The Husbands: A Novel

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.

Following a night out with friends, tipsy Lauren comes home to a husband she doesn't remember marrying. She soon figures out that her attic is producing an endless variety of Husbands. What ensues is an elaborate search for her perfect mate. Think Tinder, but IRL... With each iteration of a Husband, Lauren experiences a slightly different (not necessarily better, just different) version of her life. As soon as the Husband shows signs of a trait she doesn't like, up the stairs to the attic she banishes him, only to be replaced by a new Husband and a new life. But will Lauren recognize a good thing when it walks out of her attic? The premise is interesting and fun at first, but I have to agree with some other reviewers that it started to get tedious toward the end and I wondered why it hadn't ended about 50 pages earlier. Also some stuff happens that made me question some of the choices the author made (Lauren went from being relatable and quirky a-la-Bridget-Jones to downright crazy and obsessive). There was potential for Lauren to experience some kind of epiphany, but the end left me a little unsatisfied that she had not learned or grown at all. Entertaining, but not quite what I hoped for.

Feeling greate after reading this book

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.

Lauren why did you drug that man¿🧍‍♂️ #unhinged