The Professor’s Wife is about enduring love and the darkness that lives in all of us when it is threatened by the unexpected twists and bends of life itself. A can’t-put-down book!… I read late into to the night because I just had to know what the ending was going to be.

Dr. Carl Bingham, a middle-aged professor of British literature was content living a life of relative solitude. That all changed when the seductive twenty-seven-year-old art student, Camilla Jones, walked into his office.

Camilla was mesmerized by his eloquent reading of poetry in class and attracted to him because of his age. She was determined to have him and even with Carl’s resistance, she won out.

Though their ages were decades apart, Carl regarded Camilla as wise beyond her years. The two married not long into their relationship and managed to fulfill each other’s needs for twenty years, or it seemed.

The Professor’s Wife takes us back and forth from when they met to the present. Initially we know that he is quite old, and she is suffering from physical pain and painkillers. However, we figure out that there is so much more to their lives. As the problems surface, we know the story will become quite disturbing as we wait for the other shoe to drop. It finally does, but not in the way I expected.

This novella takes us to dark places but deals with very real issues. From mental illness and lifelong emotional pain that we could discuss for days, author Marina DelVecchio expresses their story with descriptive and gorgeous prose, carefully weaving in the intense romance and sex between life’s bleak reality. At only 113 pages, she fully develops her characters, and we finally understand the couple and what brought them to where they are at this point.

For those who are not afraid to delve into the eeriness of real life and explore the human condition, The Professor’s Wife is for you.

This book is a love story. No it is a mystery story. No I mean it is a horror story. Well whatever it is, it is really good and will keep you guessing up to the last minute. The main plot line is about a middle age college professor who is seduced by a 27 year old student. They fall in love and marry (against the advice of her best friend) and the rest of the story goes on from there. I definitely recommend this book.

Well the book was good once I got into it but the shift between past and present was a bit tricky at times.

This novel is an uneasy, unsavory blend of erotica, romance, and Gothic elements, and it is ultimately too formulaic in execution. While the author is careful to craft a solipsistic dyad of growing madness and mutual obsession, the result goes beyond what is palatable. Restraint would have helped this novel, particularly in reducing the repetition of the couple’s lovemaking. Less is more, and by trimming some of the erotic content, would have strengthened the narrative instead of stretching credulity.
Finally, the characters are remote and unlikeable, despite the exhaustive examination of their thoughts and emotions. The professor and the professor’s wife are both deeply damaged individuals, and the explanation for their suffering comes too late to explain the self-destructive quality of their relationship. As the titular character, the wife should be better understood as being willingly confined by her role in that codependent marriage. The author is quite adept at creating atmosphere, but unfortunately it is not a place one wants to linger.

I had high hopes for this one and it definitely sounded like the type of book that I love to read and am drawn to, however this just didn't hold my attention and I wanted more from this story and its characters. Unfortunately a DNF for me. Thanks to NetGalley and publishers for this ARC.

A darker side to relationships, and connections. The story and setting intrigued me and sustained me as I read. Thank you to NetGalley for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review

Thank you for allowing me a preview. I just couldn't connect with this story and did not finish. I stopped and restarted a couple of times to give it a fair chance but just wasn't my cup of tea. Best wishes to you all and thank you again for allowing me the preview.

The professors wife by Marina Delvecchio.
Carl Bingham is a lonely British Literature Professor who has sworn off love and sex since an affair with a student at Skidmore College almost lost him his tenure and reputation. Camilla is a young artist who sits in his classroom, mesmerized by his voice and appearance. Despite their age difference, they fall in love, marry, and feed each other’s physical and emotional needs. But when secrets and betrayals begin to threaten the bond they have forged and have found nowhere else, how far will each go to keep the other from disappearing? The Professor’s Wife is about enduring love and the darkness that lives in all of us when it is threatened by the unexpected twists and bends of life itself.
A good read with good characters I liked the cover 4*.

This book was supposed to be a psychological thriller and I was looking forward to that. But it failed to deliver. And it was hard to finish. I voluntarily read this book via Netgalley in exchange for my honest opinion,

The Professor’s wife is listed as a thriller/mystery, I felt that the more I read the more it jumped out as a romance novel. I struggled to connect with the main characters Carl and Camilla throughout their dark love story. The chapters skip between present day and the past, this was very perplexing, there is no date at the beginning of the chapter therefore taking a while to figure out what was happening. The ending was unexpected but cannot account for the struggle that it was to finish. The Professor’s wife does highlight and bring your attention to how fragile mental health can be, and that life events can often have an ongoing effect on you no matter how hard you try to push past it. Therefore I give The Professor’s wife 2 stars out of 5.

I would like to thank NetGallery for the opportunity to read and review this book.

A short, quick read, and I was glad. It was listed as mystery/thriller, so I felt short-changed. Not a whole lot to recommend.