Reviews for Joe's Wife

The average rating for Joe's Wife based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-11-01 00:00:00 Tim Tebow I was irked by the fact it was his way or highway. And he got his way. he was jealous of her dead husband even though she was clear and open while he was dishonest. She was forced to (he wasn�t very tactful about the whole thing, let�s be honest) give up her ex husband�s memory to please him but he get to keep his ex�s memories in form of a kid? How about since they have a baby he can call his OWN NOT joe�s he also give up his ex�s kid? (I know this sounds harsh, but let�s call a spade by its name. They�re both memories. His is even more damagingly so. Because it�s a constant reminder. On top of which he demands her involvement in that kid�s life, imposes the kid in her life, yet not ready to share the kid? Let�s face it people, just because we are female we are not bound to love our husband�s ex�s child, illegitimate or otherwise just because we love our husbands! It IS mutually exclusive. A man is NOBLE IF he decides to love OM�s child but never berated if they don�t, yet it�s mandatory for a woman to love and care for their stepchildren? Why is our love taken for granted? Why is it also NOT ok if we don�t feel motherly towards someone else�s kid? Motherly instinct is a myth endorsed by patriarchy to have women take care of the numerous stepchildren that is generated by their male counterparts throughout history, or during matriarchal society when once again women did anything and men did the hunting and then was too tired to do anything else!) Why would his wife have to live with his ex�s memory when he simply won�t stand even an implication EVEN when it was a MOC? He gets everything, his kid, Joe�s property and the h. Heroine gets him, a not so virtuous and thoroughly dishonest and inconsiderate human being. On top of that she�s ONLY like a live on nanny for the kid. She doesn�t even have a say in her life. As she rightfully pointed out, SHE gets the responsibility of raising the girl, HE gets the love. NOT. HAPPY. JAN. People who had issues with heroine, she LOVED her husband NOT the hero. She needs time to adjust in her MOC which she was open and honest about. Hero is the most indecent, dishonest, disrespectful and insensitive person possible. He AGREED to an MOC and wanted his cake and eat it too. It was all abt him. He was also a narcissist. Since he loved the heroine like FOREVER and ALWAYS, may be the kid shouldn�t have existed to begin with?

Review # 2 was written on 2017-01-04 00:00:00 Billy Burton This book starts out very strong - a widowed h desperate to save her ranch (her dead husband's dream- now hers too) proposes marriage to the only able bodied man left standing in this Southern town, after the war wipes out most men of marriageable age. He also happens to be the town outcast/pariah - illegitimate with a shady past, while her former in-laws belong to one of the premier families of the area. So, of course the opposition and resultant shunning of the couple is a foregone. They make a sweet couple for all that - trying their best to make things easier and comfortable for each other. But the shadow of the dead husband is always between them - and I felt more so in the H's mind. Of course, it's an moc and she was quite open and upfront about everything while he was not. He hid the fact that he had promised a former lover/saloon girl (now dying) to take care of her little daughter. I thought his jealousy to be petty and hurtful. They have been together just few weeks/months - how can he expect her to understand his (secret) feelings (because now he realises that he'd alwaaays loved her!) or even forget her dead husband and get rid of all his things/keepsakes pronto-ish. And then all but rubs her nose in the closeness he engenders with the little girl, making the h feel left-out. Some fellow reviewers have found fault with the h but personally I could not like this guy, especially towards the end, when he'd deliberately say hurtful and hateful things and then walk away, leaving her bewildered and distressed, never apologising. I so loved another H by this author (from His Secondhand Wife ) but this one didn't do much for me.