The premise of this novel is an intriguing one. Ten years ago, Jill’s husband Josh drowned while they were on their honeymoon. His body was never found. Now, she is engaged to Kyle and ready to move on to the next phase of her life when she suddenly sees Josh — or thinks she sees him — and then discovers a picture of the owner of a winery in Napa Valley who looks identical to Josh. Is Josh really dead or what is actually going on? Told from alternating POVs and in alternate timelines, this novel has its share of good twists and turns as well as suspense. This is a good, quick read that is great for a summer vacation.

June was widowed on her honeymoon. Until a decade later, when she sees a photo of her husband with a new family, living on a vineyard.
This domestic thriller focuses on deeply flawed and frankly unlikeable characters. There were no characters I felt connected to because they are all villains.
I loved the atmosphere of the vineyard setting and were plenty of twists and turns which kept me guessing, but I found the ending to be disappointing.

This book was okay.
I had trouble getting into the story in the first section. We were following two characters at two different points in time. Both points of view also included tons of backstory. The result was an opening section that felt super information heavy. This was combined with (for me) way too much about grapes and wine making. I expected some of that wine knowledge to be important to the plot later, but it wasn't. This could have been trimmed to help readers engage with the story. For readers who know a lot about wine making, or are as obsessed as all of the characters in this novel, this might be a better read.
The mystery here raised questions that helped me stay interested in the story. One of the largest questions wasn't answered until the epilogue, while other questions were never answered, which made for a bit of an unsatisfactory ending.

For me, connecting with the characters is very important to me. I didn't connect with the characters in this book. The story is told from mainly two points of view: June and her mother-in-law Bev. Newly engaged, June wants to find the man that looks identical to her deceased husband that died ten years. Bev is part of the dysfunctional family and keeps secrets from the past. I received a free copy of this ebook from the publisher through Netgalley. This is my honest and voluntarily given review. The mystery is okay and revolves around secrets. I lost interest and ended up skimming the rest of the book.

I received an advanced copy of this book through NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review. I enjoyed Flynn's The Girls Are All So Nice Here and gave it 4 stars. Unfortunately I can't say the same for this wine soaked family drama disguised as a thriller. There's two plot lines / timelines here with Bev, Josh's mom, and Josh's wife / widow June. I got these mixed up. Maybe it would be helpful to have June been named something "younger".

The pace was slow and the plot exploded at the end. My haw drioped. You will either love it or hate it. I can't say I was happy with the bomb Flynn dropped on the reader. I felt tricked and my time wasted. This book is available Aug 14 2024.

Excellent book that kept me reading and wanting more. I anxiously await to read more of this authors books in the future. I highly recommend reading this authors books.

Calling all wine lovers and connoisseurs! This is the perfect book for you! The story starts with us being introduced to June. June is the owner of Grape Juice, a natural wine bar. She met Josh at an upscale party. They connected over their shared love of wine. Josh, being raised on a winery, preferred fermented wine over natural. Their difference of opinion led to a hot, steamy night, and they were inseparable ever since. Despite everyone’s disapproval, Josh and June were married after a few short months of dating. But during their honeymoon, Josh disappeared, and it was assumed he drowned. His body was never found.

Ten years later, June is engaged to Kyle. This time, everything is different. June and Kyle took the time to get to know each other, and Kyle has willingly dealt with June’s grief over Josh. As time draws closer to their upcoming nuptials, June believes she is seeing Josh in the oddest places. Is Josh still alive, or is June hitting the wine bottle too much?

June feels she needs closure from Josh before she marries Kyle, so she goes off to find out what really happened to Josh. What she discovers is that Josh was not the person he portrayed himself to be, and that her friends and family may have been right about him.

This book has more twists than a Twizzler!!! Everyone has a secret, and no one is perfect in this story. If you like thrillers that take you on a wild ride, this book is for you!

Thank you NetGalley and Simon and Schuster for this arc in exchange for my honest review.

