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The Golden Couple – Book Review

Title:- The Golden Couple

Author:- Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

Date published:- March 3rd 2022

No. of pages:- 330 pages

Genre:- Psychological Thriller

Rating:-

Plot:- 4/5

Writing:- 4/5

Overall rating:- 4/5

The Golden Couple is the next electrifying novel from Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, the #1 New York Times bestselling author duo behind You Are Not Alone, An Anonymous Girl, and The Wife Between Us.

If Avery Chambers can’t fix you in 10 sessions, she won’t take you on as a client. Her successes are phenomenal–she helps people overcome everything from domineering parents to assault–and almost absorb the emptiness she sometimes feels since her husband’s death.

Marissa and Mathew Bishop seem like the golden couple–until Marissa cheats. She wants to repair things, both because she loves her husband and for the sake of their 8-year-old son. After a friend forwards an article about Avery, Marissa takes a chance on this maverick therapist, who lost her license due to controversial methods.

When the Bishops glide through Avery’s door and Marissa reveals her infidelity, all three are set on a collision course. Because the biggest secrets in the room are still hidden, and it’s no longer simply a marriage that’s in danger.

This was one of my most anticipated books this year and so I was able to manage to get my hands on this book. This is the fourth book I have read from the authors and the duo had been my favorite as I enjoyed reading The Wife Between Us and An Anonymous Girl. So I was excited to get my hands on this book.

Avery Chambers is a therapist and if she can’t fix you after ten sessions then she wouldn’t take anyone as a client. She then takes the Bishops couple, Marissa and Matthew as her clients. Marissa and Matthew seem to be the perfect ‘Golden’ couple living in the DC area though Marissa is filled with guilt for cheating behind her husband, prompting her to seek therapy. Avery and the Bishops start working together but as Avery gets closer to the Bishops, she realizes that they are not perfect as they seem from outside…

This is a fast-paced thriller and there were some twists and turns. Avery uses unconventional methods such as stalking the couple and their friends and coworkers so she can get to know the couple better. Marissa seems to be the typical housewife who owns a boutique store named Coco and she has somewhat a misunderstanding relationship with her assistant, Polly. Then you have Matthew who is Marissa’s husband, Natalie, who is Matthew’s ex-girlfriend and Avery’s ex-boyfriend Skip who somehow has connection with the couple. This was actually a page turner and I actually couldn’t put the book down. You have both Avery and Marissa’s POV so you can get into each of the character’s head although you find that both can at times unreliable characters. The chapters were long but because it was fast paced, I didn’t mind the long chapters in this book.

I enjoyed the book, but why four stars? Because I actually predicted most of the twists and turns and also the ending, which lowered my rating to a four star. The writing however was really great and the authors know how to grip the reader from the beginning.

If you have still not tried any books written by this duo, my suggestion would b read The Wife Between Us which in my opinion was one of the best thrillers ever written by the duo before reading this one. Worth a whopping four stars!

Things We Hide From Light – Book Review

Title:- Things We Hide from The Light (Knockemout series 2)

Author:- Lucy Score

Date published:- February 21st 2023

No. of pages:- 594 pages

Genre:- Romance

Rating:-

Plot:- 3/5

Writing:- 4/5

Overall rating:- 3.5/5

Nash Morgan was always known as the good Morgan brother, with a smile and a wink for everyone. But now, this chief of police is recovering from being shot and his Southern charm has been overshadowed by panic attacks and nightmares. He feels like a broody shell of the man he once was. Nash isn’t about to let anyone in his life know he’s struggling. But his new next-door neighbor, smart and sexy Lina, sees his shadows. As a rule, she’s not a fan of physical contact unless she initiates it, but for some reason Nash’s touch is different. He feels it too. The physical connection between them is incendiary, grounding him and making her wonder if exploring it is worth the risk.

Too bad Lina’s got secrets of her own, and if Nash finds out the real reason she’s in town, he’ll never forgive her. Besides, she doesn’t do relationships. Ever. A hot, short-term fling with a local cop? Absolutely. Sign her up. A relationship with a man who expects her to plant roots? No freaking way. Once she gets what she’s after, she has no intention of sticking around. But Knockemout has a way of getting under people’s skin. And once Nash decides to make Lina his, he’s not about to be dissuaded…even if it means facing the danger that nearly killed him.

