The Wives by Tarryn Fisher

Unreliable narrators...UGH.  Is it any wonder we no longer trust what we read or hear?  I think they've been overdone, and are too often used in place of clever plotting.

The Wives by Tarryn Fisher doesn't have an unreliable narrator, everyone is unreliable in some way and all are unlikable.

Our main character is the second (and legal) wife of a polygamist.  Part of her "arrangement" with her husband is that she will never learn about or meet the other wives who live in a different city.  Of course, you know where this is headed.  The reader learns more as she learns more.

The premise of this book is interesting, and has lots of potential, but it broached too many serious and difficult subjects without attempting to do them justice - polygamy, mental illness, abuse, stalking, gaslighting.   A deeper drive into any one of these subjects would have provided a meaty and interesting book.  Putting all of them in the same book made them superficial and tended to reinforce stereotypes.

The best thing it has going for it is that the book is a page turner.  I kept going, waiting for the next crazy person or plot point and then it ended.  Just like that, abruptly.  It was a like the author hit her word count and stopped.