Thank you to Netgalley and Simon & Schuster for the eARC of Till Death Do Us Part in exchange for my honest review!

This is definitely a slow burn and I feel like I learned way more about wine than I really wanted to. The mystery didn’t feel like it was taking center stage which in a thriller is kind of an odd choice.

The ending left a lot to be desired and I feel like it’s one people will either love or hate.

This is my first book from the author so I read this blindly but oh boi I hooked for this instantly. The author introduced two narrators in different timelines: June, in the present time, a wine pub owner who lost her husband Josh in an accident, finally finding a second chance with her fiancé Kyle to start a new family.

But she starts to see a person who just like her husband starts to having second thoughts about her decisions. However, when she search the internet to find a wedding place in Napa directs her to Andrew and Sadie Smith’s family winery, she cannot believe her eyes. The man in the photo looks exactly like her dead husband!

In the other timeline, its about Josh’s mother, who recently gave birth to her baby Kieran, conducting the winery with her husband David, still trying to deal with the family scandal that affected their lives.We go back and forth between the narratives of these two women to uncover secrets that shape their futures.

The pacing was a little slow for me at first but it quickens after so many shocking revelations. Overall, this is a well written women’s fiction, family drama blended with mystery.

Anything anyone would ever want to know about wine is covered in this book: Its history, various varietals, its taste, chemical make up, what spoils a harvest, what makes a harvest, how to bottle it, how to sample it, etc., etc., etc. ad infinitum, ad nauseum.

Current female angst (pages and pages of inner dialogue and insecurities) plus bad decisions make up the rest of this book.

The mystery of the dead/missing/resurrected husband was completely overshadowed by the above.

Not my cuppa tea (nor glass of wine), but I’m sure many others will enjoy it.

Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an early reader’s copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

A decade ago, June's whirlwind romance with Josh led to an impulsive elopement. Despite her friends' warnings that things were moving too fast, she was in love. Tragically, Josh drowned on their honeymoon, and June has never believed it was an accident, especially since his body was never recovered. Bev, Josh's mother, who also disapproved of the union, has severed all ties with June. Now, as June spots Josh in New York, she's unable to confide in her friends or fiancé, given her previous breakdown over Josh's death.
While searching for a honeymoon destination, she stumbles upon a winery in Napa Valley and a photo that she's convinced is of Josh. She deceives her fiancé and travels there to investigate, as Josh grew up in Napa Valley. The deeper June delves into her inquiries and interactions with Bev, the more she uncovers about Josh's life before they met.
The narrative unfolds through Bev's perspective of the past, chronicling her son's upbringing, and through June's present viewpoint as she gradually reveals the family's hidden truths.

Till death do us part was a fun ride. It was a traditional thriller with lots of twists and turns. People have hidden agendas and pasts. The main character is likeable although the "losing my mind" trope was utilized in the mid portion of the book and while I know this happens in many thrillers it is not a trope that I enjoy. Other than that, it definitely kept my interest and was paced well.

The twists and turns are TWISTING and TURNING! Just when you think you have an idea about what’s going on in this book, another piece of information gets dropped into your lap upending everything you thought you knew. I LOVE a good dual POV and this one is mostly told from the perspective of June (a woman who 10 years ago was married and widowed all within 6 months) in 2022 and Bev (the mother of June’s dead husband) in 1999. I never knew what to believe or what was going to happen next and both women’s stories were equally enthralling. The final twist was so satisfying. This is a great book for anyone who loves piecing together a mystery but needs more going on in a story to stay engaged. Will absolutely be encouraging friends and fans of the genre to check this book out when it releases on August 13th.

I loved Laurie Elizabeth Flynn's book The Girls Are All So Nice Here and could not wait for her next book, and I truly enjoyed Till Death Do Us Part. The book follows two characters, June and Bev in different timelines. In 2022, it has been 10 years since June's husband Josh died, yet she has questioned his death ever since the day he went missing, even as she gets engaged to the second love of her life, Kyle. In 1999, the story follows Josh's mom Bev and the year that changed everything for her marriage and her family's life.

