Ah, Love!

What a wonderful feeling, chased and desired after by so many. And what a joyous occasion to commemorate it in front of your family and friends in a ceremony of holy matrimony.

After an altercation breaks out between two best friends during a night out, Bridget’s son Jesse ends up murdered. Ten years later, Bridget and Tom get married having walked down the prison’s makeshift wedding aisle, in hopes to create their own life after Tom’s release. What follows, is an ordeal to try and get their families to understand that they love each other and try to divert the focus from the fact that Bridget is not only married to a much younger man but also to her son’s killer.

What a twisted plot summary, isn’t it?! To be honest, that was the primary reason I picked up this novel in the first place. It kept me in suspense for a long time, my theories shifting and changing as more and more information came to light. So many possible directions for the story to go in and I still didn’t manage to figure it out in time for the big reveal.

The intrigue was real, and I am here for it!

‘Karma has no menu. You get served what you deserve.’

A lot of twists and turns, secrets, and mysteries, as well as different points of view, make for an exciting read.

One heavy downside of ‘The Marriage’ is, that while it is a good thriller, it is not a believable one. The character’s interactions with one another as well as their courses of action are not overly realistic.

A part of me also wishes the epilogue after the ‘big twist’ ended a bit differently. It felt flat compared to the work prior, as if rushed or glanced over.
While it wasn’t the best novel I read this year, it was still an enjoyable one. And credit where it’s due, its blurb is a hell of an opening statement to the story.