A review by rpweber15
The Husbands by Holly Gramazio

2.0

Though this story was centered around an insanely cool premise, it was executed terribly. This was literally a revolving door of uninteresting characters, including the main character, and there wasn't much to distinguish between the husbands who got names and the ones who didn't. I suppose that might be the point, but we didn't even have a good main character to fall back on. She was vapid and one-dimensional. Did she actually learn anything over the course of a couple hundred husbands? The side characters served absolutely no purpose in this book and were boring. This book was easily 100 pages too long because it was the same thing over and over and over again; they were essentially 200 slight variations of an NPC. The author spent the entire time telling, not showing, and that is usually a red flag as to the type of reading experience I'm going to have. As a married woman who has been out of the dating game a very long time, I feel like maybe I'm not the target audience for this book...but even if I was, I'm still not sure what the author was trying to accomplish. The main character went from kicking husbands to the curb nearly immediately for a lot of stupid reasons to
Spoiler choosing/settling for a husband before she even meets him.
I just don't get it. I finished the book out of curiosity. Not sure if that was the right call or not...but had I DNFed, I would have had to choose carefully at which husband I would return the book to the library.