If I'm perfectly honest did I from the beginning feel that this book just wasn't my kind of book. The first chapter with the woman standing on the bridge was interesting, but then the story went back in time and we got to know more about Kate, Aubrey, and Jenny. And, here lies the problem for me. They are all so cliché. Kate, the rich spoiled girl, Aubrey, the poor girl and Jenny the trustworthy middle-class girl. And all of them are totally unlikable and I never felt sorry for them. Instead, I was frequently annoyed with their behavior all through the book. Basically, Kate is the catalyst for all their problems from day one until present day when all her sins finally catch up with her and now she has to face what she did when she was young.

The big problem is that I just can't see how they could call themselves friends? I mean they have nothing in common and they hardly seem to be able to stand each other, wheel Audrey cling to them like a needy child. But, friendship? No way. For one thing, Kate seems incapable of having friends. I swear, I was so tempted all through the book to quit reading it, but wanting to find out what happened to the woman on the bridge kept me going.

Then we get to part two of the book, and it's here it really turns into a crime novel. And, for a moment I hoped that it would finally start to work for me. But, the introduction to the new police chief who had fallen for one of the three women and suddenly couldn't do his job properly destroyed that hope. On the plus side, there were a lot of interesting twist towards the end of the book, but by then it was pretty much too late to save the story.

Michele Campbell’s debut, IT’S ALWAYS THE HUSBAND —is a suspenseful and intriguing twisty "whodunit" and "howdunit" of dark secrets— a web of deceit, keeping you guessing to the final conclusion.

Three college roommates at Carlisle College in New Hampshire — Aubrey, Jenny, and Kate are linked by a tragedy.

Each girl has their own desires, dreams, fears, and troubles. The complexities of friendship and acceptance. Love/hate relationships.

Kate is the wild rich girl with a father’s connections and a stepmother who gets in her way. Her family is connected to the college. Their name is on the buildings.

Aubrey is poor — on financial aid. No social friends (her family was white trash). She just wants to escape her home. Not sure how she will fit in. She is sure her life is about to change. She would make her roommates love her no matter what it took. Kate was the friend she had been waiting for her entire life.

Jenny—a townie. She grew up her in New Hampshire. Her parents own the local hardware store. She is ambitious. She soon uses Kate to move up the ladder.

Everyone is using someone.

The girls’ relationships become complex, as most do where there is a threesome. One is always left out or playing against one another. A third wheel. Each has their own agenda. Guys. One which dated the other girl years ago. Jealousy.

They say your freshman roommates become your best friends for life (or death).

“I no doubt deserved my enemies but I don’t believe I deserved my friends." – Walt Whitman

From booze, drugs, sex, jealousies, guys, lies, secrets, greed, and betrayal. If you play with fire, you eventually get burned.

Aubrey makes a decision to commit suicide with Kate, except Lucas dies instead. He had dated Jenny back in high school and Kate flaunts sleeping with him. Aubrey does everything Kate wants (her idol).

Aubrey’s mom dies and more drama here. All the while Jenny is sucking up to Kate’s father spying on Kate, yet using him for her own selfish needs. Kate has her own issues and manipulative behavior.

Of course, this tragedy links all three girls through their lifetime. A dark secret.

Then later they are all back in the same town, now married. Kate is married to a rich guy, Griff. She is using him until he loses his money.

Aubrey is married to a doctor, but she is not happy and pines for Griff. Jenny, now the mayor and married to Tim (Lucas’ cousin). These people are acting as though they are back in college.

They each have their own reasons to keep their secret. Until greed gets in the way. Again, as adults, they are each still playing their sadistic games.

When one of them actually dies at the same bridge where Lucas fell to his death twenty years earlier, suspicions point to each of them. Each person and their spouse have their own individual motives.

With many suspects, marriages are threatened, as well as friendships and families, crossing moral lines.

A twisty-page turner keeping you glued to the pages to determine the identity of the killer. These are some manipulative girls! With friends like these, who needs enemies?

There were lovers, friends, enemies, and others who had a motive. Could it possibly be the husband?

When the book begins you feel sorry for and sympathized with Aubrey. By the end of the book, you despise her, along with the other two. Not a lot of likable characters here.

Demonstrates how events and crimes from your younger years are carried into adulthood damaging future relationships, friendships, and marriages.

As other reviewers mentioned, I preferred the second half of the book, when the gals are older and the suspenseful fast-paced twisty turns.

