A Woman Betrayed by Barbara Delinsky/The Widow by Fiona Barton

Rating: WARTY! A Woman Betrayed by Barbara Delinsky

"When her husband mysteriously vanishes, Laura begins to unravel his secrets - and learns her 20-year marriage was nowhere near as perfect as it seemed" Another dumb housewipe story that's exactly the same as all the others that have been told ad infinitum. Yawn. Read on....

AND The Widow by Fiona Barton

Here's really the exact same story: "Jean’s world was upended when her husband was accused of an unspeakable crime. Now he’s dead - and Jean’s secrets begin to unravel" How is anything unraveling if no-one is speaking of this unspeakable crime? Or is it speakable after all? Yawn. Wake me if something new ever shows up. Meanwhile, please put all these in a boxed set. And drop it into the Mariana Trench....

Escape by Barbara Delinsky

Rating: WARTY!

"A New York Times bestseller from a 'first-rate storyteller' (The Boston Globe)" who nevertheless finds herself forced to tell cookie-cutter weak-woman escape stories. Yawn. "Dissatisfied with the way her life has panned out, Emily escapes to a small New England town to discover who she really is." That would be a runaway coward instead of a woman who shows courage, stands her ground, and fixes her shitty life. Yeah. I really want to read that one. Not.

Coast Road by Barbara Delinsky

Rating: WARTY!

"After Jack" Stop right there. That's an automatic hard no! Jack is the most tediously over-used name in literary history. What's his last name? Off? Has anyone, anywhere, ever actually met anyone who was named Jack? I thought not. "...learns that a car accident has left his ex-wife, Rachel, in a coma, he drops everything to take care of his teenage daughters in coastal California - and there, he gains a new perspective on life" Well of course he does - it's on the coast so his perspective is the ocean. What a dumb-asshole this Jack Off is.