Josh seems to be a man who is very unlucky when it comes to love. His first wife Candace died when she fell and hit her head after they’d only been married for five years. Now his fiancé Abby has disappeared. Josh claims she must have got cold feet about the wedding and run away. However, no one has heard from her for seven months and her best friend Elisa, married to Josh’s older brother Harris, can’t accept that Abby would cut all ties to her too and not answer her calls or emails. When she fi...

Excerpt: “Another family dinner. This one on a random Thursday evening in mid-September. Same kitchen. Same table with the wobbly leg. Same people. One husband. One seven year old boy who hated anything that wasn’t a chicken nugget. One brother-in-law (Josh) who might be a killer.Elisa Wright looked across her kitchen table over the pile of mashed potatoes and the stack of homemade dinner rolls, and thought to herself -MURDERER.”It was bad enough that his first wife, Candace died-but when HER fr...

“Josh. The man literally had women tucked away everywhere. Some dead. Some alive. Some missing. Elisa needed a scorecard because keeping track was becoming somewhat daunting.”My thoughts exactly, Elisa! The premise of this book was completely unbelievable and the reveal even more absurd. After surviving the shooting of her friend and colleague at work, Elisa is suffering from PTSD. However, instead of focusing on healing, she convinces herself that her brother-in-law Josh murdered his multiple w...

It's Darby Kane for the win again! I loved Pretty Little Wife and couldn't wait to get my hands on this one! What a page turner this was!Elisa knows he is a killer...she is sure of it...she just can't prove it. 🤷‍♀️Why is she the only ones that sees this?? 🤔When her BFF goes missing..she knows darn well that Josh is behind it. 🤨In fact...Josh isn't even concerned that his fiancee Abby is missing. .....He proves it by bringing home a new girlfriend.😳This really had me from the very first page. Wh...

Instagram || Twitter || Facebook || Amazon || PinterestUpdate: I forgot to mention this in my review, but the kitties live. Just in case you are worried.This was a buddy read with my friend Heather, and you can read her review here. THE REPLACEMENT WIFE, in some ways, reminds me a lot of a grown-up version of the Point Horror books I read as a teen. Hear me out; it's a layer cake of twists, one piled on top of the other on top of the other, until the whole structure becomes an unstable mess

Is Josh severely unlucky in love? Or is he a lady killer?His sister-in-law, Elisa, thinks the latter. Josh has a dead wife and a missing fiance. On top of that, he now has a new girlfriend. His missing fiance, Abby, is one of Elisa’s best friends, and she’s certain there’s no way Abby would leave town without saying anything to her.So Elisa hunts for clues, while dealing with PTSD for something traumatic that happened to her a year prior. She becomes friendly with Josh’s current girlfriend, Rach...

I really enjoyed Darby Kane’s Pretty Little Wife, so I was very excited to read this new domestic thriller with what seemed to be a similar theme. While I was entertained by the book, for me it lacked the constant suspense and tension of Kane’s previous book. The book starts with a great premise. You know those guys in the news who have wives or girlfriends who just seem, repeatedly, to meet a horrible fate? Or disappear? Josh is one of those guys. But he’s so charming and attractive he manages

Here we have a tale of Elisa, our unreliable pill popping narrator with PTSD from a past trauma, as she tries to convince anyone that will listen to her that her brother-in-law, Josh, is a murderer. Of course no believes her including her husband, Harris, who just happens to be Josh's brother. I'll admit I was entertained and didn't ever feel like putting this down but it never really wowed me either. While I felt for Elisa's situation I never really grew to care for her. I, personally, didn't t...

For Fans of the Netflix Series The StaircaseFamily get-togethers are getting a bit awkward when Elisa (married to Harris) confronts Josh (her brother-in-law) about the wake of missing or dead women in his life. Is Josh the most unlucky man in the world? Or did he have some hand in the disappearance or death of these women? Or is Elisa just losing it after her own personal tragedy?The Replacement Wife is authored by Darby Kane, author of Pretty Little Wife (which I thoroughly enjoyed). This book

Let's start off with this question: Do you like Lifetime movies? That are so ridiculous you can't believe what you are seeing/reading? Then this is for you! Not for me, but maybe for you!Elisa is convinced her brother-in-law is murdering all of his significant others and she is in fear for his current girlfriend's life. Each chapter spirals into Elisa's paranoia about Josh as she tries to uncover what really happened to his previous fiancé. All chapters basically have the same format: Elisa tryi...

