Review: Women Like Us

Women Like Us by Katia Lief
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I wish that when I chose this ARC, I had known that there was a book before this one. It may have helped me appreciate this one a little more.

I did learn a lot about psychopaths while reading this book. Joni's brother is obviously one, and Joni thinks she may become one. Well, considering she had killed her husband, I can see why she would worry. Now she has to worry about her daughter. After all, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree!

Either Mark Twain or Benjamin Franklin said that "two can keep a secret if one is dead," and this book tends to lean in that direction. So, as everyone's life begins to unravel, we have to worry about Joni killing someone else to keep her secrets. After all, there is only one person alive who knows that Joni killed her husband (maybe). But now three people are holding a totally new secret, and I wonder if the author is going to try to squeeze out another book with this as the theme.

The writing wasn't horrible, but there was no character growth, well, unless what happens in the end you consider growth. The story rambled in too many directions, and there was more trauma about a missing dog than most of the people involved.

I didn't love this book, but I didn't hate it either. However, I didn't lose myself in this book; it did not keep me engaged, but perhaps if I had read the first book? I feel that it was just an okay novel.

ARC supplied by the publisher Atlantic Monthly Press/Grove Atlantic, the author, and NetGalley.





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Descrition:"Joni Ackerman was tired of being invisible.

It’s been one year since Joni Ackerman tipped the antifreeze into her husband’s cocktail. One year since he was found dead on the stairs. One year since she got away with murder. At first Joni feared the consequences of her transgression, but she’s learned to embrace the power of recklessness in a way she would have hated to see in anyone else. It was that recklessness, after all, that took her to this rewarding new life.

Joni now runs Sunny Day Productions alongside her daughter, Chris, and her best friend, Val. All is well in life and work until one day the balance is rocked when an unexpected, and unwelcome, visitor appears."