Having read The Girls Are All So Nice Here and not enjoying it, I was curious, but a little skeptical, about how I'd feel about Flynn's newest book. I enjoyed it more than my previous experience, but Till Death Do Us Part, was a slow paced, slow build plot that didn't do a lot for me. The alternating timeline got a little confusing when things started coming together and I'm not sure how I feel about some of the choices the characters made. This was an easy, quick read and for me, the last third of the book was the 'best' part. I'm not sure that this author is for me but I've seen some good reaction and reviews so if you are a fan of Flynn this might be more of a hit and worth adding to your TBR.
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Thank you NetGalley and Simon & Schuster for the advanced copy in exchange for my honest review.

Thank you to the Publisher for my arc!


I purely picked this up because I have read Laurie's other book and was super blown away by that story and kind of knew what to expect going into this and let me tell you I was still blown away. You're following along with two different timelines both of which are so fast paced that by the time you get the reveal, you're kind of like wait what?! and then the book ends. I was constantly proven wrong at every turn and couldn't put this down.

highly recommend

thank you to NetGalley and Simon & Schuster for providing me with an advance copy of this book to review!

yeah this book unfortunately didn't do it for me. it is a sloooow start, for one thing. even at the end, it wasn't even remotely a thriller. it's twisty, but not a thriller. it does eventually pick up, but the book is full of sentences like "it's just so bad that terrible thing happened to X" that get repeated for like four chapters, and then when you find out what happened to X it's super underwhelming.

also like avoiding spoilers but unless I completely missed something one of the biggest mysteries is NEVER solved and there are just a lot of questions left at the end in a very unsatisfying way. all that and the ending is somehow ridiculous and outlandish, too. so like not great.

but the biggest reason this is getting two stars is like Laurie Elizabeth Flynn your last book was great but holy shit I do not need to read this much about wine and how wine is made and all the different kinds of wine. like at times it was almost charming because it's clearly something the author is very interested in, but it was also SO EXCESSIVE!!!

This one was just okay for me. I felt a bit unsatisfied by the ending, and couldn't ever quite buy into the dramas of the different characters. An easy beach read but not one I would go back to.

I am a mystery lover, I like twists and turns. BUT, this book has so many twists and turns that I was confused. It is over=plotted and has too many characters.

It is the story of June who lost her greatly loved husband after a whirlwind courtship in a mysterious drowning. She begins seeing him near her Brooklyn wine bar, and on a website, so she begins to search for him. So, his life unfolds with a more mysterious twin. Oh, I don’t want to spoil this, but the plot thickens until it boils over and totally lost me.

I can’t recommend this since it’s simply too confusing and has too many subplots.

Thank you Netgalley.

This is a complex story about a very complex family. The Kelly family owns a Napa winery. They appear to be a perfect, loving family. But we all know looks can be deceiving. June marries Josh Kelly and soon after he disappears. Without a body, it’s impossible to move on. Just when she is finally ready once and for all, things happen to yank her back into the past. Secrets take root like an invasive weed and strangle everything in their path. A great read!

Thank you, NetGalley, for an advanced copy.
This was a very quick read, bouncing back and forth between Bev and June. Bev recounts her story as the mother of twin boys and a third boy and became the mother in law of June. Bev’s story takes place in 1999. June is present day 2022 as she is trying to love on in her life after the death of her husband, Josh. He was one of the twins.
The book was one I would call as instant gratification but forgettable storyline and characters.
I guess that the author was trying to impart vinicultural knowledge at the beginning of each section. It really did not add to the story.

This book was absolutely wild! There was so many twists I had no clue what to expect. Everything I thought was the complete opposite. The story moved quickly and had me hooked the entire time. I am still mind blown by the ending. I did not find the connections at all.

June is a successful entrepreneur, owning a bar in Brooklyn, and about to get engaged to the man she's been dating for quite some time. But lurking in the shadows (literally) is the fact that she is a widow whose husband died mere days after they had eloped. And if that doesn't give the book enough plot threads, Ms. Flynn also weaves in the story of her former mother-in-law and her own startling lifes ups and downs amidst running a winery in Napa. These parallel themes of June and Bev really work well together. The contrast and the similarities blend well with the who done it threads that will keep you guessing. And you'll never guess who. You'll just have to read Till Death Do Us Part. But be forewarned - once you start, you won't be able to put it down!

Although the premise for this book was very strong, this book just wasn’t for me. The storytelling felt very disjointed and the ending felt flat for me.

A highly engaging, twisty suspense thriller with dual POVs and timelines | The two FMCs had depth, but at times I disagreed with their choices and didn’t find them very likable | Beautiful descriptions of the Napa Valley | I learned quite a bit about winemaking | The final twist surprised me, but I was left with some questions | Recommend for thriller lovers

A huge thank you to @laurieelizabethflynn @simonbooks and @netgalley for giving me the chance to read an advance copy of this novel.

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This is a hard review to write. While I enjoyed the writing and found the premise intriguing, I felt like this book never truly knew what it wanted to be.

The cover is gorgeous and it, along with the plot of a widow's need to find the truth about her dead husband, leads the reader to believe that this is in the thriller/suspense genre, which is what it's being marketed as. But it leans heavily into the women's fiction tag it's also got on NetGalley and reads like a domestic drama than anything else. Truly, there was very little that was suspenseful about it. And when you're looking forward to a book in that genre, it's really disappointing when it turns out to be something else entirely.

