Read The Perfect Wife online free from your Pc, Mobile. "Recipe for a Perfect Wife is a bold, intoxicating, page-turner. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 5, 2020. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Save your time and don't bother reading. The Perfect Wife A Novel (Book) : Delaney, JP : "Abbie awakens in a daze with no memory of who she is or how she landed in this unsettling condition. The Perfect Wife is a cutting-edge suspense novel unlike any you've read before. They both had an edge and had so many twists and turns. A lot of readers do like, so I'm not saying skip it, just be sure the subject matter is where your fictional interest lies. Please try again. Jessie Hunt has secrets from her husband and her tutor, but these had not been revealed by the time I gave up. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. Suspend belief and you may just about enjoy it. Wow, a brilliantly written story, with so many twists and turns. Release Date: August 6th, 2019. The Perfect Wife is a Romance Books by Lynsay Sands. The Perfect Wife (A Jessie Hunt Psychological Suspense Thriller—Book One), Book 1 of 15 in A Jessie Hunt Psychological Suspense Thriller, A Jessie Hunt Psychological Suspense Thriller, The Perfect Smile (A Jessie Hunt Psychological Suspense Thriller—Book Four), The Perfect Lie (A Jessie Hunt Psychological Suspense Thriller—Book Five), The Perfect Look (A Jessie Hunt Psychological Suspense Thriller—Book Six), The Perfect Affair (A Jessie Hunt Psychological Suspense Thriller—Book Seven), The Perfect Alibi (A Jessie Hunt Psychological Suspense Thriller—Book Eight), The Perfect Neighbor (A Jessie Hunt Psychological Suspense Thriller—Book Nine), The Perfect Disguise (A Jessie Hunt Psychological Suspense Thriller—Book Ten). To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. I did think that mixing current technology with advanced AI as part of the plot line was a stretch at times, but then this is a work of fiction, after all. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. The Perfect Wife by J.P. Delaney is a 2019 Ballantine publication. In The Perfect Wife, Blake Pierce writes with the confidence and skill of a high school student in danger of flunking a class in basic composition and creativity. The man by her side claims to be her husband. Ballantine, $27 (432p) ISBN 978-1-5247-9674-7. It’s a sci-fi mixed with domestic thriller and it carries a heavy dose of creep factor. But one split bridal gown later, her assets were eye-poppingly apparent and Paen could only grin as he anticipated the surprises yet to come on his wedding night with the perfect wife. Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2019. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. This is a thrilling, audacious story about women daring to take control." A fast-paced psychological suspense thriller with unforgettable characters and heart-pounding suspense, THE PERFECT WIFE is book #1 in a riveting new series that will leave you turning pages late into the night. “The Perfect Wife” (Ballantine Books), by JP Delaney Some couples seem to be perfect for each other, but can any relationship achieve perfection? A husband who wants to enjoy all the wealth he is now getting paid. Something went wrong. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. The Physical Object Format E-book ID Numbers Open Library OL24293638M ISBN 13 9780062013545 I highly recommend it to people who like domestic thrillers and are looking for fresh. Abbie awakens in a daze with no memory of who she is or how she landed in this unsettling condition. Gripping plot to follow, and worth reading. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. In fairness, I have to say that about 3/4 of the way through, it started to really speed up and get exciting and interesting, and so 4* was the appropriate mark. Audio book sample courtesy of Penguin Random House Audio. I don't know so I flip back and forth. The author's son is autistic and he speaks about this at the end. A guilty pleasure, you might say ;), Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2019. Although there are similarities, it’s way better than The Stepford Wives. I thought this was a fast, fascinating, first read of this series. There is no way I could give this 5 stars because those are reserved for things like Orphan Master's Son,Deon Myers, or Jake Needham, but I do give them occasionally to other books. Oh, how wrong I was! Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 30, 2019, At times this book showed promise to be a good read, then something not really credible would happen; mainly this related to Jessie's interaction with her neighbour, friends and spouse. I bought it and paid a lot for it so I wanted to like it. I don't understand why any author would spend all that time writing a novel, and then not want to make sure it's perfect before having it available to the public. Does this book contain quality or formatting issues? I'm not one of those bra burning women, but I can't stand it when women are made out to be dumb as stumps either!! Jessie actually gets to question a sociopathic monster who has been put away for life. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. 