The Wives: A Domestic Thriller

loved this book!plot twist after plot twist! i love a book that i cant guess the ending and this one was definitely that type of book! kept me on edge and finished it in a day, i couldnt put it down!

Thursday's weekly night with her husband is Thursday. He also has a wife for Monday, and for Tuesday. A plural marriage, one in which his wives don't know each other, have never seen each other, and don't know each other's names. Thursday finds a scrap of paper with the word "Hannah" and a phone number, and curiosity gets the better of her. But when she sees the youngest wife, she sees bruises on her, and has to.know if her husband, who is Hannah's husband, is an abuser.This book was a page turner for sure. It's a short book, under 300 pages, but I found myself wishing it was longer. The ending was a little abrupt, but a satisfying conclusion. Good book.

This book would have been good enough to give 5 stars but for the very trying and redundant beginning. Another sore spot with me was the author really didn’t have to add a second ending when she had one which was good enough. I won’t spoil it for those who have not read it. The additional ending looked like a serious run for more pages. Having said that, there is a very strange truth in this story, it is the rising incidence of mental illness affecting society today. Many things can be blamed for it, but where this book is at its best it’s when it articulates the various ways people treat those dealing with mental illness. It gives us a detailed look from the inside out as well. A look from the perspective of the ill person on what they see, how they deal with it and how it feels to believe no one cares for you. How it feels when you believe you’ve been left to suffer alone and the distance you will go to to right perceived indifference. It also deals with the various ways different people are affected by this disease. Including those who would give the appearance of being “normal”. I am still amazed that in the question and answer section the author fails to deal with any of the real issues she raised in the book.

This is a good read. Although not sure why i had anxiety with every page i was reading and you could complete it in 2 days. Very interesting. Not gonna lie its a random find in an insta page and wanted to check it out. Author did an amazing job. I like the thrill.

I don’t read a lot, but this book had me flipping to the next page. I always wanted to know what was going to happen next. and the plot twist…. WHAT! did not see that coming at all. also, I ordered a paperback and got a used hardcover, but that’s alright. I’ll have to start reading more Tarryn Fisher books!:)

Kept me wanting to read the next page. Good book

Talk about whiplash! I feel as if I was just thrown back about 50 feet with the abrupt ending in the denouement of this wildly inventive and intense story of trauma, abuse, and manipulation.Initially, I thought I recognized the shape of this story. I was prepared for an intimate perspective of a rebellious wife in a plural marriage. I imagined the result of her rebellion and looked forward to reading about the ultimate liberation of the first person narrator, who is the middle wife awakening from her complete and total devotion to, infatuation of, and fog of lust for her husband.I was repulsed yet intrigued with this character revealing her complete loss of personal definition of self beyond her identity as a woman sharing intimacy with a man who needed more than one woman to devote most of herself, if not all of herself, to him. While listening to her character develop through the early plot points, she became for me less and less of a reliable narrator and this is when the real fun begins. From this point forward my head was spinning in a dizzy of the psychological pathologies I thoughtI glimpsed in every character of this twisted tale of "gaslighting "and manipulation. Only to find that my guess was half right or entirely wrong.Readers...this one is heart breaking, but instructive. This woman gains invaluable insight into her self as she unravels this careful construct of her personae rooted in her "love" for her husband and complete disabusement of an authentic personhood rooted in her own unique and separate self.When traumatized enough, isolated enough, damaged enough, we all are susceptible to manipulation by a grifter, sheister, cult-leader, fraudster, public figure (uh...hum) or cold-hearted lothrio. So much so, there is a dissociation from the reality of anything existing outside the perimeter or anything that may be threatening to the construct shaped by the manipulator in the psyche of their intended target In other words, a "cognitive dissonance".Okay here it comes...I wonder if there is a current observable phenomenon in our society that served as a bit of inspiration for the idea that one can surrender their identity and immerse themselves so completely in the fictitious, false and completely self-serving version of events and reality created by a predator posing as a good person or lover... in the public provenance, they are often referred to as...charlatans.How does someone break free from this prison of the heart where the mind follows and dear Lord...what happens after? This is the "juicy part" and sheer brilliance of the read.Oh but that last part...for who I know myself to be... I am ashamed to say I enjoyed it a little too much. Perhaps it is the effect of the times we live in or the frustrations of this day that let my inner demons out to play.I was vastly entertained, yet, duly forewarned.How brilliant!

Very complex story about mental health. I'm not sure how I feel about the ending. It perhaps needs a warning for mental health issues and maybe a.phone number to get help if needed.

