JL's Reviews > The Wrong Husband

** spoiler alert ** I liked that it was a quick story. I didn’t want to be up all night reading since I started it late in the afternoon.

But I wasn’t a fan of The Wrong Husband. It was very similar to The Wrong Wife which I read recently. A doormat heroine. Horrible families. Evil ex. The heroine being the jobless, poor one while the hero is the rich, ruthless billionaire.

Damian was an a-hole throughout the majority of the story. The way he just manipulates Emilia to get his way drove me crazy. The way he treated Emilia just grated on my nerves.

I did like Emilia. I liked that she stuck to who she was and didn’t want to change for anyone. She had a bit of spine for sticking up for herself because no one else was going too. But she also spent most of the book crying to the point of a breakdown because of Damian. Is that really the kind of love you want to read about? I sure didn’t. I know couples can fight or make mistakes and can make you cry but Emilia just seemed miserable with Damian. She spiralled without him to the point of near hospitalisation and I didn’t think that was healthy.
I also didn’t find their chemistry all that special or saucy.


Now my biggest issue with this book was when Emilia finds out the real reason why Damian married her. For revenge on her sister for cheating on him. What bothered me so much about Emilia’s reaction to this revelation was that her issues from it were over the pettiest things. Of course Damian didn’t marry her for love so why did it suddenly taint their entire marriage? Why was her problem that she didn’t believe he found her attractive or couldn’t have felt anything real? She started their marriage off on the wrong foot too.
If I was in Emilia’s shoes my main concern was how he let me get vilified by everyone in his life. I would have left Damian because his lies had her so mistreated by her parents, harassed at their workplace, rejected by her in-laws, physically assaulted multiple times by her sister & mother, publicly shamed in the press, accosted by strangers & bullied by her husband’s staff. Damian let all that go on when he could have confessed the truth and made it stop. But instead he chose to let Emilia believe she was the instigator of their drunken wedding. He manipulated her to stay married. He let her believe their sex was shit. All to protect his ex’s indiscretions because he was a coward & embarrassed over a man like him being cheated on than to fess up the truth and protect his wife from abuse she was getting from all sides. But Emilia doesn’t hold that against Damian at all in the end. I couldn’t believe it. To me that isn’t a husband I would want to have.
Worst is… Damian isn’t even punished or forced to face the consequences of his actions. Because Emilia lets him back into her bed for cuddles through the night. She lets his family take over her house while she paints. She forgives Damian after 1 week during 1 conversation. Not enough grovelling and apologising for me.