4.5/5 - Compelling, fast paced suspenseful thriller with the kind of plot that keeps you guessing until the very end, even when it seems the entire book is heading in one direction. Emily is dealing with the literal mother of all terrible apron string moms. The woman is a pure psychopath, and is doing everything she can to drive her away from her son. Things draw to an incredibly chilling climax before everything is tied up with the beautiful bow of closure. The characters are complex and fleshed out, the story is gripping and really pulls you in as you're reading it. This is right up there with my favorite thrillers of the year.

I really enjoyed this book. I started reading it and found it hard to put down. If you enjoy psychological thrillers with many twists and turns this book is for you. I did not expect the ending. I definitely recommend this book.

I liked this book but didn’t love it. It was an interesting and unique plot and was engaging to read. However the twist (and answers to many of the questions that had been building up) came very late in the story, and after that things wrapped up way too quickly, leaving many questions unanswered. Like, what was the purpose of Rebecca’s picture being shown then hidden? Why fake the cancer? And many more.

Unfortunately I cannot recommend this book. The characters are just flat out annoying and there are far too many plot holes. Plus nothing happens until almost the end of the book. Emily is like a stereotype of everything that is annoying about some women. She is the one that will drop her best friend and forget their promises because of a new guy. She will overlook huge red flags while complaining to her neglected friends. No self respecting woman continues a relationship with Adam. The man who is so full of himself no one can compare. These characters would be awful in real life and for those reasons make for difficult reading. This book tried too hard to follow the new trend of surprise twists but waits until the very end of the book to write one. The author forgot to make the book interesting and worth reading and seemed only to be thinking of the ending. Which could explain the plot holes which are glaring but to explain would be to give away the plot.

I LOVE get lost in thrillers that leave me stumped until the end and The Other Woman most certainly shocked the heck out of me! I found this book completely unputdownable, so when I found out this is Sandie Jone’s debut novel I was shocked because it’s SO DARN GOOD!! The twists and turns were endless and I literally found myself saying “wow” out loud throughout this addictive book! If you love a good thriller then this 5 star read is the book for you! The Other Woman is a total must read and I am so exciting to see what Sandie Jones comes out with next!

I heard so many good things about this book and I was so excited to read it! What a good quick read ! A page turner

This story started out a bit wobbly and predictable but shaped up to be a pretty good story with a decent twist.

What a great airplane read as I made my way to Sydney. The writing itself is a bit surface, but the plot is involving and the pages fly by. I really enjoyed it, and happy to push it as a definite beach read--the end twist is fantastic indeed--and hits you in the face.

Emily meets a Adam in a pub, and they fall head-over-heels in love. Things aren’t so easy with Adam’s mother, tough. Mother love can be deadly.

Emily finally finds the man she wants to spend the rest of her life with. Unfortunately, her future mother in law is less than ideal. She is passive-aggressive and manipulative. She does everything within her power to keep Emily from being happy and from feeling like a part of the Banks family. Or is Emily just being hypersensitive, possibly misreading signals? Can she learn to deal with her mother in law so that she can find happiness with Adam?

This novel just did not work for me. I didn't have the ending completely figured out but that was only because the storytelling wasn’t leading me in any kind of direction. It felt chaotic and contrived. Every choice and decision was convenient to the very end. I didn’t care for any of the major characters. None of them had any redeeming qualities. Emily was practically beat to death with red flags throughout the story but insisted on ignoring them as she plugged along, complaining all the while, questioning if she could every happy and at peace in life and in love.
This novel was labeled as a thriller and I was genuinely confused as to why for probably the first 75% of the book. I would recommend a hard pass on this one.

This was an interesting story - that final plot twist was quite unexpected.

Writing style was quite unique, although at times it was a bit hard to follow (what's a flashback and what isn't).

As far as characters go, I really hated Pammie... Right until the end. I liked how the story covered a longer period of time so we got to see some development. However, ending felt a bit rushed, it's like everything important happened in the few final chapters.

All in all, a solid 4 stars. Great for a simple summer read

This book took a turn that I was never expecting and left me thinking about it days later. Sandie Jones did an amazing job of guiding readers in one direction when the exact opposite was taking place. I can't wait to recommend this book to my book club. Wow!!

Wow, all I can say is wow! What a compelling and suspenseful story! I was on the edge of my seating waiting for what would happen next. I felt for Emily and what she had to endure. Throughout the story, I hated Pammie for the way she treated her future daughter in law, Emily. I was waiting and waiting for her behavior to be revealed to her son Adam and then, TWIST! I never saw the ending coming! What a great read. I would highly recommend.