This is the second book of the Knockemout series. If you haven’t read the first book yet, you might want to read the first book before reading the second book as it follows about an incident that happened in the first book.

While the first book talked about the love story between Naomi and Knox Morgan, this book talks about the love story between Knox’s brother Nash and Lina. Lina is an insurance agent who comes to the small town to investigate about a stolen car that is related to the incident. Nash Morgan who got shot in the first book is recovering from the incident. Lina doesn’t necessarily tell anyone why she was in the town and Nash and Lina soon start to fall for each other.

Unlike the first book, the spicy scenes started towards the end of the book. It was of course a typical romance book with the love story between a small town cop and an insurance agent, the story was highly predictable but it was way too long that I felt there were too many unnecessary parts in the book. Most of the time, I was skimming through the book because I just wanted to finish off the book. I felt like the story is taking forever to finish. I think I liked the first book more that this one but then I have already gotten the last book of the Knockemout series.

Overall this book worth 3.5 stars.

Lucy Score is an instant #1 New York Times bestselling author. She grew up in a literary family who insisted that the dinner table was for reading and earned a degree in journalism.

She writes full-time from the Pennsylvania home she and Mr. Lucy share with their obnoxious cat, Cleo. When not spending hours crafting heartbreaker heroes and kick-ass heroines, Lucy can be found on the couch, in the kitchen, or at the gym.

She hopes to someday write from a sailboat, oceanfront condo, or tropical island with reliable Wi-Fi.

The Housemaid’s Secret – Book Review

Title:- The Housemaid’s Secret

Author:- Frieda McFadden

Date published:- February 20th 2023

Publisher:- Bookouture

No. of pages:- 318 pages

Genre:- Psychological Thriller

Rating:-

Plot:- 4/5

Writing:- 4/5

Overall rating:- 4/5

It’s hard to find an employer who doesn’t ask too many questions about my past. So I thank my lucky stars that the Garricks miraculously give me a job, cleaning their stunning penthouse with views across the city and preparing fancy meals in their shiny kitchen. I can work here for a while, stay quiet until I get what I want.

It’s almost perfect. But I still haven’t met Mrs Garrick, or seen inside the guest bedroom. I’m sure I hear her crying. I notice spots of blood around the neck of her white nightgowns when I’m doing laundry. And one day I can’t help but knock on the door. When it gently swings open, what I see inside changes everything….

That’s when I make a promise. After all, I’ve done this before. I can protect Mrs. Garrick while keeping my own secrets locked up safe.

Douglas Garrick has done wrong. He is going to pay. It’s simply a question of how far I’m willing to go….

After enjoying reading the first book of the Housemaid series, I am so happy I got the second book of the same series–Millie returns once again!

This time, Millie is trying to stay low and once again back as a cleaner working for the Garricks family who live in a penthouse in Manhattan. Douglas Garrick seems to be a nice man, being the CEO of a reputed company and his only request–his wife Wendy is sick and prefers to live in her bedroom always. Millie let go as it is but one day, she sees a trail of blood from the bathroom to the room and realizing that Wendy has been abused by Douglas. Millie then tries to save Wendy from Douglas.

This is a fast-paced thriller and is quite unputdownable. The story is told in Millie’s POV and like the previous book the other female character in this case Wendy’s POV so we would know why she did that and I have to say, just like the first book, this was a page turner. The ending was unexpected, and it was an unexpected twist just like the first book. However, there are certain things in the second book that lowered my rating from a five star reading to a four star reading.

— I didn’t really like the way Millie was treating her boyfriend Brock–she didn’t exactly tell him the whole story when she should have.

–I felt there were some repetitions that actually tarnished the tory.

Despite the flip side, Freida McFadden has become one of my favorite thriller authors and I have gotten some more of her books!

However, overall, I simply couldn’t put this book down and the third book of the series is coming soon next year which I can’t wait! Overall worth four stars!

