A review by hollxx
The After Wife by Cass Hunter

5.0

I don't even know where to start with this review!

As soon as I saw this book it jumped out to me. I have never heard of a book like it and I knew I just needed to get my hands on it!! This book is about Rachel, who passes away, and has created iRachel - iRachel is a robot and is a gift to her husband and daughter. iRachel lives with Aidan and Chloe for a while.
First of all, I love well it wrote about dealing with grief. It was so accurate and something I found I can highly relate too and it was a comfort reading about it in this book, knowing that different grieving processes are okay and that people have different coping mechanisms.

I did not know what to expect when iRachel went to live with Aidan & Chloe, I did not know whether things would go horribly wrong or whether iRachel would help them both with the grievance. It was so fascinating that Rachel and her work partner Luke had built this robot to look and talk exactly like Rachel!

I loved how we gained different perspectives from each character. Having chapters from iRachel, Rachel, Aidan, Chloe and Sinead (Aidan's mum), it made the book more capturing as it was so interesting finding more about how they are dealing with iRachel!

I also liked how this book touched on Dementia too, Sinead suffered from dementia, which at first nobody really noticed but as the book went on it got worse and worse. It was wrote about in such a sensitive way, from the perspective of each character aswell!!

This book was just filled with so many different concepts/ideas - iRachel, death, grievance, dementia, friendships, loneliness - yet despite there being so many different aspects, none of it seemed forced and it all seemed to fit well together!!

I did however find some chapters quite unnecessary and not really required for the story!

Fab ending!

I would 100% recommend this read - one of my favourite reads!!!