I enjoyed this book but as others have stated, what started out strong and captivating went on a bit too long and had some unnecessary bits. Still enjoyed the book and am grateful to have read it.

While there were so very unexpected turn of events - a main road the story was leading us down led to absolutely nothing with the most random ending. I personally found the secret Bev was keeping to be way more surprising than anything else in this read. I felt like there was so much potential for this book, but it all fell so short in my eyes.

Laurie Elizabeth Flynn’s newest novel started off strong with an intriguing prologue and a first part that fulfilled the prologue’s promise of mystery. Parts 3 through 5, however, were far longer than needed and had twists that seemed to be written solely to surprise the reader. The epilogue, especially, seemed totally unrealistic and disconnected from the rest of the book.

Till Death Do Us Part had parts that truly made me think and draw my own theories/conclusions, but overall it fell flat. I spent at least 40% of the book questioning how there was so much left to read. The premise of the novel had so much potential, but it would have been better off as a short story. For the purpose of this review, I’m rounding my rating up to 3 stars since half stars aren’t an option.

Thank you to NetGalley and Simon & Schuster for the opportunity to read this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

June’s husband is legally declared dead, they had a funeral, she morned him, moved across the country, opened her dream wine bar. June’s now “moved on”, happily engaged to Kyle and seeing her “dead” husband everywhere.

I liked the premise of this book, but about 25% I just couldn’t take it anymore. The main character is whinny and annoying. I couldn’t stand her viewpoint anymore. The alternative Bev was intriguing. At this time I’m marking it as DNF but might circle back to it at a later date.

Many thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the ARC - sorry this book wasn’t for me, I hope many readers enjoy it.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an ARC of this book in exchange for honest feedback.

I really tried to love this book but it was just too disjointed for me. The alternating POVs did not make sense to me. I really think the book would’ve been better if it had just been written from Junes POV because Bevs was completely unnecessary. The author threw in a lot of twists that were explained away too easily to be believable even for a thriller. Overall this one was a miss for me.

June’s husband drowned on their honeymoon ten years ago. Ten years later, she is finally ready to move on and is living in New York as the owner of a natural wine bar. When June thinks she sees her deceased husband Josh she isn't sure what to do. Under the guise of work she travels to Napa to stop at her deceased husband's family vineyard.

Is Josh alive? Has the last ten years of her life been a lie? Spinning nearly out of control, June will stop at nothing until she finds answers.

I really enjoyed this thriller. Definitely not what I first thought. The information about natural wines was also helpful to learn This is a great beachy thriller for those who love a strong female lead, #simon&schuster #tildeathdouspart #laurieelizabethflynn

Till Death Do Us Part started off strong: June gets engaged but sees her long-dead fiance watching her. So she does what every woman would do: takes a cross-country flight and lies about her destination to her very patient fiance while she goes on a fact-finding mission. Meanwhile, we read about Bev and David in the late 1990s and their family. Seemlingly disconnected, the storylines come together toward the end. But the ending itself came out of nowhere. And the multiple timelines and multiple POVs were a bit much.

Overall, this is a book about the importance of communication and what happens when you lie--even by omission. It's about siblings and whether blood is stronger than water and what we'll do for love. A solid book, but had a few too many far-fetched aspects to make it a solid five star.

Thanks NetGalley and Simon & Schuster for the ARC of this book in exchange for my honest opinion.

This book started off strong! I was hooked on the premise, and curious about the journey where the author was going to take us. I felt like it was just a bit too long and certain storylines felt somewhat unnecessary. In my opinion, this would have been a stronger book without either Michelle or Abby.

One of the reasons this book wasn't 5 stars for me, was because it lacked likable characters. Every character, with the exception of Camille, had somewhat fatal flaws that really prevented me from identifying with them or empathizing with their issues. The other reason was the end! The *twist* was so convoluted that I had to reread the ending twice to figure out what the author was trying to hint at. I was hoping for an ending that tied everything together succinctly but alas.

Overall, I enjoyed it and was continually picking it up to see what happened next! Thanks to #NetGalley and #Simon&Schuster for the ARC.

I was so excited to dive into this book - the premise seemed so intriguing. A man dies, unexplained a week after getting married and from what i gathered a body was never recovered.

The story goes back and forth to different POVs, different time lines - just it was A LOT.

I felt all of the characters were extremely unlikeable and it extremely hard to connect to them and want the best / their goal in the story. I felt like there was way too much going on between looking for the supposedly dead husband to planning a wedding to having the potentially not dead husband cheating on the new wife.

I felt like my head was spinning the entire time and it just wasn’t a book for me.

The ending of this book makes the book worth the read.

If you like wine and stories that don’t quite add up. This is the book for you. The first two parts of the book are slow. I wanted to DNF this book a few times. I’m so glad I didn’t. The book picks up in the second half and is very good with lots of twists.

