What is it about?
“What do you think happened to your husband, Mrs. Keller?”
The Sunday morning starts like any other, aside from the slight hangover. Dani Keller wakes up on her Seattle houseboat, a headache building behind her eyes from the wine she drank at a party the night before. But on this particular Sunday morning, she’s surprised to see that her husband, Ian, is not home. As the hours pass, Dani fills her day with small things. But still, Ian does not return. Irritation shifts to worry, worry slides almost imperceptibly into panic. And then, like a relentless blackness, the terrible realization hits Dani: He’s gone.
As the police work methodically through all the logical explanations—he’s hurt, he’s run off, he’s been killed—Dani searches frantically for a clue as to whether Ian is in fact dead or alive. And, slowly, she unpacks their relationship, holding each moment up to the light: from its intense, adulterous beginning, to the grandeur of their new love, to the difficulties of forever. She examines all the sins she can—and cannot—remember. As the days pass, Dani will plumb the depths of her conscience, turning over and revealing the darkest of her secrets in order to discover the hard truth—about herself, her husband, and their lives together.
The Sunday morning starts like any other, aside from the slight hangover. Dani Keller wakes up on her Seattle houseboat, a headache building behind her eyes from the wine she drank at a party the night before. But on this particular Sunday morning, she’s surprised to see that her husband, Ian, is not home. As the hours pass, Dani fills her day with small things. But still, Ian does not return. Irritation shifts to worry, worry slides almost imperceptibly into panic. And then, like a relentless blackness, the terrible realization hits Dani: He’s gone.
As the police work methodically through all the logical explanations—he’s hurt, he’s run off, he’s been killed—Dani searches frantically for a clue as to whether Ian is in fact dead or alive. And, slowly, she unpacks their relationship, holding each moment up to the light: from its intense, adulterous beginning, to the grandeur of their new love, to the difficulties of forever. She examines all the sins she can—and cannot—remember. As the days pass, Dani will plumb the depths of her conscience, turning over and revealing the darkest of her secrets in order to discover the hard truth—about herself, her husband, and their lives together.
My Thoughts....
I gave this book 2 out of 5 stars, although that is being very generous.
I finished this book rather quick due to being able to skim through a lot of it. There were two parts to the book basically- one was the current day and one was past building up to the current situation. The parts about the past were not necessary, I skimmed through a lot of them.
There wasn't anything about this book that I really liked. It was predictable, I guessed what happened to Ian almost right away so when the mystery was solved it wasn't much of a climax.
There wasn't much dialogue, it was basically the narrator telling everything- there was no showing. I don't know if anyone would understand if I said the book was in monotone, but that's what it felt like to me.
Overall, it's not a book I would recommend.
There wasn't anything about this book that I really liked. It was predictable, I guessed what happened to Ian almost right away so when the mystery was solved it wasn't much of a climax.
There wasn't much dialogue, it was basically the narrator telling everything- there was no showing. I don't know if anyone would understand if I said the book was in monotone, but that's what it felt like to me.
Overall, it's not a book I would recommend.
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