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Imagine cheerily jaunting along to your house and finding another couple moving their household goods in while yours are completely missing. This is the predicament that Fiona Lawson finds herself upon returning early from a weekend away. Told in vignettes via podcasts called The Victim, Fiona regurgitates what has happened before and since finding out about this transaction. The alternate chapters are narrated by her husband, Bram, elucidated in a word document. Bram and Fiona had split due to his marital infidelity but had been sharing living in their home at different time frames to co- parent their two young children. However, as the story unfurls, events cascade that threaten their fragile alignment even more. At first, I was very intrigued with the style but by 30% I felt it was monotonous and longed for something more to happen. As if the author could hear my thoughts, things picked up steam with lots of twists and turns and a shocking ending. A mystery that is more a character study, it deserves a vigorous round of applause...

I love this book. The writing is amaxing, the story is gripping and it's a page turner. I give it 4.5 stars and a strong recommendation.

The Other Woman by Sandie Jones is the type of story that early on you get the entire general idea of what will happen but still fun to sit back and wait for the fireworks and enjoy the show along the way. Even though I had an inkling of where the story was headed I still read it and did enjoy it.

This was a good story. Alot of great characters & detail. However, It was like a lot of the books that are currently out. I would still recommend this book to other who would enjoy this story.

Very good. Kept me guessing. Didn’t expect the end. I would definitely read more from this author.

First of all, this book is super frustrating! And it’s supposed to be. Did you ever watch "Anger Management?" This book was like that. It will give you serious are you kidding me???? anxiety! It will keep you flipping pages and throwing it across the room in frustration! Ha! But in the end, I just didn’t get it. I wasn’t a big fan of the ending and I wasn’t a fan of the main relationship of the book. Emily and Adam – I just didn’t get it. She was going through all this stuff with the mother and I’m like for what??? Just cut and run girl! There are other fish in the sea!

Emily loves Adam. (Again why? Because he’s gorgeous? Seriously girl, it's not worth it.) But his mother Pammie has it out for her. She is like Marie in “Everybody Loves Raymond” except for a million times worse, tearing Emily down any way she can. Lies, manipulation, deceit… But in the end who will win?

To be fair, I had super high expectations going in because all the reviews I read before built this book up super high, so it could be that that’s why I was slightly disappointed? Even though my favorite books are mysteries and thrillers – and I like ‘em dark and twisty :-P – I am a sentimentalist at heart and I want a love story. Like it can be a super sadistic and twisted obsessive love story - Hello! I LOVE <u>Gone Girl</u> and also loved the new J.P. Delaney: <u>Believe Me</u>. But I <i>get</i> those on some weird level - Love will make you do some crazy stupid stuff ya’ll. But the “love” story was central to this book and it didn’t make sense to me.

It was still a quick, suspensful read and the writing style was very readable. I liked the book as I read it but I was just so frustrated by the points mentioned above I couldn’t move past it.

Entertainment Value: 3.5
Characters: 3
Voice: 3-4
Plot: 3
Overall: 3 stars

<i>Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for my honest review!</i>
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I really enjoyed this book. It stars out with our main character Emily meeting and falling in love with Adam. The two are just about as in love with each other as can be. And things are going great for them, until things change. Suddenly because she can't be on her own any more Adam's mother Pammie, moves in with the new couple and starts to rock the boat. Pammie can't stand Emily from the very beginning however she hides it from everyone except Emily. This leaves the tension between Emily and Adam at a high point. I found the tension between Emily and Pamela very interesting especially how Adam was blinded to the whole thing. I don't understand how that would be possible but that's part of what makes this a good book. What I liked was how even though Emily didn't get along with her Mother in Law she tried but she didn't cave to anything important she was a strong woman battling with another strong woman. Will the two women be able to fix things between them, and if not who will Adam side with? I really enjoyed this book and it was crazy to see all of the tension between the main characters. I couldn't imagine being put in that situation with the mother in law from hell. Very nice thriller. The whole time I was yelling at Adam and growing less and less fond of him. I just didn't understand how he couldn't stand up for his wife in anything. They were a married couple, a united
front so to speak but he caved and let his mother in where she didn't belong. I would be furious. I also liked how our main character Emily didn't take any of this lying down she picked her battles both with the monster in law as well as with her husband. She knew what she deserved and hell she was going to get it. This thriller was very different and not as much in your face as I'm used to but there was so many subtle and simple moves that it was amazing just the same. My favourite part had to be the ending it was such a shock that I never in a million years would have seen coming and it just made everything make sense. Great read with lots of deception you never knew what to expect. The best part about this book is even after you find out what happened I feel that it was written in a way that you could read it again and again and still enjoy it just as much if not more than the first time.