I kind of enjoyed this book but it was giving me flashbacks of Groundhog Day which isn't a good thing. It was pretty easy reading but that's about all I can say.

I loved The Husbands. An absolute masterclass is characterisation and taking a high concept hook and delivering it in such an accessible, fun and thought-provoking way. Bravo!

How refreshing to have an utterly unique premise for a book, I ploughed through this book in no time. At first I wasn’t quite sure where the story was going, but the constant arrival of husbands kept me interested and turning the pages! It was a lot of fun, but with a more serious undertone of how we choose a partner and the different qualities that are important to us at different times in our lives. A great read, particularly if you’re looking for something completely different!

When Lauren returns from a party, there’s a strange man in her house. He thinks he is her husband. But he is not. Lauren is not married. Lauren is Heidi suspicious for obvious reasons, but her husband is not a bad man, even though he is not her husband.

It’s soon transpires that when our husband goes into the loft to collect something and your husband may return from down the ladder.

This is a truly inventive humorous and dare I say thought provoking Book about what you’re actually prepared to live with, not live with, settle for, or enjoy in a husband and in your life.

I give this a very high recommendation of five stars. I’m so pleased I read this book and I thank #NetGalley For the opportunity to have read this book ahead of publication and exchange for my honest review

This was such a fun book! A great debut!

This is a light read that succeeds perfectly in what it sets out to do - you won't find exploration of deep philosophical concepts, or a (fake) scientific explanation of how the magic attic works (it just does!) - you're getting an entertaining took at a single woman attempting to bluff her way through a series of marriages - having no clue who her husbands are, how she met them, or how they have influenced the trajectory of her life and relationships with friends and family. It's a chaotic ride, and Lauren is a likeable and relatable character who learns to use the power of the attic to her advantage in small ways. While the plot relies on the sort-of-time-loop/Groundhog Day trope, the author has done a great job of never making it seem tedious in its repetition.

Definite recommend for anyone who is looking for an upbeat easy read - it'd be great to read on holiday particularly, or to break a reading slump!

This seems to be a book that divides opinions, but I really loved it (and everyone I know who has read has as well). It's original and clever and thought-provoking and I couldn't wait to get back to it every time I put it down. Some have found it repetitive, but for me that very repetition is exactly the reason it works. It cements the concept and builds the tension to a climax I found really clever and I hadn't seen coming. One of my favourite reads of 2024 so far.

First I would like to say thanks to Netgalley for giving me early access to this book prior to release. All opinions on the book are my own.

This book is a weird one, it starts when we meet our main character after a night out when she wakes up in her flat but there is a strange man walking around like he owns the place, yet she has no idea who he is. Later our main character establishes he is her husband but she has no recollection of how they met or the wedding, until she realised that as he enters the attic a different man comes back out.

This book had a fun premise but the plot got a little too repetitive for me, we never really established why this happened to Lauren in the first place (what was the catalyst), we also never really find out much about her as a person - other than she really doesn’t like going to work when the smallest thing happens in her life. It just felt really flat and a lot of telling the reader how she felt but never actually showing us.

Overall this book had such a fun and unique concept but wasn’t executed in a way to pull it off and just got way too repetitive for me to the point where I really didn’t care that much anymore, there was no twist to make me stay on the edge of my seat or to keep the plot moving. Like for real did she need to go through 200 husbands? 3 star.

It is rare that a book has me literally laughing but this one did! The premise of this book is so far fetched but so deliciously funny! Is there such a thing as a perfect relationship? Or a perfect partner! This book could make a very funny film. The author describes day to day life and relationships to perfection.
Whilst I felt the book was a little repetitive in parts and too drawn out - it was enjoyable. The perfect poolside read with a glass of something chilled.

The Husbands was a total change for me and I absolutely loved it. Such a fun premise and story.
Lauren returns to her flat after a drunken night out with mates and finds a man living there, a man who claims he is her husband. Trying not to panic she warily talks to him and he does seem to know an awful lot about their life together. When however he goes up into the attic to change the blown bulb, a different husband comes back. With each change, Lauren discovers her apartment has changed as well as her job and even her appearance. If she doesn’t like the husband or lives with him for a few weeks and is over him, she sends him back into the attic on some pretext and poof he changes. With each new husband she is able to follow their shared past through social media and her phones photos. If she has a job she doesn’t know how to do she calls in sick until her husband changes again. There are so many different paths her life takes, from a swinging couple to a wealthy lady of leisure. But as time goes on she realises she has to find a way out of this.
If you are looking for a light hearted big hearted book, this is for you. I highly recommend.

