I received an ARC of this captivating story. Seemingly perfect lives in a perfect neighborhood, but what's really going on? Interesting characters, and a surprising, unpredictable outcome made this a book I could not put down.

Love, love, love The Sinful Lives of Trophy Wives and I'm happy I got the opportunity to read and review it. Always be careful about what you say and do in front of a writer. The story is a very fast-paced who-done-it thriller that keeps you interested in the story. A lot of the characters in the story you can't help but love to hate. I don't know why but the story reminds me of Stepford Wives just without the wives being controlled. The characters are all very well thought out and that includes the secondary characters. A lot of authors put a lot of their focus on the main characters and don't really think much about the other characters. Not with this one though! I can't wait to read more books by Kristin Miller!

Wife of tech billionaire Jack Davies, Brooke, a mystery writer, silently complies with Jack’s demands for perfection. When they move to Presidio Terrace, an exclusive prized neighborhood in San Francisco, Brooke plans to take advantage of the security and serenity to write her next manuscript.

Soon, though, she befriends Erin King, a local news anchor who maintains a youthful façade with the help of her husband, Mason, a plastic surgeon, and Georgia St. Claire, the infamous Black Widow. Georgia’s first two husbands died—one in a fall, one by suicide—but many think she orchestrated their deaths to inherit their fortunes, and bets are on if her fiancé Richard will survive their wedding night.

Brooke thinks Erin and Georgia are perfect inspirations for her book, and she enjoys spending time with them, but she begins subtly challenging Jack’s authority. As Georgia’s wedding date approaches, nerves fray until a shocking series of events threatens to unearth each woman’s deeply held secrets.

With a decadent setting and extravagant and dramatic characters, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘛𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘺 𝘞𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 by Kristin Miller is like Real Housewives of San Francisco: Killer Edition. There’s professional backstabbing, sexual harassment, bitter cat fight and a visit to Pier 39.

At times I was taken out of the story because inconsistencies of questions about plot or character would arise, for example at one time it seemed like a gray downpour in one part of the city while there were clear, sunny skies in another. Other times, it seemed characters acted very out of character in service of the plot.

I think fans of Three Perfect Liars by Heidi Perks or The Wife Who Knew Too Much by Michelle Campbell will enjoy this novel.

Perfect summer/weekend read. Readers get to indulge in debauchery, over-the-top drama, and a bit mystery. Written with a soap-opera like theme: readers follow an over-indulgent group of women make a mess of everything around them. Each and every character is a train wreck with unpleasant characteristics and exaggerated antics, yet readers are still drawn in and hinged to the outcome. Definitely entertaining.

Thank you to #ballantinebooks & #NetGalley for the ARC which was read and reviewed voluntarily.

This book would be a great read for a day at the beach! It’s got short chapters, lots of drama, and some twists you don’t see coming. The characters aren’t super well developed and it’s pretty surface level, but I liked it!

This one was a quick and highly entertaining read. For a thriller, it doesn't have many twists or "red herrings," and it's pretty straightforward. Nevertheless, it's a gripping story.
Basically, it's the story of three wealthy and unhappy women that band together to obtain justice or revenge.
The ending was entirely unexpected for me, and I really didn't see it coming.
The prose is clear and simple. The characters are a little too shallow for my taste. I would prefer to know a little bit more about their background stories and motivations. But I also understand that one of the virtues of the book is that it's quite dynamic.
A very fun summer read.

This is a deeply silly book. The characters are flat, the dialogue stilted, and no one acted in a way that made any sense. There was no new ground broken in the thriller genre. This one is a miss for me.

This book was a crazy roller coaster. I felt like I was reading a season of the Real Housewives. I loved all the twists and turns and had no idea how it would end up. The end seems to get wrapped up really quickly, and I wish it had been a little bit more drawn out, but overall this was a really fun thriller to read!

Talk about a guilty pleasure read! There's a bit of a Desperate Housewives vibe going on with the story. If you embrace the craziness it's a fun read. Don't spend too much time analyzing everything and just roll with it.