From the beginning sections of the book, I kept feeling like there was something the reader did not know yet about Bev's family and when you are clued in, I thought it was done in a good way where it did not feel forced. Bev can definitely be considered an unlikeable character with how she feels about motherhood, but at the same time, I thought it was an honest portrayal of a mother who loves her family, but still has things in her life she gave up for those that she loved and lost herself along the way. I couldn't put this book down as June's story unfolded and she learned not only things about Josh, but her fiancé Kyle as well.

The ending of this one truly left me saying WTH and I think it is the kind of thing that people will either love or hate. Initially, I wasn't thrilled with it, but after sitting with my thoughts for a few days, I think it was the perfect way to end the book. Highly recommend adding this one to your TBR if you want a mystery that will definitely take you through all the emotions!

Having read The Girls Are All So Nice Here and not enjoying it, I was curious, but a little skeptical, about how I'd feel about Flynn's newest book. I enjoyed it more than my previous experience, but Till Death Do Us Part, was a slow paced, slow build plot that didn't do a lot for me. The alternating timeline got a little confusing when things started coming together and I'm not sure how I feel about some of the choices the characters made. This was an easy, quick read and for me, the last third of the book was the 'best' part. I'm not sure that this author is for me but I've seen some good reaction and reviews so if you are a fan of Flynn this might be more of a hit and worth adding to your TBR.
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Thank you NetGalley and Simon & Schuster for the advanced copy in exchange for my honest review.

Thank you to the Publisher for my arc!


I purely picked this up because I have read Laurie's other book and was super blown away by that story and kind of knew what to expect going into this and let me tell you I was still blown away. You're following along with two different timelines both of which are so fast paced that by the time you get the reveal, you're kind of like wait what?! and then the book ends. I was constantly proven wrong at every turn and couldn't put this down.

highly recommend

thank you to NetGalley and Simon & Schuster for providing me with an advance copy of this book to review!

yeah this book unfortunately didn't do it for me. it is a sloooow start, for one thing. even at the end, it wasn't even remotely a thriller. it's twisty, but not a thriller. it does eventually pick up, but the book is full of sentences like "it's just so bad that terrible thing happened to X" that get repeated for like four chapters, and then when you find out what happened to X it's super underwhelming.

also like avoiding spoilers but unless I completely missed something one of the biggest mysteries is NEVER solved and there are just a lot of questions left at the end in a very unsatisfying way. all that and the ending is somehow ridiculous and outlandish, too. so like not great.

but the biggest reason this is getting two stars is like Laurie Elizabeth Flynn your last book was great but holy shit I do not need to read this much about wine and how wine is made and all the different kinds of wine. like at times it was almost charming because it's clearly something the author is very interested in, but it was also SO EXCESSIVE!!!

This one was just okay for me. I felt a bit unsatisfied by the ending, and couldn't ever quite buy into the dramas of the different characters. An easy beach read but not one I would go back to.

I am a mystery lover, I like twists and turns. BUT, this book has so many twists and turns that I was confused. It is over=plotted and has too many characters.

It is the story of June who lost her greatly loved husband after a whirlwind courtship in a mysterious drowning. She begins seeing him near her Brooklyn wine bar, and on a website, so she begins to search for him. So, his life unfolds with a more mysterious twin. Oh, I don’t want to spoil this, but the plot thickens until it boils over and totally lost me.

I can’t recommend this since it’s simply too confusing and has too many subplots.

Thank you Netgalley.

This is a complex story about a very complex family. The Kelly family owns a Napa winery. They appear to be a perfect, loving family. But we all know looks can be deceiving. June marries Josh Kelly and soon after he disappears. Without a body, it’s impossible to move on. Just when she is finally ready once and for all, things happen to yank her back into the past. Secrets take root like an invasive weed and strangle everything in their path. A great read!