Disclaimer: I received this book from Netgally for review purposes.

I've really enjoyed all the other books by this author so naturally I got excited when I saw a new book of theirs coming out! I even mentioned it to people in passing, so to say I was excited is an understatement.

Maybe because I didn't like it that much because I over hyped it. It happens a lot, so who knows. The story was original and I got hooked pretty fast but something just didn't work for me. Writing was still great and it didn't lag, but...I don't know, it felt too busy. There was too much going on with too many characters and overall I just didn't care or get invested like I usually do. Even though it was all over the place, it still felt kind of obvious as a whole.

So still good to a fault. Just not for me this time.

The Perfect Wife

I was able to read this book thanks to NetGalley, author JP Delaney, and Ballantine Books.
This book is a really inventive, creative spin on the regular thriller. Abbie “wakes up” to find she has died and is now a very life like AI robot her genius tech husband has created. She even has emotions. At first she is very loyal to her husband but soon she realizes her human self was hiding things and keeping secrets from him and the police believe that her husband killed her. She slowly begins to uncover the truth. And it’s shocking.
On a personal note, as a mom of a child with Autism, I felt this aspect of the book was extremely well researched, thought-provoking, and well executed and I appreciated that greatly.
I thought this book was extremely well written, very intelligent and innovative and I enjoyed it thoroughly. The ending knocked my socks off! Wow! I definitely recommend this one to thriller lovers and look forward to reaching future books of this amazing author. Thanks again NetGalley!

Well, I gave it my all. I am not one to not finish a book, but I’m going to have to with this one. It just isn’t for me. I am disappointed. I started this book with high hopes but I couldn’t get into it. I started this book on February 22nd and I still haven’t finished it.

I didn’t care for Tim or Abbie and I grew so bored of the story. It had a promising start, but dragged all the way up to the 65% mark. I had to fight with myself to pick up the book again only because it was an ARC. I am not a huge fan of sci-Fi (especially not in my thrillers).

To me, this book felt like Stepford Housewives meets Sleeping with the Enemy.

If you enjoy sci-fi and robotics, you will probably enjoy this book. It just wasn’t for me. I will try another book written by the author in the future. I haven’t written him off just yet.

Thank you to JP Delaney, Random House Publishing Group-Ballantine Books and to NetGalley for providing a digital ARC in exchange for an honest review. I’m sorry I couldn’t have given a more enthusiastic review.

I will be posting this review to my goodreads and Instagram between March 19, 2019 and March 21, 2019

The Perfect Wife literally kept me guessing from beginning to end. I didn't truly understand until the very end the fate of Abbie, her husband Tim and their son Danny. I have NEVER had the pleasure of such fantastic story telling, where points of view flip from character to character and back to even an unknown character. Completely unexpected ending. I really enjoyed it!

I'll be honest, I did not even read the description of this novel before requesting because of who the author is. I just knew it was going to be good, as were the previous ones. With a little sci-fi aspect to the storyline, it really was interesting to read! Definitely a psychological suspense thriller that is not like any other ones on the bestseller lists right now. I love the way the author draws up the characters and details in the story. There ended up being quite a few twists and turns throughout, some of which I did not anticipate. If you are willing to read a psychological thriller with a different spin on it, then this one is for you.

Ive loved JP Delaney’s other books so when I saw this book available on Netgalley I knew I had to request it and was so happy to be approved without ever reading the book description. When I realized the main character was a robot and that the book had a sci-fi element I was a little apprehensive but went into it with an open mind. The way the chapters went back and fourth between timelines was a little hard to get into at first but once I realized what was going on it made it easier to understand. I also enjoyed the parts about autism and ABA due to my field of work. This book was a great thriller and the perfect amount of “messed up”. Devoured in one sitting and will be recommending to my other book loving friends.

This book took me for a ride and a half!
Tim Scott is a tech giant in Silicon Valley and he lost his wife 5 years ago. He uses his company to create a companion robot that looks, talks and has a lot of the memories of his wife built in. Then through AI, learned experiences, books, text messages, emails and much more the robot learns to become more and more like this wife. Quite eerily, Tim calls the robot by the name of his missing wife.
However, the robot soon starts learning that everything is not as has been relayed to it and it starts straying from the expected behavior, wondering who to lean on and questioning the motives of all the humans in its world.
It is a fascinating story that pulled it in and wouldn't let go. Several times my expectations got ripped up, flipped around and twisted.

Thanks to NetGalley for the ecopy for my Kindle.
A psychological thriller like none you've every read with surprises plus twists and turns along the way with one or two at the end of the story.
IF you could recreate a lost love one via robotics or an electronic means, would you? And is the altered person safe, secure, or even viable?
Just a little to dark for me.....

Abbie Cullen Scott has disappeared and no one is sure if she died in a tragic surfing accident or committed suicide. Her husband Tim uses his company and knowledge to created a life size artificial intelligence in her image. But, will his end to the means be what he sets out to do? Will the artificial Abbie take on more human than he expected? Or will his genius mind destroy what’s real or unthinkable?

Holy snap J.P. Delaney, just when I thought you couldn’t get any better you surprised me with “The Perfect Wife.” I couldn’t stop reading as I was so hungry for the end! My husband wanted dinner, what? I can’t stop now, I think we have awesome soup in the pantry🤦‍♀️
Thank you Netgalley & Random House for allowing me a ARC!!! You made my March!!!