The story goes back and forth between three women living in the same wealthy neighborhood: Brooke, Erin, and Georgia. Brooke has just moved to the area with her tech billionaire husband. Erin is president of the HOA, a local news anchor, and is married to a plastic surgeon. Erin is good friends with Georgia who has been dubbed "Black Widow" by the community. You see, both of Georgia's husbands died under suspicious circumstances and guess who got all their dough when they died? Georgia is set to walk down the aisle for a third time in a few days. You'll be amazed at all the things that will happen in the week leading up to the wedding.

The author does a good job of keeping things off balance. You start to feel confident you know where things are headed but there's some surprises along the way. Nothing that will completely blow your mind but it's definitely not a dull conclusion. It fits the definition of vacation read for sure as it should hold your interest without taxing your brain.

Anytime I read a description of a book and it talks about rich people behaving badly I immediately add it to my TBR, anyone else? This follows Georgia, Brooke and Erin who are neighbors and trophy wives with lots of secrets. Brooke is a mystery author that’s new to the neighborhood, Erin is a news anchor and is best friends with Georgia who has the nickname The Black Widow. Why? Oh just because her first two husbands died and she inherited all their money, no big deal. Now she’s engaged again and everyone is wondering if her third husband will wind up dead too. So sounds like a fun summer read, yes? Unfortunately it sounded better than it was for me. I just found it to be pretty silly and I didn’t enjoy any of the women, even as the ones that you love to hate. They’re all awful but they also were pretty two dimensional and boring. I will say this was super fast and I did keep reading so maybe there’s something compelling about the authors writing style? The ending little twist was decent too, so there’s that but overall this one wasn’t great for me but I’m also not mad I read it. Going with a middle of the road 👉🏻 ⭐️⭐️⭐️

The women in her will capture your attention right away. If you like mysteries then you will also dive into this like I did. With each of them having their own tale in this it keeps you busy. It has another good element I like secrets that we see revealed. Going back and forth with these women makes you wonder what about the husbands too. They are a shadow compared to the women. I turned the pages on this to find out all the dirt.

The perfect summer read! A rather short read, too. Rich, beautiful women—also catty, insecure, and uptight. I would definitely compare this to Desperate Housewives. In fact, I imagined Georgia as looking like Eva Longoria.

Brooke and her much older husband, Jack, move to the ritzy neighborhood, Presidio Terrace, in San Francisco. (Where you can’t leave your garage door open for more than five minutes or you’ll be fined!) Brooke has secrets, even from her hubby, but the reader doesn’t know what they are.

The local “Black Widow” lives in the neighborhood—Georgia—who has supposedly killed her first two husbands, but wasn’t charged. She’s best friends with Erin, whose character I found the most interesting. She’s hanging on by a thread and you never knew what she was going to say or do.

Georgia’s new fiancée, Robert, suddenly goes missing right before their wedding, which leads people to wonder if the Black Widow has struck again!

Thank you to Ballantine Books and NetGalley for an advanced readers copy in exchange for my honest review.

I've read over 50 books so far this year, and this is my first one star.

I don't understand what others are enjoying about this one. I love a good mystery/thriller, and I love books about rich people and obnoxious displays of wealth. This book is exactly my genre--the problem is that it did not do either of those things competently.

The "wealth" is clearly written by someone far outside of that world, and it reads like a middle class teenager's idea of how trophy wives live and behave. We have grown women, worth millions of dollars, making mixed drinks with Malibu rum and V8 Splash. One of the women, wife to a tech billionaire, marvels at the fact that a pre-wedding party was catered. The outfits described are pure midwestern teenybopper. Designers are never mentioned. Although these women are extraordinarily wealthy, you could hardly tell from reading large sections of this book, and if I am reading a book with "trophy wives" right in the title, I want to be smacked in the face with how poor I am in comparison on EVERY. SINGLE. PAGE. Emily Giffin and Lauren Weisberger are two great examples of this, and their books are endlessly more readable than this one.

