The Mistress's Revenge

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There is a nice little twist that I think the readers will enjoy, and I especially love how everything comes full circle.

If married people want to enter into a different relationship than that of their spouse, they should terminate the agreement and move on to the next relationship. Unless you are signed in to a HubPages account, all personally identifiable information is anonymized. And sexing her ex-con first love will ensure his help—and keep her hot and satisfied through those lonely grieving nights . I found it rather insightful regarding why people may do "crazy things" after break-ups, as you see why the MC does the things she does and her reasoning (often irrational) for such.That’s why, in spite of her oft-declared affection for Daniel (“we get each other completely,” she once told you. The book’s ending was a complete surprise and I have to admit that I jumped to the end at one point. Sally is so distracted by her obsession and grief that she is blind to the destruction and havoc she is wreaking on her own children and life-partner.

And her journal entries took on the form of letters to Clive Gooding, the man she was having a long term affair with. I hope that, for that reason, women readers particularly will experience a kind of “there but for the Grace of God” recognition.I’m interested in the complex dynamics of dysfunctional relationships, partly due to inherent nosiness (not for nothing was I a magazine advice columnist for five years), partly because hearing about other people’s failings always makes me feel marginally better about my own, and partly in the hope of learning how not to make the same mistakes they did (particularly the murder-related ones! It was like she got to know everything about Clive to eventually find that she never really knew him at all. The book was turning into a bit of a modern day version of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper.

I can't say I liked any of the characters, Sally is hard to like at all, selfish, obsessed, her behaviour and all consuming affair takes over everything. Only now when there is no one to give them to, and no one who would want them anyway, do I realize how worthless these mundanities were all along. Hello stranger,” she said, and I imagined her meeting your mildly quizzical gaze and mouthing the word “Sally” before lying back on the cushions so she didn’t see how your mouth froze into an O shape, or your fingers shook as they gripped the edges of the Times. Billed as "fiery, passionate, [and] engrossing" I couldn't help but think this would be a fast paced provocative read about a mistress who takes revenge on the man with whom she had an illicit affair. I have videos and pictures of her that she sent which I really want to post online but I know I could get in trouble for that.Not since Fatal Attraction has the fallout from an illicit affair been exposed in such a sharp, darkly funny, and disturbing way: The Mistress’s Revenge is a truly exciting fiction debut.

I know you think it’s mumbo jumbo, so did I, but believe me you’ll see the benefits,” you urged me in your most concerned voice right after York Way Friday when you were still in full guilt mode. I can’t imagine it was terribly comfortable, although I’m sure you carried it off with your usual insouciance. But eventually Sally loses her already wavering grasp on reality and has convinced herself of certain things that couldn’t be further from the truth.

The title "The Mistress's Revenge" implies that there will be plenty of vengeful action - but this book is actually about inaction, the inability to move on from a bad relationship, rather to wallow in its shattered remains. Clive whom she embarked upon a five year affair with, both married, both have children, both linked in each others circles.