriends should disappear before your family notices?
Elisa Wright is a mom and wife, living a nice, quiet life in a nice, quiet town. She’s also convinced her brother-in-law is a murderer. Josh has one dead wife and one missing fiancée, and though he grieved for them he starts dating someone new. Elisa fears for that woman’s safety, and she desperately wants to know what happened to her friend, Josh’s missing fiancée.
Searching for clues means investigating her own family. And she doesn’t like what she finds. A laptop filled with incriminating information. Other women.
But when Elisa becomes friends with Josh’s new girlfriend and starts to question things she thinks are true, Elisa wonders if the memories of a horrible incident a year ago have finally pushed her over the edge and Josh is really innocent. With so much at stake, Elisa fights off panic attacks and a strange illness. Is it a breakdown or something more? The race is on to get to the truth before another disappearance because there’s a killer in the family…or is there?