Suggestion–read the first book before reading the second book although I feel the storyline in the second book does not really follow up from the first book.

#1 Amazon bestselling author Freida McFadden is a practicing physician specializing in brain injury who has penned multiple Kindle bestselling psychological thrillers and medical humor novels. She lives with her family and black cat in a centuries-old three-story home overlooking the ocean, with staircases that creak and moan with each step, and nobody could hear you if you scream. Unless you scream really loudly, maybe.

Brother – Book Review

Title:- Brother

Author:- Ania Ahlborn

Date published:- September 29th 2015

No. of pages:- 315 pages

Genre:- Horror/ Psychological Thriller

Rating:-

Plot:- 4/5

Writing:- 3/5

Overall rating:- 3.5/5

Brotherfollows a teenager determined to break from his family’s unconventional—and deeply disturbing—traditions.

Deep in the heart of Appalachia stands a crooked farmhouse miles from any road. The Morrows keep to themselves, and it’s served them well so far. When girls go missing off the side of the highway, the cops don’t knock on their door. Which is a good thing, seeing as to what’s buried in the Morrows’ backyard.

But nineteen-year-old Michael Morrow isn’t like the rest of his family. He doesn’t take pleasure in the screams that echo through the trees. Michael pines for normalcy, and he’s sure that someday he’ll see the world beyond West Virginia. When he meets Alice, a pretty girl working at a record shop in the small nearby town of Dahlia, he’s immediately smitten. For a moment, he nearly forgets about the monster he’s become. But his brother, Rebel, is all too eager to remind Michael of his place…

If you have watched Texas Chainsaw Massacre and LOVED it, then I would highly recommend this book.

Trigger Warning–Rape, Cannibalism, Sexual Assault, Murder, Abductions

This book is one of the most disturbing books I have read. Michael Morrow is a teenage boy. His family lives in a secluded farmhouse, away from the civilization and his family has a weird but disturbing tradition. They kidnap the women, and Michael’s mother would torture and then kill them. Michael and his brother Reb goes into the town to look for their latest prey and Michael meets Alice who is working in a record store. Michael dreams of leaving his family and move to New York to start a whole new life.

There is so much graphic details in the book which maybe disturbing to some readers. The story is told in the POVs of two brothers, Reb and Michael dividing between past and present so we could get what the brother are really up to and trying to do. I found the book disturbing to read but at the same time, I really did feel like I was watching a slasher movie while reading this book. However, the ending I felt was a bit rush and I wish the author kind of expanded the ending a little.

This book is not for faint-hearted but if you do and don’t mind reading about gory and horror book with disturbing detail, then this book is for you–worth 3.5 stars

Born in Ciechanow Poland, Ania has always been drawn to the darker, mysterious, and sometimes morbid sides of life. Her earliest childhood memory is of crawling through a hole in the chain link fence that separated her family home from the large wooded cemetery next door. She’d spend hours among the headstones, breaking up bouquets of silk flowers so that everyone had their equal share.

Author of nine novels, Ania’s books have been lauded by the likes of Publisher’s Weekly, The New York Daily News, and The New York Times. Some titles have been optioned for film.

Hailing from Albuquerque, New Mexico, Ania currently lives in Greenville, South Carolina.

For more from Ania, visit her site, or connect via social media on Facebook and Twitter.

Web: http://www.aniaahlborn.com
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The Pact – Book Review

Title:- The Pact

Author:- Sharon Bolton

Date published:- May 1st 2021

No. of pages:- 335 pages

Genre:- Psychological Thriller

Rating:-

Plot:- 4/5

Writing:- 5/5

Overall rating:- 4.5/5

A golden summer, and six talented teenagers are looking forward to the brightest of futures – until a daredevil game goes horribly wrong, leaving three strangers dead.

18-year-old Megan takes the blame for the crime, leaving her friends to get on with their lives. In return, they each agree to a ‘favour’, payable on her release from prison.

Twenty years later Megan is free.
It is payback time.
And her friends start disappearing, one by one . . .

This was recommended to me on the Bookstagram and was labeled as one of the twisty and fast paced thrillers. So I got this book and actually, I wasn’t disappointed at all!

