Review: Love You To Death by Rowen Chambers

   

Print Length: 301 pages

Publisher: Inkubator Books (January 12, 2025)

From Goodreads.com: Her marriage seemed perfect. Until her memory came back.

Avery feels lucky to have married such a wonderful man. Logan’s been the perfect husband, helping to piece her life back together after a traumatic brain injury erased her memories.

But Avery’s admiration for Logan turns to concern when she recalls past moments which seem sinister and frightening. Logan insists these memories aren’t real. That what she remembers never actually happened.

So why do these unsettling flashes feel so vivid? And why don’t they match Logan’s version of their perfect life together?

The more Avery remembers, the more she doubts Logan. Is her mind playing tricks on her, or is her husband hiding a terrible secret?

And what will he do if she gets too close to remembering it?

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My Rating: 1 star out of 5

I hate books that blatantly lie in the synopsis just to entice people to read these stories. "Her marriage seemed perfect",  she was "lucky to have married such a wonderful man"

Are either that man or their marriage in the room with us? Because right from the start Logan is the kind of abusive piece of you-know-what that makes me hope he ends up dead at the end of the book. From the first moment we meet him it is easy to see that he is a bully who will stop at nothing to make sure his wife "obeys". She is still supposedly recovering from her injury, yet he thinks nothing of grabbing her to the point of pain while he screams in her face and demands his own way, while telling her that she should be "grateful" (seriously, she asks for strawberry cupcakes from a bakery she really likes, he goes to one that is "closer" and brings home dried up stale ones not even in flavor she likes then berates her for being upset about it). 

Then there is a time jump going back to before her accident and ...... he's even worse.

Again is the perfect marriage or wonderful man here with us? Because at no point did I even think either of those things were true. She claims he wasn't like this when they were dating (which we don't get to see), and she claims that she sees "flashes" of the man she married in between instances of him abusing her, but to me it came across like him just trying to keep making her think she was imaging things, or more accurately him just trying to save his reputation as that meant the most to him. 

God, I'm so over these predictable stories. From the start you know who can and cannot be trusted. It's almost as though the author thinks that their readers are so stupid that they think the glowing neon signs above characters heads will go unnoticed. From the first few chapters I already knew who I could and could not trust. 

And while I will give credit where it is due - there was an outside element that I did not see coming, it couldn't save this one. Although, I suppose the ending was satisfying in its own way.