400 pages
William Morrow (February 11, 2020)
For fans of Liane Moriarty, Liv Constantine and Lisa Jewell, a twisty psychological thriller about a savvy second wife who will do almost anything to come out on top from the New York Times bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes.
Marriage can be murder…
SOMETHING OLD
Marcie’s affair with Jason Maddox catapulted her into the world of the elite.
Old money, old ties, old secrets. Marcie may have married into this world—
but she’ll never be part of it.
SOMETHING NEW
Then Jason’s boss brings back a new wife from his trip to London.
Young, attractive, reckless—nobody can take their eyes off Keisha.
Including Marcie’s husband.
SOMETHING YOU CAN NEVER, EVER UNDO…
Some people would kill for the life Marcie has—what will she do to keep it?
My Rating:
Favorite Quotes:
Be her friend,
Jason had said. Like it was that
easy. Men knew nothing about the tricky
waters of mutual mistrust women swam in.
It was a shark
pool, and the women were the worst.
Bored and half-drunk most of the time.
What else was there to do but bitch, judge, and gossip about one another
between charity events?
I don’t think badly of you for it, because I
totally get why you did it, but if you marry a man for his money, sweetheart,
you will always end up earning it.
What was it
Mama used to say? Her pearls of wisdom
on the world? Money, sex, and power are
the father, the son, and the holy ghost of life, honey. Just remember that. And women can get all three if they’re not
stupid. So don’t be stupid.
And as if there
are no gays in the army… I mean seriously
They all work out, and they all wear uniforms. The army is basically the goddamn Village People.
My Review:
Sarah Pinborough
is ingeniously clever and divinely gifted with the word voodoo. I lost myself in her riveting storytelling
and hissed my resentment at any interruption to my perusal. I was enthralled and so absorbed I found
myself more than a bit disoriented when I looked up from my book and realized I
wasn’t actually living in the sweltering Georgia heat and having drinks with or
experiencing the stink-eye from with the elite Southern blue blood society of
Savannah. The narrative was so
flawlessly transportive I heard their drawling accents, creaking floorboards,
the revving of their engines, and the clinking ice cubes - surely that wasn't
all in my head! This was a twisty,
unpredictable and monstrously compelling tale that oozed intrigue and was taut
with tension that seemed to be continually and miraculously ratcheting up to an
exponential level while cast with a bevy of quirky yet thoroughly vile
characters.
Sarah Pinborough is the number one Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of the psychological thriller Behind Her Eyes, and more than twenty other novels and novellas, including The Death House and a young adult thriller, 13 Minutes. She has also written for the BBC. She lives in England.
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