Review: The Other Wife - Danielle Ramsay

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Review: The Other Wife - Danielle Ramsay - March 2024

One of my favorite tropes for a book whether it be a romance or a thriller is the amnesia trope. The trope where the main character has blocked out their past and for some reason can't remember and now they have to piece everything together to remember. In The Other Wife, we have our main female character waking up in a room that she doesn't remember as it doesn't feel like she and the staff are calling her Mrs. Langdon. The thing is she can't remember this life and why she is here as things aren't adding up and soon she will find herself losing days. What happened to her and why can't she remember anything? One night, Mrs Langdon wanders around the house and finds herself in the forbidden West Wing - the room, in particular, looks like a bedroom preserved. Hanging up on the wall is a portrait of someone named Isabella Langdon. Mrs. Langdon gets it in her mind, that this must have been her husband's first wife and so she is "the other wife". When the current Mrs. Langdon finds Isabella's diary and a sonogram, she starts to read it and soon finds herself engrossed in the world of "the first wife". What happened to her did her current husband James kill his first wife and will she be next? Was she the one that Isabella thought that her husband was cheating on her with? Why can't the current Mrs. Langdon remember anything at all? This was a good thriller, but I have to say personally I was a little disappointed as found the reason for the amnesia and lost memories was glossed over and the book had an almost open-ended feeling and it left me with a couple of unanswered questions.  The Other Wife was a good thriller, but I would suggest maybe KU'ing or borrowing from the library rather than purchasing.


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