The story starts with six friends, Megan, Felix, Talitha, Amber, Xav and Daniel who are all waiting eagerly for their A’level examination results. However, one of their road games ended up killing a mother with two children. Daniel was the one who was driving and Megan decided to take the blame for what happened. She expected her friends to support her and visit her while she was in prison, as she was putting a trust on them. And Megan goes to prison but the other five remaining friends decided to go on their own ways

Twenty years later, Megan is released from prison and she contacts her friends. It was payback time and soon her friends start to disappear one by one.

This was a fast paced thriller. There were so many twists and turns and the story actually talks about the loyalty and friendship and of course betrayal. Most of the characters here are unlikable as I found all her friends to be spoilt and selfish when their friend took the blame by ruining her own life in prison. Megan probably is the only character that I actually had sympathy towards her. Also the whole story was well written and the writing was gripping and tense and the author did a good job of making the reader feel like they are on the edge. I was on the point of giving five stars but the ending to me wasn’t that great and I felt that it was rushed a little. It was a bit confusing as well.

Nonetheless, I manage to finish this book really quick and I actually enjoyed reading this book. This is the first time I have been reading from this author and I am looking forward to reading more of her books! Worth 4.5 stars!

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow – Book Review

Title:- Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Author:- Gabrielle Zevin

Date published:- July 5th 2022

No. of pages:- 401 pages

Genre:- Literary Fiction

Rating:-

Plot:- 3/5

Writing:- 3/5

Overall rating:- 3/5

In this exhilarating novel, two friends–often in love, but never lovers–come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality.

On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn’t heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. Overnight, the world is theirs. Not even twenty-five years old, Sam and Sadie are brilliant, successful, and rich, but these qualities won’t protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts.

Spanning thirty years, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Venice Beach, California, and lands in between and far beyond, Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a dazzling and intricately imagined novel that examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love. Yes, it is a love story, but it is not one you have read before.

This book is one of the most hyped books last year and I have always wanted to read this book because of the five star rating on Goodreads. So I was happy when I got a copy of this book and started reading on this one.

I have to say, I was slightly disappointed with the book and did not understand the hype on this book.

The story talks about two friends, Sadie and Sam who meet each other in the hospital and they both share their liking in video games Many years later, Sam and Sadie meet each other again at the university and the two pair up together to form the bestselling video games. And this book literally talks about their friendship and the ups and downs they had with their friendship.

The writing was really great and even though I didn’t really enjoy this book as much as I hoped I would, I think I will try out her other books. The first few pages were bit boring, then it got a little better and then it was not so good. I didn’t enjoy any of the main characters at all. To me, all the characters in the book seemed to be immature and does not respect each other at all. The only character I kind of liked was Marx who is Sam’s roommate and later on Sadie’s love interest. If I have to list out the things that I don’t like, I might give away spoilers so let’s just say, the characters did not appeal to me and I found the friendship between Sadie and Sam to be toxic.

Another reviewer mentioned that the story is pretentious and I completely agree with that. The wordings used in the book to me sound pretentious to me. I am not very familiar with video games as much and so the terms used in this book is all Greek to me. The content warnings of this book is sexism, racism, homophobia. However, the events that are happening in the book sounded a bit realistic to me.

Does this book worth the hype? I don’t think so. This book wasn’t great as the people labeled out to be but it wasn’t bad either. Overall this book worth three stars.

GABRIELLE ZEVIN is a New York Times best-selling novelist whose books have been translated into forty languages.

Her tenth novel, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow was published by Knopf in July of 2022 and was an instant New York Times Best Seller, a Sunday Times Best Seller, a USA Today Best Seller, a #1 National Indie Best Seller, and a selection of the Tonight Show’s Fallon Book Club. Maureen Corrigan of NPR’s Fresh Air called it, “a big beautifully written novel…that succeeds in being both serious art and immersive entertainment.” Following a twenty-five-bidder auction, the feature film rights to Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow were acquired by Temple Hill and Paramount Studios. She is currently writing the screenplay.

