The Husband's Secret - Liane Moriarty
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The Husband's Secret - Liane Moriarty
I can say that The Husband's Secret was not a disappointment. I did not expect to get caught p in a book and not wanting to put it down. This book is the epitome of a mystery and allows you to wonder at the beginning what the secret is and why would he be keeping it. It also makes you wonder how many people are involved in this so called secret this person is keeping.
Once I finished reading this book I must say I was in love with it. It is definitely a good read most people specifically women will enjoy. I highly recommend it.
Rate it a 5/5
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The first chapter is when Cecilia finds the letter, and she is running through the pros and cons of whether to open it and she decides not to. However, the next chapter, and the chapter following, are two completely different scenarios and I got a bit confused. At one point it was talking about Cecilia, then next it was talking about Tess being told her husband and her cousin were in love, and then it was talking about a woman who had lost her daughter 28 years ago! This did confuse me, but I knew they would all end up making sense and would be connected some way, which they were. After I had got over this brief confusion, I did no longer feel confused as the whole book is written in 3rd person so you understand fully who's viewpoint you are reading. I think it takes a very skilled author to write in such a complicated way (with three viewpoints) but in a way where the reader has a clear understanding of what is happening.
I loved how each different character's situation was just as exciting and intense as the next. When each chapter ended and the viewpoint changed, I always felt disappointed as I was desperate to find out what happened next! However as soon as the next chapter began I became engrossed in that situation and the same thing would happened at the end of that chapter!
Cecilia eventually did decide to open the letter and what was inside was such a shock and not expected at all, but it connected her with another character in the book. Following this was Cecilia's trauma about knowing this secret, despite the fact that her husband John-Paul was still alive (so she shouldn't have opened the letter really) and how she struggled with knowing what the right thing to do was; to do the right thing but with no benefits, or to keep quiet and carry on for the sake of her daughters?
Tess had immediately moved to Sydney (from Melbourne) to be with her recently injured mother after hearing that her husband Will had 'fallen in love' with her cousin and best friend Felicity. I never liked Felicity throughout the book because of what she did to Tess, but apart from the beginning and a surprise appearance near the end you didn't hear from her that much!
Rachel's daughter Janie was strangled to death 28 years ago when she was just 17, and no murderer was found. Rachel believes that it was Connor Whitby, a teacher at the school she is secretary of after she finds a video recording of him and Janie when he, at the end of the tape, is so furious and seemingly violent. Rachel is also going through the struggle of losing her beloved grandson as her son and his wife are planning on moving to New York, so she has lost all her family.
There is a traumatic event at the end of the novel that brings all the characters together in a sense, and it is clear that 'if suchabody hadn't done this' or 'if suchabody hadn't done that' then this accident wouldn't have happened.
My favourite chapter of the entire boko is probably the epilogue. This is so clever, and it cleared up everything in the book but also gave more information that would not have been realised at all in the novel. The epilogue began with "there are so many secrets about our lives we'll never know", and the whole chapter is "------- will never know" and "------ will never know" etc. This is such a sad part and you wish it would have happened differently, but at other points you wish it hadn't.
I cannot recommend this book enough. There was no point where I felt I could put the book down as none of it was boring, and I finished it within a few days. It is a very suitable length, around 400 pages, but I did feel sad when it ended! There were surprises everywhere, and you got hooked on each person's story and felt the emotions you felt. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and I would definitely recommend to anyone who wants a romantic but traumatic and sad type of novel. I think I'll read it again!
Thank you for reading my review.
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I love how she draws you in right from the beginning of the book, asking a question of ourselves that is hard to answer until you are in that place. Would I have opened the envelope...absolutely. Moriaty has a wonderful sense of humour that I enjoy in her story's. She has a way of making you feel as though you are part of the scene she is creating. Great book!!
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