They are the same self-centered people; however, they have advanced to murder, bribery, infidelity, revenge, and cover-ups with the assistance of their husbands. A clever ending.

Looking forward to seeing what comes next from this newfound author.

“I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!” ― Charlotte Brontë

A special thank you to St. Martin's Press and NetGalley for an early reading copy.

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Wow!!!! This is a very good book. The book begins with someone being told to jump in a river. We are then introduced to three young ladies whom meet in college, Aubrey, Jenny and Katie. We follow these three woman through college to adulthood. We also mee sub characters that all come together to weave this wonderfully written book. There is tears, laughter and betrayal. This book holds ur interest and makes you want to keep reading. This would be a good book club read. Thanks to NetGalley, the aut and the publisher for the advanced reading copy in exchange for my honest review.

Kate, Aubrey and Jenny all share a room together in their fresher year at Carlisle - you couldn't get a more mismatched trio - Kate the socialite, Aubrey the underprivileged scholarship girl and Jenny the local girl from hardworking parents who own a small business, but everyone knows that the people who room together become friends for life.......don't they?

There is always a strange dynamic between the three of them - Kate always the leader, the one with money to splash, available drugs and every boy falling at her feet. Aubrey is swept along with this life and worships Kate, even though Jenny is the better friend. Jenny tries to keep her feet on the ground and work hard but always feels a jealousy of Kate, especially the with the devotion from Aubrey, and tries to opt out but finds it hard to do. Then at the end of the year tragedy strikes and the three of them are the only ones who know what really happened but will the secret bring them closer together or destroy them?

Fast forward 22 years and they are all back living in the same town, married but not happily and still worried at the back of their minds that the secret will come out - and so when a murder is committed who is to blame?

A good story with lots of twists and turns - although I did struggle to like or identify with the main characters the book still compelled me to keep reading to see the final outcome

"Go ahead and jump. You know you want to."


Three women cross paths as roommates in Carlisle college and their friendship during their freshman year becomes entangled with sex, drugs and dark secrets. A couple of decades later they are all back together in the same town where their lives were all marked by tragedy.

We meet Kate Eastman who was the popular rich girl who always got what she wanted but who had contemplated taking her own life. There is Aubrey Miller, the poor girl who just wants to fit in and will do whatever Kate wants as long as she is part of Kate's world. Last, there is Jenny Vega, the smart one. The one who wants a future and will study to make her dreams come true. But, in the present one of them is dead and suspicions are cast upon the ones who are left behind.

It's Always the Husband centers the suspense in learning more about these women and their time during college and why one of them is not longer alive. Did she deserve it?? and who had the guts to do it?

There were plenty of reasons to hate Kate. She was self-centered and didn't care about hurting anyone else's feelings. She was going to do whatever pleased her and darn the rest. Aubrey was like a lost puppy, the one who wanted to be part of the group, falling into drugs for the sake to fit in but years later much calmer and collected. Jenny was the one with a head over her shoulders, she was also the one with the most to lose in the present time.

To be honest, I didn't care for any of these women. They were all bad in my opinion. They all had done awful things to each other and even though they claimed to be friends, they were the complete opposite. When the mystery was finally solved it didn't surprise me. I saw it coming.

There were a couple of things that bothered me about the story. Although at the beginning we're given Owen Rizzo's POV, later on, his story line just disappeared to never be heard of again. Also, we're left wondering about the fate of the women once the dust has settled.

Overall, I thought the book had a good writing course, I just wished I had connected with one of these characters so I could root for them.

3/5 Fangs

A complimentary copy was provided by St. Martin's Press via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

It was like reading two mediocre books. One about growing up and a crime novel. It was good, and I was able to finish it but it lacked something.

This book follows three roommates at Carlisle College, an Ivy League school in Belle River, New Hampshire. Aubrey, Kate, and Jenny are as different as three girls could possibly be but they become inseparable. The beginning of the book tracks their disastrous freshman year at Carlisle, with drugs, sex, alcohol, and a bridge playing important roles. The scenes of college life indicate that the author is familiar with the Ivy League(Indeed, she is a graduate of Harvard). I felt like I was there. Perhaps because my college years were a happy time, I enjoyed this. The first half seems a little slow but I thought this was necessary to develop the characters and lay the groundwork for the second half, set twenty years later. As the girls noted, your freshman roommates often remain your friends for life. The future finds all three friends married and living in Belle River but things are not always idyllic there. The second half of the book moves quickly and has many twists and turns. Every time I thought I knew whodunit, another curveball was thrown my way. The ending came as a total surprise to me and left me sitting staring into space and pondering it all. I found this to be a most satisfying book. Many thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for allowing me to read this book early.

