Thank you netgalley and Berkley publishing for a copy of this in exchange for my review.

Fi (or Fiona) has arrived at her house to find that a whole new family has moved in and all of her belongings are gone. The problem is, she never put her house up for sale and never moved anything out in the first place. Flash forward to a crime podcast where Fi gets to tell her side of the story as well as Bram, her ex-husband. We learn about their soiled relationship and how they try to maintain a stable environment for their kids. The thing is, Bram and the kids are missing and Fi has to try to find them in order to sort out the mess of a life they have left.

This is written really quite differently than most books. I’m not sure how to feel about it! It starts off as a script for a crime podcast. I’m a huge fan of crime podcasts for long car trips so this really captured my attention! In fact, the first chapter was so thrilling in itself that I knew it was going to be good! Fi was the one who was talking through the podcast and Bram was written as talking through a word document he wrote. In between their stories were twitter feeds of what people were saying about the podcast. Each chapter was as if you were sitting next to them and they were both telling their own sides to the story. Again, I’m not sure what to make of it. It flowed because they were talking about the same thing, but it got really choppy towards the end of the book when you start to figure out what’s really going on. I enjoyed the twisted ending for sure and would recommend it to others.

3.75/5 Stars

Great character development, this suspenseful domestic drama thriller keeps you guessing right up to the surprise twist at the end. Highly recommended.

Fiona Lawson’s fairy-tale life comes to a screeching halt in this story of betrayal and fraud. She returns home to find it isn’t hers anymore. Her house in the exclusive neighborhood—the one she shares with her estranged husband in a co-parenting arrangement—now belongs to someone else. And they claim she sold it to them!

This story is written in a unique contemporary style, with the MC telling a lot of the story via a podcast titled The Victim, complete with the typical twitter comments following each episode. A sign of the times? Add that to the Word document/suicide note penned by the estranged spouse, along with conventional chapters having POVs of the MC and of her husband, and you get quite an interesting read. Can’t say if I’d like to read this style a lot, but it was certainly fun.

The story centers around an unfaithful husband and his traffic citations. You read that right. Somehow this author manages to take a mundane topic like a speeding ticket and turn it into a full-length suspense that held my interest to the very “OMG” ending! And I mean that literally. The last three paragraphs of the book floored me! I can’t tell you the emotion I was feeling without spoiling the last twist, so I’ll just say, “Wow.”

There were places in the story where I thought it seemed a bit far-fetched, but then the author threw in a little back-story to make me buy it. Many of the twists and turns (and there were plenty) knocked me for a loop! I loved the way Candlish exposed the different characters’ motivations as the story unfolded.

The characters were developed, and the pace was good.

This is a British novel, not my favorite, but I tried to ignore that in my rating. I also tried to ignore the foul language. It’s hard to say if it was excessive. There was a lot, but it was true to character in those places. Structurally, I wasn’t crazy about the writing.

I struggled with how to rate this one but ended up giving Our House 4 stars (with an asterisk for language and content) because I really did enjoy reading it. Three didn’t seem like enough, and the ending alone was worth at least an extra half.

I received a complimentary copy of this book from Berkley Publishing Group via NetGalley.
Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

Fantastic story of betrayal and suspense! The was a solid 5 ⭐️book for me until the ending. Now the ending wasn’t bad, just very inconclusive! I realize some readers enjoy contemplating and then completing the story line themselves and that’s fine. But I was really invested in these characters and needed to know for certain the outcome. Of course any book that invokes such strong feelings is a winner!

I strongly recommend Our House to all mystery and thriller lovers! Special thanks to NetGalley for an advanced reader’s copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

The winding, mysterious plot of a woman who comes home to find her house has been sold to someone else drew me in from the start. Louise Candlish’s writing made an intriguing plot line impossible to put down, and I only wished I had the time to devour this in one sitting.

It started off a but slow but interesting. It got really long though, and a bit outlandish, so I skipped the middle third, to get to the end. The ending wasn't great either, so all around, a disappointing read.

While I'm sure others will find the story interesting., Our House by Louise Candlish was written in a an odd format which eventually frustrated me as I kept losing the train of thought. Not so likeable main characters, Fi and Bram, caused me to lose interest about half way through.

Thank you to the publisher, author, and NetGalley for the opportunity to preview the book.

"Our House" is a psychological thriller that keeps you guessing until the end. So many psychological thrillers follow the same basic narrative with common ingredients - a woman, a questionable man, moral ambiguity, a twist ending. "Our House" manages to include these elements in an interesting and unique way that in a small way, reinvents the genre. I found myself questioning the motives of characters until the end, and found the finale to be completely unexpected. The writing style, including transcripts from a podcast one of the characters participates flowed nicely, and allowed us to get one characters story, without the full perspective. Well written - I read in one sitting!

Oh, such a heartbreaking story this was. It took me several days to read Our House by Louise Candlish. The reason being, the deceit, the lies, the shattered lives, apprehension, devastation... At times, I had to close my Kindle to take a breath and let sink in the latest turn of events.

When we’re you last so drawn into a story that it affected you this way? Ages, I’m sure. Therein lies the proof of the brilliant writer Ms. Candlish is!

I was mentally cursing Bram; telling him what a fool he was, to come clean and turn himself in. All the while, feeling such dread and anticipation for Fi, Leo and Harry.

Our House was written to keep a hand on the pulse of the digital age - with the use of modern technology; podcast with updated comments, CCTV, word doc, even digital use for the sale of property, this novel touched on life today, and how easily such deception could take place. Could this happen to me? To you? To anyone? Makes one think twice...

I highly recommend this book to one and all.

A gracious thank you to Louise Candlish, Penguin Random House and NetGalley for the free ARC of Our House in exchange for my honest review.

