Book #16 |
Book: The Price of Honey | Author: Liane Moriarty | |
| Source: Free First Reads download Format: Kindle |
Pages: 34 | Duration: 03/08/26 – 03/08/26 (1 day) | |
| Rating: ★★★☆☆ | Genres: fiction, short stories, novella, thriller, mystery, sci-fi | ||
| 📕10-word summary: Tech billionaire’s widow and ex-wives surprised at unexpected funeral shenanigans. 🖌6-word review: Disarrayed programming, technology, AI, sci-fi mash-up. |
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| 💭A favorite quote: “She’s rarely referred to as Luisa. Always her full name: Luisa Long. It’s just one of those names.” | |||
| 🎓A new-to-me word: epigenetic | |||
| Description:* In the car on the way to her husband’s funeral, Honey Beckett still can hardly believe that Barney is actually dead. Granted, he was more than twice her age. But he was Barney Beckett, visionary tech genius, full of surprises—by turns romantic, inspirational, and controlling. Always in control. At the service, she impulsively goes to sit with the three ex-wives: practical Rita, fiery Svetlana, ambitious Meredith. Each broke up the other’s marriage in turn—and now, one final betrayal awaits.*From amazon.com’s synopsis. | |||
| Thoughts: I didn’t dislike this book, but I was glad it was short. This was my 4th book by this author — Nine Perfect Strangers (read in 2019), What Alice Forgot and The Husband’s Secret (both read in 2020) — and it was my least favorite of them. It’s hard to pinpoint why this storyline didn’t really work for me, but it’s something to do with it being unclear whether what was happening was due to a programming error, sinister technology, or AI gone awry, and it took a little too long (especially relative to the length of the story) to get what was actually happening. My favorite quote (above) was because that’s exactly the case with my name. At almost every (professional) job I’ve had, my colleagues have tended to say my whole name when they see me: “Hi, John Martin.” When it was all said and done, I was glad this book was a free download. | |||
See the rest of the books I’ve read in 2026 and previous years: 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019.
