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Book Review of The Ninth Wife

The Ninth Wife
The Ninth Wife
Author: Amy Stolls
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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This book is so much more than its intriguing (and unsettling) premise. Would anyone want to marry a man who had previously been married 8 times? By the end of this lengthy novel, I was deeply immersed in the lives of Bess and Rory, and the merging of the past with the present. Amy Stollls writes very well, and manages to imbue her very likeable characters with understandable emotions. There is a surprising poignancy and depth to this novel that develops as the plot unfolds. I will definitely read future novels by this gifted writer.