This is a hard review to write. While I enjoyed the writing and found the premise intriguing, I felt like this book never truly knew what it wanted to be.

The cover is gorgeous and it, along with the plot of a widow's need to find the truth about her dead husband, leads the reader to believe that this is in the thriller/suspense genre, which is what it's being marketed as. But it leans heavily into the women's fiction tag it's also got on NetGalley and reads like a domestic drama than anything else. Truly, there was very little that was suspenseful about it. And when you're looking forward to a book in that genre, it's really disappointing when it turns out to be something else entirely.

It also reads like two different stories. While Bev's and June's arcs ultimately do intersect, it feels forced, and Bev's POV has so little to do with June's, that it makes for disjointed reading. And though I typically enjoy multiple POV books and ones that follow different timelines, it was confusing to navigate in Till Death Do Us Part. I thought Bev's plot was engaging (though I can't stress how much I absolutely hated her, Camille's, and Emilia's "solution" to get Bev her happy life. One, it's wildly unbelievable that they could pull it off and two, how horrible/selfish a mother/person can you possibly be), but I kept having the thought that it was sort of pointless to the overall scope of the book, especially since the major focus of having her in it--what her sons may or may not have done to the girls in their lives--is never truly resolved.

Unfortunately, when I focus on June's storyline, things don't really improve for me. You've really got to suspend all sense of disbelief to follow her. I could maybe buy her story if, say, she was married to Josh for a large chunk of her life. Sure, it would be hard to move on after being married for 5, 10, whatever years. But she knew him for all of, what, 6 months? They were married for a week before Josh dies. And she spends the bulk of her POV playing the part of a poor depressed widow and dropping lines about her "mother-in-law" (whom she's met once or twice), and the man she knew everything about and he's her soulmate and everything everyone else is saying about Josh doesn't make sense because what would people who knew him for decades know about a guy she had a one night stand with and knew less than a year? And ten years later she still can't move on? I get wanting closure, but come on. It reads desperate and needy. And as implausible as what Bev ends up doing.

I also agree with other reviews about the ending--or at least one of them--coming out of nowhere. I'm trying to avoid spoilers here, but maybe if the true killer was also stalking all the loose ends to keep their secret safe, maybe there would have been that missing element of suspense. But unfortunately, this book missed the mark for me.

Thanks to the publisher for making this book available to read and review through NetGalley through it's Simon Books Buddy program.

Told from alternating points of view over a couple of different time lines, this one grabbed me from the first page and I read it straight through in one setting. Well developed characters, a fast paced plot, and enough intrigue to keep me turning the pages. Great story and some unexpected twists makes this a great read. Highly recommended.

Thanks to NetGalley and Simon & Schuster for an advanced reader copy.

The book follows 2 women’s lives (June and Bev) and how they are connected to each other. The Napa Valley setting definitely makes me want to take a trip there. June lost her husband in a drowning accident but now she thinks she is seeing him so starts to believe he is still alive. She wants to marry again but wants to find the truth before she can do that. Bev’s storyline didn’t resonate with me so didn’t like her character. Overall a good book
Thank you to Netgalley and Simon and Schuster Publishing for the advanced copy in exchange for my honest review.

Til Death Do Us Part by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn follows June 10 years after her husband Josh drowned a week after they eloped. Now June has been dating Kyle for the last 6 years when she spots Josh at the park. She doesn't know what to make out of the sighting until she spots him outside of her wine bar soon after. Now June must follow the clues to finally find out where Josh has been these past 10 years. The book alternates between June in the present day and Bev, Josh's mother in 1999. Bev is struggling with her own demons and feels that David, her husband just covered up to make the family look good. Josh is in his last year of high school and Bev and David have a 9 month old son. Bev's college's friend has returned and now Bev has reconnected with her. This book had an unbelievable twists that I couldn't put this book down. Especially the last chapter of the book. Thank you to both NetGalley and Simon & Schuster for giving me an advanced copy of this novel.

This was a tour de force! I could not put this down. It takes place in the world of wine and wineries and vineyards, and the premise is so enticing. The messaging, and many of the themes explored in here are so smart, and the writing is gorgeous. This book is also quite sexy, but I do think some readers are going to have an issue because it does center cheating. I would have liked to have been more shocked by the twists (though I still didn't see them coming), and the epilogue is definitely very, very twisty.

Till Death Do Us Part follows June who, 10 years ago, one week after her wedding, her husband Josh tragically drowns on their honeymoon. Fast forward 10 years, and June is almost 40 and living in Brooklyn where she owns a natural wine bar, has just gotten engaged to a man named Kyle, and is looking forward to her next chapter and starting a family. But one day, she thinks she sees her dead husband Josh in the park. And then outside her wine bar. But then she's browsing possible honeymoon locations and comes across a website for a vineyard in Napa, and the owner of the vineyard? Identical to that of her dead husband. So of course June flies out to Napa in search of answers.

What I didn't know going into this is this book is actually dual perspective. We're following June in the present and then Bev, Josh's mother, in the past, back when Josh was a teenager. Laurie made both timelines and perspectives equally interesting and thrilling, which is very hard to do.