I wanted to like this book than I did. The blurb for the book really caught my attention and had me wanting to know more about these characters. Once I started the book, I had a hard time getting into the story. The first part felt heavy handed in descriptions with seeming little to move the story along. It wasn't until around the half-way point where the story picked up for me.

Please, don't get me wrong, I thought the author wrote very well and provided well fleshed out characters. I tend to not care for books that are overly descriptive, I find I get bored; that's just me.

The author tells the story by switching back and forth between past and present. I thought this was done' very well and helped add suspense to the story.

This is the first book by this author that I have read and I would be interested in looking into other work by her.

I received a copy of this book by the publisher through NetGalley, my review has been voluntarily submitted.

Complex, intriguing, and gloomy!

This is a character-driven novel that delves into just how much our friendships and relationships can define us and highlights just how parasitic some of them can really be.

The writing is well done. The characters are selfish, scheming and deceptive. And although the plot in the first half of the novel is a little slow as the author delves deeply into the different personalities and motivations of each character, the second half is definitely much more exciting, intense and action-packed with as many suspects as motives and an ending with a contemplative twist.

This is ultimately a novel about friendship, secrets, manipulation, jealousy, obsession, adultery and murder and a good debut for Campbell. In fact, some readers will love the dark, moody feel of the story and the cast of characters with no redeeming qualities between them. Unfortunately for me, the lack of characters with any sort of moral or ethical conscience made it hard to connect and left me a little indifferent of the story overall.

Thank you to NetGalley, especially St. Martin’s Press, for providing me with a copy in exchange for an honest review.

Three young women meet as college roommates and continue their often tortured, frequently disingenuous, and utterly fraught relationship. Oh, sure, on the surface, they're great pals. But as Michele Campbell shows you, alternating between those college beginnings and twenty years later, the three struggled with mutual trust.

Campbell kicks off the book with the central mystery: why is one of them on a bridge, and to whom is she speaking? Why does it seem as if she's in trouble?

And then the mystery .... stalls. Rather than develop the suspense, Campbell instead focuses her attention on developing the relationships between the three women, as well as between the women and their men friends. Yes, you need to see just how impure these relationships are, but you almost forget about the woman on the bridge, something not helped in the least by the fact that you begin to loathe - and I do mean truly loathe - every character in this book.

Every.
Single.
One.

I tried. Goodness knows, I tried, Book People. I tried to like them. I tried to feel badly for the woman who's in danger. But it turns out that she's so immensely self-involved and self-focused that you want to toss her off the damn bridge, just to end your own misery. Not that the other two are much better. They may lack the selfish drug use and specious justifications for damage inflicted on friends and lovers, but those other two women are every bit as unlikable. Watching them attempt grief over a tragic loss feels like watching Nicole Kidman move her forehead: you are pretty sure it can't happen, but you give them mad props for a heartfelt attempt.

And then, about halfway through, Campbell brings you back to that woman on the bridge. You find out more about why she's there and why she isn't alone. You begin to suspect some characters, and you come back to the title: is it always the husband? And does Campbell mean this particular character's husband, or could it be the husband of another character?

I did enjoy the ending. When I got over my initial surprise (I had suspicions earlier, but Campbell throws other suspects into the mix), I laughed out loud. I kind of wanted to high-five this person for a job well done.

This is one of those books that I wanted to like more than I did. I kept thinking that there was a pretty good story in here, if only I liked even just one of the characters. For a thriller focused on an endangered woman to work, you need to empathize with someone. And yet that empathy never forms because every character is just so - I'll say it again - loathsome.

I would love to know your thoughts on this book. Am I wrong? What did I miss? I'm open to reading this again, so if I'm wrong about these characters, please let me know why.

