The Second Wife

De: Miranda Rijks

Narrado por: Penelope Rawlins, Jodie Harris, Peter Noble

Tamsin recently married renowned composer Robin Featherstone. Robin is much older, but Tamsin doesn’t care—she’s in love.

And she knows Robin loves her too, even if he is very close to another young woman—his assistant, Mia.

Meanwhile, Robin’s ex-wife and grown children aren’t happy—they’re sure Tamsin is a gold-digger and Mia is an opportunist.

Then, when Robin suddenly dies, the family’s worst fears are realized: Tamsin stands to inherit everything. But when the will is read, its contents are beyond shocking.

As Mia and Tamsin are pitted against each other, only one thing is clear: Robin's family will go to any lengths to stop either of them inheriting even a part of Robin’s estate.

Isolated in the family mansion, fearing for their lives and distrustful of each other, Tamsin and Mia are determined to stand their ground. But then a dark family secret is revealed which may engulf them all…

©2022 Miranda Rijks (P)2022 Dreamscape Media

entertaining great twists really enjoyed

good narrator will be looking for more by this author listened to this
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3 stars

The Second Wife by Miranda Rijks is a pretty good novel where no one within is trustworthy. That being said, I never warmed to Mia as she was insufferable and annoying. I can't pinpoint why; I just dreaded her chapters through to the end.

I rate The Second Wife 3 stars. The guilty party/parties were my second guess early on, but I still wasn't certain, letting me enjoy the guessing game. However, some parts were outlandish, others entirely too convenient (multiple characters untangling mysteries with one thought seemingly from nowhere), which detracted from the story.

Penelope Rawlins, Jodie Harris, and Peter Noble are good narrators.

Good Story - Great Reminder

I was vacillating on my review and rating and realized as the author had hoped I did in fact like both of the main characters. So why was I leaning toward a lower rating. I realized that just because I didn’t like certain characters or the way the storyline turned didn’t mean it took away from the writing or the way the plot unraveled. Bad guys are definitely bad and goodness ultimately prevails and after some surprising twists the ending was good.

Narration was good for both!

Good story, awful narration

Enjoy the story but the narrator doing any voices other than the two main women is awful. Doing any of the peripheral characters especially the men whoever that narrator is is unlistenable. If you can get past that I’d give it a shot. Held my interest the entire time, which is very rare for me.