What can I say about The Wives ? Other than, it is I-C-R-E-D-I-B-L-E! It’s genuinely one of the best books that I have ever read! The Wives, follows the protagonist Thursday as she navigates life as the wife of a polygamist. There are three wives in total & Thursday sees Seth ( her Hubbie ) every Thursday & his other wives get Monday & Tuesday. Tuesday is the original wife & Monday is the newest wife, all of them are aware of each other & have agreed to never try to get information about each other & instead live life as normal.Seemingly, Thursday is accepting of her lot until one day she discovers a hospital receipt in her husbands pocket. Closer inspection of the receipt shows that Monday is actually called Hannah & she is pregnant. Armed with the receipt & some basic computer skills Thursday starts to investigate her fellow wife. As she continues to look for info on Hannah, she starts to unravel & become obsessed with finding out as much as she can about her husbands other wives.First off, Thursday is a very complex, but very endearing protagonist who you really empathise with & want to succeed, especially when the reader discovers that Thursday is psychologically traumatised from an incident earlier in her marriage to Seth. Secondly, as the story progresses & layer after layer of secrets & lies are revealed, the story becomes increasingly more unsettling, dark & twisted. As the plot gets more & more twisty, all your initial preconceptions start to crumble.I loved the pacey, relentless and all consuming plot points, which is why I binge read it at every opportunity!Of course I now have a major book-hangover but it’s worth it! I have nothing negative at all to say about this book, which is an endorsement of how clever & compelling this book is. I would definitely read more from this author & highly recommend reading this book, because for once the hype is real!! If you enjoy a domestic thriller guys, then you have to read this novel ASAP because it’s genius ! This was an easy 5* star rating for me ! ! I would give it more if I could !

‘The Wives’ by Tarryn Fisher was released in ebook and audiobook editions in December 2019 with the paperback edition available on 25 June 2020.This is the kind of domestic noir/psychological thriller that is best read cold as it’s easy to be spoiled, so I won’t say much about its plot.From publishers: “You’ve never met the other wives. None of you know each other, you see your husband only one day a week. Thursday. But you don’t care, you love him that much. Or at least that’s what you’ve told yourself…”The novel’s narrator refers to her husband’s other two wives as Monday and Tuesday as those are the days that he spends with them each week. I wonder what he got up to on the other four days?Certainly this was a page-turner and a quick read though almost from the start I found myself finding Thursday’s situation along with her responses and attitudes hard to accept.Then, as is inevitable with psychological thrillers, there’s a twist. Here a major one occurred at the halfway point and after this, although I continued reading, I just felt that its new direction was insensitive, melodramatic, and made little sense. I found the ending abrupt and disappointing.However, I am clearly in the minority here but it just didn’t work for me and I didn’t find it in any way sexy.

The last read of the decade. A decade in which I discovered the kindle and Indie writers and Tarryn Fisher definitely became a firm favourite.Other than seeing the cover I went in blind. I didn’t feel the need to read the blurb because, it’s TF, she can do no wrong. I realised at around half way through that I didn’t know the name of the lead character, the narrator. It was when that name was revealed that I realised TF had twisted my melon. Like Marrow.I was so in tune trying to spot what the twist would be, but the things I found were red herrings. Zippo lighter, jell-o. Interesting but not the plot breaker.So Seth has three wives and the real middle wife (our narrator) wants him to herself so she tracks down the competition. But all does not go to plan.Which one would Seth pick if he was forced to choose? Would it be wife number one, the petite career wife who loves shoes? Or would it be wife number two, the sexy trust fund wife who can whip up a rack of lamb and whip your trousers off while it cooks? Or what about wife number three, the wholesome young blonde who can still shell out a baby or two?Seth himself doesn’t get that much of a mention. I definitely didn’t like him but I’m not sure if I liked wife number two either. She’s bonkers!A super story and a great last read of 2019.

I've read a few of Tarryn Fisher's books and she always knows how shock you, she writes twisted really well and I thought this book was very clever and a total mindf*** , but I honestly could not put it down. From the first chapter until the last I was engrossed; this story took me on a roller coaster of emotions. A physiological thriller of the best kind.My mind questioned everything six times over. Just when I thought I had worked out what was going on Tarryn took me down another rabbit hole until I just couldn't think straight anymore.I loved all the characters, they each gave me a piece of themselves to get to know ( or so you think ) Told in the heroine's POV which I think made it all the more intense because you never really knew what the others were getting up to, what they were thinking, what was the truth and what was lies.That ending !!!!! I'm not sure if I liked it or not, I didn't see it coming not one bit, but wow this book will stay with me for a long time to come. DON'T miss the chance to read it !!

Every now and then a book comes along with a plot so twisted it blows you away... This is that book! From the get go I was hooked and this book just kept reeling me in. The plot is so cleverly crafted and intricate that you have no idea where it’s going. My mind was working overtime and for the most part I thought I was going crazy!!This book is what I’ve needed for a long time, it’s refreshing, a psychological thriller of epic proportions, it’s the type of plot that has you wondering how the hell the author came up with the idea. This will definitely be hard to beat. I can safely say this will be in my top 5 for 2020!