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My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing
2.0

I thought this would be more like a murder-focused version of Santa Clarita Diet, but instead it's told from the perspective of a husband who seems to wildly fluctuate between wanting to help his wife with the murders and not wanting to know anything about them - and the decision for the switch is random. The wife is the one doing the murders while the husband chooses the targets - but once he talks to the woman once he can't choose her to die. He talks about wanting to help his wife and how he suggested the murders to add spark to their marriage, while at the same time the idea of his wife doing the actual murder makes him sick to his stomach. There's no consistency.

Also his narrative voice is boring in my opinion. No matter what happens the tone is the same flat voice.

The story isn't bad but it was not what I was hoping for based on the description. I was hoping for more husband and wife working hand in hand with the murders, in a possibility tongue-in-cheek way, but instead it's more husband cheats on wife with women he considers murdering and then wants nothing to do with it once his wife does the actual work.