The Good Widow is another one of those books that begins with so much promise. Jacks finds out that her husband died on a trip to Maui with his mistress, and she, along with the mistress's fiancee Nick, goes there to find answers and closure. It sounds interesting enough, especially because this book is marketed as a thriller, with a mystery that they are solving together.
But no, the book was pretty much 95% drama, and a bad one at that. None of the characters are likable, including the dead people. Jacks' husband had all sorts of issues, from anger management to arrogance to emotional immaturity. His mistress sounds delusional about their future prospects and was terribly clingy. And it's hard to have sympathy for Jacks and Nick for loving these people and inexplicably traveling to their death location just to have a look-see.
The "mystery" does finally come together at the end, but it's pretty far-fetched, and the way everything is wrapped up is outlandish and depressing.
I'm giving this book an extra star because it does have a few well-written and emotionally-wrenching passages about love and death. Otherwise, I would have given this book just one star.
Readaroo Rating: 2 stars
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