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A review by shaylee_reads
The Perfect Marriage by Jeneva Rose
dark
mysterious
tense
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.0
Ratings:
Plot:⭐/5
Writing:⭐/5
Characters:⭐/5
Overall:⭐/5
Romance:❤️/5
Spice: 🌶️/5
Tropes: Phycological Thriller
Content Warnings: Murder, Cheating, Past Childhood Trauma, Drug Abuse (Past), Death of a Parent (Past), and Suicide.
The Perfect Marriage by Jeneva Rose is a psychological thriller that follows Sarah Morgan, a successful and powerful defense attorney who discovers that the body of her husband's mistress- Kelly Summers- has been found murdered in their bed and that her husband, Adam Morgan has been arrested for her murder. Sarah is heartbroken and angry but she is also aware that she is the only person who stands a chance of getting her husband out of the sticky mess he has found himself.
Everyone kept saying to read this book if you liked the book, Verity by Colleen Hoover, and due to the fact that I’m currently in a reading slump because of Verity and was mildly interested in the premise of this book I decided to give it a chance despite all of the one-star reviews.
Boy was that a mistake. saying that if you enjoyed Verity then you will enjoy this book is an insult to the masterpiece that is Verity. This book was… terrible (I hate to use that word to describe anyone's work but it truly fits).
This book is a perfect example of telling not showing, the writing is so bad. It felt as if I was reading a zero draft that has never seen an editor. There was zero description of anything that was happening and ultimately nothing made sense. The plot was all over the place and I felt like I was missing crucial chunks of the story, it also was just plain boring, and being completely honest I skimmed a lot of this book and just read the dialogue because that was the only thing that was getting information across. It became repetitive, I felt as though I reading the same thing over and over again.
There were so many plot lines that were not followed through with and completely forgotten about and some of them were just plain pointless. The whole plot line was just a complete mess.
Altogether this book was just predictable, I was told there were so many plot twists in this book but I was not shocked by anything that happened in this book whatsoever, not even the big reveal at the end shocked me because deep down inside I knew who did it. The “plot twists” that were in this book were just not well planned and didn’t have good follow-through.
The characters are also the bane of my existence, I wanted to strangle Adam the majority of the time and at a few points, I wanted him to die even if he wasn’t the killer because he was just so damn annoying. There is zero character development and I honestly knew nothing about the character nor did I really care.
The author needs to do way more research into Law enforcement and lawyers before she ever tries to attempt to do something like this again because there were just so many things wrong with that aspect of this book that I really don’t have the time and desire to get into right now.
Overall, I do not recommend this book, the only reason I finished this book was because I wanted to see if Sarah left her b*tch of a husband. Now I need to go read another book immediately so I can completely forget about this one.
Plot:⭐/5
Writing:⭐/5
Characters:⭐/5
Overall:⭐/5
Romance:❤️/5
Spice: 🌶️/5
Tropes: Phycological Thriller
Content Warnings: Murder, Cheating, Past Childhood Trauma, Drug Abuse (Past), Death of a Parent (Past), and Suicide.
The Perfect Marriage by Jeneva Rose is a psychological thriller that follows Sarah Morgan, a successful and powerful defense attorney who discovers that the body of her husband's mistress- Kelly Summers- has been found murdered in their bed and that her husband, Adam Morgan has been arrested for her murder. Sarah is heartbroken and angry but she is also aware that she is the only person who stands a chance of getting her husband out of the sticky mess he has found himself.
Everyone kept saying to read this book if you liked the book, Verity by Colleen Hoover, and due to the fact that I’m currently in a reading slump because of Verity and was mildly interested in the premise of this book I decided to give it a chance despite all of the one-star reviews.
Boy was that a mistake. saying that if you enjoyed Verity then you will enjoy this book is an insult to the masterpiece that is Verity. This book was… terrible (I hate to use that word to describe anyone's work but it truly fits).
This book is a perfect example of telling not showing, the writing is so bad. It felt as if I was reading a zero draft that has never seen an editor. There was zero description of anything that was happening and ultimately nothing made sense. The plot was all over the place and I felt like I was missing crucial chunks of the story, it also was just plain boring, and being completely honest I skimmed a lot of this book and just read the dialogue because that was the only thing that was getting information across. It became repetitive, I felt as though I reading the same thing over and over again.
There were so many plot lines that were not followed through with and completely forgotten about and some of them were just plain pointless. The whole plot line was just a complete mess.
Altogether this book was just predictable, I was told there were so many plot twists in this book but I was not shocked by anything that happened in this book whatsoever, not even the big reveal at the end shocked me because deep down inside I knew who did it. The “plot twists” that were in this book were just not well planned and didn’t have good follow-through.
The characters are also the bane of my existence, I wanted to strangle Adam the majority of the time and at a few points, I wanted him to die even if he wasn’t the killer because he was just so damn annoying. There is zero character development and I honestly knew nothing about the character nor did I really care.
The author needs to do way more research into Law enforcement and lawyers before she ever tries to attempt to do something like this again because there were just so many things wrong with that aspect of this book that I really don’t have the time and desire to get into right now.
Overall, I do not recommend this book, the only reason I finished this book was because I wanted to see if Sarah left her b*tch of a husband. Now I need to go read another book immediately so I can completely forget about this one.