“Robot wives make the best wives.” The whole concept of AI and companion robots is so foreign to me but also so interesting to imagine.
I absolutely loved this book! J.P. Delaney did a wonderful job of weaving suspense, romance and sci-fi together seamlessly.
I highly recommend checking this book out.

I jist couldn’t get into this book. I tried several times, but never got more than a quarter though. I finally am giving up. I am disappointed as I like this author and had great hopes.

The Perfect Wife is full of surprises and I enjoyed every one of them. This book is well written with interesting characters. The story involves artificial intelligence (AI) in a way that was fresh and believable.and at times horrifyingly possible. Whatever you think about AI, there are moral and ethical issues about their use in this thought-provoking novel. The story is easily understood without a lot of boring technical explanations that I wouldn't have understood anyway.

In contrast to artificial intelligence robotics Heller's syndrome or late onset autism is an integral part of the story. It is one of the least known diseases on the autism spectrum and might be one of the most difficult diagnoses to accept. Imagine the heartbreak of parents who are raising a child who is reaching early milestones at a normal rate and then one day all that behavior disappears.

JP Delaney delivered a great book that held my interest right up to the clever end. At one point I'm pretty sure I was reading with my jaw dropped opened in surprise.

I received an Advanced Readers Copy from Ballantine Books through NetGalley. The opinions expressed are entirely my own.
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When tech guru Tim's wife Abbie goes missing, everyone assumes she is dead. So Tim uses cutting edge technology to recreate Abbie as a robot, a robot with feelings and memories and intuition. I won't say much more than that, because I think the book is more interesting if you just read it blind and go along for the ride.

This is a crazy book about robots and marriage and autism! Which sounds like a very random assortment of topics. But all together it mostly works, though I had problems with a few things.

This book mostly uses second person to tell the story from the robot Abbie's point of view. But it also uses third person and even a little 1st person at times. I have mixed feelings on the different point of views. Second person is always hard to read, and I wasn't sure at first. Though when I saw how all the points of views came together at the end, it all made sense.

I'm also not sure what I think about the end of this book. There was one point where it just didn't make sense at all. Like two chapters almost seem to give completely contradictory accounts of the same event. I re-read it to try to make sense of it, but I'm not sure that I fully understood how it could possibly work as written.

Despite the few issues that I had with the book, it is an interesting and unusual story. Especially if you are a fan of sci-fi thrillers, it may be a good fit for you!

I thought this book was very well written and fascinating. Kudos to the author for writing such a different book- techy but easily understood. I think this would be a good fit for a lot of different readers. Part romance, part mystery, definitely sci-fi and worth reading. Thank you NetGalley for allowing me to read this book!!!

I wanted to love this. I am big fan of the authors' two previous books. I just do not like sci-fi. In all fairness, this is well written, good characterization but just not my thing. I do, however, look froward to more from this author! Thank you #NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC!

I liked this book. It was an extremely unique point of view and not at all what I was expecting. What I liked about the book is that again, it was a super creative concept, focusing on artificial intelligence and "cobots" (companion robots) after the mysterious disappearance of Abbie Cullen-Scott, the wife of tech genius Tim Scott. Tim creates "Abbie" the cobot for what she initially thinks is to replace the human Abbie as the wife in the household to help Tim and their autistic son Danny move on from their grief. I also really enjoyed the portrayal of young Danny, his disease and his therapies. It was a very well written and realistic portrayal of autism (you learn in the author's note that Delaney as a son with autism) and was really the only full fledged character development in the story.

On the flip side, what I didn't like. This whole book centers around Abbie, who we only ever get to know through an second person narrator and through Abbie the cobot. Her motivations are never really that clear and what you learn about Tim later in the novel makes it very hard to believe that she would stay or why she ever would have fallen and married Tim in the first place. In my opinion, neither Abbie nor Tim are very likable characters and really no one to root for. There is also a few red herrings that aren't very fleshed out and kind of fall off the wayside at the end.

In conclusion, I give this book 3 stars, it definitely is a novel that makes you think and reconsider artificial intelligence as more of a possibility in real life rather than the "sci fi" aspect that you normally think of with robots. However, the "thriller" tag isn't super accurate, needs to be categorized as "sci fi" so it wasn't what I was expecting. It is a clever story, but falls short on character development.

JP Delaney strikes again with a futuristic psychological thriller. Great story of our human needs and obsessions. The question is, just how far will we go to meet those needs? Dark and complex characters that kept me guessing until the last breathtaking scene.

What a great ride. Never have I connected so well with an AI character. I loved the different voices and figuring out who the unidentified narrator was. The ending was very unpredictable even to a seasoned reader of suspense and mystery. I can't recommend this book enough!

This is the first book I’ve read by J.P. Delaney, and it wasn’t quite what I was expecting. In fact, it was even better! From the very first page I was trying to guess where this storyline was going, and I was kept guessing until the very end. Abbie was a fantastic character, and the spin that Delaney put on this story was so unique and consuming. It was fascinating getting to know Abbie as she was unraveling memories and, in a sense, getting to re-know herself. As more secrets were brought to light, Abbie’s “motherly instincts” kicked in, and she was determined to do whatever it took to protect her son...even if it meant doing the very same thing that led up to her accident five years ago.

Overall, I really enjoyed this book! At first it seemed odd to me that it was told through second-person POV, but I think it helped to further separate the present-day Abbie from the Abbie prior to the accident. Really creative of the author to do that!

This is a very original book idea, unlike anything I have read before. When I first downloaded it I was not aware that it was a sci-fi book which is not my norm. But I went into it with an open mind and was pleasantly surprised. It was interesting and page turning and a little eerie in concept and the way things were described. Technology is amazing but a robot wife created by her husband? Wow.Overall I definitely recommend if sci fi and psychological thrillers are your thing!

