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This odd story can't be characterized as a modern (2013) novel. The premise that a well-educated moderately affluent woman in Chicago with affluent well-educated married/divorced friends has no money and doesn't know that living w/a man without marriage for 20 years gives her absolutely no legal status as his wife is absurd. This is especially true given that it was written when gay marriage cases were racing to the Supreme Court and all consequences and lack of benefits of being together without marriage was at the forefront of news. Even Joy Behar, the aging flower child host of The View, dashed to the altar in 2011 after 25 years of living together when learning through estate planning that there is a difference between being married and not. Jodi - "Her" - is content to work part time from home and live well, shopping, cooking, and overlooking "His" other women as though she was a 1950s housewife or a modern woman who has come to a financial arrangement with Him. The fact that in 20 years neither raised the issue of money nor marriage after their youthful moving in together is completely unrealistic.

What made me slightly sick is that the roots of Her silence is incestuous child sexual abuse at the hands of her older brother. She learns to loll into acceptance at the age of six and carries that into her adult sex life. "He" remarks how she immediately becomes "slack" with glazed eyes before/during sex at the of 45ish. Queasy-making. That is an image I can't unread. Must every story be about childhood sex abuse? Piling on, the brother moves on to the younger brother.

The story is not Her/Him, but of their parents' marriages. Each - despite deliberate actions to avoid doing so - becomes their parents. Her - silent and seething; Him - an abusive alcoholic hiding from everyone. The unraveling which reads as though it's taking years, the author reminds us is only a matter of weeks - shown through the stages of a first trimester pregnancy. Ironically, it's not Her to whom He is physically abusive; it's the young student who is deliberately pregnant w/His child that he rages and hits as He is dragged toward the altar.

Unfortunately, only one of this vile cast is murdered.


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The Silent Wife A Novel A S A Harrison Books Reviews

Was this written by a teenager? The story was all over the place, didn't build enough to invest in any of the characters. The main characters were unlikable and one dimensional. In the middle of the book the author jumps into the past where Jodi is in session with a therapist and those chapters just seem out of place and unnecessary. If I could give this book a negative score i most certainly would. This was garbage.
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I read this for a book club and I had to gut it out. I didn't like or connect to any of the 3 main characters. The writing was unnecessarily wordy and I found myself skipping big chunks.

He was a serial cheater who knocked up a young girl he knew since she was born. She knew it and was a pathetic doormat who looked pretty and cooked him dinner every night after he banged other women...and she was a therapist too...eeeesh. So the story is about a doormat, an overbearing knocked up young girl and a pathetic week philanderer who gets caught by younger vjj and then gets whacked....the end. Don't waste your time.
I was recommended to this by after enjoying Gone Girl, Jodi Picoult, and Liane Moriarty. But with some reviews that were less than enthusiastic, I held off. I read a couple more books with more of the same themes and after each the recommendations keep coming to this book. The kindle version was only a few bucks so I decided to bite the bullet. I hated all the characters and thought the woman was cold and unrelatable while the man was just ridiculous. I skimmed through more than half of it as the writing did not capture my attention.
I really didn't like this book. I found that I was totally bored through most of it, for being marketed as a thriller, I wasn't thrilled at all! I hated all of the characters, and there weren't any twist or turns that took me by surprise. I also didn't like the writing. There was so much explanation of everything the characters were doing, but they characters never said very much. It was monotonous and unnecessary. It partly explains why I was so bored throughout the book. I also hated the ending. I felt like it was there to make sense of why the characters acted the way they did, but it didn't. At least not for me. I still hated them all.
This odd story can't be characterized as a modern (2013) novel. The premise that a well-educated moderately affluent woman in Chicago with affluent well-educated married/divorced friends has no money and doesn't know that living w/a man without marriage for 20 years gives her absolutely no legal status as his wife is absurd. This is especially true given that it was written when gay marriage cases were racing to the Supreme Court and all consequences and lack of benefits of being together without marriage was at the forefront of news. Even Joy Behar, the aging flower child host of The View, dashed to the altar in 2011 after 25 years of living together when learning through estate planning that there is a difference between being married and not. Jodi - "Her" - is content to work part time from home and live well, shopping, cooking, and overlooking "His" other women as though she was a 1950s housewife or a modern woman who has come to a financial arrangement with Him. The fact that in 20 years neither raised the issue of money nor marriage after their youthful moving in together is completely unrealistic.

What made me slightly sick is that the roots of Her silence is incestuous child sexual abuse at the hands of her older brother. She learns to loll into acceptance at the age of six and carries that into her adult sex life. "He" remarks how she immediately becomes "slack" with glazed eyes before/during sex at the of 45ish. Queasy-making. That is an image I can't unread. Must every story be about childhood sex abuse? Piling on, the brother moves on to the younger brother.

The story is not Her/Him, but of their parents' marriages. Each - despite deliberate actions to avoid doing so - becomes their parents. Her - silent and seething; Him - an abusive alcoholic hiding from everyone. The unraveling which reads as though it's taking years, the author reminds us is only a matter of weeks - shown through the stages of a first trimester pregnancy. Ironically, it's not Her to whom He is physically abusive; it's the young student who is deliberately pregnant w/His child that he rages and hits as He is dragged toward the altar.

Unfortunately, only one of this vile cast is murdered.