Single Wife, by: Nina Solomon

This was the most painful book I read in a long while. Fine, maybe I can't write worth diddly squat either but you don't see me in print do you? Nina's book was the sort I read and think I can surely write better than this. As an aspiring writer her book just provoked a lot of hostility that it appears anyone can get a book into print if they presumably know the right people since Nina had to know someone to get this travesty published.

The title was intriguing and the jacket promised an interesting story of a woman whose husband does not come home one day. This is nothing unusual. He frequently disappears unexplained and then just returns home and life resumes as normal. Outside of this issue they have a good mariage. Until one day he leaves and he doesnt return for what seems like forever. The story follows her as she pretends to the world he still lives there and the excuses and issues she must now struggle on, on her own.

Sounds interesting doesn't it? Its a royal shame such an intriguing plot was wasted on such terrible writing and character and plot development. The heroine of the novel is a spineless person and the author does nothing at all to help us understand her thoughts or feelings.

It's a book that could've been a page turner. couldv'e provoked deep thoughts on marriage and being single. But it didn't and for that reason, for the complete waste of potential I give it zero points.