Horrible Husbands – Jessica Huntley

2 stars

Horrible Husbands started off great! Three women who have been best friends since they were small end up married to horrible men and plot to do away with said husbands during a drunken girls’ weekend. But then the train starts coming off the tracks….

These three women have the absolute worst luck I’ve ever seen; coincidental worst luck. One married a thief and a cheater, one married an abuser, and one married a seeming pedo. And the coincidences continue as we check all the boxes: super coincidental accidental death/murder life insurance update, exceedingly shady behaviour out of the blue, and loads of amateur sleuthing that would never fly in today’s day and age.

The story itself was really slow. It felt like a lot of repetitive scenes and information, and as soon as I would start getting into the action then everything would go cold again. It made my reading experience drag a bit and made it hard for me to get into a book that was already a bit of a challenge fot me to enjoy.

And that twist…..eh. The story would’ve been better without it. It tried to do too much and I’d have been happier with leaving it as three friends who love each other and only want the best so they each help the others get out of bad situations. I didn’t need all the double (triple?) crossing and the drama; it just tied everything into unnecessary knots.

Horrible Husbands didn’t really do it for me. Really cool premise but the execution wasn’t there. If you like your thrillers quick and a bit on the predictable side, this one will go a lot better for you than it did for me.