Scheduled for publication on the blog on May 18

The main character, Kate, is a hot mess. She is rich and beautiful, but also scarred from the loss of her mother at a young age. Even though her father sent her to therapy, she refuses to follow the advice set for her and instead travels on a path of destruction even going so far as to sleep with her roommate, Jenny’s ex-boyfriend knowing that Jenny still cares for him. Since others are drawn to Kate, and want to be a part of her circle they are dragged down too. There is Aubrey, the third roommate, who grew up abandoned by her father and raised by a mother who never was in a financial position to really take care of her children. Aubrey worked hard to get in this elite college and is drawn to Kate’s world like a moth to a flame. Jenny is on the fringes. She is part of this trio; however, she is too focused on what she wants in life to completely fall into Kate’s trap.

The book moves back and forth between the college years and events twenty years later. In the beginning of the story, a girl is led to an old railroad bridge and someone with her is urging her to jump. The bridge and what happened there in the present and the past is a large part of the story. Wanting to find out what happened, kept me interested in the book even though I didn’t find any of the characters particularly likeable. They were all self-centered and determined to get what they wanted without caring about anyone else. The ending was a complete surprise. I didn’t expect that particular character to do what he did , and yet, I honestly have to say, it fit.

On another note, one thing that may not appeal to readers is the fact that Kate is very promiscuous and the book is filled with her exploits with men. While the scenes aren’t particularly graphic they are numerous.

Campbell draws readers in immediately with the college setting, and then horrifies and intrigues them with the account of the year of drugs and debauchery the girls experience together. The mark of a successful thriller, in my opinion, is keeping the reader guessing until the very last minute, and this book almost did that for me - I had several theories that I kept alternating between, with the true one only a glimmer that would pop up occasionally. I devoured this book in less than 18 hours and was genuinely surprised at how things actually happened - not shocked, but intrigued that that's where she went with it. I was a little disappointed that I couldn't connect with a single character, but I also believe that Campbell wrote the characters that way - they perfectly fit the boxes she drew for them. I couldn't see any evidence whatsoever of why Jenny and Aubrey kept being so loyal to Kate when she was obviously so horrible to them, but some of the references make it seem that those reasons happened outside of the story's narrative. A solid thriller that the majority of suspense and thriller fans will enjoy.

I had some mixed feelings about It’s Always the Husband. I thoroughly enjoyed the great writing, the well-developed plot and characters, the fast pace of the story, and the suspenseful twists and turns. All of that was quite impressive since this was Campbell’s first novel, and I look forward to her next work since I think her writing will continue to develop and improve.

Yet, I just could not like the characters in the book—not any of them! If it weren’t for my dislike for the characters, I would give the book a 5-star rating; instead, I had to give it 4-stars. I can’t think of a book that I have read lately where I felt so disconnected with the characters, especially Kate!

It was so frustrating to me how everyone seemed to adore Kate! Kate was just a spoiled narcissist who appeared to care about no one. I found nothing endearing about her and honestly when something happened to her later in the book, I felt so blasé about it to the point of not caring except wanting to know who was responsible. It’s sad to feel that apathetic towards a character, and I feel almost guilty. Almost.

But Kate is not the main player in the story; it centers around Kate, Jenny, and Aubrey who became friends (frenemies??) while roommates during their freshman year at Carlisle College. The three girls are completely different in their backgrounds and personalities, but Jenny and Aubrey are really not any more likable than Kate although I didn’t find them quite as terrible. There was just no connection to be made with any of them since they were all greedy, self-involved, weak liars. But, Campbell proves here that having unlikeable characters doesn’t make for a bad book, especially when the plot is this intriguing and the writing this good.

The story is written in two parts, which I think was brilliant in the way it allowed the story to unfold and the plot to develop. The first part is told in the past when the girls are in college, so the reader not only sees how their friendships develop but how the girls witness a terrible death that binds them to secrecy over the course of their lives. It's a twisted friendship, but a friendship nevertheless.

The second part of the book jumps forward twenty-two years later, and it is the best part of the story as the pace quickens, and the story becomes more intense. In the present, the women are all living in the same town, Belle River. Kate is trapped in a marriage of convenience to a man deeply in love with her, Jenny is now the town mayor, and Aubrey is a successful business owner. Tragedy then strikes Kate, and it’s as if the friend’s past secrets have come to haunt them. If so, why?

This story of friendship, betrayal, loyalty, corruption, infidelity, and murder makes this novel one that will keep you reading right up to the end! Honestly, once I hit the second half of the book, I finished it in about two hours!

Despite any of the book's flaws, it was just that good! And while the ending wasn’t entirely unexpected, it did leave me spellbound and a little shocked!

