The Future Widows' Club Bless Her Heart Book 1 edition by Rhonda Russell Romance eBooks
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Welcome to the Future Widows’ Club--a secret society of women who’ve been treated like garbage by their horrible husbands and would rather wait for widowhood than endure a divorce. But sometimes waiting can be murder…
Jolie Marshall’s husband Chris is definitely horrible, bless her heart. He tricked Jolie into an “I do”--and her mother out of her father's life insurance money. Now Jolie is staying in the marriage--with a little assistance from the Future Widows’ Club, of course--while she amasses the necessary evidence to send him to prison.
But when Chris is murdered, Jolie becomes the prime suspect. And her alibi? She was at an FWC meeting, which doesn't exactly lend itself to innocence. But when old flame Jake Malone--the man Jolie ditched to marry Chris--is assigned lead detective on the case she knows she’s really in hot water. Because suddenly the new widow is thinking that a life sentence with no hope for parole--with him-- wouldn't be too bad.
TOP TEN REASONS WHY WIDOWHOOD IS PREFERABLE TO DIVORCE...
1.)Instead of losing half--half your assets and half your friends--a widow keeps it all.
2.)People offer sympathy.
3.)Those same people usually bring food.
4.)Black is slimming.
5.)Less risk of humiliation--a dead husband can’t remarry a twenty-something pilates instructor barely out of college with better breasts and a bellybutton ring.
6.)A widow is a martyr whereas a divorcee is oftentimes unfairly deemed damaged goods or viewed with suspicion.
7.)Life insurance.
8.)More life insurance.
9.)Death is permanent--no Jerry Springer-like meetings, courtroom brawls or bitter debates over who was right or wrong. (You were right, of course.)
10.)The ultimate last word…and you have it.
The Future Widows' Club Bless Her Heart Book 1 edition by Rhonda Russell Romance eBooks
This is a really cute story. The Future Windows' Club is a great idea for women whose husbands treat them badly, but they have decided to wait for them to die instead of divorcing them. The members meet weekly to update the others when they have done something to make widowhood easier or to party if one of them actually becomes a widow. The characters are described in a way that makes you feel like you know them.Jolie is invited to join the club because it's well-known that her marriage is awful and her husband is a jerk. He humiliates her at every opportunity and cheats on her regularly. When she finds him dead in their home, she is a suspect. Her former boyfriend, Jake, is the detective on the case. He believes she is innocent but can't understand why she doesn't tell him about the things she is doing that make her look guilty.
This is a fun story, even with a murder in it. You never know who the murderer was until the end and will be surprised at the person.
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The Future Widows' Club Bless Her Heart Book 1 edition by Rhonda Russell Romance eBooks Reviews
I read this book several years ago, somehow my review has disappeared...but, well worth both reading and reviewing again....I loved the whole premise behind this story.....like an AA club for widows or hopefully soon to be widows...great fun...lots of hijinks and mayhem...and wonderful characters throughout the book. I hope another book will follow up on this one...I loved it and highly recommend this book.
Jolie Caplan married Chris Marshall on the rebound. Jake Malone, her long-term boyfriend (think from 3rd grade past college) had unexpectedly bolted after her father died several years ago, when Jolie needed him most. In the 2 years since Jolie and Chris said “I do,” both Jolie and Jake have come to miserably regret their choices.
Chris Marshall very quickly turned out to be a chameleon — one skin being the snake charmer, the other skin being the cobra. Chris quickly proved himself a liar, a serial cheat, a substance abuser and a control freak. He also proved to be an embezzler, taking the life insurance money Jolie’s mother had received and “investing” it right into his own private offshore account. However, he was also an equal opportunity embezzler; he did the same with all the local investors who helped Jolie and him start up a software company.
As the story begins, it is the 2nd anniversary of the marriage and Jolie has spent the last 22 months of that marriage quietly documenting evidence of Chris’s many affairs as well as his embezzling scheme. She has actually been doing a bit of creative accounting herself, re-embezzling (so to speak) the funds a few dollars at a time with the intent of repaying both her mother and the company’s investors. She just needs 3 more months to complete the task. At that point, she intends to pay back the investors, file for divorce and turn the creep over to the Feds all on the same day.
