This was just ok for me. The suspense is well done throughout. The storyline as a whole is on the predictable side. In a sense, it feels like a movie you may have seen years ago that you just can't remember the name of.

It is on the shorter side and a pretty quick read.

🎧Audio Book Review🎧

The Liar I Married
DK Hood

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Having absolutely loved my last DK Hood read - Dark Angel - I just had to grab this new release with both hands.
Not part of the same series as my first read, but I loved the way the writing style had drawn me in and had high hopes for this read as well.

Right from the first page, I was hooked and honestly couldn't stop reading this.
After waking up from a year long coma after her car accident, Jesse struggled to make sense of her jumbled memories and fought to try and fill in the missing gaps - as well as understand the current events as she continued to recover.

I just could not trust a single person in this book!
Not even Jesse herself at times - with her memories emerging bit by bit, our information was ever changing.
This made it so hard to know what was real and to form our own theories about what happened on the night of the accident and moreso, what was happening now.

I loved this format which was told from only Jesse's pov.
This kept the mystery surrounding all the other characters intact throughout and kept me racing through the pages just waiting for the next twist or memory to emerge and put that doubt back in my mind.

I felt so sorry for Jesse and what she was going through - things were so confusing, but also heartbreaking and creepy at times.

This was perfectly paced - with something happening all the time.
The tension and suspense built and built right to the end and even when we thought we'd worked out all the details, there was more to come.

Another great read and I'm already looking forward more soon.




💕Thank you to the author, publisher and NetGalley for my ARC copy - this is my honest review 💕

I don't even know what to say after finishing this one! There is so much going on, gaslighting beyond belief and a cast of characters who are all shady as can be. Enjoyable read for sure!

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the advanced copy in exchange for my honest review.

Something different from a trusted author DK Hood. I love her police procedural series with Kane and Alton so when I heard she was writing a psychological thriller I knew I needed to read it.

What a wild ride! So many dodgy characters who all had a reason to harm our main character Jessie. I really did not like most of them, especially her husband John. There was so much lying, so many mind games and the gaslighting was insane. I did like Jessie, although she did make some really bad decisions. I felt for her having no memory after the accident, it would be awful to not remember anything or anyone.

Thanks so much to Bookouture for my advanced copy of this book to read. Publishes on August 22nd

This book definitely kept me guessing right until the end
The family dynamics and the mystery to what caused her to crash and be in a coma, the gaslighting and back and forth! Really really enjoyed!

Something new for one of my favorite authors.

This book will take you through a labyrinth to get to the ending. It makes you wonder what in the world is happening .

Enjoy reading this as I did. I received this ARC in exchange for an honest review .

Wow! This mind boggling book had me on the edge of my seat just wondering where we were headed next.

It opens with a car crash, and from that point forward it had my undivided attention as I tried to figure out what was real and what was fictional. I fell headfirst into it and did not come up for air until I finished it. This one gives new meaning to the term gaslighting. You will wonder who is pulling the strings on this horror show. I suspected everyone at some point and time.

There is lot of lying and mind games, but Jessie is sharp and determined to find out the truth even if she is stuck in this house with seemingly no way to escape. The twists were neck breaking and chilling, and at times a little gasp worthy.

It goes back and forth from past to present as the story builds, and it never loses steam. I have enjoyed the Kane and Alton series by this author. This one was completely different, but just as good. D. K. Hood has a talent for leading you astray and that talent is on full display in this story. I am still shaking my head.

Thank you to Bookouture and NetGalley for this ARC. I am leaving this review voluntarily.

I really enjoyed the extract from this new thriller by the author and I look forward to reading it in full. Thanks to Net Galley for the extract ARC.I
This is a very good psychological thriller by the author, which I really enjoyed. I liked the plotting, although the pace was slow at times, and the characterisation is good but John really annoyed me! The opening chapter had me interested and kept my attention throughout. It's a good thriller, with plenty of tension and the ending rounded everything off nicely. Thanks to Net Galley for my ARC.

I enjoyed this thriller about Cora who wakes up from a coma no memory of what had happened and who the man is who is apparently her husband. A very twisty novel which keeps the reader guessing.

Trust no one.

I am still reeling from this one. There were so many secrets and so many lies that I didn't even believe the truth when it was revealed.

If you enjoy an unreliable narrator and a story with about as many layers as a blooming onion, then give this a read! What a ride!

This book was such a ride! As my first read from D.K. Hood, The Liar I Married was an engaging read. I loved how it constantly had me questioning what was real and what wasn’t. The pacing was tight, and the story delivered that unsettling edge that makes psychological thrillers so addictive.

Highly recommend if you enjoy suspenseful plots that mess with your perception of reality. I’ll definitely be checking out more from D.K. Hood after this!

The concept of this book was so intriguing to me, I was so excited to read it, but alas, it just wasn't for me in the end.

I found the writing style simplistic. Which was both good and bad, I didn't have to think or focus, but it also meant that the story moved along at an odd pace. Characters completely shifted behaviour to suit the story, without any regard for anything that came before. Saying it was a 'twist' without actually lying the groundwork doesn't count.

