The Other Mrs ⭐⭐⭐/5

Today is my stop on the blog tour for this great and unsettling thriller. It was published on the 5th March so go ahead and get purchasing! 

Huge thanks to @hqstories for gifting me this one and having me on the tour. 

Sadie moves to a small town with her husband Will and two children in need of a fresh start. However the peaceful life they are hoping for is quickly shattered when a neighbour is shockingly murdered. On top of this Sadie has doubts that her husband has really ended his affair, one of the forces behind them moving. 

Then we have Camille, who really is she? A confident and beautiful character, who happens to be addicted to Will. So addicted and obsessed with an unhealthy love for him she follows the family to the new town and ends up knowing far more than she should.

The characters in this book are fantastic. You really want to get under their skin and delve into their characters to know all you possibly can about them.

I found the writing flowed and the three different perspectives that the story is told in really helps to tie the plot together. 

Atmosphere is built within this book through the isolation of the small town and the gloomy weather. A real tension builder. 

The pacing at the end definitely picks up speed. Unpredictable, the twist at the end hit me with force. I couldn't have anticipated it. 📚

Thanks again to HQ and Netgalley.

This is a psychological thriller. Sadie, Lee and their children move to a new house in a new town. Will’s sister lived in the house previously and died there. However, the house they move into is creepy. Soon after moving in, a neighbour is murdered in her home and the story moves on from there.

This book is dark and creepy. It is filled with suspense and mystery. It is a good read but some elements just felt very far fetched.

EVERY MARRIAGE HAS ITS SECRETS…
When Sadie moves with her husband Will and their two children to a tiny coastal town, it’s a fresh start. Will swears the affair he was having back in the city is over and Sadie believes him. But their new beginning is tainted when a local woman is murdered, leaving Sadie convinced there’s a killer in their midst.
Hot-headed, beautiful Camille is obsessively in love with Will. She’s even prepared to follow him thousands of miles to stake out his new home in secret – and in doing so, becomes the only witness to a brutal crime.
But who is Camille really, and what is her connection to the dead woman? And as the murder investigation deepens, whose secret will be revealed as the darkest of them all?

This is a brilliant read.
Wonderful well written plot and story line that had me engaged from the start.
Love the well fleshed out characters and found them believeable.
Great suspense and found myself second guessing every thought I had continuousluy.
Can't wait to read what the author brings out next.
Recommend reading.

I was provided an ARC from NetGalley and the publisher.  This is my own honest voluntary review.

4 out of 5 stars

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for sending me a copy of this in exchange for an honest review. 
A murder in a small town. A new family recently moved in. Fingers are pointing at them.

This was full of drama and clues and twists and it was great. I feel like the format of this is very murder mystery by dropping little hints everywhere and I really enjoyed it. 

I did catch on quite quickly what was happening but could not of guessed how it all pieced together. I guess some people may say it’s an easy ending however in the way that it is done it’s clever and different.

The writing was great. Characters were great. The plot made it easier to follow along but packed a punch you weren’t seeing.

This is my first Mary Kubica and will definitely not be my last.

A dark, atmospheric mood which is emphasised by the writer’s description of their location. The reminder of how isolated they are just adding to the tension throughout. 
I have not had the pleasure of reading anything from this author before, I didn’t know what to expect but I can’t wait to read more. 
The Other Wife teases with the gradual release of information, teasers that at first read may seem of no relevance but at the end make total sense, nothing feels too rushed and this adds to the drama. 
We are taken through the story from various points of view by Sadie, Camille, who had the affair with Will, and a young girl called Mouse. It is unclear at first who the Mouse character is and I was confused trying to figure things out. I wanted to know, and this is what had me reading on with such enthusiasm. 
I think the action really takes place in the second half of the book, the more I read the more I wanted to find out. I was on the edge of my seat and loved the twists thrown in as it neared its conclusion. 
I enjoyed the characters, they are well written and interesting, I wouldn’t say they are likeable although my alliances changed throughout. 
Dealing with some deep issues; death, grief, suicide – The Other Mrs is quite the roller coaster and I recommend this read for thriller fans.

