I absolutely loved this ridiculous, high-concept book about an unmarried young woman who comes home one day to discover her husband waiting in their apartment. The husband has simply spontaneously generated in the apartment, as if she’s opened the door into an alternate life in which she’s married to this man. Some time later, as she’s still adjusting, he goes up into the attic to get something and a different husband comes down, which is how Lauren realizes that her attic is somehow manufacturing husbands.

I found this story great, and very engaging. It’s a very fresh take on the “all the alternate lives you could have lived” idea, much like The Midnight Library but far less preachy and predictable — while I knew from page one how The Midnight Library was going to end, I was unable to predict right up to the very end what the solution to The Husbands would be, or where (and with whom) Lauren would end up. Yet I found the ending very satisfying when it came. It’s also a bit of a commentary on the age of online dating – not that Lauren is finding these men through Tinder; she’s getting them out of the attic, but she does go through a stage where she’s getting a new husband and quickly sending him back to the attic for a replacement every day or two, simply because she wants variety or thinks the next one might be better.

Great premise; great execution; no notes. Loved this book.