I really enjoyed this book. The alternating characters and time periods really kept my reading. I found it really creative the correlation between the different stages of wine making and the parts of the book. There was definitely a lot going on and the ending really got me. Thanks for the ARC, NetGalley.

A gripping blend of suspense and heartache. The writing is spellbinding and the explosive conclusion and emotional depth kept me engaged.
Many thanks to Simon & Schuster and to Netgalley for providing me with a galley in exchange for my honest opinion.

3.5 stars. I got really into the story early on, even though it was a little bit slow for my taste (I neglected all my other reads for a day). About halfway in, things started to get a little messy...and then it turned into CRAZY messy!

Don't get me wrong, I love thrillers that keep me on my toes, but I felt this one was trying too hard. What turned this into a lower rating than I thought I was going to give this book was the last 2 chapters. I just had a hard time believing the whole thing and again, it just felt like too much.

I would give this author another chance, though.

Till Death Do Us Part is full of all the good stuff: family drama, unreliable narrator, suspense, and satisfying twists. I loved the setting of NYC and Napa Valley.

Told with a dual POV, it takes some time for the backstory to build. Once it does- things start to get really good. I really enjoyed all the twists and turns and did not expect the ending at all!

Thanks to NetGalley and Simon & Schuster for a digital ARC in exchange for my honest review.

I didn't like this as much as LEF's previous adult thriller, but this was solid. I liked the wine-making info and I thought June was compelling. I didn't love Bev and I think the past story line might've benefited from Michelle's POV, or Camille's maybe, but overall solid.

I love Flynn’s writing so was incredibly excited to read this one. Told in alternating POVs and timelines, this is the story of two women grappling with the people they love and trying to untangle who is worthy of their love based on dark secrets in everyone’s pasts. I enjoyed spending time with both Bev and June, especially in the Napa setting. The descriptions of the wine making process and the vineyards were incredible. Bev’s feelings on motherhood were incredibly relatable, and I felt for June as she tried to untangle what had happened to her first husband. The twists at the end were ones I did NOT see coming. 5 stars!

Unfortunately, I had a lot of issues with this. The synopsis was enticing: a woman's husband supposedly drowns and she suspects foul play. I don't want to spoil the plot with specifics but I felt like the few "twists" were contrived and implausible. The ending especially had a lot of strange things going on. At the same time, part of the plot was left unresolved. This was not my favorite.

At the start of the book, the story unfolds slowly with two narrators in different times. June, who runs a wine pub and lost her husband, Josh, sees a man who looks like him, leading her to secrets at a winery. In another timeline, we meet Bev, Josh’s mother, dealing with family issues and a troubled marriage.

The plot switches between June and Bev, revealing hidden truths that shape their lives. As the story progresses, shocking discoveries come to light, changing how we see the characters and events.

Though Bev's marital struggles may be familiar to many, June's journey towards a new beginning makes her a more relatable character. This mix of women’s fiction, family drama, and mystery weaves together an engaging tale.

June is finally ready to move forward with her life after ten years of mourning Josh, lost one week into their marriage. As she prepares to settle down with her new love she starts once again seeing Josh everywhere. He's watching her as she takes engagement pictures in Central Park, peering into her wine bar in Brooklyn, alive and well on a website for a vineyard in the Napa Valley. Unable to tell any of her friends or family, as they'll think she's having another breakdown, June takes off for Napa knowing she has to find out the truth before she can really move on with her life. Once there she opens a much bigger can of worms that she could ever imagine.

It frustrates me when you read a book and really enjoy most of the book and then the ending is just tooooo far out to left field for you to be happy about it and then you feelings about the whole book change. This wasn't a bad book, but the ending. Bleh. Just didn't make it work for me at all. Thank you netgalley for this arc in exchange for my honest opinion.

My first Laurie Elizabeth Flynn novel but wow not my last. This was action packed and filled with characters I either love or love to hate. It felt like a ping pong match with my head spinning with direction changes. I never knew who to trust. The whole story was exhilarating. Totally enjoyed it.
Thank you NetGalley, Laurie Elizabeth Flynn and Simon and Schuster for the opportunity to read and review this book.

Told from multiple perspectives and in flashbacks, a woman on the cusp of marriage thinks she's sees her first husband who died a decade ago. She embarks on a journey to discover what really happened and if he's still alive.

June, an organic wine pub owner , has recently become engaged when she seesa man resembling her dead
husband. As his body was never found, she is determined to track down the man she saw. Flashbacks introduce
Bev, the mother of her deceased husband, family life and secrets. Finding out what actually happened to the
deceased husband was a surprise.
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Wow this was so immersive! I was flipping the pages to find out what happened. Great mystery to take to the beach this summer!

This was a really solid read, built on a lot of then, and now with dual perspectives throughout the entire book. This definitely had more of a slow burn and anticipatory build to the very end. I did find the end, satisfying, but I felt that the middle of the book dragged along a bit too slow for my liking. However, I found that this was written incredibly well, and the characters were so well developed!