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry spent many months on the New York Times Best Seller List, reached #1 on the National Indie Best Seller List, was a USA Today Best Seller, and has been a best seller all around the world. A.J. Fikry was honored with the Southern California Independent Booksellers Award for Fiction, the Japan Booksellers’ Prize, and was long listed for the International Dublin Literary Award, among other honors. To date, the book has sold over five-million copies worldwide. It is now a feature film with a screenplay by Zevin. Young Jane Young won the Southern Book Prize and was one of the Washington Post’s Fifty Notable Works of Fiction.

She is the screenwriter of Conversations with Other Women (Helena Bonham Carter) for which she received an Independent Spirit Award Nomination for Best First Screenplay. She has occasionally written criticism for the New York Times Book Review and NPR’s All Things Considered, and she began her writing career, at age fourteen, as a music critic for the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel. Zevin is a graduate of Harvard University. She lives in Los Angeles.

NOTE: Apologies, but Gabrielle doesn’t reply to messages on Goodreads.

Don’t Let Her Stay – Book Review

Title:- Don’t Let Her Stay

Author:- Nicola Sanders

Date published:- February 9th 2023

No. of pages:- 283 pages

Genre:- Psychological Thriller

Rating:-

Plot:- 5/5

Writing:- 4/5

Overall rating:- 4.5/5

Someone inside your house wants you dead, but no one believes you…

Joanne knows how lucky she is. Richard is a wonderful husband, Evie is the most gorgeous baby girl, they live in a beautiful house… Life couldn’t be better.

Until Richard’s twenty-year-old daughter Chloe turns up. Chloe hasn’t spoken to her father since the day he married Joanne two years ago. But Chloe wants to make peace. She’ll even move in for a few weeks to help Joanne with the new baby.

It sounds perfect, but when things happen that make Joanne feel like she’s losing her mind, she begins to wonder: Is Chloe really here to help? Or has Joanne made a terrible mistake by letting her move in?

And is it too late to ask her to leave?

Perfect for fans of Frieda McFadden, Sue Watson and Shalini Boland, Don’t Let Her Stay is a totally addictive psychological thriller with a twist that will shock you!

In one of the Instagram posts, this book was recommended as one of the best thrillers and so I decided to get this book on Kindle. And to my surprise, I actually enjoyed reading this book!

Joanne and Richard are happily married with a baby Evie. However, Richard’s twenty-year-old daughter Chloe suddenly comes to live with them. Joanne wanted to get along with Chloe but it seems that Chloe has other ideas in her head, which involves breaking Joanne’s relationship with Richard and possibly chasing Joanne out of the house. Joanne knows that something is wrong with Chloe even though no one wants to believe her because of her family history on depression.

The entire story is told in Joanne’s POV and as a reader you do feel sympathy towards Joanne. Is Joanne delusional about her thought on Chloe or is she right? Chloe seems to be vindictive and manipulative girl who seemed to get whatever she wanted and who would do anything to pain Joanne in the bad light thus severing her relationship with Richard. The constant fight between Joanne and Chloe seems to be typical for a stepmother and daughter but then, this is different. The story itself is quiet a page turner and the author does a good job of making the reader feel like they don’t want to put the book down. The ending was, what I felt like I was watching a movie that will keep me on the edge. In fact, I almost stayed up all night, wanting to know what was going to happen in the end. There was a small cliffhanger towards ending with the words “Don’t Let Her Stay,

If you like a page turning domestic thriller, then I will definitely recommend this book. This book will keep you up all night long! Worth 4.5 stars.

Such a Loving Couple – Blog Tour – Book Review

Title:- Such A Loving Couple

Author:- Hayley Smith

Date published:- November 8th 2023

Publisher:- Bookouture

No. of pages:- 345 pages

Genre:- Psychological Thriller

Rating:-

Plot: 5/5

Writing:- 5/5

Overall rating:- 5/5

I blink open my eyes, taking in bright lights and a white room. A man smiles warmly at me from the end of my bed. ‘Honey, I’ve been so worried,’ he says gently. ‘Do you remember me? I’m your husband.’ My blood runs cold. I don’t know where I am, or who I am. All I know is I’ve never seen this man before…

As he packs my things, the nurses tell me Freddie hasn’t left my bedside since the accident I was in days ago. They tell me I’m lucky. We seem like the perfect couple, and together we’ll figure out what happened. So I go home to a beautiful house with a fancy marble kitchen and manicured garden that is supposedly ours. But deep down I know something isn’t right. Even though my memories are gone, this doesn’t feel like my life.

