Book Review: The Marriage Pact by Michelle Richmond

I think one of the reasons that I don't read too many mystery/thrillers is because sometimes you come across something so creepy but that could be real and then you start to question everything and everyone around you, you know?  Yeah, creepy and weird lol

Just like this one...


The Marriage Pact by Michelle Richmond

From Goodreads:
Newlyweds Alice and Jake are a picture-perfect couple. Alice, once a singer in a well-known rock band, is now a successful lawyer. Jake is a partner in an up-and-coming psychology practice. Their life together holds endless possibilities. After receiving an enticing wedding gift from one of Alice’s prominent clients, they decide to join an exclusive and mysterious group known only as The Pact.

The goal of The Pact seems simple: to keep marriages happy and intact, and most of its rules make sense: Always answer the phone when your spouse calls. Exchange thoughtful gifts monthly. Plan a trip together once per quarter. . . .

Never mention The Pact to anyone.

Alice and Jake are initially seduced by the glamorous parties, the sense of community, their widening social circle of like-minded couples--and then one of them breaks the rules. The young lovers are about to discover that for adherents to The Pact, membership, like marriage, is for life, and The Pact will go to any lengths to enforce that rule. For Jake and Alice, the marriage of their dreams is about to become their worst nightmare.
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Alright, where should I start.  It's creepy, weird and when you read this book it will mess up with your head and make you question a lot of things, trust me.  So, let's do this:  Alice and Jake are newly weds, Jake is a therapist and he owns his own practice with two other people.  Alice was a singer in a well known rock band, but she is now a successful lawyer.  They live in San Francisco and their life just getting started...just before their wedding Alice wins a case from a really good client who pretty much invites himself and his wife to their wedding.  They then send a gift to Jake and Alice, but not just any gift, they send an exclusive invitation to a mysterious group named The Pact.

The Pact seems simple, keep marriages happy and intact, there are rules but they seem pretty simple and don't doesn't like to receive gifts every month and plan trips?  The only thing they must never do is: never mention The Pact to anyone.  So, Alice and Jake are in.

But, when one of them breaks a rule things take a turn to side they never saw it coming.  The Pact takes marriage for life very, very seriously and they will do everything and whatever it takes to make sure they follow that rule.  When Jake and Alice realize that The Pact is so not what they thought it was it may be a little too late to get out of it.  So, what do they do?

Things get crazy in this book, for one thing for once I really enjoyed reading from the male POV and Jake?  Oh man, he was pretty amazing, he was pretty honest about everything, about The Pact, about his feelings, about his marriage, about his work, pretty much about everything.  And this guy was not going to stop at nothing to have the marriage that he dreamed of.  And he fights until the end...and you just have to read to find out what Jake and Alice do, will they go through live with The Pact and they crazy rules?  Will they find a way out?  Remember, there is no way out with The Pact...

4 out of 5 stars for this one.

XOXO,

Nelia