Meg Reads

Photo by Tiko Giorgadze on Unsplash Thank you to NetGalley and St Martin's Press for the opportunity to read and review an advanced reader's copy of this book. The Younger Wife was a satisfying, fast-paced romp of a read. Sally Hepworth has become a reliable favourite for books that I can't put down! She has a way of writing dark subjects lightly, and her characters are always richly developed, full of flaws and quirks— which I love. I find with her writing, I never quite know how things will turn out in the end, and The Younger Wife was no exception.  The book is told from the perspectives of Tully and Rachel, two adult sisters, as well as from the perspective of their father's new fiancé, Heather. Tully and Rachel's mother has dementia and is in a nursing home, so understandably, their father, Stephen, wants to move forward with life and has found love with Heather, who is notably younger than him, which doesn't sit well with the sisters. I found the characte...

Photo by Ella Jardim on Unsplash I came to the embarrassing realization recently that while I may have slammed through over 60 books this past year , a great majority of those books didn't really stick around in my memory. If the book is a thriller or mystery there's an even greater chance that unless the book was extremely profound, I probably don't remember the ending! Which I guess would be fine if I was trying to save money and wanted to just reread things, but that's not really for me. What in the world... what has happened to the kid who used to recite the plot of books with ease, and could remember all the details of everything she read.  I have a sneaking suspicion that this is all happening because in recent years I've prioritized the quantity of books read over the course of the above everything else about books. Sites like Goodreads feed into this binge reading approach, which makes sense, since they're owned by Amazon and they want you to buy more ...