Thank you to bibliolifestyle and HaperVia for the gifted copy

MY HUSBAND Maud Ventura (tr. Emma Ramadan) #reviewsbyamber

At 40 years old and married for over a decade, the unnamed narrator is still madly in love with her husband, perhaps a little too much. Determined to keep their relationship perfect, she spends her days analyzing her husband's moods, manufacturing chance encounters, and even testing his love for her. Until one day, she realizes she may have gone too far.

MY HUSBAND is an absorbing read that takes on a thriller pace with a lit fic concept. I love the unreliable narrator angle and how the readers experience the wife's commitment to a perfect marriage. The story occurs over one week, following each day when the narrator encounters "difficulties" in her relationship and peers into the inner psyche of her methods of course correction.

Entertaining and unputdownable, I devoured MY HUSBAND in one setting, and I applaud Ramadan for doing a fantastic job translating a novel that reads like it's written in English. It could help understand the book more if the readers know French, as there are some references to how French and English describe love differently and act upon it in various ways. However, as someone who doesn't know French, it wasn't a big deal to not fully understand everything.

MY HUSBAND is a brilliant book that delves into the core of romantic love, and asks the question, can love be all-consuming?