Picked this up off a paperback sale rack when I was looking for a light, easy, vacation read – and it didn’t disappoint. Cecilia accidentally stumbles upon a sealed envelope in her attic – addressed to her by her husband, with the instructions to only open it after his death. The problem is that her husband is very much alive, and when she asks him about it, it is very clear that he doesn’t want her to open it. Naturally she does, and discovers […]
The Secrets We Keep
When I first picked up this book, I assumed it was going to be as the title suggested: about the secret of a husband (or husbands) and how it impacts that lives of those close to them. And, in a way, it was. But as I got deeper into this book and realized what these secrets were, and the way it tied the lives of three different women together, it became clear that it was about so much more than that. It’s about the pressure […]
Would you open Pandora’s Box?
Poor, poor Pandora. Zeus sends her off to Epimetheus, a not especially bright man she’s never even met, along with a mysterious covered jar. Nobody tells Pandora a word about the jar. Nobody tells her not to open the jar. Naturally, she opens the jar. Falling somewhere between What Alice Forgot and Big Little Lies, the Husband’s Secret was leaps and bounds better than the Hypnotist’s Love Story. The secret is pretty predictable but that’s not why you’re reading, you’re reading to see how Moriarty […]
Secrets Are Bad,Yo
Well, Liane Moriarty finally burned me. Of the three books that I’ve read by her, this one had me saying, “No, no human being would make those decisions!” And then I’d growl at my screen and worry my husband who was trying to sleep because I just wasn’t happy that I was stuck reading this book. There’s very little that can actually be said about the book’s plot that wouldn’t give it all away so I’ll be vague. A woman finds out that her husband […]