Book Review: You Should Have Known

I love reading! I like most genres, but I'm not really a fan of fantasy. It's okay but not favorite. 

I usually read Adult Fiction. My library staff has a section of staff favorite so I usually read those. I think there's only been one on that shelf that I haven't liked. 

 This book was called You Should Have Known, which is the perfect title for the book. If I was the author, I would have picked the same name. In the book, the main character, a traditionally married marriage counselor, writes a book by the same title about how there's things you should have known before you marry your partner. The fact that she wrote this book is so ironic. The beginning's a little rough to get through because it feels like a marriage counseling book, but it gets a lot better after you get into it. 

Warning: If you are going to read the book, don't read any further, unless you just like spoiling books before you read them. 

The book really changes tone when Malaga Aves is brutally murdered in her apartment. The author does an amazing job of characterization of Grace. I had no clue that Jonathon was anything but a perfect husband until Grace finds the phone. Even then, I still didn't suspect that he had been having many affairs over many years. I was especially surprised when the the detective said he had been fired from his job several months before!

By the end, I really hated Jonathan, as the author intended. What kind of person kills his younger brother and feels no guilt?! I also hated how Grace kept defending him. After all that the police had told her, could she not see that she was lied to? It was very frustrating!

The book Grace wrote was so perfect. She should have known. She trusted Jonathon too much. She should have asked why she never saw his colleagues or why they had no friends.

I thought it was funny how Grace was paying $38,000 in her son's tuition, but he liked the public school better. It was also funny how she held on to the teachings of the violin teacher more than Henry throughout the book.   

I loved this book! I thought the author did a very good job of keeping the pages turning. If I were writing a book like this, I don't think I would be able to withhold so much information from the reader, which is why I have yet to write a book--One of the reasons anyways.