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The Pilot's Wife

Anita Shreve

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"The cover sold me. There was some little blurb about The Pilot's Wife that sounded like it was gonna have a plot twist that would actually surprise me, and I do enjoy books like The Very Long Engagement - I can't remember which other books; I actually have a surprise almost mystery feel to it. This is a book that draws you in early on; and I really did enjoy it, and I did finish it. You just, you don't know why the police are asking this woman all these pointed questions; and then at one point she refuses to give an interview. She's like, "If you're not gonna tell me where this is going, then I'm not gonna go on with this interview." And you just watch as this whole secret life unfolds, and yeah, it's engrossing. There aren't a lot of characters in this novel. It's sort of this very isolated housewife in a very small town, and it's just her and her daughter living alone with their husband who is constantly flying airplanes and away from home half the time. I guess I identify with the wife because I am married myself, and it would be insane to discover that my husband had this whole secret life while here I'd been raising kids with him and I thought we knew him. Overall, I mean, I liked almost all of the book except for one part: The fact that this wife never had any friends in her town. The only characters who ever appear to like console her in her moment of grief are her mom and her daughter who lives with her, and it's sort of like she hadn't cultivated any friendships in 10 or 20 years in this town. So that was a bit odd. I like most the fact that you are actually able to be surprised. I do not like predictability in a plot at all, and I think books that I criticize tend to be those that I can already see how this whole thing is going, and it just, it bores me. I would give The Pilot's Wife four out of five stars. I really enjoyed it, and I was entertained by it."