Overall, I really enjoyed this dark, chilling, well-plotted story. It was intense and fast paced and I raced through this in a few hours, frantically turning the pages, desperate to find out how it was all going to be resolved. With that dramatic ending, I wasn’t disappointed! I’m already looking forward to the author’s next book.

This book has been self-published before under the title The Let. It is now being republished with the title The Houseshare. It's about Libby who escapes a toxic relationship and finds a new home, away from her soon-to-be ex. Now, she can start over again, fresh. But that doesn't seem to be the case. Something is wrong at the new apartment. Stuff goes missing and what happened to the previous tenant? Is she going crazy? She has to find out!

Again, the author managed to keep me glued to the pages, right from the start. The constant suspense turns this into a well-written psychological thriller with believable characters. There are also some great twists at the end. I can only recommend this book!

The Houseshare by Carla Kovach is another standalone thriller from the popular author of the Gina Harte series. Ms Kovach certainly knows how to craft a completely addictive and compulsively readable thriller, and her latest is no exception.

Libby is coming out of a toxic relationship when she makes the decision to rent a room in a houseshare. The other tenants seem friendly, and Tim is a landlord whose easygoing nature suits Libby. The only fly in the ointment is the mysterious Mr. Bull who prefers to keep to himself and has a rather low tolerance for noise. Although Libby is uneasy about her ex, as well as a situation with a potential stalker at work, she has the support of her sister Olly and the companionship of her new friends at home. But when a stranger turns up at the house looking for someone who used to rent Libby's current room, a mystery begins to unfold that could have the most deadly of consequences.

This one will certainly hit the spot for fans of Ms Kovach.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Bookouture for an ARC.

“The Houseshare” is a psychological thriller by Carla Kovach. At first this book moved a bit slowly in setting up the plot, but once it got rolling it moved a lot more quickly. Tim, the landlord, reminded me a lot of Norman Bates from the movie “Psycho”, a bit awkward, talking about his mother, and seemingly always there. Ms. Kovach threw in a number of suspects into this book though in the end I puzzled out who had done what and why - but I missed a connection (a tip of the hat to Ms. Kovach for that little zinger at the end). I liked the relationship between Libby and Olly, but I felt mentioning the backstory/reason why could’ve been stated once, opposed to it being mentioned a few times during the book. Overall, I liked the idea of this book and how the story played out. I’d rate this a 3.75 out of 5 stars, rounded up to 4 stars.

I found this book to be really average. I did enjoy reading it but I feel like I have read very similar plots many times before and whilst a pleasant read, this didn't bring anything new.

I did like the characterisation - I was especially fond of Ricardo and Einstein the cat. I also liked the parts about Libby's job as a recruitment consultant.

The story was interesting enough but there were no surprises. After you eliminated the characters who were too obvious as suspects there was really only one person that could be behind everything.

I was satisfied by the ending, all loose ends were tied up nicely. Overall I did enjoy reading the book but there were no 'wow' moments and I wouldn't describe it as memorable.

Libby has left her cheating and abusive boyfriend, Gary, and finds herself a nice new flat close to her work. The owner of the flat, Tim, is very friendly and likes Libby. She seems happy until she gets a visitor named Ricardo. He is the father of the last tenant, a girl named Bettina. Bettina has gone missing for some time and he promised his dying wife that he would look for her. Libby gets drawn into the case and finds herself in quite a situation that she didn't expect.

This was a pretty good book. It started creepy and slowly builds up to a great ending. Around the 70 percent mark, I had a hard time putting this one down. I am always amazed how authors come up with these incredible stories. This was a good one and I do recommend it to other thriller lovers like myself.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Bookouture for my ARC in exchange for my honest review.

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