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The Husbands: A Read with Jenna Pick: A Novel
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • READ WITH JENNA’S APRIL BOOK CLUB PICK • The Husbands delights in asking: how do we navigate life, love, and choice in a world of never-ending options? (“A bottomless champagne flute of a novel —The Washington Post)
When Lauren returns home to her flat in London late one night, she is greeted at the door by her husband, Michael. There’s only one problem—she’s not married. She’s never seen this man before in her life. But according to her friends, her much-improved decor, and the photos on her phone, they’ve been together for years.
As Lauren tries to puzzle out how she could be married to someone she can’t remember meeting, Michael goes to the attic to change a lightbulb and abruptly disappears. In his place, a new man emerges, and a new, slightly altered life re-forms around her. Realizing that her attic is creating an infinite supply of husbands, Lauren confronts the question: If swapping lives is as easy as changing a lightbulb, how do you know you’ve taken the right path? When do you stop trying to do better and start actually living?
When Lauren returns home to her flat in London late one night, she is greeted at the door by her husband, Michael. There’s only one problem—she’s not married. She’s never seen this man before in her life. But according to her friends, her much-improved decor, and the photos on her phone, they’ve been together for years.
As Lauren tries to puzzle out how she could be married to someone she can’t remember meeting, Michael goes to the attic to change a lightbulb and abruptly disappears. In his place, a new man emerges, and a new, slightly altered life re-forms around her. Realizing that her attic is creating an infinite supply of husbands, Lauren confronts the question: If swapping lives is as easy as changing a lightbulb, how do you know you’ve taken the right path? When do you stop trying to do better and start actually living?
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I enjoyed this book bc it was fiction, so I wasn't reading into the scenarios as much as the others. There were times I was really scared for her that the men would not go back in the attic. People need to learn to be entertained and not disect everything to be plausible or make sense. Again its FICTION.
I love the concept but after a while got bored of all the new descriptions, when I knew it would change again soon!
I listened to this one on audiobook, and the reader was very engaging. But the premise was repetitive, and in the end, unsatisfying. I think the Jenna book club, focusing on first time authors, may do itself a disservice when the inexperience of both writers and publishers renders dreck in the new book marketplace. This was a book that just went nowhere. No redeeming quality or deep-seated meaning in the banal existence of this woman, nothing learned. I kept thinking that she would wake from a yearlong coma and realize that, in her brain-addled cruise through a universe of husbands, she would realize that having a husband does not define her. That she was complete as she was. But no, she just got off the merry-go-round because of fatigue in her situation (believe me, I was fatigued too), settled, and just flat resigned herself to an existence she did not live or choose. Sorry to say it was wasted time for me.
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2.5. This was not for me, sorry to those who loved it. The idea of the story was so good and different from anything I had read before that I was hooked and couldn't wait to get into it, but the actual story just doesn't match up with the synopsis. Lauren is just annoying and picky (and I thought I was picky) She would send back a husband for something so small and not really giving these men a chance which made the story hard for me because I didn't get a chance to be invested in anyone in the book. She complained about a husband, who after he fell down the attic stairs, was getting more attention than her from her own friends and family. I think my expectations for her were too high. The ending felt rushed and wasn't satisfying. She didn't pick a husband. She just stopped and settle for whoever came out, without even meeting him. I thought this book was going to be more thought provoking and it was a bit of a letdown. I will say I liked the last husband and the last chapter in his pov was nice. Wish I got to know more about him.
2.5. This was not for me, sorry to those who loved it. The idea of the story was so good and different from anything I had read before that I was hooked and couldn't wait to get into it, but the actual story just doesn't match up with the synopsis. Lauren is just annoying and picky (and I thought I was picky) She would send back a husband for something so small and not really giving these men a chance which made the story hard for me because I didn't get a chance to be invested in anyone in the book. She complained about a husband, who after he fell down the attic stairs, was getting more attention than her from her own friends and family. I think my expectations for her were too high. The ending felt rushed and wasn't satisfying. She didn't pick a husband. She just stopped and settle for whoever came out, without even meeting him. I thought this book was going to be more thought provoking and it was a bit of a letdown. I will say I liked the last husband and the last chapter in his pov was nice. Wish I got to know more about him.
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