The Marriage Lie

De: Kimberly Belle

Narrado por: Johanna Parker

Everyone has secrets…

Iris and Will have been married for seven years, and life is as close to perfect as it can be. But on the morning Will flies out for a business trip to Florida, Iris’s happy world comes to an abrupt halt: another plane headed for Seattle has crashed into a field, killing everyone on board and, according to the airline, Will was one of the passengers.

Grief-stricken and confused, Iris is convinced it must all be a huge misunderstanding. Why did Will lie about where he was going? And what else has he lied about? As Iris sets off on a desperate quest to uncover what her husband was keeping from her, the answers she finds shock her to her very core.

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Look for these other pulse-pounding thrillers by Kimberly Belle:

• The Last Breath
• Stranger in the Lake
• My Darling Husband
• Three Days Missing
• Dear Wife
• The Ones We Trust

©2016 Kimberly Belle (P)2023 Harlequin Enterprises, Limited

A few twists

I wasn’t crazy about the narrator The story was a little slow from time to time. I didn’t like the ending.

Ummm no no no on the ending

It was well written and kept my attention but i feel the ending was abrupt and harsh. There is a fine line of love, lawfulness and giving someone grace for what they have been through.

Good book/ Bad audio

Book was entertaining. Do agree that the main character is a tad whiney but the reader was simply awful. She goes in and out of her southern drawl and sometimes goes into a midwestern accent. Why read with any accent??? The other southern characters didn’t have any! Also, actually dropped into a bad black accent at the very end with the Corbin character. WTH?

Marriage lie

This was a beautiful story about heartache and love mixed with suspense and a mystery that was soooo good. The ending was beautiful and sad but perfect.

Sooooo GOOD!

One of the best books I’ve read/listened to in a very long time! The characters were perfect and the plot twists were the best!!

Too Predictable!

I wanted to like this book but it was too predictable and the characters were stereotypical. The wife talked too much and was annoying. I finished the book because I wanted to be wrong. I thought something else would happen. This book is a no for me! I hated when the woman performer tried to speak in a males voice. She sounded horrible and it took away from the story.

Unbelievable

I kept thinking it would get better, but was disappointing. Hoping I could not figure out the plot.

Terrible narrator’s voice

The narrator’s terrible attempt of a “southern’ accent/draw was too distracting for me to get through past 3-4 chapters. I even tried to speed up the audio to mask it. I would be better off actually reading the physical book.

You can skip this one

Extremely predictable.

I only read a handful reviews before deciding to read this book and I wish I would have done a deeper dive. Someone compared it to “Gone girl” and it could not have been further from the truth.
It’s repetitive, annoying, unbelievable and just bad. So so bad. If you’ve read one thriller in your life you will be able to figure out how this book will end.

The characters are flat, and not believable. Iris mentions more than once that she’s a psychologist but none of the choices (or very few) supports that. She’s whiny, weak and just annoying.
I understand that Kimberly (author) has her whining and doubting Will’s death and “how she just caaaaant believe it” for 90% of the book so the reader can go back in the end (spoiler) when it’s revealed that OMG HE’S NOT DEAD (!!!) and think that Iris had women’s intuition/is smart or whatever the point is. But it falls flat and she just comes across as annoying.
And her decision at the end, to alert the security system goes against her entire personality throughout the book.

But above all, the one who read the book is almost unbearable. I could barely stand her voice and the way she made the voices. Extremely weird choices.

0/5 would NOT recommend.