Christine's Reviews > The Wrong Husband

** spoiler alert ** Angst = h was so ignored and unloved by her own family and this extended to almost everyone taking their cues from her family and treating her like she's nothing.

Grovel = H marries h as revenge against the OW (h's sister) for cheating on him. Once H really gets to know the h, he falls hard and fast and soon becomes OTT protective. H must work to get h to want to stay with him. H adjusts his life to fit in with h's life and does so with relief. H finds h to be his happiness and that his life with her is beyond peaceful and content. h overhears the H talk to h's family about why he married the h and it is heart wrenching. H must then work and wait for the h to decide the H is worth letting back into her life. H's family must also grovel/work to prove to the h they are not actually snobby judgmental asshats they at first seem to be. Each family member has individual conversations with the h where they express their wrongdoings against the h and then also apologize but do not ask nor demand forgiveness as that is solely up to the h (I really liked that too).

OW drama = the OW is constantly touching the H (hugs, soft touches, holding arm, kisses on cheeks even though her aim was his mouth, etc.) and he is constantly letting her as he at first still believes himself in love with OW despite her cheating on him for months. H does not let it get very far and is very clear that he will not cheat either physically or emotionally on the h as he strongly believes that being married to the h does mean fidelity even though he got married as a F U to the OW. OW is verbally and physically abusive to the h. OW pushes the h down causing h to hit her head and needing stiches; OW slapped the h as well a different time. OW's & h's mom also physically and emotionally abused the h. h's dad was distant and disinterested so did not interfere. The reader can infer that the abuse has been lifelong. Comeuppance? OW and mom are ostracized socially which is a huge hit to their ego as well as their business which caused them to have to shut down a few locations of their spa business. Dad is politely but sternly told to retire from his job where he worked for H's family. So all in all, h's family lost social status and took a huge financial hit that they may not recover from (tots justified).

I received an ARC of this book. It was fantastic. The angst, the OW drama and the grovel were chef's kiss. There was NO cheating (IMO - some may view the H's emotional attachment to OW as emotional infidelity, but I did not) in the book.

Audioneed = re-read/listened to book and thought the dual narration was done well (duet would have been better (-: )