My Darling Husband by Kimberly Belle – 326 pages
ARC from Park Row Books and Netgalley for an honest review
Book Blurb:
My Darling Husband by Kimberly Belle introduces us to Jade and Cam Lasky are by all accounts a happily married couple with two adorable kids, a spacious home and a rapidly growing restaurant business. But their world is tipped upside down when Jade is confronted by a masked home invader. As Cam scrambles to gather the ransom money, Jade starts to wonder if they’re as financially secure as their lifestyle suggests, and what other secrets her husband is keeping from her.
Cam may be a good father, a celebrity chef and a darling husband, but there’s another side he’s kept hidden from Jade that has put their family in danger. Unbeknownst to Cam and Jade, the home invader has been watching them and is about to turn their family secrets into a public scandal.
My Review: 4 stars
My Darling Husband is part of my thriller/mystery/suspense self-imposed challenge that I read during October. Because I get scared easily and often find myself dreaming about creepy scenarios that come from books, I limit the number of spooky titles that I read. In October, when the book world is overtaken with horror, menacing and suspenseful reads, I usually sit back and watch. However, if there are some thriller/mystery/suspense in my TBR, I like to take them all on in October, to keep up with the trend of October scary titles.
Thankfully, this book was not scary, but it was suspenseful and kept my anxiety level on high alert as I flipped the pages. The premise of a masked home invader waiting in the garage has is totally freaky, but happily, the intruder had no intent to kill or hurt the family. He just wanted money, and a weird amount at that, not an even million…just $734, 296. It was a bizarre number so that was one clue the reader gets to try and figure out the who and why behind it.
The story is told from three POVs and an interview. The husband, Cam, who is fearlessly turning over the city to get the cash to save his family. Jade, the wife, who is trying to make sense of what is going on while protecting her kids. And the kidnapper, Sebastian, who is an enigmatic character that I surprisingly, didn’t entirely despise. I enjoyed seeing the same situation through the different sets of eyes. Everyone is going through some type of “yuck”, and it’s the lack of communication and monumental secrets that tear everything apart.
This is a fast read and fans of Belle will not be disappointed.