This was a slow starter but started to build into something very intriguing. Our main character is Sadie who is a doctor who has  just moved with her family to a tiny island off the state of Maine. This has been a big wrench for Sadie but the opportunity to move came at the right time, as she was coping with the aftermath of her husband Will’s affair. Will’s sister Alice had spent years coping with the pain of fibromyalgia and committed suicide in her home. Now, it will be home to Will, Sadie and their boys. There is, however, a condition to their new home. It comes with guardianship of Alice’s sixteen year old daughter Imogen. Sadie finds Imogen angry, secretive and obviously traumatised by finding her mother hanging in the attic. 

Not long after their arrival on the island, there is a murder at the house next door and it unsettles Sadie more than anyone else. I like the way the author built a gradual unease in Sadie. Her concerns about someone being in the garden, hiding out in the house next door or even closer to home. She snoops in Imogen’s room, but gets caught out. The scene where Sadie wakes to find Imogen sitting in their room is unsettling. Will never notices their clashes or encounters. Then there are other hints that something might not be right with our narrator. She seems to start missing time and her youngest son Tate claims to have seen her watching him at school but she wasn’t there. We start to doubt everything she tells us. 

In order to intrigue the reader further, Sadie’s narrative is is interspersed with two others. Camilla is the other woman, giving her side of the story and showing a growing obsession with the wife. Then there is Mouse. Her narrative is very disturbing, slowly revealing a life with her Dad who travels a lot for work and ‘Fake Mom’ his new wife. The emotional and psychological abuse in these sections in awful. The effect of both the other narrators is to keep the reader interested, working out where these voices fit, who are they and what does their story tell us about Sadie’s version of events. 

The book keeps the reader held in suspense, shocks them in parts and makes them desperate to solve this mystery. The atmosphere is claustrophobic, people are stuck on this island for the night after the last ferry. Sadie is stuck in this house where Imogen roams in the night and the attic is haunted by the memory of her sister in law. I liked the idea that on a tiny island where everyone knows everyone, maybe they don’t know their neighbours or even their family as much as they think they do. A great, suspenseful read and from my perspective as a pain counsellor it was brilliant to see fibromyalgia depicted so accurately with a proper grasp of its impact on patients,

An extremely unpredictable thriller with twists and turns that saw me racing through to the end-  then I sat back & wondered, why didn’t I notice that? Why didn’t I realise what was happening?
 
This is a big fat onion of a story, layer after layer is removed and just when you think you’ve reached the centre, you find there are more skins to work through!
 
What a twisted mind Mary Kubica has and how brilliantly she plots- I could see this novel in cinematic detail in my mind’s eye as I was reading it. It is no surprise to see that the film rights have been bought by Netflix.
 
The novel's varying point of view keeps the pace moving, and even though there were a couple of areas which left me with question marks, overall I loved it.
 
How wonderful to have a novel like this to escape into, during such a challenging week newswise.

I have been a fan of Mary's work for a while now.  I have read and enjoyed each and every book that she has released to date.  When I read the synopsis for 'The Other Mrs' it sounded like the deliciously creepy psychological thriller that I love reading.  Oh this book was all that and more.  I thoroughly enjoyed reading 'The Other Mrs' but more about that in a bit.
I wasn't quite sure what to make of the characters in this book but I don't mean that in a bad way.  My gut instinct on the main characters of Sadie, Will and Camille were that they were holding something back and that each had something to hide.  If I had met them in real life I would have kept them at arms' length until I had sussed them out a bit more.  Each of them sent a little shiver up my spine for different reasons.  Was I right to view them with such suspicion?  Well for the answers to that question and so much more you are just going to have to read the book for yourselves  to find out.
It took me a little while to get into this book.  I don't mean that in a negative way but I was having trouble concentrating and I had to keep re-reading parts to remind myself of what I had just read.  That's all down to me and not meant as a criticism of the author.  The more I read, the more intrigued I became as to how the story was going to pan out and the more I had to read.  I wasn't able to binge read 'The Other Mrs' over the course of a day because boring things like life got in the way, but I managed to read the book over the course of a few days.  When I sat down to read, I was in 'The Zone' and I sat there quietly reading for an hour or so at a time.  Usually when I read, I have the attention span of a gnat and I am easily distracted but not in this case.  I was able to shut out all other distractions and focus solely on the book.
'The Other Mrs' is superbly written but then I think that is true of all of Mary's books.  She has created a tight and intriguing plot and introduces more twists and turns to the tale than you would find on a 'Snakes & Ladders' board.  She has also created characters who have more layers to their characters than you would find on a parcel during a game of 'pass the parcel'.  Unwrap one layer and half a dozen more appear.  Mary certainly kept me guessing as to which direction the story was going to take.  I was gripped by the plot and on the edge of my seat throughout the book.
In short, I thoroughly enjoyed reading 'The Other Mrs' and I would recommend it to other readers.  I will definitely be reading more of Mary's work in the future.  The score on the Ginger Book Geek board is a very well deserved 5* out of 5*.

