My Husband’s Wife – Book Review

Quick Review:- Though the first few chapters were boring, the momentum starts to build towards the middle of the book–lots of twists and turns by the middle of the book and the ending was completely unexpected

Rating:- 4.5/5

The Sunday Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ugly is back with a psychological masterpiece that will leave you questioning everything you know about love, identity, and revenge.

Eden Fox, an artist on the brink of her big break, sets off for a run before her first exhibition. When she returns to the home she recently moved into, Spyglass, an enchanting old house in Hope Falls, nothing is as it should be. Her key doesn’t fit. A woman, eerily similar to her, answers the door. And her husband insists that the stranger is his wife.

One house. One husband. Two women. Someone is lying.

Six months earlier, a reclusive Londoner called Birdy, reeling from a life-changing diagnosis, inherits Spyglass. This unexpected gift from a long-lost grandmother brings her to the pretty seaside village of Hope Falls. But then Birdy stumbles upon a shadowy London clinic that claims to be able to predict a person’s date of death, including her own. Secrets start to unravel, and as the line between truth and lies blurs, Birdy feels compelled to right some old wrongs.

My Husband’s Wife is a tangled web of deception, obsession, and mystery that will keep you guessing until the last page. Prepare yourself for the ultimate mind-bending marriage thriller and step inside Spyglass – if you dare – to experience a story where nothing is as it seems.

Alice Feeney is always my go to thriller author–I always make sure to buy all her latest books. My Husband’s Wife was released this year and I have to say, this was an unexpected book.

We have a woman named Eden Fox who goes for running around Hope Falls, where she and her husband had recently moved to. But when returned home, she finds out that the house locks have changed, and a woman, who looked eerily similar to her appearance answers the door. The woman says that her name is Eden Fox. Eden tries to call her husband Harrison but Harrison pretends that he doesn’t know her and acknowledges the strange woman as his wife. Eden, wondering what was going on leaves the house but was determined to prove herself who she was but someone wants her dead…

Birdy is being diagnosed with cancer and she has only certain number of days to live. She gets a surprise visit from a solicitor who tells her that her grandmother had died and left her a house in Hope Falls for her to inherit. Birdy moves to Hope Falls and meets Seargeant Carter. Hope Falls is free from crime and Carter is determined to keep Hope Falls that way. But then a woman’s body is washed up ashore and the woman might be the missing Eden Fox.

This was a fast-paced thriller. The story is told in the POVs of Birdy, we also have POV of Eden and Carter and Harrison. At first, you feel like there are two different stories going on but then it was towards the middle of the book where things start getting more intriguing and interesting. There were so much of twists and turns and you see that the narrators are all unreliable with a secret that they are hiding, which makes the story more interesting. The ending had the most biggest twist and most unexpected ending I ever had. It was I felt like WTF moment when the ending was revealed, revealing the connection with what thought of as two different stories.

Alice Feeney wrote so many twisty thrillers and this book is exception. I would give this book a five star rating.