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I am really shocked and disappointed by the amount of people who gave this book 5 stars. Though well written technically, the story is pathetic. Mr. Geradot did a bad thing - which had horrendous and far-reaching results - and he now wants to exonerate his soul by blaming it mostly on his wife. Except for the part where he sadly admits his faults, conveniently for your sympathy. Men have been doing this since Eve. Yes, he wanted an 'amicable' divorce. But that simply means he just wanted his wife to go away without causing trouble. He wanted his much-younger, sweet thing without having to think about the damage he was doing to the woman who stood with him for 25 years. Don't go away mad. Just go away. How romantic! Meredith also did a bad thing. Several, in fact. No, she didn't deserve to be murdered, but she is not an "innocent victim" in what happened. In fact, she's a pretty big central figure. She doesn't get a pass just for being dead. If she had never taken that first step, she wouldn't even be dead. Now for Jennair: She's a murderer. No denying that. And she had the good grace to find herself guilty and carry out her own death sentence. But stop with the mental illness krap. We give men a pass when they go through a life-changing, life-destroying mid-life crisis. Women go through them too. If Mark's emotions and decision-making capabilities were unstable, why not understand that Jennair's were too? Especially give the fact that emotional damage was being done TO her and not BY her. It's easy to write a book telling all her 'crazy' stories, but she's not here to defend herself, or even to give context. One can say anything. I know - women are supposed to be the victims, and just go quietly away when they are discarded for a younger, or better-looking, or whatever, version. But, forgive me, I am just a little bit happy when they fight back. Society mistreats women. Husbands mistreat women. Husbands have been killing wives for infidelity for centuries. Its even written as law for one major religion. It's my opinion that Jennair's husband is who she should have killed. Regardless of all details, HE took the first step, and thousands of subsequent steps, that caused this whole tragedy.