This is my first novel by bestseller author Mary Kubica though I have had a few of her other books on my e-reader for quite some time, specifically, When the Lights Go Out, and Every Last Lie.

The Other Mrs sees Sadie Foust, her husband Will, and their two boys, Otto and Tate, moving to a tiny coastal town to make a fresh start. From bustling Chicago, the Fousts choose to live in small-town Maine, as Will inherits a house and a niece (Imogen, who he knows little about) from Alice, his sister. Alice committed suicide, unable to live with the extreme pain of her Fibromyalgia, anymore. Sadie, a doctor, needed a new start, but she didn’t think she would find herself living in a secluded house on a sinister island with a hostile teenager. When her neighbour, Morgan Baines is murdered, Sadie becomes the number one suspect, having been seen arguing with Morgan. What follows is a twisted and tense tale that kept me on my toes. 

The Other Mrs is told from three different perspectives; that of Sadie, Camille, and a young girl named Mouse. Camille is not only Sadie‘s ex roommate, but she’s also the other woman and as a result, has an unhealthy obsession with Sadie. Mouse is a clever young girl who is being abused. The island community is small and tight knit and they are rocked to the core as news of the murder emerges. Sadie is drawn into the mystery and tries to discover the truth. 

Mary Kubica's novel follows a very intriguing, multi-layered story. The deteriorating weather conditions and isolation of the island help set the mood for this dark and chilling novel. With infidelity, obsession, bullying, suicide, and mental illness that befit a high calibre psychological thriller such as this one, I was gripped by the perfect plotting and pacing. The author's writing-style is impressive and noteworthy and evidently she is a gifted storyteller who can provide readers with thrills, sophistication and a story packed with substance. I like the way the story evolved, and for me, it is a very highly recommended read that will be of interest to many readers. 

I received a complimentary digital copy of this novel, at my request, from HQ via NetGalley and this review is my own unbiased opinion.

The Other Mrs by @marykubica published by @hqstories 💕
Sadie, Will & their young children have moved into Will’s late sisters house on an island. Sadie is hoping for a fresh following the revelation about Wills affair.
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Shortly after they move to the area they find out that their neighbour has been found murdered. As they live on an island and the ferry doesn’t leave until the morning Sadie is anxious that the killer is still on the island.
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Not only do you as the reader wonder who is the murderer but also what is the link between Camille ( who is totally obsessed with Will) and a young girl called Mouse who is being abused by her step father.
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A dark, atmospheric yet compulsive read. It may appear the deeper you get into the book that there is a lot going on and that you may lose your way. But trust me when I say stay with it. It’s like a jigsaw lots of piece to start with but once things slowly into place it makes total sense.
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Thank you to @hqstories for gifting me a copy of this book

After Will’s sister commits suicide he inherits her house and his sullen teenage niece Imogen. The timing is perfect as Will has been caught in an affair and his wife Sadie had to resign from her job in emergency medicine so as not to lose her license. So Will, Sadie and their two boys Otto and Tate move in and shortly after their neighbour is murdered.

The book is narrated mostly by Sadie but interspersed by Camille who is obsessed by her husband Will and a small child called mouse. I will be honest and say I found Camille the most interesting character. She was blunt, knew what she wanted and set out to get it. Sadie was the polar opposite and was a bit wishy washy for me.

All of the characters have secrets including the kids and the isolating setting of a small island cut off in bad weather really amps up the creep factor. The narration is what really makes this book. You read Sadie’s point of view and think you know what is happening and then you hear Camille and mouse’s perspectives and you are unsure who is telling the truth.