4.5 stars. There's a problem loading this menu right now. Overall an entertaining read with plenty of suspense, but I don't think I'll go on to read the rest of the series unless I can get those free on Kindle like this one. Book Description. Author: JP Delaney. I just could not connect to anything or anyone in this book that captivated my interest. I became very attached to Abbie. The scientific-tech aspects of it were quite fascinating and thought-provoking, if also definitively unnerving. I'm certainly up for reading another JP Delaney book. I read 53% before deciding life is too short to keep reading a book I will find an interest in. I've read other books by the author but only made it to half-way with this one. This book is badged and, unfortunately, marketed, as a thriller, but that's not quite right. The Perfect Wife: A Novel by JP Delaney. Genre: Science Fiction, Thriller. He knows things about her which he shouldn't and he is adept at "getting into people's heads". Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. Please try your request again later. Couldn't wait to find out if she was a real person or a robot. The Perfect Wife is a chilling and uniquely disturbing twenty-first-century twist on the unreliable narrator that makes for a compulsive and deeply thought-provoking book. How to Be a Perfect Wife and Other Myths by Day, Afton and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.com. Now Felicia decides she needs a "wife" to help her juggle the demands of childcare, housework, and her fledgling career. We know that the main character, Jessie, is tortured by her past, but there were some pretty lame parts that would vaguely hint to what happened to her. In The Perfect Wife, Blake Pierce writes with the confidence and skill of a high school student in danger of flunking a class in basic composition and creativity. What really is a 5 star rating? Is it one of the best books you've read, or is it one that you can't put down? There are several unanswered questions, which I assume will be covered in the next book, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 20, 2019. The Perfect Block (A Jessie Hunt Psychological Suspense Thriller—Book Two), The Perfect House (A Jessie Hunt Psychological Suspense Thriller—Book Three). Tim has spent half a decade and an enormous amount of resources to bring his wife back. There are a lot of great twists along the way. The Stepford Wives Meet The Silence Of The Lambs To Make A Lousy Book Longer, Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2019. The Perfect Wife A Novel (Book) : Delaney, JP : "A missing woman receives a second chance at life, thanks to her billionaire husband--but the consequences are deadly in this gripping psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Before. Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2019. My Non 5 Star is More About Me Than This Book, Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2018. The Perfect Wife by J.P. Delaney had a really unusual and interesting premise. I need to mention since many of my reader friends like a heads-up about "hot topics", this book does deal with the treatment of autism; some may agree and some may not. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. The Perfect Wife - AbeBooks abebooks.com Passion for books. Very original plot that grabbed me right away. Unrealistic characters and plot more concerned with engineering ridiculous 'shocking' twists than constructing a cohesive story. I wanted to bang my head AGAINST a wall at the ending...aka LUKE I AM YOU'R FATHER....AUGH!!! Hes a titan of the tech world, the founder of one of Silicon Valleys most innovative start-ups. Please try again. crazily creative angles. The main character has moved to a new place where none of the women seem to work and everyone is a member of a strange members' club with an unfeasibly high annual fee. An interesting insight into autism too! Criminal profiler in training (and newlywed) Jessie Hunt, 29, discovers that dark secrets lurk in her new suburban town; when a body turns up dead, she finds herself caught in the crosshairs of her newfound friends, her husband’s secrets, her serial killer caseload—and the secrets of her own dark past. Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2019, It's so cute when men try to write convincingly from a woman's perspective, especially about such complex and thorny issues as misogyny and the sexual politics of being an attractive woman in a male-dominated industry. The novel is told from the alternating perspectives of Abbie the cobot, who propels the novel forward, and Scott Robotics employees, who provide a Greek chorus of exposition. SPOILERS for The Perfect Wife by JP Delaney Abbie was a Cobot. Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2018. A must read! This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. Jessie suffered a traumatic event as a small child and this could explain her interest in forensic psychology. I've read both 'the girl before' and 'believe me' and loved them. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. I can't even, just Wow! Karma Brown has long been a favorite of mine and this book is proof she just keeps getting better and better. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 12, 2019. Thing is I don't want to know either and I felt like I had to read through page after page of it to get to the meat of the story. These promotions will be applied to this item: Some promotions may be combined; others are not eligible to be combined with other offers. There's a problem loading this menu right now. I mean like immediately, as in I'm done with this review because I'm going to read it now. Please try again. Now in Book Three, after years of trying to be "the perfect wife," Felicia is struggling, for her children's sake, to rebuild her life following a divorce. Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2019. Perfect Wife is the first JP Delaney book that I've read, so wasn't sure what to expect. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 9, 2020. LOVED this book from beginning to the awesome ending. Publisher: Penguin Random House – Ballantine Books. I'm not sure if this book is a thriller, sci-fi or perhaps a sci-fi thriller. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. Does this book contain inappropriate content? Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. Drastic changes, for Kyle and Jessie, a house, with plenty of room, instead of the condo. The main character Jessie would never do most of the things she does, for an allegedly clever lady, both her behaviour and naivety are astonishing. Unable to add item to List. Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought Once Hunted (A Riley Paige Mystery-Book 5) The Perfect Wife - Ebook written by Amber Lake. The Perfect Wife JP Delaney. It didn't give us any insight into the character, and didn't add any value to the story, and was frankly just annoying. I read quickly, and know that I skip over words sometimes because of that, but even I noticed so many grammatical errors, it distracted me from the book. I thought that I'd sussed out what was going wrong about 3/4 of the way through. Fear not, though, for true love will always prevail in New York Times and USA Today bestseller Lynsay Sands’s wicked historical romance romps. I kept telling myself it could never happen, but believed every word. Enjoy, I know I did. There were no characters I really can say I liked, most I just felt uncomfortable with. This situation, in which the robot (or "cobot") is trying to find her/its place, is contrasted with a child - her child? In a day and age quite overrun with thrillers (I’m not complaining) it’s a challenge to come up with something new and unique, and Delaney did it here. THE PERFECT WIFE. Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2019. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, Genetic Engineering Science Fiction (Books), © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. This was a good read. The real Abbie died five years earlier in a terrible accident, but he, a millionaire robotics entrepreneur, has created a perfect copy of his perfect wife so they can resume their perfect marriage. I was shocked by the added note at the end about Google !!! This is a reissue of the book that was first released in 2005 under my old publisher Dorchester. She appears very naive about some things, and then she's proving how clever she is. She killed herself by going into the ocean to get Danny to safety. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, includes free international wireless delivery via, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. I've never read this author before but am so glad I did now. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. Synopsis: Abbie awakens in a daze with no memory of who she is or how she landed in this unsettling condition. I ended up reading it in 3 sittings because it really drew me in. This is a thrilling book about humanity, set in the context of a near-future in which AI has advanced to the point where a robot, the protagonist, is fully sentient, autonomous and able to express emotion - and has been designed to do so to replace a person - the creator's wife - who has been missing for five years. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Jessie Hunt, an older graduate student, has finished her thesis but is doing her practicum at a unit for the criminally insane. Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2019. Loved the idea of a first person AI narrator. Interesting having an unknown third-party narrating at times; didn't annoy me and you do find out who it is at the end. If you like unpredictable storylines read this. Loved the twists, especially how the end was written. Tim had developed her after the real Abbie had "disappeared". There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Meanwhile, Jessie’s life with husband, Kyle, is out of control. In The Stepford Wives part of the book, yuppie couple Kyle and Jessie move from their LA apartment to an upscale suburb down the California coast. In a day and age quite overrun with thrillers (I’m not complaining) it’s a challenge to come up with something new and unique, and Delaney did it here. "Companion Robot." Title: The Perfect Wife. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 28, 2019. Thought provoking and disturbing as well as being a great read. That ending! Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2019. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The ending (and don't cheat and read the last page) was like w-h-a-t???? Wow! Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. The neighborhood has secrets, she has to intern to get her degree, the person she does, has links to her dark past. This part of the story thread is cloaked in secrecy, but is not hard to figure out. Not entirely new of course to explore humanity by using non human creations - Gene Roddenberry taught us that many years ago as did many other sci fi writers and indeed literature has investigated the nature of 'man' using comparisons with non humans since literature and drama existed. Readers who liked Before I Go to Sleep by SJ Watson will enjoy The Perfect Wife, JP Delaney’s futuristic twist on the story of an amnesiac wife with a … “The Impact of Non-Rehabilitative Long-Term Incarceration on The Criminally Insane”, Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2018. Littered with grammatical and spelling mistakes, and poorly written in general. The man by her side claims to be her husband. I realised I didn't care enough about anything in the book to carry on. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. I won't read another of the Jessie Hunt books, that's for sure. Promising idea but let down ultimately by poor plotting, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 22, 2020. A most-willing beauty wants to be The Perfect Wife—with everything that entails—to her brave and handsome new groom, but an outrageous series of mishaps seems to get in their way. For details, please see the Terms & Conditions associated with these promotions. Please try again. Which means joining the country club, but, to her it’s a cheating spouse game.The story is of secrets, can the marriage survive and will Jessie. The Perfect Wife is a chilling and uniquely disturbing twenty-first-century twist on the unreliable narrator that makes for a compulsive and deeply thought-provoking book. Please try again. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. I couldn't even finish it, it was so ridiculous!! In The Perfect Wife, Blake Pierce writes with the confidence and skill of a high school student in danger of flunking a class in basic composition and creativity. There was a problem loading your book clubs. The Perfect Wife: The Orthodox Hindu Woman According to the ... Julia Leslie, L. Julia Leslie, Senior Lecturer in Hindu Studies Department of the Study of Religions and Director of the New Centre for Cross-Cultural Research in Gender and Religions School of Oriental and African Studies Julia Leslie Snippet view … I loved this book - it was suspenseful and alarmingly realistic. It makes you want to immediately read the next book in the series. THE PERFECT WIFE (A Jessie Hunt Psychological Suspense Thriller—Book One) NOW AVAILABLE! Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2019. The Perfect Wife by J P Delaney is a psychological suspense novel that will reel in readers from the start. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 25, 2019. - who has a severe form of autism and is only able to communicate in certain ways. Do you believe that this item violates a copyright? There were a few things that I disliked about this book. ... Cobot Abbie figured everything out the end of the book was her figuring it out and smuggling Danny out to her family. The Perfect Wife is a cutting-edge suspense novel unlike any you've read before. However, as the cover states, it's one of those books that you can't stop reading. Also, do authors not get their books edited? Unable to add item to List. Recommended. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Have you ever noticed that heroines are always svelte, beautiful creatures, perfect at everything? She is pursuing her course in forensics by getting to meet with a serial killer in a high-security unit. The Perfect Wife This edition published in 2010 by HarperCollins in New York. Other than that, it's entertaining. - Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of … Please try your request again later. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. A most-willing beauty wants to be The Perfect Wife—with everything that entails—to her brave and handsome new groom, but an outrageous series of mishaps seems to get in their way. When Abbie awakens in the hospital, she is told that she was involved in a serious auto accident and with medical technology has been brought back from a five-year coma. Imagine The Stepford Wives meet The Silence of the Lambs to make a lousy book longer. Reasonably well written but totally unbelievable. At first his wife-to-be- promised no such delights-her form was unbending, her health apparently fragile as she fainted in his arms after their first kiss. I’ve never read a book like it! I'm not interested in robotics, certainly don't know anything about it. THE PERFECT WIFE Edit. There was a problem loading your book clubs. I couldn’t put it down, so unlike anything I’ve read before. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. The Perfect Wife by J.P. Delaney had a really unusual and interesting premise. Didn't even bother disguising plagiarism of Hannibal Lecter and Silence of the Lambs. I almost felt that 2 people had a hand in writing the story. ... Digital Rights Management (DRM) The publisher has supplied this book in encrypted form, which means that you need to … It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. Please try again. Fear not, though, for true love will always prevail in New York Times and USA Today bestseller Lynsay Sands’s wicked historical romance romps. The intimate and critically acclaimed biography of the much-admired First Lady -- now in paperback with a new post-election Afterword by the author -- The Perfect Wife tells the complete story of Laura Welch Bush. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 10, 2019. 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