The characters and dialogue were not believable, and more ideas than actual fleshed out people. Nobody was really likeable, the few that hovered on that were so one dimensional, as to appear pretty much flat. The layers of evil that sank through that family were truly disgusting and yet sadly so true for so many families - albeit hopefully not to such an extreme. I did enjoy the relationship between Jessie and Alex.

The mystery itself was predictable although I did enjoy the unreliability of our main character. Although I had no doubt that the base facts were true, there were moments when I found myself wondering if her memory was right or not. I also enjoyed hints that did set the scene for the twists that worked more - except did we really need an evil villain monologue at the end to lay it all out?

oh hello gripped me from start to finsih kind of book. why thankyou for giving me your company!
Jessie is our main character for this book. we know she was feeling something was off in her marriage. she suspected her husband of an affair. things weren't and were stacking up against him. then she has a car crash to which she very nearly doesn't make it through. it end her being in a coma. when she awakes from this she is surrounded by even more uncertain feelings. she has no clear memories and some lingering or feel just out of reach. she begins to feel the same unease. who are these nurses her husband has hired, are they in on something more sinister? and what is her husband doing with her inheritance. she builds with her suspicions of him making moves to steel from her. this seems to have been continuing all the time she has been in a coma! and now noone will believe her. why would they? her husband says she isn't of sound mind, she cant be in control of her company or holdings. what now?
but D.k Hood wasn't even beginning to be finished with us yet and the momentum and tension gains all the way through this book. things get murky, things get shady, things grippingly good.
who do we believe? what do we believe? who should we believe? what SHOULD we believe? its a delight to try and find out.
as each part is unveiled to us i was jiggly like a toddler with the excitement Hood presents us with in this thriller. brilliant. there is so much to love about this book i cant wait for every other reader who comes to it to be just as "eeeeek" about it as me.

A fast novel that you wont be able to put down. A marriage falling apart, trust is broken, who is lying.
Can A husband and wife forgive each other?

My first book by this author,didn't disappoint.Jessie wake up from coma,nothing seems to make sense,and she suspect her husband have something to do with her accident.

Who is lying?
Who wants her to appear unstable?

A surprising twist and truth revealed,keep me guessing well to the end.
Recommend for psychological thriller fans.

Thank to NetGalley and the publisher for my copy of this book.

Imagine waking up from a car crash with amnesia. No memory of what happened leading up to the crash whatsoever. You are expected to just trust what others are saying to you, while trying to put all the pieces together. What happens though when those you thought you could trust turn out to bring the ultimate betrayal? Could it lead to murder? So many twists and turns, this is a must read!

Thank you NetGalley for the eArc.

📖✨ Book Review: The Liar I Married by D.K. Hood

⭐️⭐️💫 (2.5/5)

🧠 When your instincts whisper “danger,”… believe them.

📚 Thank you @netgalley & @bookouture for the ARC!

🚗 A woman wakes from a car crash with no memory.
💍 Her husband says she caused it.
📝 Then a note appears: “Don’t trust anyone.”

Sounds juicy, right?

😬 Unfortunately, it never quite delivers.

🧩 The MC’s internal thoughts were repetitive and emotionally flat.
😒 John (the husband) felt like a walking cliché.
👀 Rebecca? Barely a plot device, more than a person.

💤 The pacing dragged.
🌀 Twists? Predictable.
📖 I kept reading, hoping for a payoff… but it didn’t come.

👋 For new thriller readers, this might land okay.
😕 But for fans of darker, sharper domestic suspense… it just missed the mark.

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The Liar I Married by D.K. Hood is a dark and disturbing tale of gaslighting and deception. A new to me author, Hood has made me a fan of her writing.

Jessie is in a serious accident and awakens from a coma after a year. With many holes in her memory, Jessie is unsure who she can trust. She remembers suspecting her husband John of having an affair with a co-worker and all the lonely nights she spent without him while he was out "working ". She also remembers her daughters, but no one will give her any details on their well being. When some of her memories start to surface, she realizes someone may have been out to kill her. But who and why? Treading carefully, she navigates through the resurfacing memories to piece together who had it out for her.

The story alternated between the now and the months leading up to the accident. It gives the reader a good insight into the hell Jessie went through leading up to the accident. John was a terrible husband to her and a borderline narcissist. The details of the characters were so vivid, I could feel Jessie's pain and felt her loathing of John and his antics. All the characters are questionable and could have a reason to harm Jessie, making the explosive ending so delicious. I highly recommend this dark domestic suspense.

Thanks to Netgalley and Bookouture for the advanced copy

Wow what a ride! I did not see that ending coming.
Lots of twists and I was hooked till the end
I truely thought the husband was the bad guy

Wow!!!!!!! I absolutely adored this book. Its a brilliant plot and is extremely well written with lots of suspense. I definitely didn't know who to trust.
Highly recommended.