I highly recommend this book. From the first to the last page, it was engaging and kept me on the edge of my seat! I look forward to Campbell’s future books!

I want to thank NetGalley, St. Martin's Press, and Michele Campbell for providing an advanced copy of It's Always the Husband for me to read in exchange for my fair and honest review.

The title of this book is what initially grabbed my attention, isn’t it great?! Then, when I read the blurb I was even more intrigued and by the time I read the short prologue I was hooked! I do want to start by saying that this seems to be getting mixed early reviews and I think Chelsea at The Suspense is Thrilling Me nailed the reason why. I read her review right before I started this because I knew I could trust her not to spoil anything and I’m so glad I did because it allowed me to reset my expectations about what type of book this actually is.

This isn’t a super fast paced thriller that keeps you on the edge of your seat the entire time. It’s a slower buildup and the first half and second half read totally different from each other. The first is laying the foundation and follows the three women as they meet in college. The second half focuses more on present day which is twenty two years after college and things speed up and everything intensifies. If you can hang in through the slower beginning this is definitely worth the read.

As I mentioned earlier the first half is a lot of backstory and character development about the women and their twisted, complicated relationships with each other. They call themselves friends, but are they really? There is tons of drama, secrets, lies, betrayals, and manipulations. It was extremely hard to pinpoint whodunnit when literally everyone is a suspect and has a solid motivation. I never mind a slower opening, especially if there’s a big payoff in the end and Campbell surely delivers, I did not see the twist in the end coming!

I couldn't stop reading this book, but I didn't like any of the characters. I tended to forget who was who -- Aubrey, Kate, Jenny -- and who was sleeping with who; they all seemed to be in love with and/or sleep with each other's husbands. The beginning of the book -- when they were all in college together -- was the strongest section of the book for me, and I was just amazed at how much Aubrey looked up to Kate and how she followed in her footsteps blindly. The ending has a little twist, and it just shows you that sometimes there is no justice and that the guilty will get away with it.

Thanks, Netgalley, for this arc.

Jenny, Kate, and Aubrey became best friends when they were forced together as roommates their Freshman year at Carlisle College. Unfortunately, they each had their own demons to contend with, turning their fast friendship toxic just as quickly. A terrible tragedy tears them apart while consequentially binding them together, and comes back to haunt them as adults, threatening all they hold sacred and leaving one of them dead.

Review: The premise of a murder mystery among friends who have a lot to hide is an interesting one, however it is ruined with the name of the book. The title has several meanings -- which readers will come to find quite quickly in the story -- yet also holds no mystery. And while the story had intriguing aspects, it also was not balanced between flashbacks and current events. Flashbacks would go on for several chapters and, just as you get comfortable with the time period and storyline, it switches back to present day. Overall I thought the book was absorbing at times but not eloquently executed and the ending was quite rushed, ruining the Jodi Picoult-esque ending plot twist.

I tried so hard to love this book. The plot synopsis had me hooked. I could not get into it at all. The characters were so unlikable that I kept getting annoyed every time they spoke. I wanted to hit all of them. The back and forth in time didn't help me, either. Normally I enjoy books written in the dual time frame, but there was not enough to draw me in.

3 out of 5 stars to It's Always the Husband, a new thriller and suspense novel set to release to the public on May 16, 2017, by Michele Campbell. It's a quick-read with a few slow spot, but keeps you guessing all throughout the chapters, almost playing a bit of Russian Roulette with who's behind the whole plot.



Why This Book
I saw it pop up on a few Goodreads reviews. I looked on NetGalley and thought it sounded like a strong psychological thriller. I was awarded the book in lieu of a fair and honest review, which is always the case with me. And who wouldn't be curious about a book with this title?

Overview of Story
Kate, Jenny and Aubrey were roommates their freshmen year in a New England college. Each girl came from a different background: Kate was a rich NY trust fund girl. Jenny was a townie who wanted to get out badly. Aubrey came from Vegas with little support from her family. Somehow, they form a bond and remain friends over the course of 22 years. The book alternates between when they were 18 and when they turned 40, covering different boys they date, men they marry and the secrets they keep from each other. During that freshmen year, something awful happened, which sent Kate running out of the country. But when they all re-connect years later, the details of the night begin to unravel, especially when someone else ends up dead. This is the story of friendship and enemies, love and hate, secrets and revenge.



