Dead to Her: A Novel

Thank you NetGalley and publisher William Morrow books for a free galley in exchange for my honest review. With mysteries and thrillers, I like to read them without reading the synopsis beforehand. For me, it makes a more enjoyable experience when I go into it with absolutely no assumptions about the plot. This worked heavily in favor of the book this time... because I thought the plot was pretty superficial and absurd - old rich white people, trashy gold-digging marriages, too many uncomfortable sex scenes, weird voodoo... you get my drift. However, because I was reading blind, the unraveling of the many characters and their lies kept me on my toes and I finished it in less than a day. The story is told from two POVs but there are a LOT of players in this game... lies and backstory of scorned characters continually coming out of the woodwork, but none of them seemed fully fleshed out. I was rushing through to figure out who did what, but just felt disappointed in the end as the book itself felt rushed and undeveloped. The twists at the end were surprisingly clever, but unfortunately, for me, it was too little too late to salvage it. If you’re a Sarah Pinborough fan, you will probably love this book... if you’re a Liane Moriarty fan, don’t waste your time - this is nowhere in the realm of her Domestic Suspense genre.