Review: The First Wife by Erica Spindler (

The First Wife by Erica Spindler
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

The first half of this book reminded me a lot about the book, Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

Short summary of Rebecca - Heroine is the companion and working slave to a rich woman holidaying in the south of France, There she meets a mysterious and rich older man, falls in love and believing that he’s the knight in shining armor that will take her away from her lonely existence, agrees to marry him…after just a few days.

Hero is a dark and tortured man, who uses a naïve and innocent woman’s feelings from him as a way to overcome the demons in his life.
Taking her to his palatial home, she soon discovers that there are some very dangerous secrets about her husband’s life and his first wife’s death that he had never revealed to her.

In Erica Spindler’s First Wife, the heroine, Bailey Browne believes in love and fairy tales. Lonely after her mother’s death, she’s vacationing in one of the Caribbean islands, where she meets the handsome and mysterious Logan Abbot. She falls in love with him and within days of meeting each other agrees to marry him. They return to his beautiful horse farm in Louisiana.

There are a lot of things Logan never revealed to Bailey, especially that he had been married before and that his wife, True, had disappeared and has never been found. Logan tells her that True had wanted out of their marriage but others in the community, in particular the local police chief believe that Logan had murdered his wife and even some of the other women who had disappeared from their town.

Bailey is now totally freaked out!!! Yes, you should have spent more time getting to know more about the man of your dreams before marrying him!!!

Logan continues hiding secrets from Bailey…oh yes, the poor man doesn’t want her to be “swamped” with all the bad things in his life!!! Right!!! Idiot….Why not???

Instead Bailey begins to doubt his innocence….but she still loves him!!!

What didn’t work for me in this story –
Characters - I just didn’t care for any of them.. Quite honestly I didn’t give a “fig” what happened to them!!
Romance? Not much seen here…..felt no real chemistry between Bailey & Logan.
Suspense? Never felt it grip me.
Secrets revealed? So disappointing really!!!

This wasn’t exactly a bad or terrible book…..but just never excited me or pulled me in. I have read much better books by this author.


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