Slowly, flashes of memory come back. First the accident – the pouring rain, a swerving car, a sudden scream. Somebody whispering, ‘ I’ll love you forever ’. But most heartbreaking of all are the haunting memories of a blue-eyed little girl. Is she my little girl? Was she in the accident too? Or is she in terrible danger?

Freddie is determined to keep me safe and hide me from the world. But I can’t shake the feeling that we aren’t the loving couple he wants us to be, and that beyond this house a precious child needs me now more than ever. So why am I here? What does Freddie want? And how far will I have to go, to discover the truth?

An utterly gripping and page-turning psychological thriller filled with dark secrets and deadly obsessions. Perfect for fans of The Housemaid , The Family Upstairs , and The Serial Killer’s Wife .

This is the second book I have read from this author and I feel like this book is better than her debut book in general.

Becka wakes up in the hospital with no memory of what happened to her. A man who calls himself as Freddie is beside her, telling her that she had an accident and that she and Freddie are dating. Becka is trying to relive the memories before the accident but the more she tries to relive the memories, more she realizes that something is amiss as she starts regaining her memories. Is Becka who she really is? Why is Freddie trying to protect and save her?

The pacing of the story was really good. This story kind of reminded me of Before I Go to Sleep and the whole story as a whole made the reader feel like they are at the edge of the seat while reading the book. There are multiple POVs in the book and most of these characters are unreliable narrators. But there are twists and turns along the way, Though it started a little slow at the beginning, it started to become fast paced by the middle of the book. The ending was really great and unexpected and overall, this book worth five stars!

Many thanks to Bookouture for inviting me to be a part of the blog tour. Many thanks to Netgalley for the ARC. The review is based on my honest opinion only.

Hayley Smith is married with three children and lives in a north Derbyshire village. She has worked as a graphic designer, youth worker and musician, and has been involved for many years in organising music festivals and gigs. She studied English Language and Creative Writing with the Open University and is an avid reader of psychological fiction. Having a penchant for all things alternative, she often dips into the counter-culture scene for writing inspiration, producing quirky rough-edged characters and dark, unpredictable twists, turns and moral dilemmas.

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We All Keep Secrets – Blog Tour-Book Review

Title:- We All Keep Secrets

Author:- Sheryl Browne

Date published:- November 6th 2023

Publisher:- Bokoouture

No. of pages:- 368 pages

Genre:- Psychological Thriller

Rating:-

Plot:- 5/5

Writing:- 4/5

Overall rating:- 5/5

I look into baby Fern’s crib, and my heart pounds. I’m her nanny, I was supposed to keep her safe. I hear the police downstairs, and the next words I hear make my legs buckle underneath me. ‘It was the nanny. She’s guilty’.

When I first walked into Jake and Megan ’s immaculate home, I felt totally at ease. Sitting in the crisp white living room, they held hands and talked lovingly about their baby girl, Fern .

As the weeks passed, I began to think I’d made a mistake in taking the job. Jake was overly friendly from the start, watching my every move and always offering to drop me home, even though it was out of his way. And Megan seemed to take pleasure in telling me off in front of her husband, blaming me for things I hadn’t done.

The first time I heard the Haringtons arguing behind the door to their bedroom, I heard my name mentioned, and then they went silent. I should have left right there and then.

Now, as I stand accused of something terrible, my whole past is revealed and the Haringtons admit to knowing every detail about why I was sacked from my last job. We all have secrets, but little do they realise, I know theirs too…

With twist after twist, this is perfect for fans of The Housemaid, The Perfect Marriage and The Girl on the Train . A gripping thriller you don’t want to miss!

This was actually a great thriller!

