Name: The Third Wife
ISBN: 9781476792187

Lisa Jewell

Successful architect and grief-stricken widower Adrian Wolfe begins to investigate his third wife's death, trying to determine whether it was suicide or just a tragic accident. By the author ofThe House We Grew Up In.

A Novel

The Third Wife

In the early hours of an April morning, Maya stumbles into the path of an oncoming bus. A tragic accident? Or suicide? Her grief-stricken husband, Adrian, is determined to find out. Maya had a job she enjoyed; she had friends. They'd been in love. She even got on with his two previous wives and their children. In fact, they'd all been one big happy family. But before long Adrian starts to identify the dark cracks in his perfect life. Because everyone has secrets. And secrets have consequences. Some of which can be devastating.

The third wife

Light-hearted and easy to read book. Good building of suspense throughout the book, although I wasn’t a fan of the ending. The secrets unravel slowly and steadily with no massive revelations at the end. The plot is quite packed, so still a nice read. 

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Jemma

This book was an easy read and did get me hooked, but the ending was so disappointing hence the 2 stars - I love Lisa Jewell but this one was just bland

Lauryn Jackson

Adrien's life seems to be almost perfect. Although he has had two unsuccessful marriages and is onto his third wife, Maya, all of the family gets along. The ex-wives and great with him at coparenting and they seem to bring Maya into the mix with their collective 5 children. It all seems like there is no hard feelings between anyone, but Lisa Jewell doesn't write thing how they all seem. 
Maya's life comes to an unfortunate end and Adrien doesn't seem to know how to cope with the accidental death. Many things come to light throughout the book, lives not as happy as they seem, secrets that almost died with Maya, end up being brought into the light. 

I didn't love the ending to this book. It just seems anticlimactic and there were just no *pizzazz*. I liked the book while I was reading it, wanting to find out all of the little things that this family was hiding, but it was just not as sinister as I wanted it to be. I had an inkling that this book would disappoint me and that's what I'm blaming for it taking me so long to read it. Not a bad read, but could've been more disturbing and less happy ending for me.

Lauren Attaway

Thanks to NetGalley for the early copy. I've been trying to decide how I felt about this book since I finished it in the early hours of June 4. I wanted to rate this book lower, but then it really pulled me back in, which is why I stayed up reading. What an interesting story about a blended family. In most novels, there is no middle ground when it comes to blended families. Everyone hates or loves each other. Adrian's children were all believable and flawed and ultimately sympathetic. The pacing early on didn't quite grip me, but once I was able to tap into the children's viewpoints, I was hooked. Excellent viewpoint of the impact a father's inability to commit can have on all of the children. This family felt very alive to me, and that's no easy task.

The Third Wife A Novel

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