Christina's Reviews > The Wife's House

HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to this super fun summer thriller!

Yes! The Wife’s House is the heart-pounding, double-crossing summer noir thriller I have been waiting for.

The wife in question is a widow, who was married to a handsome and mysterious guy named Juan. Juan recently died in an “accident.” She is lonely. When three young adults come to the land near her house for a picnic, she strikes up a friendship with them and soon learns that they once lived in the cliffside mansion that now belongs to her. And as it turns out, they’re all now homeless, living with friends. She enjoys their company so much, and they’re so down on their luck...surely it would be nice to have them move in with her?

This book moves at a breakneck pace, with potentially evil and murderous characters everywhere. You will wonder about everyone, including the unreliable narrator. It’s a super interesting premise filled with the kinds of twists and turns you might find in a 40s noir film.

This is the kind of book in which the narrator does stupid things. You will be screaming at her, frustrated, as she falls into all sorts of dumb traps. But that’s by design and a big part of the fun. You will have to suspend your disbelief a little at times to go along with the roller coaster ride of a plot.

The book isn’t perfect plot wise and if you don’t like watching characters do stupid things it might annoy you, but to my mind the character was perfectly crafted so I could understand why she did all the things she did (stupid and less stupid). Bottom line - this book was so unputdownable that I actually woke up in the middle of the night thinking about it and wishing I had finished it. And when I did finish it, I loved the ending.

An awesome, twisty book with a great narrator and a ton of thrills. This author is going on my list of “must reads,” and I hope she hurries up and writes another thriller soon!

Thanks to Bookouture, NetGalley and Arianne Richmond for the ARC of this super fun book!