Marriage Pact

by Michelle Richmond

[Leah]

The whole concept of a group determined to keep marriage sacred is an intriguing thing. Things like answering your spouses calls, going on a holiday every quarter, giving gifts every month, seems like a pretty innocuous way to keep your marriage going - right? Well, not quite, because the Pact is not as it seems and things soon turn sour for our happily married Jake and Alice as they rack up infractions.

I liked the concept of this book - marriage these days is treated as something you can do multiple times, like it has no meaning now. The vows may say "til death do us part" but rarely is that fulfilled in this age where people don't understand the concept of making a relationship work, and give up at the first hint of trouble.

However, the more I got into the book the more preposterous it all became. And the ending felt like a cop-out, would they really have been given those options?! I think not. And it just kind of devalued the whole reading experience.

An intriguing read, with a decent idea for a plot, but it just didn't grip me the whole way as I would have liked and that ending was just ridiculous. Is there some kind of clause that all thrillers must end like damp squibs? Crikey.