Megan Gattone's Reviews > The Last Mrs. Parrish

** spoiler alert ** Purchased this book because I saw that Reese Witherspoon’s book club read it. This is an honest review for this book, with no one telling me what to write. This book was not free to me.

You are reading this review of your own free will. There may be some spoilers in this review/the spoiler button was switched.

Part I: Amber
Part II: Daphne
Part III: Not Named?

Characters:

Amber- main character
Daphne- main character
Jackson- Daphne’s rich husband
Bella- Daphne and Jackson’s daughter
Tallulah- Daphne and Jackson’s daughter
Mrs. Battley- Jackson’s head secretary (resigned)
Gregg- Ambers ‘boyfriend’


About the author:
Writing style is great
Throws in large words, why?
Chapters are choppy, they jump forward weeks and it’s a little confusing.

Part I: Amber

Amber is extremely sly and motivated to get in with the high society of New York. She ‘meets’ Daphne quite by accident at the gym when she drops a magazine for Cystic Fibrosis, which Amber knew Daphne’s sister had (she had passed). Amber then began making up this entire story on how she too had a sister who passed from it and how she volunteers on all these committees for it. Since this was Daphne’s soft spot, she and Amber became FAST friends, best friends even!

This had Amber and Daphne hanging out together all of the time. Daphne invited Amber to all of the family get togethers and even to Holiday’s. Daphne said that she feels as though Amber is like the sister she lost and that she felt so close to her. Amber told Daphne that she had been through so much in her life (most being made up); which made Daphne feel terrible for Amber and want to help her with everything. Amber also did not have the same dispensable money as The Parrish’s, so Daphne did a lot to help Amber financially as well. Amber told Daphne that her boss touched her inappropriately, this in fact did not happen. She also said she had gotten fired and black mailed from her job, this also did not happen. Daphne then got her to job at Jackson International.

Amber then worked under Mrs. Battley (Jackson’s head secretary) who was teaching her and having her work on items that she needed help with. Amber then began spiking her morning coffee with depression medication, which made Battley confused and forgetful. Amber used this to her advantage and began moving things around on her desk and messing with her, she moved her keys and put them in the trash can to give Battley evidence that she was not acting normally. Shortly (3 months later) Mrs. Battley resigned by handing in her letter to Jackson.

Amber was then working in this position until Jackson found someone. Amber did additional work on her own time with one of Jackson’s new clients by getting to know the file and knowing everything about the client for Jackson. This impressed Jackson and made his luncheon with them easier, since he knew more information on them going into the lunch. Jackson was able to close the deal with this new client and was so impressed with how Amber handled the account he asked Amber to move into Battley’s old office to make them working together easier. (Until the replacement was found),of course.

Amber FINALLY gets Jackson on her side and in her bed, which was her plan alllll along. Amber had began to pin Daphne and Jackson against each other so they begin to question their wonderful marriage and neither of them tell on Amber because they each think she is on their side. Daphne sets up with Gregg, who Amber doesn’t like at all (he’s no Jackson, but he does have money). Amber keeps him around though to make Jackson jealous and to hopefully move things along faster. Gregg doesn’t know anything about this, but he also wants to move forward with Amber. Amber keeps giving Gregg excuses as to why they aren’t able to sleep together, but the real reason is because shes with Jackson and doesn’t want to be with Gregg at all. As long as Daphne knew Gregg was still around, she wouldn’t question Amber about Jackson acting different. Amber also met Gregg and is keeping him around to appease Daphne and to ensure Daphne doesn’t begin to ask questions.

Jackson is beginning to have trouble juggling Daphne and Amber. Daphne seems to be starting to catch on to Jackson having an affair and Amber has to keep talking her down. Jackson doesn’t want to see Amber with other men, but he’s still with Daphne, or is he?

Amber trapped Jackson by lying to him on several occasions to get him to leave Daphne. It looks like everything is falling right into Ambers deceitful lap.

Part II: Daphne

This part is the story starting from the very beginning of when Jackson and Daphne meet. They worked together, which isn’t really too shocking after seeing how he got with Amber.

Jackson Daphne’s entire family fooled into thinking he was a great and wonderful man. Well, he threw his money around people who had very little and impressed the best of them. Jackson is nothing like the person he originally portrayed himself to be. He’s mean, revengeful, cunning, vindictive, conniving, and not someone I would enjoy being married to. He’s scary and abusive, but I think with this being said it was a little predictable. Jackson goes after women who need him, who love him so much they would do anything for him. Well, Daphne saw right through this from the beginning, but not soon enough. I am curious to see how it is going to end with Amber and Daphne, who will get Jackson in the end?

Daphne played stupid for some time and Amber nor Jackson even knew! Shocking! Daphne had this entire plan cooked up, but it looks like Jackson will always outsmart or scare her into doing whatever it is he wants her to do.

Jackson confronted Daphne with Amber to get exactly what Amber wanted. (More details will come of this when you read the book). Amber gets everything in the end, but Daphne doesn’t get nothing at all. Jackson makes sure that Daphne is also taken care of.

Part III

Starts with Amber leaving Jackson because he was jerking her around. There really isn’t too much to tell about Part III because if I tell you too much, I will give away the entire story!

I really enjoyed this book, though. Some of it was extremely predictable and other parts of it shocked the hell out of me! This is definitely a book I would recommend to people, however it is also a book that people need to pay attention to.

I hope everyone enjoys the book they are currently reading and feel free to drop a comment in regards to the book and/or my review on it!

Thanks for reading 💜💛