Comments on: The Widow: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/02/the-widow-a-novel/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Thu, 08 Mar 2018 18:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Tara @ Running 'N' Reading https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/02/the-widow-a-novel/#comment-249622 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 14:16:49 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=5970#comment-249622 Well, thanks for the heads up, Catherine! I thought this one might have potential, but I’ll just move on. Thank you for sharing your thoughts!

]]> By: Lauren https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/02/the-widow-a-novel/#comment-249267 Fri, 19 Feb 2016 22:35:34 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=5970#comment-249267 Well, hell. I don’t want to read your review because I haven’t gotten to this arc yet, but I wanted to see your star rating. Which doesn’t bode well. Whether I end up reading it or not, I will come back to read your thoughts, which are usually pretty close to mine. Sorry it didn’t work for you!

]]> By: Catherine https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/02/the-widow-a-novel/#comment-249263 Fri, 19 Feb 2016 19:06:02 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=5970#comment-249263 In reply to Kathy @ Kathy Reads Fiction.

Agreed! I expected more.

]]> By: Catherine https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/02/the-widow-a-novel/#comment-249260 Fri, 19 Feb 2016 18:26:49 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=5970#comment-249260 In reply to Eva.

Complicit and yet boring! I kept thinking/hoping that she was going to be the big twist, but…nothing.

]]> By: Eva https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/02/the-widow-a-novel/#comment-249257 Fri, 19 Feb 2016 18:07:55 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=5970#comment-249257 Yes. Thank you. I was starting to feel bad that I wasn’t the only one in love with this one. There was never any surprise – from the beginning you’re pretty sure that Glen did it and then surprise: he did. I also had a hard time caring about Jean. If after his death she had somehow broken out of her shell, done something that Glen would have hated, SOMETHING, she would have been infinitely more interesting. But even released by his death, she continues to passively walk through her life. I wanted so much more from this one – I was mostly vaguely ill the whole time – Glen was a horrible person and Jean was so complicit!

]]> By: Sarah's Book Shelves https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/02/the-widow-a-novel/#comment-249255 Fri, 19 Feb 2016 17:31:02 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=5970#comment-249255 And – thank for you another book I don’t have to stress about whether to add to my TBR! And – a little glad my husband grew up in my hometown so I’m pretty sure I’d know about any sordid past!

]]> By: Kathy @ Kathy Reads Fiction https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/02/the-widow-a-novel/#comment-249251 Fri, 19 Feb 2016 15:25:08 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=5970#comment-249251 I really loved the psychological profiling in this one as insightful or more tips I guess for parents as what to watch for. But, I kept thinking the book was going to cross over into thriller territory, but it never did. I really think there was potential for those twists, but they didn’t come. I did enjoy it for the profiling and as a mystery to follow, though.

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