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The Husbands by Chandler Baker
3.0

My first experience with this author. I enjoyed the writing style and will probably read more. Chandler Baker did a great job of conveying just how real life is for many mothers/wives and showing their frustration with getting the dads/husbands to understand.
Somewhere while listening to this story I forgot that it was categorized as a thriller. I was listening to it more as a women's fiction agreeing with a lot of the issues that were brought up and feeling lucky at times that I didn't experience the level of mom/wife unhappiness that the main character, Nora, did. There was a bit too much of the frustration part between Nora and her husband, Hayden, before the story moved on. At times I felt frustrated myself, but maybe that was the intent. Due to this it took way too long to get to the "thriller" part which is when I remembered that is what the story was suppose to be. I would say it is more a Women's Fiction Mystery.
I did figure out the "twist" and how the husbands became super dads, it was kind of obvious to me but I was interested in how that all related to the rest of the plot. How the fire and the neighbourhood dynamics played into that. The ending was not as thriller as I thought it was going to be and almost felt unbelievable. There were too many women involved for that to have worked.
I found the social media sections a bit long at times and fast forwarded through them. If I had been reading I would have skipped them completely.

I liked the story as an audiobook. I enjoyed listening to Alyson Ryan narrate. She read well as Nora and most of the other women. She has an easy to listen to tone to her voice.

Thanks very much to MacMillan Audio and NetGalley for giving the opportunity to listen to and review this book.