The story starts with Ellie working as a babysitter for Megan and Jake–for their two children Fern and Ollie. Megan seems to distrust Ellie and Jake develops a form of relationship with Ellie. But then one of the children dies and the blame lies on Ellie…

This was actually a fast paced thriller. The story begins with Ellie’s POV, then Megan’s and Jake’s POV and all these three characters are unreliable narrators which makes the story more compelling and as a reader you do not know who you should actually trust. Ellie has a past working as a nanny and as a reader, you are curious to see why Ellie is reluctant to talk about her old job. The writing overall was engaging and the author did a good job of drawing the reader into the story and making the reader feel like they are a part of the story as well. The ending was predictable however but overall, this was actually a good thriller–a page turning nail biting thriller–overall worth five stars!

Many thanks to Netgalley for the ARC. Many thanks to Bookouture for making me a part of this blog tour. The review is based on my honest opinion only.

Bestselling Author, Sheryl Browne, writes taut, twisty psychological thriller. A member of the Crime Writers’ Association and the Romantic Novelists’ Association, Sheryl has several books published and two short stories in Birmingham City University anthologies where she completed her MA in Creative Writing. Sheryl has also obtained a Certificate of Achievement in Forensic Science and – according to readers – she makes an excellent psychopath. Sheryl’s latest psychological thriller HER HUSBAND’S HOUSE comes to you from BOOKOUTURE. Her previous works include the DI Matthew Adams Crime Thriller series, along with contemporary fiction novels, The Rest of My Life and Learning to Love.

To find out more about Sheryl. go to www.sherylbrowne.com

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The Perfect Marriage – Book Review

Title:- The Perfect Marriage

Author:- Jeneva Rose

Date published:- July 3rd 2020

No. of pages:- 342 pages

Genre:- Psychological Thriller

Rating:-

Plot: 3/5

Writing:- 2/5

Overall rating:- 2.5/5

Would you defend your husband if he was accused of killing his mistress?

Sarah Morgan is a successful and powerful defense attorney in Washington D.C. At 33 years old, she is a named partner at her firm and life is going exactly how she planned.

The same cannot be said for her husband, Adam. He is a struggling writer who has had little success in his career. He begins to tire of his and Sarah’s relationship as she is constantly working.

Out in the secluded woods, at Adam and Sarah’s second home, Adam engages in a passionate affair with Kelly Summers.

Then, one morning everything changes. Adam is arrested for Kelly’s murder. She had been found stabbed to death in Adam and Sarah’s second home.

Sarah soon finds herself playing the defender for her own husband, a man accused of murdering his mistress.

But is Adam guilty or is he innocent?

I have always wanted to read this book and so I managed to get a copy of this book. Although I finished this book within three days, I have very mixed feelings about this book, mostly negative feelings.

Sarah is a successful lawyer but her husband Adam is a struggling author. Outside, their marriage seemed to be perfect but deep in the woods in the cabin, Adam is involved in a passionate affair with a woman named Kelly. So when one day, the police arrested Adam for the murder of Kelly as her dead body was found in the cabin. And Sarah wants to defend her husband.

Let’s start with the good ones

The entire story as a whole is fast paced. Short chapters and the story is mainly told from Sarah’s and Adam’s POV. Both in my opinion are unreliable characters so as a reader we don’t know who we actually trust.

Now the bad ones

I didn’t like any of the characters in the book–Sarah is bitch and Adam is a whining dog. You really don’t want to feel sorry for any of the characters.

Even though I hated Adam in the book some of the scenes in the book was unrealistic in my opinion but if I label them out here, I will be giving out spoilers and probably the whole of the book so let’s say it was unrealistic. (the sloppy police work and legal as a whole). This also ponders if the author actually did research about the legal system before writing this novel.

But that doesn’t mean I will not read any of her books–I already have One of Us is Dead by the same author up in my TBR. Perfect Marriage worth 2.5 stars

Jeneva Rose is the New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage, One of Us is Dead, The Girl I Was & You Shouldn’t Have Come Here. Her work has been translated into more than a dozen languages and optioned for film/tv. Originally from Wisconsin, she currently lives in Chicago with her husband, Drew, and her English bulldog, Winston.
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