📖 Publication Day Book Review ~ My Husband’s Wife by Carla Kovach

Bookouture
8 September 2025

Thanks to the publisher for the opportunity to review this book

Five years ago I buried my husband. Today I saw him with his new wife. 

‘Thank you for agreeing to be our wedding planner. Theo is on his way,’ Madison says as we meet to plan her dream wedding. The moment her fiancé enters the room, a newborn baby in his arms, my whole world shifts and I grab hold of my desk to stop myself from falling.

Theo shakes my hand as he introduces himself, but I already know who he is. He’s my husband. The man I thought had died five years ago.

‘Lovely to meet you, Eva,’ he says, carefully avoiding my frozen stare. I’d recognise his smooth voice anywhere.

I want to scream, ask him why he’s doing this to me. But I know just how good a liar my husband is. And he knows my darkest secret. I can’t risk him destroying everything I’ve worked so hard for.

At the end of the meeting, I watch the happy little family walk away, and I don’t miss Theo’s eyes staring at me just a second too long. He knows I’m onto him. But only I know what I’m going to do next…

📖My Review..

A fresh start for Eva and her new husband goes disastrously wrong when, during the first week of her job as a wedding planner, she meets a couple planning their dream wedding, the only problem is that the groom looks exactly like Eva’s deceased husband who has been dead for five years. With emotions running high Eva starts to doubt her own memories and as her behaviour becomes more and more erratic so everything around her starts to disintegrate.

This is an interesting story especially when we start to get the point of view of three other women who are involved in this complicated story of hidden identity. With several unreliable narrators, there were a few parts of the story where I had to suspend belief but that’s the beauty of fiction and I was engrossed enough to keep turning the pages as there’s lots of action, plenty of twists and turns and a few compelling storylines I never expected.

Overall My Husband’s Wife is an entertaining read, with a satisfying conclusion.

It’s published today by Bookouture.

About the Author

Carla has been writing seriously since her mid-thirties. She started by writing stage plays which led to her producing and directing her own full length piece of theatre. After that, she decided to write films and books where she began by self-publishing. In the past, she has acted in a few indie films and has also co-owned a photography and video production company. 

Right now, she is a full time crime and thriller author living in Worcester with her husband, Nigel and Poppy the cat.

 

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