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Such a fun book. I don't think I have ever read a book like this. All those husbands and I couldn't stop reading. I didn't know where the story was going.

One day, Lauren comes home from a night out with friends to discover a strange man on her doorstep who claims to be her husband. Shocked and thinking she just needs to sober up, she starts trying to put the pieces together. She happens to discover that she has a magic attic where if a husband goes in, a different one comes out, and with a new husband comes a different life. So, how do you find your perfect life? You change husbands until the perfect one comes along. Lauren tries; she tries for more than a year to find that person, going through more than 200 husbands.

The book definitely had an interesting and unique premise! However, I don’t feel like it needed to be as long as it was - it felt like there was a lot of information repeating or we were given unnecessary detail.

Enjoyable read. If only it was as easy to change husbands!

The ending kind of caught me by surprise and was a bit abrupt.

Thank you to publisher and Netgalley for providing me with a copy of this book.

The premise is what ropes you in - it's extremely exciting and curiously you wonder "What could possibly go wrong?"

The answer is that she repeats the same process over and over again, think a time loop where the character wakes up each day to relive it.

Then it all ends unceremoniously. No why's, not plot twists, no answers to questions you didn't even have to begin with but the author thought pertinent you have.

Honestly wouldn't recommend is other than for a very, very light holiday read where you know you'll be frequently interrupted and do not mind.

Brilliant. Change your husband whenever he annoys you, if only..... Loved reading it and couldn't wait to find out the ending.

A very unique book and one which I thoroughly enjoyed reading. I was constantly intrigued by what was going on with the attic and was desperate to find out an explanation for what was happening!
The ending wasn’t what I expected and initially I was disappointed but the more I thought about the story after finishing it, the more I realised it was maybe never about the attic in the first place, but rather about Lauren’s choices and the journey for her to achieve acceptance of her relationship rather than constantly searching for perfection. Loved the humour in this book. A fun read!

This title had such an interesting premise – Lauren gets home one evening to find a husband she knows nothing about in her flat. Things go from strange to even weirder when she realises that this husband will swap place with another man if he climbs into the attic. What follows is Lauren’s life with hundreds of different husbands, some of whom are sent into the attic sooner than others, as she searches for the perfect husband, never knowing whether the next one to descend the ladder will be better or worse than the one before.

This was a fun read, and I did enjoy meeting the different characters – I found myself chuckling a fair amount and was really behind Lauren as a protagonist. I loved the various twists and turns along the way, as well as the Denver, CO storyline, but found the ending very abrupt and rather unsatisfying. Entertaining overall, however.

My thanks to the author, NetGalley, and the publisher for the arc to review.

I really enjoyed 'The Husbands' - entertaining, witty writing which kept me engaged from the outset.

Lauren comes home after a night out to find a strange man in her flat - even stranger to find out that she's apparently married to him. Her friends and family all know who he is and aren't at all surprised by his presence, its just Lauren who doesn't know what's going on. When husband Michael goes up into the attic, the next surprise is that an entirely different man comes down, and all of her home decor has changed in an instance. She sends this man straight back to the attic to look for Michael, only to have husband number 3 come down the ladder - and so it goes on. Every time her current husband goes into the attic, another man comes down and its another version of her life in a seemingly infinite supply.

I was completely captivated by the concept and the story-telling in this memorable and unique tale.

Not my usual type of book at all, but what fun! An enchanted loft that lets you see what your life could have been if you'd taken a different path, and how at some points in life we have to make decisions as to our future without knowing if it is the right thing.
Lots of humour, lots of what ifs and a potential swipe at modern dating culture.

On the whole I enjoyed this book. An attic producing an endless supply of husbands was a great and unusual premise. It has great characters, humour and enough happening to hold my attention. But the end seemed to appear very quickly and was a bit of an anticlimax for me. I’d have been happy to keep reading and meeting husbands for weeks!

Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for the ARC in return for my honest and unbiased opinion.

This was a very entertaining read. Well-paced, witty and filled with the most entertaining collection of husbands, I really did enjoy this book!
Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the chance to read this ARC.