The Wives

If you stick around the blog long enough, which we totally hope you do, you’ll soon find out that both of us have a major love for anything that Tarryn Fisher or Colleen Hoover among others writes.  We both started our 2020 reading journey with The Wives by Tarryn and we both rated it 5 out of 5 stars.  

Jay says…

I am SO glad I started my decade off with The Wives by Tarryn Fisher. What I’m NOT glad  I did was wait so long to read this (Seriously, I won an ARC off Goodreads, but didn’t get to it until after publication day. What’s wrong with me?) The Wives is a story about Thursday, a girl who shares her husband with two other women. Although this is definitely not a topic I know much about apart from binge watching Big Love on HBO back in the day, I still found myself rooting for Thursday and hoping she really could win her man. Then, halfway through there was a twist I did not see coming which made me think the book was going in a whole different direction. THEN, the final twist was completely out of left field. But, unlike a lot of other recent thrillers, it was still 100% believable, which I think really made a difference. The Wives is my second stand-alone book written by Tarryn Fisher (the other being F*ck Marriage), but honestly it made me want to read her entire backlist. I already have the Love Me With Lies trilogy under my belt, as well as her Never Never with Colleen Hoover and Folsom (Jackal will be coming soon!), but I plan on spending some time in her backlist this year before she hits us with The Wrong Family in December!

Meg says….Jay makes a good point that I didn’t even realize, not only was The Wives the first book of my year, but of my decade.  What a great start! We read this together, although Jay finished a little bit ahead of me so there were a lot of what did we just read texts back and forth between us.  I haven’t read a book that had me so twisted up and questioning what I thought was happening since CoHo’s Verity back in 2018. I’m not sure if I was rooting more for Thursday before or after the twist I totally did not see coming.  I 100% recommend this book and will be reading as much of Tarryn’s backlist as I can this year. Even before reading a single one of her books, I was a part of her Passionate Little Nutcases group on Facebook. I not only love her books, but I strive to be more like the person she is each and every day.  She truly is a woman’s woman and someone a woman of any age can look up to.  

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