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The Perfect Marriage
Jeneva Rose
2020 · 337 pages · Thriller
How it reads
The Perfect Marriage is thriller (domestic psychological thriller, specifically), and its dominant mood is tense. The suspense is the kind you feel in your shoulders. It moves fast: plot-driven and hard to put down, the kind of book that carries you along even when you're tired.
It's set in a big city setting, in the present day, told in the first person by several narrators. Its central concerns are love, secrets and class and society. In weight it's light and escapist — easy to fall into.
It opens a series. The ending is dark — no rescue, no neat bow. At 337 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. It's well known, the kind of book most keen readers have heard of.
Pick it up if…
- you're in the mood for something tense
- you want a book that pulls you through
- you want an escape
Maybe not if…
- you need something cosy or heartwarming
- you want dense, lingering prose
- you need a happy ending
All 15 dimensions
- Genre
- thriller
- Author gender
- female
- Author experience
- early career
- Setting: place
- big city
- Setting: time
- contemporary
- Mood / feeling
- tense
- Pace
- fast paced
- Tone / weight
- light and escapist
- Length
- medium
- Narrative style
- first person, several narrators
- Publication era
- recent
- Popularity
- well known
- Series vs standalone
- first in a series
- Themes
- love, secrets, class and society
- Ending style
- dark
What these mean: the 15 dimensions of a book.
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