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JoAnn Chaney

“Unputdownable....This novel is anything but predictable. The female characters are forces of nature, and the plot twists are deliciously demented, a la Gone Girl and Big Little Lies.” —People You can’t be married to someone without sometimes wanting to kill them... As Long As We Both Shall Live is JoAnn Chaney’s wicked, masterful examination of a marriage gone very wrong, a marriage with lots of secrets... “My wife! I think she’s dead!” Matt frantically tells park rangers that he and his wife, Marie, were hiking when she fell off a cliff into the raging river below. They start a search, but they aren’t hopeful: no one could have survived that fall. It was a tragic accident. But Matt’s first wife also died in suspicious circumstances. And when the police pull a body out of the river, they have a lot more questions for Matt. Detectives Loren and Spengler want to know if Matt is a grieving, twice-unlucky husband or a cold-blooded murderer. They dig into the couple’s lives to see what they can unearth. And they find that love’s got teeth, it’s got claws, and once it hitches you to a person, it’s tough to rip yourself free. So what happens when you’re done making it work?

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As Long as We Both Shall Live

Chrissy

imam puno toga za rec al ne znam pisat reviews :// poanta je da zeli bit gone girl i doslovno ju spominje al gone girl je toliko umjetnicki bolja, iako ovaj roman zeli dokazat da ima bolje plot twists, al nije sve u tome. al evo priznajem da mi je drugi dio bio zanimljiv i da sam ju jedva pustala iz ruku, iako sam se kroz prvi dio bar borila, dosta los opening

Shreya Punj

Listen, if you’ve ever read as many thrillers as I have over the years, this one will reel you in with that great blurb and then spit you out with THE MOST obvious twists ever. 

That being said, the two detectives have great arcs and I’d love to read more about them and see them partnering up to solve more crimes.

Fleur van Ravesteijn 

It started out so well, I was instantly intrigued. But I sort of lost interest along the way… The story is original and entertaining but it wasn’t as compelling as I had hoped. I was hoping/waiting for some mind-boggling revelation that didn’t come.

Caitlin Snyder

(+) I thought this was a classic mystery story & that I had it figured out halfway through but this book surprised me!

Jolie

I have been reading a lot of psychological thrillers/mysteries and I have been getting burnt out on them. So I went into reading As Long as We Both Shall Live not wanting to read it. I am glad that I made myself read this book. It was fantastic.

There are four plotlines in As Long as We Both Shall Live. Yes, 4. When I realized that, I did an internal groan. Anything over two plotlines and I get confused. In As Long as We Both Shall Live, the author was able to keep the plotlines separate. She was also to merge the plotlines when needed. There was a little lag in the middle of the book when two of the plotlines joined. Other than that, this book zipped right along.

I loved how snarky this book was. There were points where I was dying laughing with the views on marriage. I am not married but have been in a relationship for 15 years, and I get it. That’s what made parts of this book funny to me.

Detective Loren is one of my new favorite fictional characters. I will admit, I wasn’t too sure about him when he was introduced. He was abrasive and rude to everyone. But slowly (and yes, slowly) a different side of him was shown. By the end of the book, I loved him.

The mystery angle of the book was good. The author did a great job of keeping me in the dark about what exactly happened the day Marie disappeared. She slowly let out clues about what happened. There are also so many red herrings. That is what made it enjoyable to read!!

I loved how the author brought everything together at the end of the book. The twists were what made the ending for me. I had guessed about one of them early in the book. But the other one, oh no. That took me 100% by surprise.

 Bruna Acioly Leão

This had a really interesting premise and most of the book was intriguing enough, but in the end I just felt like it dragged on a little bit.

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