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This is yet another missing wife/not nice husband story, but he isn't really a suspect and while we get some insight into Lovell, Hannah and Janine, we don't get enough, and Lovell's conversations with Janine just sound...fake. After sleeping on it, I decided the book was just ok, not enough for 3 stars, maybe a 2.5. Hannah has what Dr. Pysch Mom has coined "monotogamy" - she's been married to Lovell for a long time and is dissatisfied with their life together, but in sort of a vague way. But he...
When I saw this I had to have this book. Cuz I'm a unashamed fangirl of Stephen King.“Hypnotically readable--I absolutely couldn’t put it down. The structure is brilliant, and I turned the pages with increasing dread. This book is terrific.” —Stephen KingUmm yeah..I didn't really like it. Lowell and Hannah have been married for years. When we first meet them they have a fight about something. I can't even remember what because it was over something that didn't stick out for me. I mean dang, coup...
I'm a little surprised by all the negative reviews but I thoroughly enjoyed "The Daylight Marriage" by Heidi Pitlor. First off, let me say that Pitlor has a beautiful way with words. Her prose is haunting, unnerving, and poetic. I also wanted to say that this novel is a slow-burner. The plot is intentionally slow as a way to prolong the climax involving Hannah's disappearance. Some other reviewers have pointed out that they were bored by the pacing of the novel. I didn't have that problem. I tho...
4.25 Stars
It's so true that a character can completely ruin a book for you. Never have I encountered a bigger brat of a teenager than in "The Daylight Marriage." Please tell me kids like this don't exist. And also parents like this - apparently children can do whatever they want in this author's world, including shaving one's head, and offering to be the 15-year-old surrogate for the couple next door. And you can call your parents the "b" word and use the f-bomb in every sentence. It made me want to smack...
A very special thank you to Algonquin Books and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review. Top 50 Books of 2015 "Best Psychological Family Drama; Ideal Book-Movie Adaptation. "THE DAYLIGHT MARRIAGE, by talented Hedi Pitlor is one unique, complex, suspenseful, thought-provoking, and chilling psychological mystery thriller. "A mouth full"--My heart is still pounding! As the novel opens in the Cambridge area, we meet an ordinary family of four. Husband Lovell, wife Hannah-age thirty-...
Just an okay read for me. I didn't care much for either Hannah or Lovell, and found the details of their middle class marriage woes rather tedious. I was sufficently intrigued by the mystery surrounding Hannah's fate to keep reading though and thought the resolution was quite original.
I am very glad I got this book from the local library and didn't purchase it. I found it poorly written and boring. The plot was not original and seemed forced. Lots of telling instead of showing. It seemed like a very poor imitation of Gone Girl. I was disappointed in the lack of depth. I did not find the husband or the wife sympathetic characters; I had a hard time liking either one of them. The other characters were very one dimensional and stereotypes - the artistic gay neighbors, the rebell...
Full disclosure: I received an advance copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an unbiased review.When they met, Hannah and Lovell couldn't have been more different. Hannah was the impulsive free spirit, a young woman raised in the midst of privilege yet taught by her mother that women should never be subservient to men—and she had a broken engagement to prove her mother's lessons had sunk in. Lovell was the practical, stable, shy climate scientist, whose romantic track record was far l...
A first-rate page turner with a raw, compelling emotional center. Impossible to put down.
If I had to describe in one word how I felt about all the hype of this book is Indifferent . With feeling that way, it is hard to say anything good about the book. I was looking forward to the complexity of personalities, the complexity of relationships and to put it bluntly, I was very disappointed. The father/daughter relationship was a bad sitcom that hard to watch and much more painful to read. The relationship between Hannah and Lovell was one of indifference so it makes it hard for the rea...