I received this ARC from #netgalley in exchange for an honest review
WOW Where to begin?
I was really excited to read this book as I loved the synopsis.
This book was so not what I expected a Psychological thriller to be. To me it was more of a Sci-Fi Thriller due to the technology and robotics.
While I'm not a Sci-Fi fan at all I did get through this as I really like J.P. Delaney's writing style and look forward to reading his other books.
I found myself really reading fast in the thrilling parts and just skimming through the Sci-Fi parts.
All in all it was written really well and the Autism parts were interesting.
Oh and I didn't see that ending coming!

I want to extend a huge thank you to Netgalley for an advanced reader copy of The Perfect Wife by JP Delaney in exchange for my honest review. I have loved Delaney’s prior novels, so I was eager to read the next. I was not disappointed! I devoured this psychological thriller. The Perfect Wife easily places as my favorite book of 2019. This mystery has so much depth to it, and so many twists, that I worry about divulging anything in this review. Reading the premise one might think this is a sci-fi novel; however, I am not a science fiction reader and I loved the storyline. With artificial intelligence technology gains increasing daily JP Delaney’s novel is spooky and realistic. I will not be surprised when a movie adaptation appears for this novel. After this read, I can safely say, I am a JP Delaney fan.

I've never read a psychological thriller involving AI before, but I liked it! The technology aspect was interesting without being overwhelming, the plot moved along steadily throughout and the end wasn't what I was expecting at all.

“Robot wives make the best wives.” The whole concept of AI and companion robots is so foreign to me but also so interesting to imagine.
I absolutely loved this book! J.P. Delaney did a wonderful job of weaving suspense, romance and sci-fi together seamlessly.
I highly recommend checking this book out.

I jist couldn’t get into this book. I tried several times, but never got more than a quarter though. I finally am giving up. I am disappointed as I like this author and had great hopes.

The Perfect Wife is full of surprises and I enjoyed every one of them. This book is well written with interesting characters. The story involves artificial intelligence (AI) in a way that was fresh and believable.and at times horrifyingly possible. Whatever you think about AI, there are moral and ethical issues about their use in this thought-provoking novel. The story is easily understood without a lot of boring technical explanations that I wouldn't have understood anyway.

In contrast to artificial intelligence robotics Heller's syndrome or late onset autism is an integral part of the story. It is one of the least known diseases on the autism spectrum and might be one of the most difficult diagnoses to accept. Imagine the heartbreak of parents who are raising a child who is reaching early milestones at a normal rate and then one day all that behavior disappears.

JP Delaney delivered a great book that held my interest right up to the clever end. At one point I'm pretty sure I was reading with my jaw dropped opened in surprise.

I received an Advanced Readers Copy from Ballantine Books through NetGalley. The opinions expressed are entirely my own.
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When tech guru Tim's wife Abbie goes missing, everyone assumes she is dead. So Tim uses cutting edge technology to recreate Abbie as a robot, a robot with feelings and memories and intuition. I won't say much more than that, because I think the book is more interesting if you just read it blind and go along for the ride.

This is a crazy book about robots and marriage and autism! Which sounds like a very random assortment of topics. But all together it mostly works, though I had problems with a few things.

This book mostly uses second person to tell the story from the robot Abbie's point of view. But it also uses third person and even a little 1st person at times. I have mixed feelings on the different point of views. Second person is always hard to read, and I wasn't sure at first. Though when I saw how all the points of views came together at the end, it all made sense.

I'm also not sure what I think about the end of this book. There was one point where it just didn't make sense at all. Like two chapters almost seem to give completely contradictory accounts of the same event. I re-read it to try to make sense of it, but I'm not sure that I fully understood how it could possibly work as written.

Despite the few issues that I had with the book, it is an interesting and unusual story. Especially if you are a fan of sci-fi thrillers, it may be a good fit for you!

I thought this book was very well written and fascinating. Kudos to the author for writing such a different book- techy but easily understood. I think this would be a good fit for a lot of different readers. Part romance, part mystery, definitely sci-fi and worth reading. Thank you NetGalley for allowing me to read this book!!!

I wanted to love this. I am big fan of the authors' two previous books. I just do not like sci-fi. In all fairness, this is well written, good characterization but just not my thing. I do, however, look froward to more from this author! Thank you #NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC!

I liked this book. It was an extremely unique point of view and not at all what I was expecting. What I liked about the book is that again, it was a super creative concept, focusing on artificial intelligence and "cobots" (companion robots) after the mysterious disappearance of Abbie Cullen-Scott, the wife of tech genius Tim Scott. Tim creates "Abbie" the cobot for what she initially thinks is to replace the human Abbie as the wife in the household to help Tim and their autistic son Danny move on from their grief. I also really enjoyed the portrayal of young Danny, his disease and his therapies. It was a very well written and realistic portrayal of autism (you learn in the author's note that Delaney as a son with autism) and was really the only full fledged character development in the story.

On the flip side, what I didn't like. This whole book centers around Abbie, who we only ever get to know through an second person narrator and through Abbie the cobot. Her motivations are never really that clear and what you learn about Tim later in the novel makes it very hard to believe that she would stay or why she ever would have fallen and married Tim in the first place. In my opinion, neither Abbie nor Tim are very likable characters and really no one to root for. There is also a few red herrings that aren't very fleshed out and kind of fall off the wayside at the end.

In conclusion, I give this book 3 stars, it definitely is a novel that makes you think and reconsider artificial intelligence as more of a possibility in real life rather than the "sci fi" aspect that you normally think of with robots. However, the "thriller" tag isn't super accurate, needs to be categorized as "sci fi" so it wasn't what I was expecting. It is a clever story, but falls short on character development.

JP Delaney strikes again with a futuristic psychological thriller. Great story of our human needs and obsessions. The question is, just how far will we go to meet those needs? Dark and complex characters that kept me guessing until the last breathtaking scene.