The Perfect Marriage: A Completely Gripping Psychological Suspense
[{'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2020', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': 'So I’m in the early stages of the book, chapter 11, and I guess I’m an extremely detailed person because I’m seeing discrepancies in the eye color of the characters. This probably doesn’t bother most people but I picture the characters in my mind based on their description by the author.\nOn one page, the character Kelly has ‘brown doe eyes’ then later when Adam is describing the early stages of their relationship, she has ‘sparkling blue eyes’.\nThis is super irritating to me because I’m so detailed and remember things like this.\nIt’s a great story so far but this lack of care in writing disturbs my OCD.\nWish me luck in reading the rest of the book!\n\nUpdate: finished the book and added another photo showing the typical writing style- my 8th grader could write better than this.\n\nDo not recommend.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2020', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'If you purchase this book, you will be Jeneva’s willing prisoner from the moment you begin, from the moment you finish the book. I sat their reading this book absolutely paralyzed and was unable to do anything else until I finished the book. This book will take you on the absolute adventure that you’ve been craving in these uncertain times. Buy the paperback, you’ll want to keep it for years to come. If you are looking for a book that will keep you on the edge of your seat, while making your head spin, look no further. Jeneva is an extremely talented writer that writes in such an honest and relatable way, you’ll find yourself being absolutely immersed in it.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2020', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-2 review-rating', 'review_body': "Didn't care for the writing style - I found it to be repetitive with many useless descriptions and unnecessary details. Didn't care for the characters at all, so it was impossible for me to be interested in the story... The husband came across as supremely smarmy, while his wife was just a shell of a character who just didn't resonate with me at all.... To be honest, I bailed out about a third of the way through because there are just too many amazing books out there to read."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2020', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': "The most creative thing about this book is it's reviews. I have a hard time believing anyone really liked this book, no less loved it, from page one the believability factor was 0. Yes, it was fiction but good fiction should paint a picture or build a story that makes the reader want to come along. Don't waste your time on this one."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2020', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-2 review-rating', 'review_body': "This book started out interesting enough, but loose ends, red herrings and a rushed ending quickly lowered its rating for me. It had many elements of predictability, which I don't mind if the overall book is clever and pulls off a twist at the end. The twist-ending felt like a copy (Gone Girl - which was MUCH better) that wasn't well done and was rushed. There were unanswered questions, plot holes, and things that just didn't make sense. I read this with a friend and we both agreed that it left us disappointed and glad we only spent a dollar on it."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': 'I feel like I am in the Twilight Zone reading all these positive reviews- did I read the right book?! It doesn’t seem that the writer, or any one else involved with the book, have any basic knowledge of the criminal process. And I don’t mean complicated things, watch one episode of Law & Order and you could do better. The accused is under house arrest at the crime scene? The trial takes place the next week? Wife defending husband? I rolled my eyes more times than I can count.\n\nAnd check the box for literally every overdone cliche you can imagine: mousey assistant, thinking everyone is hitting on you whenever they speak, evil MIL, stupid aggressive cops, sexy business woman, etc. Save your time and choose another title, you won’t regret missing this one.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2020', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "Sarah Morgan is a powerful defense attorney with an enviable life...until you take a closer look. Her husband Adam is a struggling writer, jealous of his wife's success. After Sarah blew off their tenth anniversary celebration because of a pressing case at her firm, Adam has had enough. He entertains Kelly, a gorgeous young barista whom he'd been having an affair with, in the vacation home that he and Sarah purchased.\n\nWhen Adam is arrested the next morning for Kelly's murder, he's in shock...she was sound asleep and alive when he left her. Kelly not only has a husband, but a dark past as well. Is Adam about to take the fall for something he didn't do, or is he hiding something too? Shockingly, Sarah puts her anger and resentment aside to defend her husband in a high-stakes murder case. What will her investigation uncover?\n\nFor a debut novel, I was blown away! The characters were perfectly developed and realistically flawed. The plot was full of twists and turns that ended in a climax so shocking yet believable, that I kicked myself for not seeing it coming. Well done!"}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': 'This is my second review ever in the history of Amazon reviews. This book is ridiculous. The idea was a good one, but very poorly executed. You can not, CAN NOT, write the murderer\'s viewpoint in first person without giving that away to the reader. There\'s no way someone would kill someone and then just not think about it. Or have conversations with their partner who is complicit without them discussing their plans. The characters were one dimensional and boring, and I had zero empathy for any of the characters. If all you want is to be surprised by who the killer is then by all means, go ahead and read it. But if you want the twist to make any logical sense at all then pass on this. I\'ll just go ahead and list all my questions:\n\nWhy did Bob tell Sarah he was in Wisconsin when Kelly was murdered? This is information the two would have already devised? It served no purpose for them to have this conversation except to throw off the reader.\n\nWhy did Adam kiss Rebecca? That made absolutely no sense. And he kept saying "Scott\'s my only hope" and then the next page "Rebecca is my only hope" and then six pages later "I have no hope" then 13 pages later "hope is the only thing that can\'t be taken from me." FACE PALM!\n\nHow was Sarah NEVER a suspect? Yeah, Anne is her alibi, but how? It was over an hour drive just to get to the lake house? So she drove to the lake house, murdered and cleaned up after herself, drove back and Anne had no clue? How drunk was she? WHERE was she?\n\nHow is it that Scott can just beat everyone up and it not be brought up in court? Everyone can just ignore the 3rd set of DNA? No more investigative work needs to be done because a suspect is in custody? ALL THE EVIDENCE IS CIRCUMSTANTIAL AT BEST!\n\nAlso, I\'m pretty sure that only the prosecution has to provide their findings to the defense, but not the defense to the prosecution.\n\nAnd no one, not the judge or anyone, questions whether or not it\'s a conflict of interest to have Sarah represent Adam? Hell, Adam could have appealed based on having his wife as his attorney! He could have said something about evidence coming to light that his wife intentionally kept out of court, gotten a new attorney and nailed Sarah\'s @$$ to the wall!\n\nNo one looked into anyone\'s finances to see who purchased the rohypnol? Why was Sarah even allowed to touch the decanter top to the scotch bottle? How can she just go through the crime scene touching things???\n\nIf Sarah would have at least gotten her just due, I would have liked the book more and made allowances for all this other ridiculousness. A real twist would have been Adam knowing it was her the whole time and setting her up. Then things would have made a little more sense.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2020', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "It was excellently written!! I couldn't put it down!! I read the entire book in one day. I loved the writing style, this novel is written to grab your attention from the first few pages. I have been reading books all day since we have been in lockdown from covid19, i have to say this was hands down the best read of 2020. The novel was amazing at holding my attention, I loved how the book started out with a very detailed crime, I never would have been able to write such an amazing first chapter/novel. I felt myself wanting/ needing to keep reading because the plot was amazingly written and flowed flawlessly throughout the book I couldn't wait to see how everything came together for all of the characters. THIS IS A MUST READ PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER!! You won't regret reading it!"}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2020', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "I loved this book! And Im a reader that's hard to please.\nthe characters are great and will keep you on the edge of your seat. Many twists and turns throughout tahis whole book! Nots one boring paragraph in it. Its written in the viewpoints of two main characters...sarah and Adam...who are husband and wife. Adam's mistress is murdered and all evidence points to him...Sarah is a high powered attorney who takes on his case despite what he did to her and puts her heart and soul into freeing him\nI loved this authors writing and will be looking for other books from her.\nMust read book!"}]