An engaging read with decent twists, including at least one I didn't see coming. Although it felt like the story dragged just a little in the middle, there was more than enough suspense to keep me reading until the end.

Home ownership is a dream for many, if not most, adults. The idea of owning land, of molding the home to your exact specification, of investing in your future, well, it’s quite intoxicating. Everyday people around the world cash in their savings for a set of keys and a dream. But a house is only as good as its foundation, much like a good relationship. Fi Lawson learns this lesson the hard way, in Our House. Fi’s relationships in the novel are directly tied to both the house and the street where she lives.

Our House is the chilling tale of love, loss, and twenty-first century fraud. Set in modern day London, Our House follows the once posh lives of Fi and Bram Lawson, as their marriage and lives deteriorate. The novel is set against the backdrop of the Trinity Avenue home that the Lawson’s own. Full of plot twists and surprise reveals, Candlish creates a spellbinding tale full of caution, regret, and the ultimate goal: a home to call one’s own.

What begins as a simple omission, barely a lie, quickly spirals into deception, blackmail, and fraud. Our House blends the real life horrors of identity left and fraud with mundane marital problems of lies and infidelity. The house ultimately becomes the site of contention; and the harder Fi tries to hold onto her dream home, the further she is removed from it.

Candlish crafts a tale of suspense fit for a twenty-first century audience, face paced and captivating, full of complex relationships, plot twists, and the final big reveal. The story is realistic and heartbreaking at times, as readers see the events in the novel from both spouses’ perspective. Ultimately, the novel reflects the lengths people will go to to hold onto their dream, not matter how convoluted or destructive that dream may become or the pain it may cause. If you enjoy suspense and mystery in the style of Gillian Flynn, Mary Higgins Clark, or Harlan Coben, you won’t want to miss Louise Candlish’s Our House. This is one book you won’t want to put down.

U absolutely loved this book. Characters that get in your head and stay there. Surprised i absolutely did not see coming. A story for all of us living our lives and then Life happens with a capital L. A must read!

Loved, loved, loved this book. Could not put it down. A husband-and-wife drama of the first order. "Our House" will strike a fear into the heart of any wife who thinks she knows her husband. But does she really? There was only one situation that did not have the ring of authenticity to me, and I will leave you to guess what it was. And despite the machinations of the husband and the wife, the one sentence on the last page gives you chills. And leaves one to hope that maybe a sequel will be written!

4.5 stars

Our House is a standout in the heavily saturated genre of domestic suspense. The story was captivating and contained some fun, unexpected twists and turns. The story starts off strong and doesn’t slow down until the very last page. The ending deserves a special mention – it was fabulous and bumped my rating up to 4.5 stars.

My biggest quibble with this genre is that to craft a story that works most of the characters involved are highly unlikable or overly gullible because sane, stable people don’t generally make the necessary questionable or crazy decisions/choices. For the most part, Candlish avoids this and has created characters that are believable, and I was able to enjoy the story without constantly thinking that there is no way that a certain action or event would happen in real life.

I highly recommend Our House. It is a well-written and highly entertaining read. I received this book to read and review; all opinions are my own.

**Thank you to Netgalley and Berkley for the Advanced Reader Copy in exchange for an unbiased review.**

This is a domestic tale based on relationships and their detailed characteristics. Their interactions with each other are like peeling an onion. The way the story escalated slowly roping you in deeper and darker is commendable. It’s like the story is progressing but is winding you in tighter and tighter. I don’t want to give away the plot so I won’t say more. It’s different from the other books I’ve read so far in the way it is presented. Enjoyable on the whole.

All I can say is I'm glad this isn't my life and family. Fi and Bram live in a exclusive part of the city and it's evident that appearances are pretty important. Bram isn't the good guy people think he is and Fi may have given him one to many chances. The book has many parts that are interjected with surprises. I wasn't a fan of the characters so the author did a great job at development. I received a copy of this book through NetGalley for my honest review.

The House means everything to Fi and nothing to Bram. Bought when they were newly married, Fi spent years renovating the prime piece of realty while Bram spent years hiding bar fights, speeding tickets and other secrets from his wife.

The story begins when Fi returns home early from a weekend a away with her new boyfriend, to find a moving van in front of her home. And people, moving into her house, which is emptied of all of its belongings. Bram, whom she has a coparenting “birds nest” (children stay at the house, parents stay at another location on their nights off during their separation) relationship with, is not picking up the phone and her children are missing.

Going into <i>Our House</i>, I found it slow moving, it it quickly picked up the pace. The premise was a new, and interesting take—one that hasn’t been done 100 times over by different authors. The only issue I had was the continuaty getting fuzzy. It’s written in the perspectives of Fi, speaking to a Podcast about her situation after the House, Fi in the past, Bram in the past and Bram after The House. Overall, I enjoyed it and would definitely recommend!

When I read the description of this book I was immediately intrigued. Fiona Lawson arrives home from a trip to find a new family moving into her home in an affluent neighborhood in London, Her estranged husband, Bram, has disappeared and her children are not at the home as expected. Although Fiona (Fi) and her husband had problems after she caught him cheatiing on her, she wasn't expecting this to happen, Told in alternating perspectives between Fi and Bram, the book if full of twists and turn with plenty of secrets to keep you guessing.

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This book was just the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I could not put it down. It's unlike anything I have read before. From the beginning of the book, to the podcasts (with live tweets) and emails, to the ending. Its a great book and I highly recommend it to all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks so much to the publisher and NetGalley for providing me with this book for my honest review. All opinions expressed are my own.

I did not find this "story" captivating enough to work through more than 50 pages or so. Not to my liking, even though there is probably a very important message to be delivered about trust and identity theft.