It also reads like two different stories. While Bev's and June's arcs ultimately do intersect, it feels forced, and Bev's POV has so little to do with June's, that it makes for disjointed reading. And though I typically enjoy multiple POV books and ones that follow different timelines, it was confusing to navigate in Till Death Do Us Part. I thought Bev's plot was engaging (though I can't stress how much I absolutely hated her, Camille's, and Emilia's "solution" to get Bev her happy life. One, it's wildly unbelievable that they could pull it off and two, how horrible/selfish a mother/person can you possibly be), but I kept having the thought that it was sort of pointless to the overall scope of the book, especially since the major focus of having her in it--what her sons may or may not have done to the girls in their lives--is never truly resolved.

Unfortunately, when I focus on June's storyline, things don't really improve for me. You've really got to suspend all sense of disbelief to follow her. I could maybe buy her story if, say, she was married to Josh for a large chunk of her life. Sure, it would be hard to move on after being married for 5, 10, whatever years. But she knew him for all of, what, 6 months? They were married for a week before Josh dies. And she spends the bulk of her POV playing the part of a poor depressed widow and dropping lines about her "mother-in-law" (whom she's met once or twice), and the man she knew everything about and he's her soulmate and everything everyone else is saying about Josh doesn't make sense because what would people who knew him for decades know about a guy she had a one night stand with and knew less than a year? And ten years later she still can't move on? I get wanting closure, but come on. It reads desperate and needy. And as implausible as what Bev ends up doing.

I also agree with other reviews about the ending--or at least one of them--coming out of nowhere. I'm trying to avoid spoilers here, but maybe if the true killer was also stalking all the loose ends to keep their secret safe, maybe there would have been that missing element of suspense. But unfortunately, this book missed the mark for me.

Thanks to the publisher for making this book available to read and review through NetGalley through it's Simon Books Buddy program.

Told from alternating points of view over a couple of different time lines, this one grabbed me from the first page and I read it straight through in one setting. Well developed characters, a fast paced plot, and enough intrigue to keep me turning the pages. Great story and some unexpected twists makes this a great read. Highly recommended.

Thanks to NetGalley and Simon & Schuster for an advanced reader copy.

The book follows 2 women’s lives (June and Bev) and how they are connected to each other. The Napa Valley setting definitely makes me want to take a trip there. June lost her husband in a drowning accident but now she thinks she is seeing him so starts to believe he is still alive. She wants to marry again but wants to find the truth before she can do that. Bev’s storyline didn’t resonate with me so didn’t like her character. Overall a good book
Thank you to Netgalley and Simon and Schuster Publishing for the advanced copy in exchange for my honest review.

Til Death Do Us Part by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn follows June 10 years after her husband Josh drowned a week after they eloped. Now June has been dating Kyle for the last 6 years when she spots Josh at the park. She doesn't know what to make out of the sighting until she spots him outside of her wine bar soon after. Now June must follow the clues to finally find out where Josh has been these past 10 years. The book alternates between June in the present day and Bev, Josh's mother in 1999. Bev is struggling with her own demons and feels that David, her husband just covered up to make the family look good. Josh is in his last year of high school and Bev and David have a 9 month old son. Bev's college's friend has returned and now Bev has reconnected with her. This book had an unbelievable twists that I couldn't put this book down. Especially the last chapter of the book. Thank you to both NetGalley and Simon & Schuster for giving me an advanced copy of this novel.

This was a tour de force! I could not put this down. It takes place in the world of wine and wineries and vineyards, and the premise is so enticing. The messaging, and many of the themes explored in here are so smart, and the writing is gorgeous. This book is also quite sexy, but I do think some readers are going to have an issue because it does center cheating. I would have liked to have been more shocked by the twists (though I still didn't see them coming), and the epilogue is definitely very, very twisty.

Till Death Do Us Part follows June who, 10 years ago, one week after her wedding, her husband Josh tragically drowns on their honeymoon. Fast forward 10 years, and June is almost 40 and living in Brooklyn where she owns a natural wine bar, has just gotten engaged to a man named Kyle, and is looking forward to her next chapter and starting a family. But one day, she thinks she sees her dead husband Josh in the park. And then outside her wine bar. But then she's browsing possible honeymoon locations and comes across a website for a vineyard in Napa, and the owner of the vineyard? Identical to that of her dead husband. So of course June flies out to Napa in search of answers.

What I didn't know going into this is this book is actually dual perspective. We're following June in the present and then Bev, Josh's mother, in the past, back when Josh was a teenager. Laurie made both timelines and perspectives equally interesting and thrilling, which is very hard to do.

I really enjoyed this book. The alternating characters and time periods really kept my reading. I found it really creative the correlation between the different stages of wine making and the parts of the book. There was definitely a lot going on and the ending really got me. Thanks for the ARC, NetGalley.

A gripping blend of suspense and heartache. The writing is spellbinding and the explosive conclusion and emotional depth kept me engaged.
Many thanks to Simon & Schuster and to Netgalley for providing me with a galley in exchange for my honest opinion.

3.5 stars. I got really into the story early on, even though it was a little bit slow for my taste (I neglected all my other reads for a day). About halfway in, things started to get a little messy...and then it turned into CRAZY messy!

Don't get me wrong, I love thrillers that keep me on my toes, but I felt this one was trying too hard. What turned this into a lower rating than I thought I was going to give this book was the last 2 chapters. I just had a hard time believing the whole thing and again, it just felt like too much.

I would give this author another chance, though.

Till Death Do Us Part is full of all the good stuff: family drama, unreliable narrator, suspense, and satisfying twists. I loved the setting of NYC and Napa Valley.

Told with a dual POV, it takes some time for the backstory to build. Once it does- things start to get really good. I really enjoyed all the twists and turns and did not expect the ending at all!

Thanks to NetGalley and Simon & Schuster for a digital ARC in exchange for my honest review.