Review: The Other Woman

The Other Woman by Sandie Jones
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

If you enjoy mediocre plot lines, decently relatable and / or mildly likable characters, and an ending that makes you roll your eyes and audibly utter “really?”, please buy / rent / listen to / steal this novel right away.

This is my summary of the book in 25 words: Girl lacking a backbone, and all common sense, ignores 3587511692 (yes that I am considering that one word) red flags, including an outrageously heinous mother-in-law set on destroying her, for what?

I admit, if this book wasn’t selected by my “book club” (guys - can we even call it that anymore? Let’s stop lying to ourselves...), I would have put it down after the first chapter. Yes, I am officially that person these days. I no longer care if I have a stack of “started - but then got bored and decided to watch whatever the newest Netflix or Hulu original piece of crap programming just came out instead” books on my shelf. This is just who I am now. I’m coming to terms with it and you should too.

Anyway, this narrative isn’t the worst thing I have read, as evidenced by my many, many, two and one star reviews. However, it is quite possibly the literary equivalent of the word “meh”. Is it readable? Sure. It is intriguing enough to keep you going? I guess. Were there sections I enjoyed? Maybe some. I didn’t have the urge to immediately write a review ripping it apart, so I suppose that’s something. But did I also give it to my mother to read and then two days later present her with another, better, novel instead? Absolutely.

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