Her Second Husband by Jane E. James
Genre: Psychological thriller
Read: 8th June 2023
Published: 2nd June 2023
★★ 2 stars
DESCRIPTION:
Your husband’s dead. He’s never coming back. So why is he on a dating site asking you to go out with him?
Then
Linda has it all: a gorgeous home, a devoted husband, two loving daughters. But she throws it all away to chase an impossible dream.
Now
Linda is alone and penniless, living in a shabby rented flat. With nothing to lose, she signs up to a dating app for the over 50s. But the one man who responds to her profile, a man calling himself Tony Fortin, is not who he says he is.
Linda recognises him immediately. He’s Marcus, her second husband.
But that’s impossible. Marcus died eight months ago. He drowned off the coast of Corfu.
As Linda digs deeper, she discovers that the man she married second time around had been keeping secrets from her. Very dark secrets.
Now the one person who can help her is the person who has every reason not to get involved.
Her first husband.
MY THOUGHTS:
Your husband’s dead. He’s never coming back. So why is he on a dating site asking you to go out with him...?
OK...so I was a little confused from the outset with this book. Who's the dead guy? Her husband, right? OK. But it's revealed that he was her second husband. So she had two husbands. So what happened with the first husband? How does he figure into the equation? And what's the go with her daughters? Are they angry with their mum or what? So Linda walked out...so she had some kind of mid-life crisis...get over it. The world doesn't stop and start with you!
I hated Linda's daughters but then I didn't much care for Linda either. And Gail? With friends like those who needs enemies? That woman was so cruel in her conversations with Linda, it was more than just banter. It was mean. And then there was Marcus or Tony or whoever he really was. Self-obsessed narcisstic prat. The only person remotely likeable in the entire story was Jim. Poor old Jim. Good old trusty Jim. The one mainstay in Linda's life, despite walking out on him for adventure and excitement (which Jim did not do). Now he is branching out and discovering new things, namely his adventurous streak which he never had with Linda. But he still stood by her after everything. And what, pray, was all that? Much of the book kept alluding to "after all she put him through"...without actually saying what that was.
This book sounded so intriguing from the premise but oh my gosh...we spent way too much time in Linda's head. WAAAAY too much time! It was a place I didn't care to be, listening to her mope on about did she do this or did she do that? Was she hallucinating? Was she imagining things? And over and over it went. Rehashing and rehashing what she imagines happened to what may have happened to maybe it not happening at all. And this guy on the dating app is Marcus reincarnate come to torment her once again. Or did she imagine that too? Honestly, I didn't care for any of them and skipped to the end to see how it all turned out. Only to find I didn't really miss anything at all.
I would like to thank #JaneEJames, #Netgalley and #JoffeBooks for an ARC of #HerSecondHusband in exchange for an honest review.
MEET THE AUTHOR:
Jane loves to weave tense and haunting tales that stay in the reader’s mind. She is especially fond of unreliable narrators who never let truth get in the way of a good story. All Jane’s books are standalone novels. Jane recently signed a new two-book publishing deal after her 2nd novel, The Crying Boy, a compelling suspense thriller, became an overnight best seller, knocking both Stephen King and Dean Koontz off the Amazon top spot in suspense.
Jane enjoys living ‘the good life’ in the Cambridgeshire countryside but can mostly be found with her head in a book or writing at her desk, with a dog curled up at her feet.
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