'Unique, bold and unsettling' Aiwanose Odafen 'Perfect for fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Daisy Johnson' Amy Gentry --- My name is Ikemefuna Nwosu, and I am your wife. One day in Lagos, young dancer Ikemefuna is put on a plane to Houston to meet her new husband, Nna. Promises are made to her - about her education, about the man she will marry, about her freedom. None of them ...
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'Unique, bold and unsettling' Aiwanose Odafen 'Perfect for fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Daisy Johnson' Amy Gentry --- My name is Ikemefuna Nwosu, and I am your wife. One day in Lagos, young dancer Ikemefuna is put on a plane to Houston to meet her new husband, Nna. Promises are made to her - about her education, about the man she will marry, about her freedom. None of them are kept. A few months later, self-professed feminist Nna finds a beautiful woman cooking in his parents' kitchen. They tell him Ikemefuna is his wife, there to give them the grandson they've been waiting for. She appears obedient, malleable. But she is no ordinary wife. In the Texas heat, patience runs on short supply and the atmosphere in the house becomes increasingly strained, increasingly violent. Desperation makes people do strange things... Unpredictable and unsettling, HOUSE WOMAN is a delicious thriller you will never be able to forget. --- 'Haunting . . . a neo-gothic thriller, complete with a magnificently horrifying villain' Daily Mail 'A modern successor to Gaslight: disorienting and disturbing' Kirkus Review 'Unflinching, unforgettable' Layne Fargo 'Gripping' Glamour 'Impressive and moving' Irish Times
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House Woman was an interesting premise for me - the blurb promised an unsettling thriller regarding an arranged marriage with a wife who perhaps, wasn't all she seemed.
I was a little disappointed with the book if I'm honest, and this was mostly down to the writing style. The narrative was disjointed and very confusing. The chapters skip between perspectives - some from people who are not integral to the plot, or people we never really hear from again which is odd. They also jump between flashback and present day which is confusing and then some sections are just daydreams rather than reality, or deliberately mislead us by missing information out. This helps to create an unreliable narrator, and should have been a clever technique, but used here it just adds to the confusion. The last two chapters are from characters we have never met before and give far too much un-needed backstory about their lives, which was so frustrating when we just want to find out what's going on with the main storyline.
I think I was misled by another reviewer who raved about 'the twist' of the book so I was expecting a delve into Sci-Fi or Horror at some point. Unfortunately, I have to say that I don't really think anything in the plot constitutes as a 'twist'. There are a few reveals along the way, but these seemed very signposted in the plot so I wouldn't call them twists. There are a lot of threads of the plot left unresolved or unanswered and I was really disappointed by the ending which didn't seem to wrap anything up. The prose is nicely written in places but there are some really disgusting bits of imagery which made it hard to read.
Overall House Woman wasn't for me - with a disjointed and confusing narrative, a flat plot and an ending which didn't really resolve anything. Thank you to NetGalley, Harper Collins UK, Harper Fiction & Borough Press for the chance to read the ARC in exchange for an honest review.
