When you read this book, you will make many assumptions.
You will assume you are reading about a jealous wife and her obsession with husband and her replacement.

you will also assume you are reading about a women who's going to marry a man she loves her prince, you will assume that the first wife is crazy a drunk and a disaster.

you will assume you know the motives there backgrounds you will assume you know them and whats going to happen!
ASSUME NOTHING AT ALL!


this review is hard to write because i don't want to give anything away at all, so i need to be careful what i say, this book had me hooked from the very first moment saw the first word on the page it was like i was absorbing everything i always know if im going to like a book after the first few pages and "the wife between us" had me on the first word i didn't know who's side to be on who to believe or trust i kept changing my mind who's side i was on and when i thought i knew what was going on and who's side i was on then"BANG" i was hit head on with a huge twist that changed everything for me i'm sitting on the train on way to work at this point i'm like "OMG WHAT THE HELL" people looking at me, i just could not get my head around what just happened so then i new i had to work but i needed to i had to know what was going to happen next i was clock watching for my break as as soon as my break come i was back reading again when i thought i was back on my game knowing thinking what will happen i kinda new what i thought was going to happen then again "BANG" this time i'm gobsmacked i could not say anything and that's a first for me. this book has everything a thriller lover could ever ask for and more "the wife between us" has so many twist and turns its twist after twist after twist you will feel like your brain has done a 3 hour workout! even until the last page the last work will shock you totally addictive and unputdownable this book will take over your life this writing duo is amazing i just can't wait till the next book if i could rate this book higher then a 5 i would rate it 10/10 thank you to the publishers and Netgalley for my copy

Wow - the best book I've read this year - and I've read a lot! I love psychological thrillers and this is right up there with the best - I don't think I've ever read a book before that twisted quite the way this one did - several times I had to stop and reassess what I thought was happening - I loved it. Definitely highly recommended.

This is a great psychological thriller which gets you hooked from the beginning. I questioned my interpretations time and time again and never guessed how it would end.
Vanessa the main character is divorced from Richard who is wealthy and to the outside world the perfect husband. She on the other hand is protrayed as an alcoholic mixed up character.
Richards plans of remarrying sends Vanessa on a crusade to show everyone the real Richard.
The plot has may turns and twists and makes you wonder who is telling the truth . Marriage, secrets, betrayals, childhood issues, control and manipulation is all protrayed within the story. An incredibly well written story with a fantastic ending, a must read !!

The Wife Between Us took psychological/mystery/suspense genre to a whole new level for me. There was no point in trying to assume anything, the magnificently clever twists blew me away. I couldn't put it down and stayed up reading until the very early hours of the morning - something that I haven't done in while. If I could give it more stars I would. Loved it so much that I can't wait to read it again.

Wish I could give more than just 5 stars.
A true page turner that kept me gripped throughout. An absolute must read for any fan of this genre.

I'd heard so much about this book and was really looking forward to reading it. (How many other novels have their own hashtag? #OMGthattwist) It doesn't disappoint. Very well constructed, the novel flows well and unlike some readers I didn't feel that there were any slow parts. It does have you wondering if you are looking at it from the right angle and questioning who exactly is the baddie here whilst keeping you that way to the end. My only advice would be not to expect any twists. They are more like subtle shifts and I think if I hadn't read any of the reviews first I would have enjoyed it even more. That said, I would definitely recommend it providing you are prepared not to get anything else done that weekend. It is difficult to put down. Many thanks to Netgalley for the chance to read it in return for an honest review.

A great read full of twists and turns , the clever writing in it makes you think you are on the right journey and then bam ... you find yourself in the totally wrong direction . Fab book ! Thanks to netgalley and th publisher for my opportunity to read

I found this book really hard to put down! Likeable lead character who clearly has had some pretty bad things happen to her! There was an uncanny similarity to both “the girl on the train” and “the last Mrs Parish” and I do believe that by trying to find the next big twist, books including this one become a bit familiar! Having said that, there were lots of twists and turns, some real originality at times, and some stories within another story which made this book highly enjoyable! Thankyou NetGalley and Pan Macmillan for allowing me to review this great book.

Thoroughly enjoyed this book, it kept me guessing and everytime I thought I had worked out what was happening, the authors threw in another twist. You get to the very end and there is a final twist, I will definitely be recommending it to friends.

A very clever and exciting book, had to reread the last thirty pages to make sure I understood all the plotting. I read a lot some are better than others but this was different. Had to make sure I understood all the double plotting of the two women, and to find out who Emma was , it was a blinder. Thank you for letting me read this. Book.

Loved this book. From the first page I knew it was a book I was going to enjoy and boy didn’t I enjoy it. I literally couldn’t put it down, just one more page was my mantra until my eyes couldn’t stay open any longer and I fell asleep. I’m sure everyone will be talking about the twist at the end and it’s a very good twist but one that no one will ever guess at because it comes totally by surprise.
Very good book and would make a great film if the “twist “ story was to run alongside the story of Vanessa.