Abbie is married to the best husband. They also have a very special child, a child with autism. Tim has always said Abbie is the perfect wife. This should be an awesome compliment. It isn't. Tim is the owner of an up and rising company. They are building shop robots. A1's that can interact with humans. They look life-like and seem to be empathetic in all respects. When Tim's wife, Abbie disappears and is presumed dead, Tim builds a dead ringer A1 that is the exact replica of his wife. Then the A1 starts generating it's own thoughts and feelings. It definitely does not agree with how the young son is being taught at school. They use adverse technology. An electric shock is administered when the autistic child does something that is not right. Abbie-A1 decides to leave with the son. She is taking him to his mother. Abbie has been found and is waiting to be reconnected with her son. Then she can say she has left a bad marriage and rescued her son. That is her ultimate goal.
This was an intriguing and exciting read. It has a great concept for the storyline. It keeps you guessing right up to the end.
Excellent!!

This book is definitely unlike anything I've ever read before. It was fascinating to read about a "cobot" who has essentially taken the place of a human. It's also unnerving to think that robots could have the same, if not more, capabilities as humans, with higher thinking and the intelligence to retrieve memories. The storyline will have you hanging on to every word waiting to see what's going to happen next. I really enjoyed reading the two different timelines and trying to piece it all together and predict how it would end. It was disturbing yet enticing, and I couldn't put it down. I don't want to give anything away, so I'll just say this book was crazy, super addicting, and absolutely worth the read.

Thank you to Ballantine Books and NetGalley for the digital ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Title : The Perfect Wife
Author: JP Delaney
Genre:Adult mystery/ thriller
Random House Publishing Group -Ballantine
Pages:432
August 6th 2019
book synopsis
A missing woman receives a second chance at life, thanks to her billionaire husband--but the consequences are deadly in this gripping psychological thriller from the New York Timesbestselling author of The Girl Before.

Abbie awakens in a daze with no memory of who she is or how she landed in this unsettling condition. The man by her side claims to be her husband. He's an icon of the tech world, the founder of a lucrative robotics company. He tells Abbie that she is a gifted artist, an avid surfer, a loving mother to their young son, and the perfect wife. He says she had a terrible accident five years ago, and that, through a huge technological breakthrough, she has been brought back from the abyss. She is a miracle of science.

But as Abbie pieces together memories of her marriage, she begins questioning her husband's motives--and his version of events. Can she trust him when he says he wants them to be together forever? And what really happened to Abbie half a decade ago?


My thoughts:
Rating: 4.5
Would I read any thing else by this author? yes
Would I recommend it?yes
Wow what a strange and bizarre story this one was but still quite mesmerizing, as well as disturbing and engaging ,that once you start reading the first page your hooked , and it won't let go, its so bizarre that its like its a prediction of what our future hoods in store for us with each new discovery and development of technology. But the story isn't just about that it's also about how far would you go to discover the truth and how far others would go to keep the truth a secret .With that said I want to thank Netgalley for letting me read and review it exchange for my honest opinion .

The Perfect Wife first had me wondering why I choose to read this book and then rapidly turning the pages to see where the story is headed. Readers are presented with the premise of that artificial intelligence genius, Tim has created a robotic duplicate of his late wife and downloaded most of Abbie’s memories...but the unit is missing 5 years and attempts to learn how “she” died are denied. Thrown into the mix is the couple’s young autistic child. Told from the points of view of the narrator and the Abbie cobot, the author takes readers on a quest for answers that will lead to them question “reality” itself. The journey through this book is fascinating; pleasurable; annoying; often frustrating... and finally just WOW! I voluntarily reviewed an advance copy of this book.

Thank you to Netgalley, JP Delaney, and Random house for this ARC. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It was so interesting, and the storyline was so original for me anyway. I’ve not read anything like this before. I love the concept of the book and the characters are so interesting. I had a hard time figuring out who is actually telling the story until we got to the end. I can’t wait to find someone else has read this book so I can discuss it with them. Loved it!

Book Court - Where I'm the Judge and Jury
CHARGE (What is the author trying to say?): To explore whether science can created the perfect wife.

FACTS: Is artificial intelligence the wave of the future? Tim Scott is the genius behind Scott Robotics, where his vision is “a society where autonomous intelligent bots are as commonplace as computers are now.” Can we imagine cheating death by transferring our “soul” to a robot – thereby attaining immortality? “Living forever will become as simple as making an upload” For what purpose would the perfect wife be created? As a companion – or possibly for something more sinister? To replace a wife who’s gone missing – or to find the missing wife? Throw in an autistic child and you’ve got an engrossing psycho-thriller. The very realistic scenes of autistic behavior come from the author’s own experience with an autistic son. Who did it – and what exactly did they do?

VERDICT (Was the author successful?): Guilty, as charged. Eerie look at the risks and rewards of artificial intelligence.

Perfect book for a trapped in n snow day! A quick read that darts in and around the story line or keep you wondering where it was all going to go and even making you wonder where you wanted it to. A good blend of philosophy and tech. I got a free copy from NetGalley for reviewing purposes. I have liked Delaney's other book I have read as well. This didn’t disappoint.

This was an exciting triller that I will not soon forget. Had some difficulty falling asleep having read it. The writer depicts some super stressful situations that have a significant impact on the lives of the characters. I highly recommend this amazing book.

A pitch-perfect psychological thriller that examines the implications behind our headlong dive into the world of increasingly intelligent robots. What does it mean to be human, and what is the intersection between humanity and AI? Filled with twists and turns, not to mention empathy for the neurologically different among us. The most startling part of this novel may be the final reference to an actual patent obtained by one of the world's most powerful corporations, a patent that could forever change the very nature of individual identity.