The Marriage

Ten years ago he killed my son. Today I married him. Ten years ago my darling son Jesse was murdered and our perfect family was destroyed. My strong, handsome boy, so full of life, became a memory, a photo I carried with me everywhere. But today I’m finally close to finding happiness again. My ash-blonde hair has been curled into ringlets. Carefully placed white flowers frame my delicate features. The small, drab chapel has been prettied up with white satin, and there are tiny red hearts scattered on the small table where I will soon sign the register with my new husband. The man who killed my son. My friends and family can’t understand it. My neighbours whisper in the street whenever I walk past. How can I love a man like Tom? They don’t really know me at all…

Okayyy so… I have mixed feelings abt this book tbh 😭. I liked the writing style first of all. On the one hand I liked it but on the other hand I found it kind of boring because I excepted a much more creepy story. I like the cover but maybe because of that I had different expectations of what kind of story it would be. I also liked the characters but they also kinda annoyed me like idk how to explain it😭😭. Each character was so different but like everyone had kind of motives which made a lot of them/all of them suspicious. I thought I had it all figured out when I thought Tom was Ellis' dad LMAO. The plot twist was good cause I didn’t expect that tbh. I also thought Bridget and Tom would kind of get revenge on 'each other' or something, basically that both of them had pros for marrying the other person. Even though it went into a total direction than I expected I’m still happy we got a kind of Happy End for all of them. Even though Tom and Bridget have a huge age gap I still kinda liked their relationship hahah. Spoiler: never would’ve that it was Robert (Jill’s husband aka Toms das) tho. 💀