I have not read a thriller this good in ages!
Eventhough it warns you from the outset that your assumptions will be wrong about what is happening here - and they will be - I had no clue about the twists to come (other than suspecting the husband could not be as perfect as he seemed).
Great ending too.
This is a throughly enjoyable read in the vein of The Girl on the Train and Behind Closed Doors.
Unputdownable!

I was disappointed by this book as I felt I had read the plotlines before - seemingly charming husband who in reality is abusive physically and emotionally, and a wife who plots leaving him. The final twist was quite clever but I didn't feel really added anything.
This is obviously not a criticism of the writers, but as a UK reader I had never heard of "pledges" and found the whole plot point around the drunk girls who were blindfolded and went swimming very difficult to understand. To be honest I was surprised more of them didn't drown or need rescuing!

What a story! The twists through this are so clever that I didn't see it coming, Well written and continually leaving you wanting more, this is a must read with a can't put down attitude!

Twists and turns throughout this excellent book surrounding a divorced couple and an affair! I was gripped and couldn’t wait to find out what happened!! Definitely worth a read!!!

I read this book in a day and really enjoyed it. The story is about a jealous first wife, who wants to stop her ex from remarrying ........... or is it? It's difficult to describe the story without spoilers, so suffice it to say that there are some great twists and turns. Thanks to NetGalley for a preview copy.

Mostly very good, but the authors cheat a lot!
I enjoyed the book, anyway, and raced through the last 2/3 through without stopping. For me, living first-person in a (non-detective) woman's head was very interesting (and scary *winks* ).

Before we start, you should know that my general opinion of men is very low, and has been declining every day since I went off to college in 1971.

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs. - Charles de Gaulle

The first 1/3 of the book is a bit slow and confused, and the pacing is very uneven. Vanessa is clearly disturbed, both due to her divorce and emotionally as well. We are clearly being set up for twists in the plot, but I was not prepared for so many "oh, we're such clever authors" sudden twists.

The first twist I had guessed pretty early; that’s fine. The many time-frames of the story are not clearly delineated in most cases, which causes you to have to re-read paragraphs to figure out who-when-where. One of the other twists I caught, after magical back-story was revealed.

1. Clever plot but seriously contrived; not my cup of tea.
2. Fundamental character changes, not believable.
3. Rabbits-from-hats plot tricks, too often.
4. Undisclosed past histories and relevant characters.
5. Unreliable narrator; again, not my cup of tea.

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Vanessa
Clearly a troubled character, seemingly unable to cope with being dumped by Richard, admittedly a terrible trauma. She's often making decisions and taking actions which only worsen her situation. (view spoiler) She is only partly sympathetic, and after the back-story is revealed, it's clear that she and Richard were a bad match from the start. Critical back history missing until the end.

Richard
A rich, powerful, handsome and dominant male. He genuinely cares for Vanessa during their marriage, but it's a greek tragedy since they are both badly flawed. Critical back history missing until the end.

Nellie
Young, sweet and loving and delighted to be wooed by Richard. Critical back history missing until the end.

Emma
Another sweet young lady, clearly enamoured of the powerful and lovable Richard, and blind to his flaws. Critical back history missing until the end.

Sam
An interesting but undeveloped secondary character.

Aunt Charlotte
The strongest and wisest of the bunch, but mostly undeveloped.

This is a real pot-boiler of a book, and the final chapter and the epilogue were "facepalm clever", and unfair to the reader ... in my rarely humble opinion ...

Thank you, NetGalley, for this ARC.


Notes:
5.0% ... I'm really slumming here! Hahaha. Sneaking into a woman's head, first person jealousy melodrama, very unusual for me and a lot of (scary) fun!

9.0% .... is it just me, or do you distrust Richard immediately on the airplane?

10.0% ...."Vanessa: I’d never been in love with anyone before Richard. At that moment I realized I’d never hated anyone, either."

18.0% .... Nellie seems awfully submissive to Richard. If any of you need advice dealing with asshat men-dorks, just ask 😊

29.0% .... Richard does all the right things for Nellie in Chapter 9, but I'm still suspicious of him.

30.0% ... Interesting prose of minutiae, encourages you to skim along, while it cleverly buries some key thoughts and events. "It's right there, you just missed it" .... There's an almost a scatterbrained stream of consciousness from both women, but seriously hiding the truth.

72.0% .... the Jason and Daniel threads should have been introduced earlier in the book. Not as "gotchas" later on.

74.0% .... Hell hath no fury...

85.0% "... repetitive and overwrought."

The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks
This book has so many twist and turns that I had to keep going back to reread pages to see which character was telling the story. I found it difficult to read in parts because of the difficult relationship Vanessa had with her husband. This certainly was an unique storyline. I would like to thank NetGalley and Pan Macmillan for my e-copy in exchange for an honest review.

This started well and I was thoroughly enjoying it until the 'twist' which just made the whole thing pointless. Shame...it had been so promising.