![]() All that passes for reality is unstable in The Love of My Life. After reading and loving Ghosted, I was so excited to read Rosie Walshs new book, and I wasnt disappointed.Secrets, so many secrets. Her narrative is studded with evasively worded passages that lure us readers into dead ends, switchback turns, false sutures between scenes and a startling final climax. As appealing as the characters of Emma and Leo are, the essential draw of a domestic suspense story such as this one is its plot. Walsh just may have written the first domestic suspense novel in which the deceitful spouse is also a genuinely nice person. But, Emma Merry Bigelow, the enigmatic heroine of Rosie Walsh’s The Love of My Life, seems so funny, warm, compassionate and kind that we readers root for her-even though we learn fairly quickly that she’s living under an assumed name and harbors a host of other secrets, something her adoring husband, Leo, doesn’t know about. ![]() ![]() Usually, the partner with a secret triggers suspicion in us canny readers early on. ![]() Leo is an obituary writer and Emma is a well-known marine biologist, so, when she. The Love of My Life is a classic example of the 'I married a stranger' domestic suspense plot-with a twist. Leo is an obituary writer and Emma is a well-known marine biologist, so, when she suffers a serious illness, Leo copes by doing what he knows best - reading and. And she might just have got away with it, if it werent for her husbands job. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |