I enjoyed the first 98% of this book. Personally, I did not like the ending...it just left too much up in the air. I absolutely loved the premise of the book and enjoyed the author's writing style. I look forward to reading more of her books in the future!

This book started off great, but the pacing slowed way down and the hashtag/social media point of view just feels like an annoying interruption. This book is just not for me.

There was a lot to like about Our House. It started with a bang and did not let up until the very end. I thought the idea of a wife returning home to find that her house had been sold out from under her by her estranged husband intriguing and from the first pages it was hard to put down. I also enjoyed that parts of the book were written as a podcast, complete with internet comments, and another part was written as a Word document. It was a clever way for each partner in the marriage to tell their side of the story. As for the two main characters, however, I found them to be a little too black and white. The husband always seemed to make the wrong decision and the wife was a bit too perfect. That being said, all the twists and turns the book took were simply delicious and very enjoyable.

My thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read and review this book.

Wow this was a twisty one! A wife who has no clue what's going on, and a husband who screws her over in so many ways just by trying to get himself out of the holes he's dug for himself. This definitely had a surprise ending, too.

Why would people be moving into your house? Why would your husband be missing? Watch the wife unravel the mystery while enjoying a mystery set across the pond with this book that is much, much better than Girl on a Train.

Bram and Fi have been married ten years and have two children. When Fi catches Bram cheating on her for the 2nd time, she tells him the marriage is over, but they have an arrangement when she'll live in their desirable and valuable London house for the five working days, and Bram will take the weekends. They rent a studio apartment for the other parent to live in when not "on duty". What Fi doesn't know is that Bram has lost his driver's licence due to three speeding tickets. Bram still drives from time to time. While returning home one day, his impatience behind the wheel causes a terrible accident. Pretty soon he's being blackmailed or he'll end up in prison.

This book was written in both Fi and Bram's words, alternating in each chapter. I got impatient with the story and wanted to get to the meat of it, and finally lost interest and did not finish.

This novel had me transfixed from the first paragraph all the way to the very last. When I had to put the book down, I was grumpy and couldn't wait to get back to it! It's a dark, compelling, morbidly fascinating story.

Fiona returns to her home after a few days out of town to discover strangers moving in. She's adamant there has been a mistake, but her soon to be ex husband and children are all missing. What follows is the slow unraveling of a complex, twisted story of betrayal, family, and fear.

Told from alternating points of view and timelines, Candlish does a fantastic job of making this incredibly complicated story flow smoothly. Even though we're back and forth between characters and timelines, it all comes together well as the deceptions unfold and all the layers are revealed.

The premise seemed far fetched at first, then by the end I was thinking this could happen! At times I almost felt guilty for finding these characters' lives so intriguing, as everything collapsed around them.

The author has accomplished a great deal in this novel, I can't imagine all the complexities were easy to get right. It makes for an intensely enjoyable read and I highly recommend it!

I had so many mixed feelings about this book and they changed as the book went on. Here’s how I felt:

I loved the premise, coming home to find someone else already moved into your house! Not very believable but I was good with it. Speaking with the people who are moving in and then eventually realizing it wasn’t just a mix up. No spoilers here.

This is at least the second book that I’ve read where parts were written as though they are on a podcast, the other being “Are You Sleeping” by Kathleen Barber and did end up enjoying that book. I think by adding a second “social media” situation with the emails was a little annoying. Add to that the fact that you are going back and forth in time. I got irritated with the book at times.

The main characters Fi and Bram Lawson are quite unlikable. Fi seems to have a very superior, selfish attitude about most things and Bram is just a loser and a cheater. I didn’t feel much emotion for either of them. Fi’s love interest seem too good to be true and their relationship is so insulated, no one even saw them together, or did they? I didn’t find that either parent had their kids best interests at heart, even though they verbally said that they did. Their actions didn’t display that love and concern.

There is another very sad, very important story going on at the same time. A mother and her young daughter are in an auto accident, they were blindsided and slammed into a tree. Throughout most of the book we don’t know how this will all turn out, one of our main characters is involved, but which one?

What I liked about the book ----- the up and down, in and out, twisty, turning nature of the plot. It was so well thought out and the reader is so “set up” that I had no idea that the novel would end the way that it did. That bumped the book up to a solid 4, just the last 25 pages were pretty amazing.

All together I would recommend this book, this is a very intelligent read with lots to try and figure out. Many of you may be younger, or just enjoy reading a book with a more up to date vibe to it and this might be just perfect for you!

I received an ARC of this novel from the publisher through Netgalley

Will post to Amazon upon publication.

A interesting thriller that picked up based on the cover. I would recommend this one to any fans of intense thrillers.

Addictive and compelling, this was phenomenal from start to finish!

I enjoyed the formatting and way the story was told. Sometimes, things like this make the story even better and I think that helped here.

Did I guess some of the twists? Sure. But that ending is WHOA!

Wow! What a utterly compelling story! At first I was unsure of the writing layout but that passed quickly as I was absorbed by the fascinating plot! It was totally wild, twisted, nerve wracking and unpredictable! Absolutely phenomenal thrilling tale that left me speechless! The author did a fabulous job with this book! * I received a copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review *

Great story although drags a bit in the middle. Good character development and plotting. Worth the read

Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
when first we practice to deceive. (Sir Walter Scott, 1808)

“She must be mistaken, but it looks exactly as if someone is moving into her house.
The van is parked halfway down Trinity Avenue, its square mouth agape, a large piece of furniture sliding down the ribbed metal tongue.
Fi watches ... as the object is carried through the gate and down the path.
My gate. My path.
Whose things are these?”

No one expects to return home from a weekend trip to find themselves homeless, their spouse missing and all of their belongings gone. Fi knew that Bram had issues, but she never saw this one coming!

This clever and dark suspense will have you up all night reading!

Fiona (Fi) and Bram Lawson were separated after she found her husband shagging a neighbor in the kid's new backyard playhouse. (His second transgression in their twelve-year marriage.) But the martial breakup was based on much more. It always is. Booze, lying, fits of anger, and speeding tickets in Bram's case. Nothing major, cumulatively tragic.

The pair, through the unbelievable generosity on Fi's part, have been sharing a Bird's nest custody arrangement with their two children. This arrangement lets the kids stay at the house and the parents' move in-and-out following a schedule. Each spends their off-time in an apartment not far away. In the beginning, things seemed to be working, or so she thought.

Anna and Bram's stories are told in alternating viewpoints, each using the mechanism of technology. Anna uses a podcast known as The Victim. Bram's story, written in self-exile, is a confessional Word document that begins with a simple bout of road rage that speeds toward an ending you never saw coming.

The plot is revealed like a cat's cradle, weaving new facts and drama with misdirection and building intrigue at every turn. British writer, John Ruskin, aptly wrote:" the essence of lying is in deception, not in words."

Anna, at times, comes across a little too goody two-shoes naive. But there is no doubt that she is caught in a vortex of evil not of her doing. Bram, unable to curb his base instincts, finds himself trapped in a darker world spiraling out-of-control.

The minor characters latch on to Anna and Bram like leeches. Friends are not all they seem to be. Grandmothers love unconditionally.

But somewhere in all this miasma, love lives. There is a constant thread of loving humanity that hums beneath the surface serving as a balance beam. Can everyone stay on the beam through to the end?

How would you handle a world turned upside down? Internalize it like Bram? Or project it outward like Anna?

Sorry! No spoilers here. Highly recommended reading.
ARC from Netgalley in exchange for my honest review.

This story was exceptional. I’m positive there are nit picky critics out there willing to tear any book by any author apart, but I’m not that guy (or girl).

You know that saying, “I bleed to feel alive”? Well, I read to feel alive and holy hell I feel like I just spent the last 6 or so months of my life in the heaviest bout of anxiety I’ve ever had the pleasure to taste. Yes, I said pleasure. It was the most perfect form of torture, diving into this harrowing domestic thriller. My heart pounded at seemingly all the right moments, I think I got the shakes at one point as well.

Louise Candlish’s writing style made everything seem so horrifyingly realistic and gave it that “oh my god this could happen to anyone” feel. The multiple twists in the storyline smacked me in the chest every. damn. time.

I especially loved that the story begins near the end, if that makes sense? So you know how it turns out in the end… or do you? Candlish immediately throws you right into the festering wound that is Fi and Bram’s realities and alternating between the married (but separated) couple’s recount of events (Fi’s tale via podcast and Bram’s via a word document) you’re brought up to speed on what happened and how. How the shit hit the fan, you could say. The alternating views between Fi and Bram were executed quite seamlessly.

But the twist that really got me? Right on the last damn page. It left me with one of those

“whaaaaat? Nooooo!” type of feelings.

Our House definitely has me hungry for more from it’s author and I can’t wait to dig in!

I began Our House by Louise Candlish liking it well enough, but as I got further into the book I started LOVING it. I couldn’t put it down which as you know is the hallmark of a fantastic story.

What would you do if arriving home from a trip, all of your furniture was gone and a whole new family had moved into your home? That’s how this book begins but as the story progresses we learn not everything as it seems. I am almost done with Our House and I think I might know what happens but with this type of suspense you never know…

Here’s the official synopsis:

When Fiona Lawson comes home to find strangers moving into her house, she’s sure there’s been a mistake. She and her estranged husband, Bram, have a modern coparenting arrangement: bird’s nest custody, where each parent spends a few nights a week with their two sons at the prized family home to maintain stability for their children. But the system built to protect their family ends up putting them in terrible jeopardy. In a domino effect of crimes and misdemeanors, the nest comes tumbling down.

Now Bram has disappeared and so have Fiona’s children. As events spiral well beyond her control, Fiona will discover just how many lies her husband was weaving and how little they truly knew each other. But Bram’s not the only one with things to hide, and some secrets are best kept to oneself, safe as houses.

Louise Candlish is an author I have never heard about before this novel, but she has written several books and I am going to check them out. Our House is due out in August, however, take a look at The Swimming Pool which is ready to read right now.

This book would make an excellent movie. How can I be a scout for film? So many books have the potential to be brilliant films or even a mini-series and this is one of them.

Our House started off slowly for me. It does pick up it’s pace about a third of the way through, so if you’re at the beginning of the book, and wondering if it gets better, the answer is yes.

Our House explores some unique situations and plot lines that I have not seen covered in other books. It selves into the question of how well we can really know the people we love. It uses the popular multi-person point of view that vacillates between past and present. This did not detract from the story, and it was easy to follow. Part of this story is told through a podcast transcript that tells Fi’s story, which features the addition of some of the podcast’s subscribers’ reactions to her story. While the story would have worked fine without it, I thought this was an interesting and modern touch.

I wouldn’t say this was a book that I couldn’t put down from the moment I started reading it, but it was still an enjoyable read, and readers who enjoy a slow-burning suspense book will enjoy it.

I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

What a lot of twists and turns this book has!

I very quickly became absorbed in the characters of Fiona (Fi) and Abraham (Bram.) The different ways they communicated to the reader (for example, Bram with a Word document) was different and engaging. I liked the Internet side comments as well regarding Fi!

The book dragged a little bit for me in the middle but it was still a fun and exciting read.

3.5 stars rounded up to 4.

Fiona Lawson (Fi) arrives home after a romantic weekend away to discover that someone is moving into her house. She and her husband Bram are separated and have a very unusual agreement where they share the family home and also own a flat. They trade off and on being in the house with their 2 boys while the other one stays at the flat. Fi hasn't been home in several days and is quite shocked when she realizes that all of her things have been moved out of her home. She's sure there has been a mistake, however she's unable to get in touch with Bram and the couple in her home insist they are the new and rightful owners. Cut to Bram, who appears to be on the run after leaving his family behind. One chapter at a time we discover how Bram managed to sell his house right out from under Fi and if there's anything she can do about it.

This book had an interesting premise, but it failed to deliver for me. The alternating chapters were set up in an episode style for Fi, complete with audience participation hashtags after every entry. Bram's chapters were just straight forward from his POV. The last quarter of the book was my style. A little thriller, a little mysterious, a little exciting, and a little too late. The first 3/4 of the book just seemed to drag a little and nothing really happened. I kept waiting for it to get exciting but it took too long to take off.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher.

5 absorbing and unforgettable stars
OH MY GAWD! This was such an AMAZING book! When I first started reading Our House, I had no idea how the author was going to be able to create an engaging plot when she appears to give away the crux of the story in the first chapters. But trust me, this is a doozie that keeps the reader on their toes and effortlessly brings us into the fray of a person's worst nightmare - losing your house from under you. Ms. Can dish is truly a gifted writer and spins the tale with grace and suspense. Just when we think it's going one way, then....BAM....off it goes into another direction. This is a unique take on the domestic thriller genre.

The story begins with Fi discovering that another family is moving into her house. This must be some colossal mistake she thinks. She never put her house up for sale let alone sold it! Where's all of her stuff? The house is empty save for the new family's furniture and possessions that are being moved in as Fi experiences a breakdown of sorts. After going on a 2 day getaway, she has come home to retrieve her laptop only to discover she no longer has a home. In an attempt to make sense of what's happened, she calls Bram, her husband and co-parent of their two children, but his phone is not in service. Try as she might, she can't get a hold of him. Has something sinister happened to him? Or is he involved in this heartless ploy....and so the story begins as to what really happened. How one wrong move can lead to the house of cards tumbling down. Using multiple time frames and POV's, the sordid tale emerges. Deception, lies and manipulation combine to create an unforgettable and sinful story that will leave you guessing until the very end.

A huge thank you to Berkley, Louise Candish and Netgalley for the opportunity to read an advanced egalley. Publication date is August 7, 2018. Absolutely recommend this book to others if you're in the mood for a psych thriller.

Such a juicy mystery... The premise is really interesting, though the plot drags big time in the middle of the book.

Still, I kept reading, and stuck around for the twist, even though I saw it coming. The perspective shifts kept the story going, though I could have done without the audience Twitter feedback. This would make a good summer read, for those with the patience to hang around until the end.

I'll be looking for the author's next book.

**NetGalley provided copy for review**