Freida McFadden and the Middle Aged Women of Madness

I know I've said it before but Freda McFadden is writing books faster than I can review them and it is getting ridiculous.

Her latest book and I believe her third of 2016, the second one I've reviewed this year, if I'm not mistaken, is called The Divorce and it asks what is Happily Ever After really worth? The synopsis reads, Naomi was living the quintessential love story, boy meets girl.

They fall in love, get married, buy a dream house, start a family.

Then he kicks her out, hires the city's best divorce lawyers, drains their accounts, and takes up with a 20-something.

It's a brutal end to the story.

Naomi should accept defeat, move into a dingy apartment, get back into the workforce, and piece together the shattered remains of her life.

Except, why should she? Instead, Naomi fixates on her husband's new girlfriend.

What begins as cynical curiosity soon twists into obsession and then into something far darker.

As Naomi uncovers secrets she never imagined, she realises her own life may be in danger.

But if it keeps her perfect family intact, isn't it worth it? I know we should never judge an author's real life based on the fiction they write, but with how many books Freda McFadden has been writing about middle-aged women going crazy, their lives falling apart, their husbands being awful, and them killing everyone, I just kind of want to know, is Frieda okay? Dear Debbie was her first book this year and the first one to feature a middle-aged woman losing it and going on a murder spree.

This is her second of the year.

I'm seeing a pattern.

And the thing is with Freda McFadden, she's always had self-confessed, self-insert characters.

So from the very beginning, she said that her very first book was what she described as semi-autobiographical.

And then she kept writing stories with doctor characters, which is interesting because she is also a doctor in her real life.

and then she wrote a whole bunch of books taking the stories straight from other popular fiction so copying things beat for beat from stories like Misery, My Dark Vanessa, Verity and so many more and now she's doing this set of books about unhappy middle-aged women with cheating husbands and kids who hate their parents and the women or at least Debbie and not to give you spoilers but the women in this book as well are all very fast to turn to murder and again it makes me ask Frida are you okay? I will say, I've never been a fan of Freda McFadden, but this book was up and down for me.

The first half gave me major, major anxiety, probably because it played on some kind of fears and insecurities and genuine concerns I have in my real life right now, in my own personal life.

And then the second half, I was able to kind of switch off a little bit and be like, okay, it's not an interesting thriller.

It's not got compelling characters.

It's not very well written.

However, it is absolutely ridiculous and full of nonsense.

And if you read it as almost like a satire of thriller books, rather than what it's attempting to be, which is a thriller book, it's unintentionally hilarious and it has some like again unintentional hilarious lines that are so funny and i was able by reading it in the wrong way to find some enjoyment in the last half of this mess so i think we will at least get some giggles out of this going forward in this video So let's read and review this book together.