Wife 22 by Melanie Gideon
Hardcover: 400 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books (May 29, 2012)
Goodreads Description:
For fans of Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary and Allison Pearson’s I Don’t Know How She Does It comes an irresistible novel of a woman losing herself . . . and finding herself again . . . in the middle of her life.
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Review:
Alice Buckle is a wife, a mother of two, and she teaches drama at a local elementary school. She is a character that I enjoyed from the moment she googled eyelid drooping. I can definitely relate to that. When she searched Happy Marraige a survey showed up in her spam folder. Alice moves it to her inbox. Once she starts the survey and meets researcher 101 she becomes the anonymous wife 22.
Although I don't prefer diary entry format, it worked perfectly for this novel and I very much enjoyed seeing Alice's story unfold. The only two negative things I have to say about it is I didn't love some of the secondary characters as much as I would have like to and I was a little bored with some of Alices more lengthy survey answers.
I definitely recommend this book.
4.25/5
I'm not a fan of diary entry format either but it sounds like an interesting story.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you enjoyed this book as its one of my favorite reads so far this year. I can see how the diary entry format isn't for everyone.
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