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Evidence of the Affair by Taylor Jenkins Reid
4.0

If you are looking for a quick read to get over that reading slump, or to just read during your time in a cafe or at a beach, then look no further. This is a perfect book!

Evidence of the Affair by Taylor Jenkins Reid is just an hour-long short story based on the repercussions of an illicit affair, written in epistolary format.

Carrie and David watch the downfall of their respective marriage and what started as a correspondence between two strangers writing about the affair of their spouses, transforms into a friendship over the course. Through the letters, they judge the love in their marriages, the mistakes that might have led to the affair between their spouses, the longing and the heartbreak. They question themselves about what to do with the information that they know about the secret affair. Should they end their marriages?

Though the story is not suspenseful as such, it keeps you on your toes till the end. TJR did it again! In just 100 pages or so, she wrote such a simple yet dramatic and entertaining story. And I could only wish for it to be a full-length novel