My review: 4.5ā
I’ve read many, many domestic thrillers with husband and wife shenanigans, so I figured it’d be the same ole song and dance, but that was not the case at all. I got sucked in from the beginning and I was engaged until the crazy ending.
Michael, Natalie and their 2 kids go on vacation together and while Michael is out getting pizza, Natalie and the kids disappear.
Natalie has been suffering from insomnia and seems unstable at times. She has been suspicious of Michael’s activities for a while when she befriends, Audrey. Is Audrey somehow linked to Michael or is she hallucinating again?
As Michael begins his search for his family he starts to worry that an old secret might be revealed.
Told in Natalie and Michael’s perspective ~ we go back and forth between the present and to before Natalie disappeared ~ this way really keeps you on the edge of your seat with little tidbits dropping along the way.
I am always thrilled when there are some twistaroos and secrets I don’t see coming and there are plenty.
This was a pretty long one coming in at 11 hours and 8 minutes, but it was an easy listen at 2x.
Karissa Vacker did such an excellent job narrating that I am not even mad there wasn’t a male narrator for the male parts. She really showed perfect emotion when needed.
Overall, this was an action packed thrilling ride that kept me engaged throughout. I have read this author’s work before and I would certainly do so again.
*Thanks to Macmillan Audio USA, DJ Palmer and NetGalley for the advance audiobook. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review*
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Save on My Wife is Missing at Booksamillion.com.Book blurb: Audio release date ~ May 10, 2022
A family vacation turns into a nightmare for Michael Hart when he discovers his wife and two children have disappeared from their New York City hotel room. Horrified, he fears they’ve been kidnapped. Michael’s frantic search to find them takes a shocking turn when he discovers that his wife, Natalie, appears to have left quite willingly, taking their children with her. The police want to know why, and so does Michael. But there may be a reason why Natalie ran, something Michael can’t tell the police — the truth about his past. While untangling his deceptions might be the key to locating Natalie, Michael knows it could also be his undoing. To find his wife, he must now turn to the one person capable of exposing all that he’s been hiding. Natalie thinks she has Michael all figured out and has hatched a plan to escape from him permanently. One detail, though, threatens to derail her efforts: sleep — or more accurately, the lack of it. Since the moment the shocking revelations about her husband came to light, Natalie’s insomnia has worsened to the point that she now suffers from delusions. Are her fears about Michael valid — or a symptom of her condition? With her children’s lives at risk, the stakes for Natalie could not be higher. On her own, running low on energy and resources, avoiding increasingly close calls with Michael — who is on the hunt and closing in fast — Natalie needs someone to turn to for help. But who can she trust when she can’t even trust herself?
