The Ninth Wife by Amy StollsMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
The Ninth Wife is a story about relationships and marriage told from the perspective of a 35 year old unmarried woman. Bess is in love with Rory, who has been married eight times before, and should she see it through, she'll become his ninth wife. It's a prospect that seems shaky to her, especially given the pain that she has seen coming from marriage, whether it is because of the horror of separation from death, as happened to her mother when her father died in her childhood, or as happened to her friend and neighbor Cricket, whose husband died several years earlier, leaving him trying to fill his husbands shoes and become the man his husband used to be, or the way after a 60 + year old marriage like her grandparents have, things might start to be more about hurting each other than loving each other.
The book boasts a fascinating cast of characters that Bess meets along the way, on her quest to discover Rory's past via his ex-wives, and exposes the best and worst that happens when we love one another.
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