Approach & Style
The book is told in third-person limited omniscient, carefully navigating from character to character, telling the events as they were unfolding or did so in the past. It covers two distinct time periods: when they were 18 and freshmen and when they're about to turn 40. It's always clear which time period you're in, but not in an overt way.

The book starts off with someone taking a walk on a bridge. You soon learn this person is being forced off the bridge. And then something happens, but your not sure what it is. Then the real story begins, describing how the girls meet and the subsequent events that occur throughout their lives. You never re-visit that scene in the present time, rather re-live in through each character who was involved via memories and dialogue, explaining what they thought happened.

But in the end, you will clearly piece it all back together -- you know who was behind the entire situation. Cleverly told in small pieces, you learn just enough to keep your mind guessing... and when you tie in the title, you'll keep asking yourself which husband killed someone, but you're not entirely sure as there are many of them it could have been.



Strengths
1. Each of the 3 girls are very clear and distinct. You can picture them, you understand their motivation and you know what is likely going to be their downfall.

2. The men are less important, mostly as catalysts to help propel the relationship growing between the women. But as background characters, they all have a certain appeal, be it positive or negative. You get a sense of real people with real problems in most cases.

3. The suspense and timing is strong. The bounce back between periods keeps your mind guessing, even up until the very end when you have 3 pages left and are still waiting to figure out exactly what happened that final night for the victim.

Open Questions & Concerns
1. These girls did not like each other and I don't buy their friendship. For one thing, Kate was an uptight trust fund baby who tried to play it off like she wasn't. But she was. There is no way Jenny would be friends with her. Jenny even sparred with her the first few scenes and chapters, to the point where you question why they stayed together as roommates and then as friends. I struggled to believe they would help each other. Aubrey was definitely the glue, and given where she came from, she needed both of them to help propel her life forward. But I really think they would have had other people in their lives to prevent the disaster of their relationship as a triad.



2. The story with the new cop seemed to come from nowhere and go nowhere. He wasn't very likable. He had no connections except to Kate, which was very unclear. Felt like extra fluff, just to cause readers to not guess the actual mystery.

3. Something is just missing from this story. It's got lots of good parts. Some of it felt a little disconnected. And I was waiting for a bigger surprise payoff. I was surprised with the final overall explanation. I guessed part of it about 50% thru the book. But it felt like so much time was spent throwing readers off from guessing the details, when a little more should have been spent tying things together a little more closely with some additional emotions, connections and struggles.



Author & Other Similar Books
It's in the vain of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train. It's a bit more about the friendships between the 3 girls rather than a focus entirely on problems between a husband and wife; although, that does play a significant role given the number of affairs happening over the course of the 22 year period.

Final Thoughts
As for thrillers and suspense, it certainly has some. The biggest issue was that the 3 girls weren't all that likable... too much dependency on drugs and alcohol which made me really question why I cared who died and who was the killer. I'm all for drugs and alcohol in books, to match the realities of life, and to help propel the plot... but it felt like 80% of the characters relied on it to move the day forward rather than a background to the emotional and mental drama brewing within the extended group of friends. And that's how I felt about the book. Too much extraneous and not enough focus on the missing years. So much could have happened and caused the tensions when they turned 40, but little of it was ever front and center.

That said, it's a quick read... 4 hours, and has some great character development and intrigue as far as which person died, who is hiding what and how will this all end. You only know parts of the final death scene in the beginning and that's what keeps you holding on throughout the rest of the book.



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I was very curious about this book and also intrigued when I read the blurb. Unfortunately, I struggled a lot with this book.

We get to know Kate, Aubrey and Jenny when they are college roommates. The three girls are very different from each other, but a friendship builds between them. I couldn’t understand their friendship, because of certain things, which happened between them, but oh well. A lot of intense things happens during their college time and it’s not different twenty years later.

They are all married now, they have kids and a job. Are they happy though?! I was actually really surprised to see who they married and what they do now. They are still friends and there is a lot of mystery around them. One of them is having an affair with one of the husbands and when something terrible happens they police is on their trail.

The mystery around the story and the secrets kept me with the book. I wanted to find out the truth. I had to question a lot of decisions and actions throughout the book though. Another thing I struggled with was the back and forth change between their college lives and their adult lives. The pace of the book seems slow, the storyline is uneven and I just didn’t like the characters, they all had something unlikable.

The story behind the book is great, but it just didn’t work for me like that, I was glad when it was over.