Reviews for A Careful Wife

The average rating for A Careful Wife based on 2 reviews is 1.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-10-30 00:00:00 Francisco Aponte HAIKU BOOK REVIEW: A Careful Wife, by Lindsay Armstrong. An art curator, classy but cold is thawed out by hunky tycoon.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-04-07 00:00:00 Matthew Rymill OMG Zzzzzzzzzz Big boss hero speculates what the art curator heroine looks like in black lace underwear and appears amused when she is frosty to him then and at subsequent meetings. H/h sparred/bickered/said hateful things for a few weeks - and then were kidnapped by a crazed artist who wanted the H to buy his paintings. The kidnapper took them on the H's boat, but a storm comes up and he abandons ship with the H/h still on it. The boat runs aground on an uninhabited island and they are stranded for a few days. *sigh* It was so implausible and boring and the hero was smugly superior through it all. The kidnapper is still at large so the heroine has to move into the hero's gated estate. Cue more sparring/bickering/saying hateful things. All of this manufactured conflict is broken up by the hero's ex-wife who just can't quit him. The heroine pretty much tells her that the hero isn't worth wasting any more of her life on and she should stop beating herself up for not being the kind of wife the hero needed. He wasn't the kind of husband *she* needed. True words. Heed your own advice, heroine. Finally, the kidnapper is apprehended. There is some last minute drama with a disgruntled employee who warns off the heroine. The hero has bitter words for the heroine listening to the guy. So they break up for a few days. The heroine comes crawling back to a smug hero. I wanted Hero to apologize for being a cold, speculative ass to the heroine, claiming he could read her mind and he knew better than she what she was *really * thinking. Right. He needed some humbling and to show some vulnerability - but no - he's still the big boss at the end of the story. Besides having a "superior" hero (my least favorite kind) this was so slow, I skimmed paragraphs.