The Marriage Lie: A Bestselling Psychological Thriller

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Married to her husband Will for seven years, Iris couldn’t be happier. Her friends warn her that the seven year itch is approaching, but she and Will are still blissfully in love. Sounds too good to be true, right? Iris and Will’s marriage is as close to perfect as it can be: a large house in a nice Atlanta neighborhood, rewarding careers and the excitement of trying for their first baby. But on the morning Will leaves for a business trip to Orlando, Iris’s happy world comes to an abrupt halt. Another plane headed for Seattle has crashed into a field, killing everyone on board, and according to the airline, Will was one of the passengers on this plane. The pace is relentless, and the plot never runs in a straight line.… Beware, The Marriage Lie might very well undermine your confidence, your convictions, and your trust in loved ones. This one is a true brain twister! Juanita is giving Cam the opportunity to “set the record straight” on what happened on August 6th-the day that his wife Jade, and their two young children, Beatrix and Baxter (affectionately called the Bees!) were held hostage in their own home, by a masked invader. Before turning to writing fiction, Belle worked in marketing and fundraising for various nonprofits in the US and abroad, including Habitat for Humanity, the YWCA, Annie E. Casey Foundation, and United Way.

Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. Iris who is beside herself about losing will looks into Will's past she finds a lot of inconsistencies this chills her to the core & sets out to find the truth. In an instant, Iris’s life is shattered. A news report. A plane crash. Her husband’s name. A flight he wasn’t even supposed to be on. An impossibility.

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Belle, Kimberly (1 January 2017). The Marriage Lie: A bestselling psychological thriller. MIRA. ISBN 9781460396353– via Google Books.

Regarding Iris character, I found her nagging for crying throughout the story and telling everyone that her husband was alive. She gave me the impression of a clinging and a weak-willed wife as she was over depended on her spouse. She also can be characterized as a gullible for comforting herself with the lies Will told her over the years. She didn’t know hell lot things about her husband and she was OK with that? As many of you may know, I am highly sensitive when it comes to certain topics and have a hard time reading about them. It is what it is. The narrative alternates between Jade, devoted wife held at gun-point, Cam; husband to Jade and celebrity chef; and Sebastian, the gun-wielding-ransom-demanding home invader (this isn't a spoiler, the villain is revealed early on, but his motives are not revealed until far into the novel). The narrative is uneven, as Jade's POV covers most chapters. I found Cam’s chapters to be the most interesting, but I wish they had more to them. Jade was annoying, but she grew on me; her character is the most developed. Sebastian’s chapters were pointless. I think this book could have been more interesting without his POV, as there would have been a greater element of mystery behind his motives. A fundamental loose thread is introduced by way of Stella and her dissolving marriage, but once that thread starts to unravel, you find an intriguing, compelling story of a broken family riddled with years of dysfunctional relationships and damaging secrecy.Sometimes predictable, but with a relatable narrator who "bares her soul" to you, with lines like that, it held my interest from start to finish.

While reading, I felt as though every single character in this book could have been neatly pressed inside one of those golden triangles of stereotypes on that pyramid. The criminals did and said what you'd expect them to. The lawyer was a textbook case. The psychologist said everything you’d expect a qualified psychologist to say. The gay man fit the hollywood stereotype to a T. The pretty, popular girl in high school was as generic as they come… and I think you get the point. What a premise. Grief, despair, lies and deceit. If you’ve ever suffered loss or have been married and have been a victim of deceit, this is a novel that hits home in some way, shape or form. Unfortunately for me it did just that. So real and true, if you know those feelings, they are embedded deep within you. On the day after Iris and Will's seventh wedding anniversary, they're ready to start trying for a baby. But all is not as it seems.

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I had a hunch about what Stella has been hiding and proved right. The reveal at the end made me go through multitude of emotions: flabbergasted, creeped me out, and I was appalled. Was Will on the plane that crashed? Could he still be alive? If so, why did he lie to her? Did Will place Iris in danger?