“Why do you think it’s so popular? The missing-woman story?”
“Because who can resist a damsel in distress?” – 3.25/5 stars!

Attention! This book contains: letters, non-bio sandwiches, caves, fake names, and a lot of sneaking out.

A couple’s fifteen-year marriage has finally gotten too interesting…

Our love story is simple. I met a gorgeous woman. We fell in love. We had kids. We moved to the suburbs. We told each other our biggest dreams, and our darkest secrets. And then we got bored.

We look like a normal couple. We’re your neighbors, the parents of your kid’s friend, the acquaintances you keep meaning to get dinner with.

We all have secrets to keeping a marriage alive.

Ours just happens to be getting away with murder.

I’ve been wanting to read this book for years! It’s funny how I barely pick thrillers anymore, but this was probably the only one I had on my TBR that I really wanted to read for the synopsis. A couple that spices up their boring lives and marriage by killing women together? That sounded so different and interesting!

Unfortunately, this wasn’t what I expected and the story ended up disappointing me a little. I was hoping we would see their dynamic together while kidnapping and killing the women, but we get almost nothing of the sort. A big portion of the book is focused on the kids and the parents thinking about how their actions are affecting them. Also, I thought this would be a dual POV since the couple is doing it together, but instead, we only get the husband’s POV. There’s a lot of “what is my wife doing to the women behind my back” and not a lot of “this is what we are doing to the women”.

There’s a bit of a plot twist at the end, but I didn’t think it was surprising. You kind of see it coming as the story progresses. Also, the pace is on the slower side, so coupling this with the fact there’s almost no action… it gets a little boring.

It wasn’t a terrible book and part of me was entertained, but I thought the story would be a little better and more engaging. Oh well, at least I’ve finally read it!