I liked the premise of this book - is it possible to love more than one person, and how do people in a polygamous relationship deal with the emotions it can engender? However, I felt very uncomfortable and saddened by the author's use of psychosis and mental health issues to move the plot of their novel forward. People's distress and trauma should never be used in this way.
Thank you to netgalley and HQ books for an advance copy of this book

I would like to thank HQ, Tarryn Fisher and netgalley for giving me the opportunity to read and review this book.
This book was not quite what I was expecting, it is a rollercoaster of twists and turns not knowing what is true or what is not. So you get quite engrossed in the story trying to figure it out. It didn’t take me long to read as I was intrigued as to what was going to happen next. It is an excellent read.
This story evolve around Thursday who is married to Seth whom she see only once a week. As he also has twoother wives which he see on Monday and Tuesday whom she has to share but has never met.

I am a bit speechless about this book! Not quite what I was expecting and is very dark and twisted at times. I found myself feeling uncomfortable whilst reading this therefore was willing the story to end to reach the outcome!

I do pick up the occasional thriller from time to time and maybe due to our current situation re lockdown I found this story to be a bit too intense for me?

Thank you to NetGalley & publisher for the opportunity to read this advanced copy in exchange for a honest review.

This is one of those books that has a fantastic initial premise that doesn’t quite follow through. It’s a quick and easy read that certainly kept me turning the pages but, all in all, I was left feeling somewhat dissatisfied and rather cheated if I’m honest. I was expecting a book all about polygamy and really got one on messed up relationships and unreliable narrators instead and that isn’t what I went into this for.

I suspect this is really 2.5 stars rounded up because the writing style was engaging and it did keep me reading. I was interested to see how it all panned out and even when I could see the twist coming, I was hoping the author would dodge the other way. Unfortunately she didn’t and it all became rather ludicrous towards the end. I disliked the use of mental illness, even as I admit that Fisher is quite adept at misdirection. Sometimes I think authors try too hard to sharp and edgy and that’s perhaps what happened here.

The first half of the book where you are introduced to Thursday - who unsurprisingly sees her husband on a Thursday - is quite fascinating. The relationship dynamics are built up well alongside Thursday’s curiosity, competitiveness and jealousy. I don’t think Fisher ever really explains why an apparently sensible nurse lets herself go along with being one of three wives, but that’s forgivable. It’s probably around the midpoint that the book begins unravelling though, which in turn leads to the cop out ending.

So points for writing style - it’s engaging and entertaining. But it drops the ball insofar as it isn’t really an exploration of polygamy at all. Extra minus points for the hammered in cliches of mental health and the rather lame ending that fails to tie anything up. If you’re looking for a quick, light read then this is a decent shout. But it relies too heavily on over-utilised narrative devices and has too weak an ending to bring anything new to the genre.

Many thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for my free review copy of this title.

An intriguing book...twists and turns and a lot of the time I didn’t know what was true or not.....however I couldn’t put it down and the concept was an interesting one!

I really struggled with this one - not the sharp, interesting story I expected but a bit sleazy. The three wives of a polygamist are called after the days of the week that they see him and they don't know each other. I struggled to get the message in this and in the end I don't think there was one.

I struggled to get into this story despite thinking the concept was really interesting. It is certainly a psychological thriller with a good cast of characters and makes you think of how we all have a different view of reality. There are certainly a number of twists that could not be predicted and the ending is very unsettling.

After hearing mixed reviews about this, I wasn’t sure. Upon reading, however, i discovered a splendid story full of twists and turns that kept me reading. Recommended.

I read this ARC for an honest review
All thoughts and opinions are mine

I'd seen this around and was thrilled to be able to read it

Absolutely loved it !!
The story has great twists and turns
Loved the characters

Highly recommend

That was a brilliant story, had me reading well into the small hours of the morning! The way it twisted one way then another, didn't see it coming was completely wrong footed, and loved it. Great ending, make me smile as again it wasnt seen coming but well deserved!

Definite read for thriller lovers.

3.5 - I was a little nervous about this book after reading some very mixed reviews but I devoured this book in a couple of hours, it is so fast paced and a nice quick read!

This is my second book from Tarryn Fisher and I really enjoy her style of writing and the pacing of her books. I love that polygamy is the main topic in this book, it’s not something I’ve come across in many thrillers before but something I greatly enjoyed.

Already ordered some of her backlist titles to add to my TBR pile!

(Trigger warning for miscarriages and stillbirths)

Thanks to NetGalley and HQ for providing an ecopy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Okay, so, The Wives. This is going to be a very short book review because I really don't have much to say about it. I finished it so long ago, and it's not the most intricate book so there's not a lot to unpack, really.

I really liked the concept of the book. A polygamist guy who doesn't allow his wives to meet? Awesome. Let's take him down! Unfortunately, that's not what this book was about at all. It wasn't to do with a woman rediscovering her own agency and getting out of a rubbish relationship (not saying that all polygamist relationships are rubbish, but this one certainly was).

