The Replacement Wife - Eileen Goudge I must be very honest in this book that I reviewed for Netgalley. Although, I liked the general storyline of this book, I found it incredibly "wordy" and that there were numerous scenes which I had tried to figure out their "purpose" in the storyline except to lengthen it. A word of warning, this book is a behemouth of a book at almost 500 pages. Although I regularly read books of this magnitude, in much shorter time periods, this one was almost painfully long because of the situation discussed earlier. I can tell the reader of this review that had this book been about 100 pages shorter, which is what I am guessing with the amount of extra scenes, this book easily would have been a 4 star read for me because the author had a winning storyline.