A Palm Beach Wife is really the story of a woman whose lifestyle is threatened by her husband's bad choices. She learns her true strength by picking up after the mess he has made. There are some great parts of this book. I love her relationship with her best friend, Eve, and the way that Faith (our protagonist), runs her business and maintains the social side of her lifestyle. I think a lot of stories that focus on wealthy lifestyles portray all women as being housewives with a cleaning staff and no ambition, so I appreciated that Faith had a thriving business.

Unfortunately, that's really where my appreciation of the novel ends. My biggest complaint in the novel is the general flow of the book. The transitions between scenes were clunky and I felt like I was re-reading sections a lot to figure out how I got from there to here. I would have liked to see a few of the characters get more developed and less characters as a whole. I like to feel like I 'know' the characters in a story, and I didn't really get that feeling from anyone but Faith. Lastly, the ending was disappointing, and I felt like it kept in line with the clunky transitions,

I think this book had some great potential, but it lacked some of the fun that we can usually find in our 'how the other half lives' stories.

Thank you to Netgalley and St. Martin's Press for an advance copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Publication date: 4/9/19

A Palm Beach Wife introduces readers to the world of spoiled society members whose biggest challenge is how to gossip about each other. Faith has been a member for over twenty years when one night, at a gala event, her husband tells her he has lost it all and owes thirty million dollars. She scrambles to come up with the money owed while he begins drinking and using drugs again. She manages to pay off most of the debt and release an old secret of her own, and find a fresh start. The ending is abrupt and ironic. Personally, I did not care for this book, I had no sympathy for rich, pampered characters who lived beyond their means and now had to join the ranks of the hoi polloi.

Let us start with how adorable and fitting the cover is! Unfortunately that is where my like of this book ends- I had a really tough time connecting with it. I wanted to like it but just couldn't finish.

This book was like a private peek into the lives of the influential society women of Palm Beach. The lifestyle, the fashion, the friends, charity and social events that must be attended, all of the things the women do in order to stay within the circle of important people. But when one falls from grace, the gossip and rumors start almost instantly and they are enough to break a person. I was impressed with how strong Faith remained when her life. I really enjoyed it

This book was like a private peek into the lives of the influential society women of Palm Beach. The lifestyle, the fashion, the friends, charity and social events that must be attended, all of the things the women do in order to stay within the circle of important people. But when one falls from grace, the gossip and rumors start almost instantly and they are enough to break a person. I was impressed with how strong Faith remained when her life took a turn for the worse. She put her family and business first and did what she had to so they could survive. And, she stood by her husband through all of the mistakes he made.

This book hooked me right away. I have always been fascinated by the rich and famous and how they live their lives. The author did a fantastic job outlining the story and not missing any details, whether it was the people or the town of Palm Beach. It felt very true to life. But, I was a bit let down with the ending. I was ready to turn the page thinking there was another chapter, but there was nothing. It just ended like a cliff hanger. Please say this story will continue in another book.

I really wanted to like this one- I love a guilty pleasure Housewives-esque book. This just wasn’t it for me. It’s hard for me to pinpoint exactly what I didn’t like about it, the writing just didn’t jive for me.

A Palm Beach Wife had SO much potential!!!

Let me start off by saying how much I love this cover! I think this is what grabbed my initial attention and to hit that request button on netgalley.

Welcome to the world of Palm Beach... with the high price tags, glorious high rise dinners, and a life for the kings and queens at it's finest.

Well.... I was initially intrigued by this storyline... but there was a lot of name dropping bombs overload here. I wasn't familiar with the designers and this just was too much for me. I get where the author was trying to go here but it took away from the story and the characters.

As for Faith and her jerk of a husband Edward? Nope... I cringed with everything that Faith allowed her husband to get by with. Yes... Edward lost ALL of their money... and now Faith along with their daughter and her husband are trying to get by and get their money back. WOW.... no thank you!

I can't deal with the stories where the men treat the women like a doormat. And.. couldn't relate to the characters at all.

