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The Best Wife

By: AB Plum
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Mirror, mirror on the wall …

Jealousy doesn’t exist in Darby Forester’s vocabulary. Until Caroline, an equally stunning woman, crashes Darby’s perfect fortieth birthday party and reduces her seemingly perfect husband into a horny adolescent in front of the well-wishers.

THINGS ARE ABOUT TO GET WORSE.

Shortly after the last guest leaves, Caroline calls Wyatt. Someone is trying to break into her house—where she’s alone and terrified.

Wyatt rides off to the rescue. Darby feels the first brush of fear. Her father was a serial adulterer, abusing her and her sickly mother. Infidelity is, for Darby, a game-changer. One Wyatt has always willingly agreed to.

A call from the ER changes everything.

Wyatt is fighting for his life after a brutal beating. Suspense mounts at the hospital when Darby finds Caroline rode in the ambulance with Wyatt. She is passing herself off as his sister.

The game of cat and mouse escalates.

Caroline baits Darby with innuendoes of Wyatt’s infidelity. Shortly after his hospital admission, he dies. Darby has no idea what Caroline wants. Or who she is. Or why Wyatt was attacked. A mysterious text sends her rushing to meet a stranger claiming to have the answers.

Body count mounts.

Before Darby gets answers that make sense, the stranger is dead. A day later, so is Caroline.

Arrogance. Spite. Payback. Emotionally exhausted and disillusioned, Darby hires a PI. The secrets he ferrets out point to a murder in her past. Can she dodge the payback?

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THE BEST WIFE is a domestic thriller where old secrets lead to new betrayals. If you're a fan of unreliable narrators, psychological thrillers, and plots that twist and turn in the wind, add this new release from AB Plum to your reading list today!

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Good book but AI Narration ruined it for me

The story is good but I had a really hard time getting into it and staying with it because of the narration. The AI narration is so blah, it’s tedious. I feel for authors who use it because it’s horrible! It drones on and on. If you don’t mind the AI narration, I recommend this book but if it bothers you, like it does me, skip it.

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the voice, I had a hard time getting past that.

the virtual voice was horrible: no personality, flat, monotone, ect... I had to force myself to listen to the entire book, if it was not for the story line and my curiosity I would have switched to another book.

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The Title

If you want to ruin a book let AI narrate it! Monotone throughout the entire 10 hours. I'm amazed I listened to entirety. A testament to my boredom.

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Hard to listen to

The AI reading of this book was so hard to listen to that it ruined the story for me. I kept wanting to listen but I did not finish. The voice is so monotone with incorrect inflection and mispronounced words. I feel bad for the author as I couldn't rate the story higher not being able to fully get into it nor finish.

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the story was good

virtual voice ruins it. mispronounced words so you have to stop and think about what they're really trying to say

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Twisted

Deception and horror sums up this domestic thriller told in irritating virtual voice. An ingenious plot

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That robotic presentation. It was awful and I kept listening for the mispronunciations instead of the story!

I did not like the PI being called a pie. And Al that blah blah blah and yada yada yada. I swear that once I heard it say that a word or phrase was too fast for human ears! I will never knowingly listen to to another ai narrated book!

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SNOOZE!

I think this book could have been good, if I were able to pay attention long enough!
I can't fairly rate the actual story because I only got through a few chapters. I could NOT keep my focus on the book because of how monotone the narration was.
When a real person is reading, they change their voices for characters. They read with with passion to show the characters emotions.
Why are we not having real ppl narrarate stories about humans?
Is this just another way for big corporations to eliminate jobs?

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Could it have been a good storyline?? Who knows! Because the Virtual narration was so awful and ridiculous that it hurt to listen to it. So hard to follow. PLEASE STOP USING THE VIRTUAL VOICE. PLEASE.

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Worst Audiobook Ever

Don’t waste your time with this book. Not only is it horribly written but the virtual voice that reads the story is even worse. I truly hope the virtual voice is not the future of audiobooks because if it is, I will no longer be a fan.

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