And then the mystery. The outline of the idea is fine, but it is badly mishandled. Major reveals are dropped with no warning and very little attention. The final big twist comes out of nowhere and makes very little sense. Any foreshadowing is done with an incredibly heavy hand, and somehow there still wasn't enough of it to make the reveals feel legitimate. There are also several errors (one of Georgia's husbands is originally said to have been killed by an intruder, and this is changed very soon afterwards into an alleged suicide), as well as dramatic changes in characterization (Mason in particular goes from being just a jerk to deserving of death almost out of nowhere). A murder takes place in public, in plain view of many potential witnesses, but is completely unobserved. And the wedding scene. In what world would it ever make any kind of sense for Georgia to agree to that??? Other plot points were completely dropped. There are multiple early hints that there is something sinister going on with Brooke's husband, but then.....nothing.

The writing style/word choice reads so much like a YA novel that I had to check and see if this was a young writer's debut novel. This book might be more appropriate for a younger audience looking to move from YA books to adult suspense, but there are other books I would recommend way before this.

For anyone specifically looking for suspense, wealth, and trophy wives, I would recommend "The Last Mrs Parrish".

*Advanced digital copy provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

The Sinful Lives of Trophy Wives is an entertaining novel that proves the point that you can't judge someone by appearances or the size of their house. Georgia, Brooke and Erin are three neighbors living in an exclusive suburban San Francisco neighborhood. Georgia is known as the Black Widow because her first two husbands died suddenly. She is engaged to Robert, the love of her life. Erin and Brooke's marriages appear happy, until the cracks appear. The three women take turns telling the story and the plot moves quickly through many exciting twists and revelations. A fun and thrilling read.

The Sinful Loves of Trophy Wives by Kristin Miller is pretty much what it says it is, with murder thrown into the mix. Brooke and her much older husband, Jack have just bought a house in a very exclusive neighborhood with very specific rules, one of which is that the garage door should never be open for more then five minutes. Another regulates the length of one's grass, so much so that one of the neighbors can be seen trimming with scissors. Brooke is a novelist. She has published one book and is working on her second. Despite the fact her relationship with her husband overlapped with his relationship with his wife, now that they are married, they are very happy, if insuring that happiness demands that Brooke five in to his every whim. The neighbors include Erin and Georgia. Erin is a news anchorwoman and Georgia is about to embark on her third marriage, her first two having ended in murder. Despite the fact she has never even been arrested, let alone convicted, she has become known as the Black Widow.

Erin is very conscious of her appearance, since that is her ticket to staying on TV. She has an overinflated opinion of her value to the station as she discovers when she leaves in a rant and they are not begging her to come back. Georgia is totally in love with her fiancé and can't wait to be married to him. He doesn't seem concerned about
her reputation, at all. Brooke is at an impasse with her book, but otherwise is enjoying life. They are trophy wives.

The finale took me by surprise. Everyone seems to laid back and happy with their lives, but they are all hiding secrets and those secrets come back to bite them. It was well written, the mystery building slowly until, all of a sudden, there it was: a ringing phone, betraying all. Erin quite her job for good, Brooke's second book was a hit, and Georgia continued to live her life, much as before. A very different book for me, but well worth the read. I recommend it!

I was invited to read a free e-ARC of The Sinful Lives of Trophy Wives by Netgalley. All thoughts and opinions are mine. #netgalley #thesinfullivesoftrophywives

Thank you to the publisher for sending me an eARC of this book. I am not sure I would have requested it, but it turned out to be a quick read. Brooke, Erin, and Georgia live in an exclusive wealthy neighborhood near San Francisco. Brooke is the newest wife on the block having moved there with her new husband, Jack, a tech mogul. Erin has just walked off the set of her evening news anchor career and Georgia is a two time widow. A widow people believe killed her former husbands. She is now engaged to her soon to be third.

The book alternates POV between Erin and Brooke mostly. It opens with Georgia in the hospital after a tragic car accident then flashes back six days prior to lead us up to the event. The shenanigans of the women in the week before are over the top. And the twist in the story was a bit too much for me. Overall, I gave this three stars and did enjoy the writing style of the author.