The ending is so good and makes me so happy I didn’t stop reading the book.

Overall, I enjoyed this book. I found myself excited to pick it up again each night. It's a dual perspective/timeline book, so lots of jumping around and trying to match and connect past to present. The ending fell flat for me - it felt a little out of nowhere even if it *technically* made sense. Unfortunately, it didn't sit right and there were some open threads (though those may have been intentional). It was good, but unfortunately, just not great. Would have loved at least one chapter from Josh's POV to get closure on the secondary mystery and his overall demeanor.

This was a thoroughly entertaining domestic thriller! Highly recommend for fans of The Last Thing He Told Me. I didn't see the twist at the end coming.

In the mystery Till Death Do Us Part by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn coming out August 13, June Emery is shocked when her husband Josh Kelly who drowned during their honeymoon in 2012 shows up near her natural wine bar in Brooklyn, New York, in August of 2022. Next, while perusing websites for Napa Valley wineries for honeymoon possibilities with her fiancé Kyle Parker, she finds a photo of her first husband on one of the websites. Does one plus one equal a living Josh?

Before she gets married again, June must go to Napa and confront Andrew Smith at his winery. She will be blown away by all the secrets that have been kept over the years, learning that all she knew about Josh Kelly was not the whole truth.

On a separate timeline in 1999 in Napa County, Bev and her husband David run the Golden Grape Winery, having taken it over from his family. Bev finds a restaurant receipt for two dinners at a restaurant she has not been to in quite some time. While first denying and sidestepping, David admits to a one-time “weak moment.” Bev throws him out of the house at just the worst time: the grapes are ready to be harvested. She realizes if they divorce, she will lose her home and her source of income as well as becoming a single parent of a child not yet one year old. She wishes she never found that receipt!

These two timelines will eventually come together in one twisty mystery that readers will not want to put down until the puzzles are solved.

Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, a former model who lives in London, Ontario, is the author of three young adult novels. Her adult fiction debut, The Girls Are All So Nice Here, was named a USA Today Best Book of 2021. Till Death Do Us Part, is her second adult novel.

My review will be posted on Goodreads starting April 22, 2024.

I would like to thank Simon & Schuster and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC in return for an objective review.

This thriller, which posits the question, how well can you really know your spouse, has some fun twists and turns that kept me turning pages. However, the final twist(s) fell flat for me. I was hoping for something either more realistic or more flamboyant, and instead I got something in the middle that just didn't work well for me.

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC. I thought the book started out great and suspenseful. Somewhere before the middle of the book the reader learns of a character that I believe should have been introduced earlier. Maybe this gives the book more interest. I thought the book was scattered and disjointed. There were too many subplots going on that took away from the main plot. Then finding out what happened did not get discovered until then epilogue was way too far in the book.

I think my students will enjoy this romantic suspense book, multiple timelines , multiple twists and stories of romantic relationship and complicated family dynamics and expectations of what women are supposed to be and how to live. Easy read, which they always like as well

I ended up liking this book but it took awhile for me to get into, two women, two different timelines related stories about the death of one of their sons and one's husband. The first part of the book was a lot about the relationships and wine making and less about the mystery. It also had an old fashioned feel to it, both the writing and the names of the women. I did get involved and invested in the mystery and also the personal growth/coming into themselves of the women. It was different than I expected and different than her previous books

Wow! This journey I just went on was WILD! June is our main character who is engulfed by grief and she goes on a quest to find out once and for all if her husband’s death was an accident or a murder. We don’t find out until the very end. I was beginning to give up hope of finding out a true answer, which can speak to our human tendencies, but our author did not disappoint. She gave me everything I needed and more! So happy to have read this story and got to meet June and Bev! They are both so lovely, even through the rough patches in their lives.

4/5 stars for a mind-boggling quest, friendship, love, and family(!!!)

**Thank you to NetGalley for providing a free review copy! I am leaving this review voluntarily.

This was a new author for me and the book different from what i am normally drawnto
That said i totally enjoyed this story. Interesting story, great characters and i will definitely read this author again

This started off promising to be like two books I really liked: One True Loves (husband disappears, then returns years later when widow is engaged) and The Last Thing He Told Me (wine-country-based thriller about whether you can trust your husband). It took it's own spin on those plots and, in the end, I'd say it's mostly about a mother, Bev, not the woman who married her son, June. It's a domestic drama about brothers and parents and whether you can raise good men. What's frustrating is that it leaves the answer open-ended. What happened to Michelle? Is Andrew telling the truth about the picture of Abby? I'm an answer-driven reader and it felt like breaking the rules of a thriller to not tell me.

There is a wild twist at the end, which I appreciated. I'm a fan of authors really going for it and surprising me. I enjoyed this book for the most part and stayed interested in what was happening the whole way through. If anything, I wish there were more of it so I could get more answers.