Officer Berg is focussed on Sadie due to another neighbour’s statement making out she argued with the murdered woman. A woman who she had already told police she hadn’t met yet and with strange things happening at home (murdered neighbours necklace turning up in the house, gas left on, dogs barking at something outside) you catch the drift, Sadie in her infinite wisdom tries to work out who the killer is.

I’m probably in the minority here but I love unlikeable characters and I could take my pick out of this dysfunctional lot on who I liked the least. A slower pace than your standard thriller for the first half but to me that just built the tension and wow once the twists started they just kept on coming.

This was my first read of this author but it won’t be my last, as after reading this I have since purchased The good girl and Pretty baby as I really enjoyed the author’s characterisation and writing style.

The Other Mrs is a dark, atmospheric read which was very enjoyable!

Firstly I just loved how the Island itself helped contribute to the tension and atmosphere in the book. It helps to bring a level of claustrophobia to the story too as you realise how isolated the island is and how easily it’s cut off from anything by bad weather. The islanders help contribute to the feeling that no one cares about the family as they like to keep to themselves and are very cautious of all strangers.

I thought the story developed well, with the slow release of information and reveals about the family keeping me very intrigued. As you might expect things aren’t as straight forward as they first appear and I especially liked finding out more about the character’s history. There are some very interesting, complex characters in this book though not many are likeable I still enjoyed learning more about them. My favourite was definitely Mouse though as she was a very relatable character and I enjoyed following her take on things.

The pace of this book gradually increases as the story develops and I found some of the scenes very nail biting to read. I did figure out part of the story early on but this didn’t stop me enjoying the book as I wanted to keep reading to figure out the other part of the story and see if I was right.

Huge thanks to HQ Stories for inviting me onto the blog tour and for my copy of this book.

I am really conflicted as to how to review this book. There are so many revelations at the end of the book. It feels that is too much happening. The ending can either be seen as very clever writing by the author or not quite believable. I really like a good thriller but I did not totally believe this one. 

Thank you to Netgalley for my copy.

Prepare yourself for a roller coaster ride of a book, Mary Kubica has done it again!

Sadie and Will Foust and their kids have recently moved from the big bustling city of Chicago, to a sleepy coastal town in Maine, to a house that they have recently inherited.

To get to their new jobs, and also to the kids to school, they have to catch a ferry off of the island where they are living, they have also now have custody of Will's Niece Imogen, after his sister died unexpectedly, so there is plenty of stress around, as she is not the most welcoming person toward them all.

After only being there a few days, the family get a huge shock when one of their neighbours is murdered, and knowing that it must have happened in the night and that there isn't a ferry off of the island until early in the morning, Sadie is aware that the murderer is /was still on the island, which triggers her anxiety. 
Especially when it seems that the police seem to have a ridiculous notion that she had something to do with the murder, even though she'd never even met that neighbour, and that they are new to the town.


Sadie and the rest of the family were really hoping to have a fresh start, and thought that this would be it, they really needed it.

While we are watching the Faust family come apart thread by thread, we also get 2 other characters thrown in to the loop, Camille, Sadie's former roommate and Mouse, a little girl who is being abused by her step mother.

How do they all fit together? And who the hell is the murderer?

Mary Kubica is the queen of twisty books, and this one was no different, it was creepy, very atmospheric, and I had no idea where it was going most of the time.

Grab this one as soon as you can and settle down for some serious page turning!

**Thank you to HQ Stories  and Netgalleyfor my copy of this book**

This is a great read but a tricky one to review as I don’t want to spoil it for you. 
The story centres around Sadie and Will who have moved to a small town in Maine, to look after their niece whose mother committed suicide.
Sadie hopes the move will help rebuild her marriage as Will had been having an affair. 
Just as they’re settling in, one of the neighbours is murdered. All this happens in the opening chapters and it then slows down a bit. 
I can’t really mention much more about the storyline as it’s better to discover all the twists and turns for yourself. 
It took me a while to get into but I did enjoy this book. 
Thanks to HQ and NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book.

