The Marriage Lie

by Kimberly Belle

"Iris and Will have been married for seven years, and life is as close to perfect as it can be. But on the morning Will flies out for a business trip to Florida, Iris's happy world comes to an abrupt halt: another plane headed for Seattle has crashed into a field, killing everyone on board and, according to the airline, Will was one of the passengers. Grief stricken and confused, Iris is convinced it all must be a huge misunderstanding. Why did Will lie about where he was going? And what else has he lied about? As Iris sets off on a desperate quest to uncover what her husband was keeping from her, the answers she finds shock her to her very core." -- From publisher's description.

• ISBN10: 0778307808
• ISBN13: 9780778307808
• Publish Date: 24 April 2018 (first published 27 December 2016)
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Imprint: Park Row
• Format: Paperback (US Mass Market)
• Pages: 384
• Language: English

Reviews

[cornerfolds]

Actual rating: 3.5 stars

[Ashley]

I'm massively, massively disappointed.

The Marriage Lie started out AMAZING! I was totally hooked. Glued to the pages. Couldn't put it down. Loved everything about it.

Then, starting around the 60-70% mark, the main character started to get kind of annoying. I get she was in a really stressful place, but she started to do some things that were just pretty damn stupid. Like some of the stuff she openly confessed to the police without telling her lawyer first. But whatever, I could deal with it. Maybe I'd give the book 4 stars instead of 5, I thought.

But then... the ending... It totally ruined the book for me. It ended up being hugely unsatisfying for me. Partly, I didn't feel satisfied by Will's actions. In fact, I'm not even sure I completely understood them. After all that build up, that explanation was kind of rushed over. But mostly, after all that I was kind of on Will's side, so I was really disappointed by what Iris did in the end.

I thought about giving the book 2 stars because ugh, that ending.. But I gave it 3 to try to honour how much I loved the first half.

[Kait ✨]

This was awesome — my perfect kind of creepy read. :) Iris’s husband Will dies on board a plane crash that he wasn’t supposed to be on, and as Iris tries to come to terms with it, she unravels the thread that was holding all of Will’s secrets together. There’s a pretty big twist at the end I didn’t quite see coming, and this was a really fun fast-paced read. Perfect for summertime beach or cottage trips!