This was such a fabulous and sinfully decadent book to read! It combines women’s fiction and psychological thriller and crime thriller and wraps them all up in a delicious book that I didn’t want to end!

3.5 ⭐️‘S
Completely soapy, this was an entertaining read. Presidio Terrace is a prestigious community filled with the ultra wealthy. Georgia has been unlucky in love (or has she?) with the deaths of her two previous husbands. Engaged now to the love of her life, the wedding is just days away when her fiancé, Robert goes missing from his yacht. Is Georgia a Black Widow like everyone thinks or does she just have bad luck with men? Friends Erin and the new kid on the block, Brooke, stand by Georgia and support her through thick and thin. All hope is placed on finding Robert before the big day, but things aren’t looking too hopeful. All have secrets, some bigger than others, and when it’s all said and done there are those that won’t survive to tell the tale.

4 stars Thank you to NetGalley for the download and to Random House for the chance to read and review this ARC. Publishes July 20 2021.

Really enjoyable beach read. Quick and easy - well developed characters and a plot that moves right along - with the just the right amount of twists and turns. Short book that is well worth the read. Unconventional, action packed, tangled web, but light, airy and highly entertaining.

Brooke, Erin and Georgia, three wealthy women who dabble in murder. Each plays their own part and each has secrets from the others. Combine their forces and the wealthy neighborhood of Presidio Terrace doesn't know what hit it.

Some people have trouble finding a place to live in San Francisco. Others can walk into the most prestigious gated community and buy a multi-million dollar house. Presidio Terrace is home to some of the biggest names in the city, like news anchor Erin King and her husband Mason, a plastic surgeon, or the infamous Georgia St. Claire, also known as The Black Widow. And now, it’s also home to mystery novelist Brooke Davies and her tech billionaire husband Jack.

Each of these women are coming to a crossroad in their lives. Erin gets fed up with being treated as a commodity in the newsroom, so one morning, she decides to get up and walk out. And when they come for her, begging for her to come back, she won’t even consider it without some time off and a raise. And anyway, she needs to spend some time on her marriage. She and Mason have grown apart due to their high maintenance careers, and marriage counseling doesn’t seem to be helping. Erin is looking for a fresh start at work and at home, but when her boss finally comes with an offer to return to the newsroom, it’s not quite what she expected.

Brooke is happy with Jack, and she is looking forward to making friends in their new neighborhood. With Jack working so much, she does get lonely. And to be honest, she’s struggling with her second novel. She could use some inspiration to breathe new life into these characters so she can send it off to her publisher.

Georgia has been married twice already. After a little over a year with her first husband when he tumbled down the marble staircase. He didn’t make it. Then her second husband shot himself in his office. There have been rumors that it was Georgia who killed them, but she has always claimed her innocence, and there have been no arrests in their deaths. Now, she is getting ready to marry again, another wealthy man, and she claims that she genuinely loves Robert. She does everything she can to put the “Black Widow” rumors to rest, because she wants to finally find her happily ever after.

But when Robert goes missing after a pre-wedding party on his yacht, Georgia doesn’t know where to turn for help. She call the police to report him missing, but they won’t take an official report until he’s been missing for 24 hours. As the hours go by with Robert still missing, the women’s secrets start coming out and Brooke learns that all those rumors don’t even start to compare to the truth of Presidio Terrace.

The Sinful Lives of Trophy Wives is the kind of decadently delicious novel that takes place in a posh enclave that is filled with secrets, rumors, and lies. The egos and the alcohol, the lavish parties and the palatial houses, the cosmetic procedures and the marital beds—it all comes together in this fun novel from Kristin Miller. With a lot of drama and a little camp, these wives are as full of surprises as they are of champagne, and they will keep you guessing until the end.

I thought this book was so much fun! I loved these characters for their all-out commitment to these lifestyles and the way they keep moving forward through adversity. These women are fierce, strong, and smart, and they won’t let anything or anyone stand in their way. So much frothy, fabulous fun.

Egalleys for The Sinful Lives of Trophy Wives were provided by Ballantine Books through NetGalley with many thanks.