Sadie, a doctor, and her husband Will, a Professor, move from Chicago to a small town Maine to take care of Will's niece, whose mother has committed suicide. They are hoping to start afresh after Will has had an affair and their sons have been having problems.  Soon after they arrive a neighbour is found dead in her home.

It took me a little while to get in to this book - whilst well written, and very atmospheric thanks to its chilling  descriptions of the island and of the house they live in, I was happy to read it early on but didn't feel entirely committed.  Told from multiple points of view by Sadie, Camille, who apparently had the affair with Will, and a young girl called Mouse, it initially felt a little confusing.  You are left guessing how everything connects together and there are plenty of twists,  The further I read the more I got drawn in - this book really picked up for me as it progressed and I was on the edge of my seat as more and more twists were thrown in as it reached its conclusion. A roller coaster of a ride and recommended for anyone who likes thrillers that truly keep you guessing

Thank you to Netgalley and HQ for an advance copy in exchange for an honest review.

This was the first book I've read from author, Mary Kubica, and I was not disappointed.

The Other Mrs is a wonderfully tense and unsettling part-domestic/psychological thriller and part-murder mystery. Set on a small island off the coast of Maine in the dead of winter, with the action taking place predominantly in a creepy old house, this is the perfect setting to ramp up the tension. The setting adds a sense of isolation and oppression.

The characters are an interesting and pretty unlikeable selection. Whilst outward appearances are that of a close knit family, we quickly learn that the family have arrived on the island each carrying their own emotional baggage. This move should be the new start that they need, however the reader will quickly become aware that within this dysfunctional family things aren't quite as they seem...

The story is told via three narrators - Sadie, Camille and a young girl called Mouse, which adds additional layers and intrigue to the story. I initially thought I knew how Mouse fitted into the tale, however the author provides a number of twists, turns and red-herrings that had me frequently double-guessing what I thought I knew.

It is hard to talk about this novel without giving away too much, however the story deals with some dark themes such as death, grief, mental illness and control. It looks at the devastating impact that secrets can have and considers how far loyalty can be stretched.

The book is chilling, dark and tense, full of intrigue, twists and misdirection. It grabbed my attention from the start and kept me hooked right up to the satisfyingly shocking conclusion. A creepy and entertaining read!

Huge thanks to the publisher for inviting me to be on the blog tour and for providing an advanced copy of the book for review.

I found this book very hard to get into. The pace was slow at the start and I didn’t gel with any of the characters. I unfortunately gave up on the book after about 25% as it just wasn’t holding my attention.  Think I’ll leave the book for now and come back to it another time.

The Other Mrs is a 3.5⭐️ rounded up.
Sadie and Will move from Chicago to a small town in Maine, they have come to move in with their niece whose mother committed suicide and yes it was in that house that they move into! Sadie is glad of the move as she hopes to rebuild her and Wills lives back to normal as Will back in Chicago had been having an affair. The neighbours aren’t very welcoming, Sadie’s car has “die” written in the frost, next thing you know the neighbour has been murdered. All this happens in the opening chapters so I was hooked from the start. I’m not going to go into the storyline anymore as it is a very twisty read and feel your best coming in blind. The only negative I have is the ending was a bit confusing for me, wether I hadn’t picked up on what I should have done throughout the book I’ve no idea but it left me with a few unanswered questions.
I would like to thank Netgalley and HQ for this ARC I received in exchange for an honest review.

The Other Mrs by Mary Kubica is a thrilling contemporary psychological suspense that will have your heart racing as you speed towards the conclusion.
I found The Other Mrs to be a slow burner. I settled down for a comfortable read – and then the roller coaster of a read kicked in. Oh wow, oh wow, oh wow – what a ride – My pulse raced, my heartbeat rose as I read with heart in my mouth. Mary Kubica clearly has a great talent as an author as she manipulated my emotions this way and that.
The novel is written in the first person from several points of view. The reader becomes intimately involved and invested in lives. The various characters elicited different emotional responses from me. My favourite was six year old Mouse, although there were hard to read scenes of abuse. There is the theme of manipulation. Sometimes it is so subtle that it is difficult to recognise.
The Other Mrs is a brilliant read, extremely cleverly constructed. I cannot wait to read more by Mary Kubica if my heart rate can stand it!
I received this book for free. A favourable review was not required and all views expressed are my own.