Jolie doesn’t get the 3 months.
On that night of her 2nd wedding anniversary, Jolie receives a secretive invitation to join a group of women who call their group “The Future Widow’s Club.” It is actually a support group for women whose husbands have power and control issues and are verbal, but not physical, abusers.
These women in the FWC have determined that divorce is not the best option for them socially or monetarily and that the eventual death of their spouses should be prepared for and embraced. However, it is not the intention of the members to plot their husbands’ demises. They are just learning to be more prepared, independent mentally, financially, and socially despite their spouses’ attempts to debilitate them.
Two weeks later, mentally rejuvenated by the support of the group, Jolie gets home from her second meeting of the FWC and finds Chris in the shower, shot to death and emasculated.
While this may seem like the answer (albeit a bit grisly answer) to her emotional and financial agony, it is far from it. Since her induction into the FWC, she has spent the last week purchasing additional life insurance on Chris’s life, has bought a symbolic black funeral outfit complete with hat and veil, and has inquired about a burial package for Chris, not her. Talk about painting yourself into the corner called “Primary Suspect.”
And the lead detective on the case is none other than Jake Malone.
Essentially, this novel seems to be a cross between the sub-genres of “romantic suspense” and “second chance romance.” While I personally prefer the straight suspense and police procedural genres, the concept behind the FWC intrigued me. And the author carried that part off well. She hit the mark on the psychology of guilt as well as on that of personal responsibility for one’s decisions and consequences thereof.
As a mystery reader, I have one negative too many scenes depicting the internal physical and emotional reactions Jolie and Jake have every time they are withing 30 feet of each other. After about the 10th such scene, my internal dialogue became “Okay, Okay!, We get it. They are still seriously attracted to each other even after not being the same room together for over 2 years. Let’s move on.” Unfortunately, the author did not.
And as a prolific reader, I have another negative for this book poor editing. The number of errors is prolific and they are the kind of editing errors that take you out of the story while you figure out what should have been written there. Since the copyright date for the ebook version is 2014, the author could have updated her e-file long ago. Doing so could probably improve her ratings — and improve her chances of a reader purchasing another of her works.
I sometimes describe books as train wrecks that you just finish because they're so bad. This is not exactly one of them but kinda. It's really more (less?) than that. It's so all over the map it's hard to classify. It's so riddled with typos, bad grammar, misnomers, etc., etc. that it's mind boggling. All the more so because it's a fun story and, bafflingly, partially well-written. Even the gratuitous sex part she foisted on us at the end was kind of imaginative and original. I always skip that stuff because it's usually boring and stupid but you have to at least skim over it to find out when it's over and you can continue reading. I actually took notes on some of the errors because they're just too funny to be believed. For instance, I'm wondering how they "howled with silent laughter" and they grow "impatients" in their gardens. In one paragraph a "crocket" mallet and a "crochet" mallet were used as a weapon. Typos are so rampant that it's impossible to tell which mistakes are a result of that or just plain stupidity. But here's the best part, I checked out the author to see how young she is because I thought she might be a result of the current generation's public school non-education and lo and behold she's a NYT best-selling author and has won numerous awards. I have clearly lived too long. I never thought I'd live to see this country degenerate into the rampant ignorance that now prevails. So, keeping that in mind, it's a pretty good, entertaining story--in ways the author may not have intended and, sadly, it's about as much as we can hope for any more.
This is a really cute story. The Future Windows' Club is a great idea for women whose husbands treat them badly, but they have decided to wait for them to die instead of divorcing them. The members meet weekly to update the others when they have done something to make widowhood easier or to party if one of them actually becomes a widow. The characters are described in a way that makes you feel like you know them.
Jolie is invited to join the club because it's well-known that her marriage is awful and her husband is a jerk. He humiliates her at every opportunity and cheats on her regularly. When she finds him dead in their home, she is a suspect. Her former boyfriend, Jake, is the detective on the case. He believes she is innocent but can't understand why she doesn't tell him about the things she is doing that make her look guilty.
This is a fun story, even with a murder in it. You never know who the murderer was until the end and will be surprised at the person.
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