I read Jeneva Rose’s newest book and it wasn’t the best fit for me. But I believe in second (and third) chances, so I decided to try her signature title: The Perfect Marriage. Did I like it more? Check out my Review of The Perfect Marriage by Jeneva Rose with marked SPOILERS for the ending and the ending explained.
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Review of The Perfect Marriage by Jeneva Rose
Published on July 3, 2020 by Blackstone Press.
I read this book in October 2023.
In this review:
- Brief plot summary
- Positives about The Perfect Marriage
- Negatives About the Perfect Marriage
- Marked SPOILERS for the ending and the ending of The Perfect Marriage explained.
Plot Summary for The Perfect Marriage
Sarah Morgan is a successful and powerful defense attorney in Washington D.C.
Her husband Adam is a struggling writer who has had little success in his career.
Sarah thinks Adam is working hard at his writing as he enjoys the peace and quiet of their second home. But Adam is really engaged in a passionate affair with Kelly, a local waitress.
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Then Adam is arrested for Kelly’s murder. Sarah soon finds herself playing the defender for her own husband, a man accused of murdering his mistress.
What I Liked about The Perfect Marriage
The premise is intriguing. A man is cheating on his wife, and his mistress ends up dead. He’s the prime suspect and it’s not looking good. But his wife, a criminal defense lawyer, takes his case. (More on this later.)
I appreciate a good feminist slant. Sarah is a hard-working lawyer while her husband Adam is a bit of a .. slacker. He says he’s writing a book, but is he? Plus, his mother is a pretty awful person, constantly criticizing Sarah, who’s keeping the electricity on.
Unlike You Shouldn’t Have Come Here, The Perfect Marriage has a good plot with some twists and turns along the way. It kept my attention, even though I had a pretty good idea of what was up.
There were plenty of suspects.
If you liked The Affair on HBO, this feels similar. In that show, a struggling writer married to a richer woman has an affair with a waitress in the Hamptons.
What I Liked Less About The Perfect Marriage
Issue One:
I come from a family of lawyers (and read a lot of legal thrillers) and the legal aspects of this were just too much of a stretch for me. I am NOT a lawyer, but Sarah had to be a suspect in her husband’s mistress’s murder! I find it extremely unlikely she would be allowed to defend him.
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Another unrealistic aspect: Adam’s trial all happens in a hot minute. In reality, death penalty cases take a long time to work their way through the courts. With appeals they can take decades.
I can get past that, because being realistic would ruin the story. Sarah and Adam would be in AARP by that time.
Issue Two:
As in most books that are all about the twist, there’s a BIG info dump at the end.
Spoilers for The Perfect Marriage by Jeneva Rose
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