Beware the Woman by Megan Abbott

Title: Beware the Woman by Megan Abbott
Publisher: Penguin Group Putnam, G.P. Putnam's Sons

Release Date: May 30, 2023

Jacy and Jed travel to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to visit Jed's father, the warm and welcoming Dr. Ash. He treats her like a member of the family from the start and Jacy enjoys the attention at first. When she has a pregnancy scare, however, he becomes very controlling and secretive. He definitely has an old school way of thinking about women. What secrets is he hiding? Is Jacy just being paranoid? And what does the mysterious caretaker of the house, Mrs. Brandt, have to do with everything?

The story is very slow building and the formatting can be a bit jarring until you get used to it. You spend a great deal of time in Jacy's head and you start to question what is real and what may not be. Jed starts to act weirdly and she wonders if she ever really knew the man she married. He's a main character but he fades into the background a lot.

Let's talk about the ending, shall we? While several loose endings are tied up, many are not and that made for a very abrupt end. I swiped left on my phone and was pretty angry not to have an additional chapter.  I've since gotten over the anger and can appreciate what the author did.

Overall it was a good book and I'd recommend it to fans of thrillers and psychological suspense. It's a book that you can definitely finish in a weekend.

Many thanks to Penguin Group Putnam and NetGalley for the early ARC in exchange for my opinion.