Single Husbands
By HoneyB
Paperback pgs 256
5stars
From back of book:
Herschel Henderson said “I do” to get his hands on his wife’s
money, and he has no intentions of giving up his mistress. He’s okay with
sneaking around-until he’s suddenly suspects his wife is doing it too.
Lexington Lewis vowed for his better and her worse, especially
since he can’t stay out of the sex clubs. He doesn’t understand why he can’t
still make it with other women-until his fun threatens what he values most.
Brian Flaw meant it when he said “till death do us part.”
But although he adores his wife and kids, his insatiable appetite for sex draws
him into a fatal attraction that could cost not only his marriage but his life.
Will their cheating ways finally catch up to them? And what’s
a woman to do once she realizes she’s married to one of these…
SINGLE HUSBANDS
The Review:
This is a fast paced, sexually charged, sexually explicit
novel. The characters in this novel were not likable but their drama and f-ed
up attitudes and actions kept the pages turning. The conclusion was doable but
not necessarily satisfying. I would have like to have known more about how the
wives lives ended up to however, the book (as shown by the title) is about the husbands.
This book surprised me. I was just expecting to just read a
story with the typical ending. However, starting right in the introduction
HoneyB poses stimulating question. The main question centered around what
marriage is. That is a good question because I think that most people think
marriage is suppose to be one particular way. Not true, marriages are as
different as the people who are in them.
To know what marriage means to you, you have to know
yourself, then know the type of person you want to be with, and then marry the
type of person who have the same views on marriage that you do. I think that
this is why marriages fail. People try to live up to this one ideal of what
marriage is suppose to be without actually discussing it with the person you
interested in marrying (I must also mention communication is the key in so many
areas in life. You should also discuss how child rearing styles. You don’t want
to marry someone you believe in spanking if you think hitting children is
wrong).
The characters in the book did not discuss what marriage meant
to them with their partners. They are called single husbands because the are
married but when they are out on their own they act like single men. Not just
single men but promiscuous single men. All three were always ready to sleep
with any pretty woman who’s willing to give it up.
Unfortunately, there are men like the men in this book. Men
who think that their cheating is not breaking their marriage vows because no
where in the marriage vows does it state anything about fidelity (faithful and
fidelity is not one in the same). I could go on but I won’t.
So if you can get pass the explicit language, tons of wild
sex scenes, and the homosexuality (none of which I have a problem with) the
message of the book just may open your eyes. What does marriage mean to you?
Are you going on what society tells you marriage should be and look like? Think
about those questions. Talk to significant other about it. And if you are
married, so what, talk about it any way. Just because you are married doesn’t
mean you won’t learn something new about your spouse. People are (or in my
opinion should be) constantly changing, learning, and becoming better versions
of themselves. TBR pile #1 just because
of the state of marriage these days!
