There is a surge of relationship-gone-bad thrillers in the market right now thanks to the success of Gone Girl. The Good Widow would certainly fit into this genre. While it held my attention, it didn't leave me gasping in the same way Gone Girl did. There was an urgency to and connection I felt with the two main characters in Gone Girl that I just never got here.Without giving away too many details, this story begins with Jacks (short for Jacqueline) learning that her husband, James, was killed in a car accident while in Hawaii. Trouble is, Jacks thought he was on a business trip in Kansas. Not only that, she learns he was with another woman.
Jacks and Nick, the fiancee of the woman her husband was with when he died, decide to travel together to Hawaii to retrace the last days of their loved ones in the hopes of understanding what happened and to bring closure to their loss. They discover a lot about themselves and their lovers that they did not know.
I appreciated the past - present structure of the book, allowing me to see the progression of the various relationships. But, overall, I found parts to be more annoying than believable and I hurried through the end simply to find out what would happen. I would not recommend this over other books with this same tone, but if you like a quick-read thriller, this one fits the bill.
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