In the spirit of the season, I’d rather be giving a glowing review to this, but as it is I fear I’ll be more like the Grinch.Unlike her last book, Pretty Little Wife, which was built around two likable strong female characters, in this book she returns to the age-old, worn out chestnut of a weak, mentally unstable, pill-popping wife, Elisa, as the unreliable female narrator who’s doubted and condescended to by the male MCs - in this case her husband, Harris, and brother-in-law, Josh.Long story s...

3 messy starsElisa is our main character and she’s a bit of a mess at the moment! She’s married to Harris and has a mostly sweet 7-year-old child Nathan. She keeps close to the house and works from home. I admit that I did like the unique reason why that was in this book.One of her big problems is suspicions about her brother-in-law Josh. Months ago, Josh’s fiancée (and Elisa’s friend), mysteriously disappeared. Elisa is convinced that Josh had something to do with it and thinks that maybe Abby

I had really been looking forward to reading this one as I was absolutely captivated by last year's Pretty Little Wife. Although Kane's latest book has many twists and turns, its plot is so soap opera-ish and unbelievable that readers will just have to go with it and not expect too much.Elisa has started to believe that her brother-in-law Josh is a murderer. His wife was killed in a home accident, and now his fiancée Abby, a close friend of Elisa's, has disappeared. Everyone, including Elisa's h...

Whoa! My mind is so dizzy! It’s spinning so fast! I feel the ground move under my feet! What a wild- action packed- crazy ride: filled with manipulation, gaslighting, schemes, lies, delusions! I devoured this beauty in one sit ( sitting on the edge, squirming, biting neighbors’ borrowed cushions cause I already destroyed my cushions during reading the first chapters ) Character development was great! Especially putting an unreliable narrator in spotlight to tell the story from her distorted ver...

A year ago, Elisa Wright had a picture perfect life. A loving and supportive husband, a wonderful child, and a brother in law engaged to one of her good friends. But after the fiancee Abby vanishes without a trace, Elisa is left wondering why she's the only one who seems to suspect anything is amiss. Josh, the brother in law, is convinced Abby leaving was merely a dramatic way to break up with him. But surely she wouldn't abandon her friends and the rest of her life too, would she? It never quit...

3.5 STARSA popcorn thriller.Here a wife, there a wife, everywhere a wife!My first by the author, although I am planning to read her debut .If you love an unreliable narrator, you may just be in for a good time. Someone is scheming and they are in the driver's seat (or so they think).Elisa thinks her brother in law is a killer. He has a checkered past, including the death of a wife and a missing fiancee. She decides she needs to put her detective hat on and get to the bottom of her suspicions.You...

Unpopular Opinion AlertOh my goodness.... this was a a tough book for me to read and review. I haven't read anything by this author but heard that her debut was very good. Unfortunately, after reading this I won't be going back and reading her debut. There was a whole lot of gaslighting and paranoia with female characters in this one. I cannot stand the female characters described as "I'm having panic attacks but don't remember taking these pills." I found it way too repetitive, frustrating and

5.0 stars— I am starting to think there might be something wrong with me. After strongly disliking “The Maid” (which was very highly rated by most everyone), I decided to read “The Replacement Wife” (which has received mediocre at best reviews on Goodreads). To say I was fully invested from start to finish would be an understatement. I couldn’t put it down. I knocked out 412 pages in 2.5 days. My wife probably thinks I am dead since I have talked to her so little while I rushed to get to the end...

Once again, I found myself being on the polar opposite of the majority. I was so entertained by this one. I'm not sure if it was Elisa and her mind chaos or the audible which was fantastic!Elisa Wright is a mother and a wife. Something horrible happened to her about a year ago and she is plagued by PTSD and anxiety attacks. She doesn't like to leave a certain radius around her home because she can get a panic attack. Elisa is also a good sister-in-law to Josh. Josh has been unlucky in love. His

Poor Elisa! The gaslighting was awful! Why do we gotta make women constantly question their own sanity? It’s even worse when the people who claim to love you don’t quite express it the way it’s supposed to be expressed. Elisa had to go through all these things for most of the book, and that’s when it starts to get repetitive. After seeing the same thing happen over again and again in different chapters I kept asking “Didn’t we already go through this shit?” Elisa is pretty sure there is somethin...