The whole story and the way it played out felt very convoluted, and I don't understand what the author was going for at all. Her representation of mental illness was confusing at best, and I really was not a fan of it at all.

I'm wondering why the author felt the need to tell this story because there was no real message at the end, and the only thing it really had going for it was the fast paced story adding to its entertainment factor. And the promise of twists, which were quite promising to start with, but turned out to not be too great.

There are honestly much better thrillers out there, and I wouldn't recommend picking this one up!

I'd heard mixed things about this one so I was pleased to be accepted to read it. It was full of twists and easy to read, but I was hoping itnwould live up to the positive reviews - I did really enjoy it :)

I found The Wives a compulsive read. The writing was razor-sharp, the plotting was intricate and I flew through it as fast as I could because I was so keen to find out what was going to happen. The midpoint twist was HUGE, and it just kept getting crazier! It was a fun, speedy read which I would recommend to anyone who is after a super-twisty, pacy thriller.

This book was an absolute pleasure to read. Emily is such a ruthless, savage character. A great follow on from The Devil Wears Prada.

This was the most ridiculous book I have read in a long time. Three wives called Monday, Tuesday and Thursdays. which are the days they are with their husband. They know of each other but don't know each other. and seem to be happy with the arrangement.. Unbelievable, I really struggled with reading this.

True Rating 3.75 stars

This is the story of a woman who is married to a man who has two other wives who are referred to by days id the week. I feel that the protagonists name was a spoiler but I just reread the synopsis and realised it is in there. Our protagonist hasn’t met the other wives and has acceoted the arrangement until she slowly realises that she is not happy about seeing her husband one day a week. She slowly becomes obsessed with his other wives and very jealous. One day she finds a piece of paper with o name of one of his other wives and decides to go and find her and this is were things start to unravel.

This is the first Tarryn Fisher book that I have read. It is really fast paced and I really couldn’t turn the pages fast enough. I really loved the main character. Up until a point I was really rooting for her. There is a twist halfway through which I didn’t like very much. The story then changes. The story then really picks back up and I kept hoping that the story was not going in the direction that I thought it was going in but unfortunately it did. I also didn’t like how it ended. Despite my criticisms I still really enjoyed this book. The pacing and the writing were great. I really look forward to reading more from this new to me author.

Thursday is sexy, a super cook, married to Seth and extremely understanding because Seth also has two other wives who she has to share him with. She feels at times like the middle child, she wasn't his first choice and obviously not enough to stop him looking for number three, but she loves him.
There are rules, Thursday (her real name and the day she sees Seth too) doesn't know the other two wives, not even their names, hence they are known as Monday and Tuesday. Apart from odd comments, they aren't talked about in any sort of detail, but with little bits dropped in conversation you learn about each of them.
The story is told by Thursday and how this four-way relationship began and how she feels about it all. This turns into another wow factor read as the story takes on a much deeper and dark side. Oh boy, there are some very edgy moments with the situations that Thursday gets herself into and yet it just gives so much more as each chapter races to the finale. Brilliant characters, it was hook, liner and sinker for me with this one. Superb!
I wish to thank NetGalley and the publisher for an e-copy of this book which I have reviewed honestly.

Imagine only seeing your husband one night a week? This is the unprecedented situation our main character Thursday comes to find herself in. She is one of three wives. I found her at first be an almost quite placid character with something of a Stepford / 50s housewife edge but what a misapprehension.

This is a story about polygamy, mental wellbeing, deception and much more. As we follow the story our grasp of events twists time and time again until we reach a point where we wonder just what is going on.

Just how much would you fight for more time with the one you love? To become his number one? The favoured wife...

This was a good read which only lost a few points in my eyes as the ending felt a little abrupt. I found myself wanting to know a bit more about what happened next particularly in the last few chapters. However, having devoured this novel in one sitting, I can definitely attest to The Wives being a page turner!!

This is edgy stuff and a very dark tale...you have been warned.

With so many domestic psychological thrillers out there, it must be increasingly hard for writers to come up with an original concept, but this one, based around a man who openly has three wives sounded intriguing.

The opening really caught my attention and had me rapidly turning the pages. My one complaint at this point was that the “heroine” felt very weak, which made her a bit hard to root for. And worse, the husband was quite unpleasant to her in a low-key way. Firstly, this didn’t make him great to read about. But more importantly, it made the central question “can he possibly be beating one of the other wives?” far less shocking than it could have been if he’d treated her perfectly. I quite enjoy stories with unlikeable characters, but there has to be something about them that captures my imagination, and I didn’t really get that here.

Nonetheless, for most of the book, it stayed fast-paced and interesting and kept me guessing —not an all time great read, but a good story to chill out with. Towards the end, it took a slightly unexpected turn — not a twist so much as a bit of a change of direction, and I started losing interest slightly at that point. Right at the end, there was the pretty much obligatory big twist, which did catch me by surprise, though I can’t quite decide if it felt like a cop-out or a neat, clever way of subverting the expectations you’re likely to hold if you’ve read a few books of this kind.

Overall, worth a read if you like this kind of thing but not a big favourite for me.