This book had 5-star potential. In fact, for probably 50% or so of the way through the book I thought it was going to be a 5-star for me. Unfortunately 3.5 is the best I could do by the end. 

In this debut novel we are following Lauren (maybe Laura? Laurel..? Yeah, I already forgot her name)...anyways, so we're following her as she returns to her flat one night after a friend's bachelorette party to discover a random man in her flat. She's obviously frightened at the discovery but then realizes this man is not only in her apartment, but he's her husband...except, she doesn't have a husband...or at least she didn't when she left. 

Through a series of events, Lauren discovers that something is fishy about the attic in her flat and once she sends this man she found in her apartment..her husband..up the ladder and he disappears, a new man, a new husband, appears. And therefore, we have the title.."The Husbands". We're following Lauren through a series of husbands and countless men that she sends back to the attic and the consequences that each of these men has on her life as they arrive and leave. 

So, like I said before, this is a really interesting premise and overall I like the book, there was nothing that made me overly upset, and to be honest I found myself unable to put the book down because I wanted to see what was going to happen next. 

The first issue that I have with the book is that I truly found the main character so unlikeable. She had almost zero personality and there was nothing about her that stuck out as memorable. I think that the development of the husband characters were done much better than the main character..and maybe that was the point? But husbands that we literally only saw for a page or a few paragraphs had more personality than Lauren. 

My second issue is that the book was told from Lauren's perspective for the most part, but then random paragraphs would change to "she" and that just confused the fuck outta me because I wasn't sure what the purpose of that was? 

There is a situation that takes place somewhere between half way and three quarters of the book that really just irked me as well and it sort of became the focal point and ended in such a way that I'm not sure why we spent so much time talking about it. 

So, overall, I enjoyed in the book - I was also satisfied with the ending because while a bit extreme, I understand the reasoning behind it and that I appreciated. I will definitely continue to read anything this author puts out because I think there is great potential there and with a few minor tweaks, this could have easily been a 4 or 5 star read.