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The Perfect Marriage has everything I could want in a thriller: Mistress of cheating husband is murdered and who out of all these sketchy characters did it?
The story pulled me in pretty quickly and was engrossing enough to start. I even really enjoyed the ending although horribly predictable.
My gripes might sound nit-picky but I’m choosing to bring them up because they deterred me from fully enjoying the story.
There were a handful of discrepancies I couldn’t get past.
1. The title is not aptly named at all. I have read many a book where the marriage seems great on the outside but is horrible on the inside. It never showed Sarah and Adam having a flawless marriage as they never seemed to be together with her always working and him always at the lake house.

2. After an embarrassingly long time of researching this on my phone, it looks like situationally a lawyer can defend their spouse. This is not one of those situations as it is too much of a conflict of interest.

3. A couple things were brought up as seemingly important and were never circled back to again. For example, Anne and Sarah had an ‘awkward moment�� at the bar. I kept wondering throughout the story what Anne said to make this awkward and it was never brought up again.

4. Warning ⚠️ : This one is a little gross and possibly a minor spoiler. When he leaves the cottage, Adam touches Kelly’s leg and notes that she’s wet and wiped it on his pants. She was already dead by this point. Stabbed 37 times. I assumed that would come back as evidence against Adam seeing as how she couldn’t have been ‘wet�� if she was dead and if it was blood, it would have been on his pants when he wiped his hand. This was never circled back to.

5. Warning ⚠️: Minor spoiler again. Scott was supposedly suspended after beating up Adam. He never goes through any time off for funeral arrangements for his wife and all of the sudden he’s handling Adam’s breaking house arrest then beating up Bob then put on suspension again? Wasn’t he already suspended? How long does suspension last? Isn’t all of this a big conflict of interest because of messes like this happening? Then Sheriff Stevens asks Bob if he wants to press charges but he never asked Adam that when he got beat up.
If you can look past the discrepancies and inconsistencies this could be a good book for you. I’m a very meticulous person to a fault (a blessing and a curse) and I just couldn’t overlook these.
I will definitely pick up something else by Jeneva Rose in the future as I do like her storytelling. However, this had too many things working against it for me to rate this higher and I hope it’s just because this is a debut.
2.5⭐️ rounding up.