Unfortunately I found this book slow going and hard to get into. I so wanted to enjoy it, The story is well written, there’s no doubt in that however the book unfortunately wasn’t for me.

Oh my god you have to read this book it's totally amazing and will have you gripped from start to finish.
This book is brilliant it follows three friends who meet at university and they are totally different
Kate has money and she is used to getting what she wants.
Jenny is more serious and always the sensible one.
Aubrey is the shy girl who wants to please everyone.
Three girls all different all became friends until the fatal night when Kate does something stupid. The girls have to keep Kate's secret which later comes back and wrecks their lives.
I do not want to give too much away but this book is brilliant. All three women's lives start to unravel and they start to turn on each other.
Are they real friends, or do they put up with each other because of their secret?
When Kate is found dead both Jenny and Aubrey have a lot to lose when there is a investigation in to Kate’s death.
Who killed her and why? Will the secret that has been hidden for so many years come back and ruin everything Jenny and Aubrey have achieved in their lives
Then there are the husbands. Are they as innocent as they make out to be? Or are there hidden secrets that they do not want to come out.
A brilliant book with a twist at the end that I didn't see coming. If I could give it more than 5 stars I would this book is brilliant

I felt It's always the husband was a tale of two halves, whereas the first half was totally different to the second. The title suggested this was right up my street but when I started to read it I felt like I was reading a YA read not the thriller I thought it was going to be. The first half concentrates around three girls that room together during their college years. Kate, Jenny and Aubrey are totally different girls from totally different backgrounds but all with hidden secrets and problems. This section ensured you knew each girl inside out as you followed them through lectures, partying and holidays.
This did feel quite tedious to read at times but I am glad I continued.
Then the book moves onto the second part where you catch up with the three of them, a few years have passed they are married, some have children but they are all still linked with the tragedy that happened years ago where they all must stay quiet to ensure each others stories tally to not halt there personal successes.
This was a great read after halfway and I couldn't put it down then, the second half is soooo much better it makes you doubt that the first half was so different, but it was!
I would like to thank Netgalley and HQ for this ARC I received in exchange for an honest review.

Was really excited to read this book but not so long into it, I started to hate it! Hated the setting, characters, nothing seemed to have me hooked and felt the story was a bit all over the place. 1/5

I really didn’t like this - it was like reading a sweet valley high book, but with hideous charecters and booze! It isn’t a story about friendship - it’s a story about selfish, entitled girls with a token poor friend to mix it up! I tried to persevere as other reviewers said it got better, but I couldn’t actually finish it! Probably be a good holiday read, but not for me.

It’s Always the Husband is a hybrid of domestic drama, family saga and a hint of psychological thriller featuring 3 friends all of whom are randomly horrible. Seriously. Each in their own way horribly entitled and whiny. Still they were utterly compelling.

This is a story about people getting exactly what is coming to them – I enjoyed it thoroughly on that level and was rather nastily gleeful when a certain death happened. I found it to be a page turner especially from the half way mark but in the end it’s ALWAYS the husband. Isn’t it?

Maybe not…you’ll have to read to find out……

The ebb and flow of female friendships is examined in this story with a genuine realism, even though most of our friendships don’t end in death you know, sometimes you feel they actually might. As we follow along with these 3, seeing the secret resentments and honest underneath of the surface smiles it is utterly gripping. I loved the past/present vibe as we discover what happened then and it seeps into what is happening now – the strength in this story comes from the multi-layered characters, their deeper emotional core and the life influences that define who these women are.

The mystery element is clever, but for me not the heart of this – the dynamics of friendship is the main theme and it is beautifully done. The end did make me raise an eyebrow however so that deserves points – an intelligent resolution always being a huge plus.

Overall “It’s Always The Husband” was an intriguing, addictive read with plenty of divisive personalities within the pages to get the reading blood up.

Recommended.

This is a difficult book to review since I didn't like it at all. That might not necessarily be because it's a bad book, it's just that I didn't find a single character that was likeable or I could relate to. I would have stopped reading, but other reviewers promised that it got better in the second half, so I persisted.

The first half is about the friendship of three young women who meet in an American university, and their friendship. It was hard to see what they liked about each other, to be honest, though we were repeatedly told that they were great friends and loved each other. The one thing that made me uncomfortable (and I had a little trouble believing) was the depitction of American college life as being one big party, with drugs and drinking. All of the characters seemed so selfish and irresponsible that I didn't care for them one bit.

The second half is set about twenty years later, when a death dredges up skeletons that had been buried in the past. It was a good set-up, with a decent amount of suspense, but the denouement happened in a rather lacklustre manner -- not through any mystery-solving capabilities of the cop or by allowing readers to piece things together, but through the inner dialogue of the characters. That was a let-down, and felt almost like plot notes rather than the finished goods. The final twist was similarly delivered, in a drab manner.

I received a review copy from NetGalley.

I found it difficult to rate and review this book. As a 50 something UK reader I felt, certainly in the first half, that I was not the target audience which seemed to be an American teenager. The second half was more a run of the mill whodunit, but to be honest I only read that far as the publisher had granted me a copy in return for a review. It was well written and I'm sure many people will enjoy it - but not for me.

Thanks Netgalley and the Publisher. I really enjoyed this book and read it in one sitting and would recommend to other readers

A brilliant who done it. I read this book in two sitting, I really could not put it down. It starts in college, three friends grow up together, but are they all true friends? Read to the end to find out

It's Always The Husband is an addictive read about female friendships and the lengths that women will go to in order to protect their friends - or get their revenge. The book is set over two time periods: when they meet at an elite Ivy League university and 22 years later, as adults in the same small college town. The flashbacks meant the book had something a little different from other thrillers but although I enjoyed them greatly (I have a weird thing about Ivy League themed books) this is first and foremost a book about three women and their tumultuous relationships, rather than a thriller.

I really enjoyed this book. Great storyline, wonderful main characters and a very good read. I would recommend this book.