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A review by themermaddie
The Other Mrs. by Mary Kubica
3.0
3.5 stars
i feel like i could've told you Will did it 10% into the book. i wouldn't have been able to explain how or why but it felt so obvious.
despite this, this book did a really good job of keeping me guessing. i feel like the DID and Will twist were kind of obvious, but also i can't fault the author entirely bc she dropped a lot of very subtle hints that i enjoyed picking up on. the unreliable narration was good in the sense that it made me feel incredibly uncertain about everything and paranoid that i was psyching myself out. this book keeps a lot of balls in the air, and for the most part does it well.
the characters aren't very interesting, it's mostly investment in finding out what happens that kept me going, but it was a breeze to get through this book. even though i guessed the main twists super early, i kept revising my theories for what the exact explanation was. i didn't guess that morgan was erin's sister, although in hindsight i feel like i should have so tjat was a fun surprise, although that explanation seemed a little too ... basic. maybe it was bc it seemed obvious from the beginning that Will was the bad guy, but i guess it was literally just bad luck for morgan that Will happened to move to her town? if morgan was trying to warn Sadie about Will, why stop w the picture? she could have spoken to sadie any time within the last few months but she didn't. idk it seemed like a weak explanation. i liked that the clues all matched up well, even if the ending was a little mehhh. it wasn't a bad ending by any means, just a little inevitable/predictable by then.
i wish there had been more to imogen than a red herring. i wish there could've been more text to substantiate her and sadie's relationship in the epilogue, more than just a secret crime binding them together. obviously sadie and imogen are now no longer actively hostile towards each other, but i would've liked to see some warmth between the two of them, they both deserve someone to trust and hold on to. i always liked imogen.
overall, a pretty good thriller. still don't love the prevalence of DID/schizophrenia in psychological thrillers but at least sadie wasn't painted as the villain for her disorder, but that's literally the bare minimum. a good read if you're lookin for a quick thrill.
i feel like i could've told you Will did it 10% into the book. i wouldn't have been able to explain how or why but it felt so obvious.
despite this, this book did a really good job of keeping me guessing. i feel like the DID and Will twist were kind of obvious, but also i can't fault the author entirely bc she dropped a lot of very subtle hints that i enjoyed picking up on. the unreliable narration was good in the sense that it made me feel incredibly uncertain about everything and paranoid that i was psyching myself out. this book keeps a lot of balls in the air, and for the most part does it well.
the characters aren't very interesting, it's mostly investment in finding out what happens that kept me going, but it was a breeze to get through this book. even though i guessed the main twists super early, i kept revising my theories for what the exact explanation was. i didn't guess that morgan was erin's sister, although in hindsight i feel like i should have so tjat was a fun surprise, although that explanation seemed a little too ... basic. maybe it was bc it seemed obvious from the beginning that Will was the bad guy, but i guess it was literally just bad luck for morgan that Will happened to move to her town? if morgan was trying to warn Sadie about Will, why stop w the picture? she could have spoken to sadie any time within the last few months but she didn't. idk it seemed like a weak explanation. i liked that the clues all matched up well, even if the ending was a little mehhh. it wasn't a bad ending by any means, just a little inevitable/predictable by then.
i wish there had been more to imogen than a red herring. i wish there could've been more text to substantiate her and sadie's relationship in the epilogue, more than just a secret crime binding them together. obviously sadie and imogen are now no longer actively hostile towards each other, but i would've liked to see some warmth between the two of them, they both deserve someone to trust and hold on to. i always liked imogen.
overall, a pretty good thriller. still don't love the prevalence of DID/schizophrenia in psychological thrillers but at least sadie wasn't painted as the villain for her disorder, but that's literally the bare minimum. a good read if you're lookin for a quick thrill.