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THE REPLACEMENT WIFE



SYNOPSIS

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?



Title: The replacement wife
Author: Darby Kane
Publisher: William Morrow
Publication date: December 28, 2021



REVIEW

RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Last year I loved Pretty Little Wife so I had high expectations for The Replacement Wife. Prior to listening to it I had read some mixed reviews about it so my excitement got a bit deflated but once I’ve finished it I must confess that I thoroughly enjoyed it!
 
Elisa is convinced  her brother-in-law is a murderer. One dead wife and one missing fiancée are reason enough for Elisa to suspect he’s involved somehow. As police is not doing much about it, Elisa decides to search for clues herself that prove her suspicions but soon she’ll begin questioning her own sanity after memories of a traumatic incidente a year before start resurfacing.
 
Although it has one of my most disliked tropes in the psychological suspense genre (gaslighting), I found myself completely engaged in the story right from the beginning. So much that I listened to half of it in one sitting. There were many twists and turns that managed to maintain a great pace throughout the whole story, not being a single boring moment.
 
I sympathized with Elisa’s plight and hated to see how her husband always put his brother first (I hate it when the husband is always so dismissive of the wife’s suspicions) and how they used her past trauma to try to weaken her mental state, but after she uncovered something I could not understand why Elisa kept behaving in the same way she had been doing, giving more reasons to her detractors to keep messing with her. I think she could have been a bit smarter then.
 
The resolution was the weakest part, in my opinion. Although we get answers to most of the questions, I didn’t buy the villain’s motivations at all and some aspects of it could have been a bit tighter.
 
Entertaining, quick and engaging read that I would definitely recommend. 

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