Friday, November 9, 2018

The Testament of Harold's Wife

Title: The Testament of Harold's Wife
Author: Lynne Hugo
Published: September 25th 2018 by Kensington Publishing Corporation
Format: eBook, Paperback, 304 pages
Genre: Fiction
Source: My thanks to Netgalley and the Publisher for an opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book.

The character of Louisa grew on me page after page and when Lynne Hugo had me laughing a loud with her revelations about glitter Jesus, I knew I had found a new book to share.

In bits and pieces, Louisa tells the story of her husband Harold and his mission to make the man that had killed their grandson Cody pay for his lies. The driver claimed and he never saw Cody when he swerved to avoid a deer that had bolted in front of his vehicle. Harold could not live with this explanation and vowed to seek revenge. As Harold begins his plotting, life took another turn and Harold kills himself instead. Louisa, the good wife that she is, takes up the mantle and vows to finish what her husband started.

With a revenge plot, you would not expect an author to throw in humor, but with an aging body, a son who has found God and started a church to deal with his own grief, and a bumbling sheriff out to woo Louisa, there is no end to what a woman has to go through to make a selfish man pay for destroying her life.

My only problem with the book was the unrealistic ending. Granted, many aspects of the book itself were unrealistic, but the ending was rushed and other than the great cosmic karma ending, it felt hurried and not complete.

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