And... that ending? That as pretty disappointing as well.

Ugh.. I REALLY wanted to enjoy this but just fell way to flat for me :(.

2.5 stars for A Palm Beach Wife

Thank you to Netgalley and St. Martin's Press for the arc in exchange for an honest review.

Publication date: 4/9/19
Published to Goodreads: 2/11/19

Amazing story! Such a sweet read. really enjoyed it! Great read for anyone looking to find a great one to curl up with!

I tried so hard to get into this book. I usually love the gossipy “Real Housewives” feel, but something about this one just didn’t do it for me. There was nothing that I can point to that turned me off, I just found myself uninvested and uninterested in continuing to read it.

I was super excited about this book, the cover and description seemed right up my alley. I could not get into it, I tried so hard but it was almost hard to read, I felt like it went back and forth in the conversations so quick I had to stop to figure out who was speaking. I found myself skimming it in the middle to just finish it, had so much promise but just was not a fan.

This book sounded so promising, I was looking forward to reading a book rich with complexities about class/money but got lots of gossipy rich socialites instead.

I enjoyed this book, it was a fun read. Very heavy on name dropping of designer labels and the hangouts of the rich and famous of Palm Beach, which got tiresome after a while. The story was good though. A woman named Faith has reinvented herself as the doyenne of Palm Beach and circumstances force her to reexamine her life and decide what's really important.

I recommend this book, it's an interesting look at "the high life". Thanks to St. Martin's Griffin and NetGalley for the ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This really looked like something I would love reading in between a wicked thriller, but it fell a little short. I just don’t think the author brought in the drama I was hoping for.
Will let Chapter Chatter Pub know about it and use in a challenge!

Had been looking so forward to reading this book. Sadly it just didn’t live up to my expectations after reading the description.

Thank you to NetGalley for an advanced reader copy in exchange for an honest review. Since I live in South Florida, I can relate very well to the setting in which the book takes place. Faith is a loyal wife and mother who runs a vintage resale shop on "The Avenue". When she discovers that her husband has been deceiving the family, she must figure out a way to cope while also doing her best to save the family from ruin. The story-line was quite simple and the characters were not very well developed. It was a very quick read but I wouldn't really recommend it. The ending was very strange. It was fun for me because I recognized all the landmarks but other than that, it wasn't a very realistic or engaging story.

A Palm Beach Wife tells the story of Faith, a high society Palm Beach wife, and the owner of the successful A Vintage Tale high-end resale shop. When Faith's husband reveals that he has lost all of their money, and goes into rehab, she must come to terms with, and figure out a way to rebuild, amongst a high-class society that is built on success and judgement, in addition to dealing with a past secret of her own that she has never shared with anyone. I was excited to read this book, and the description of the book's story line is what brought me to read it. However, I quickly found myself getting increasingly annoyed with the excessive descriptions and brand-naming of the items of her shop that the Palm Beach ladies bring into to consign and buy. It was excessive, and, for me, it really took away from space that could have been used to go more in-depth into the characters. It seemed to end very abruptly, seemingly setting it up for a possible sequel??

I found A Palm Beach Wife to be basically typical of this genre. I had hoped for more development of plot and characters, but I didn't connect with the story in the end. It's an okay predictable read.

Thank you Net Galley for my ARC. I loved the cover of the book which made me request it. I really wanted to like it but found myself struggling to finish it. The book was kind of all over the place and the characters were hard for me to keep straight.

Thank you to Netgalley for an advanced reader copy in exchange for an honest review. I had really high hopes for this book, but the story was just all over the place. It wasn’t really anything new, nor were the characters really engaging or likeable. I would pass on on this one.

I had high hopes for this book! I was expecting something similar to an Elin Hilderbrand beach read, a feel good book with well developed characters. I wasn't able to get truly invested in this book, I felt that the characters were not relatable and the lifestyle/brand names were just too much for me! I found myself skimming through the end of this book and already picking out my next read.