I received an ARC of this book thanks to Net Galley and publisher Bookouture in exchange for an honest review..

Despite owning every single book Louise Jensen has ever released, I have yet to actually read any of them so far. Thankfully this pattern has been broken by The Date. Jensen has exactly the kind of writing style I look for in a thriller-straightforward, engaging and dynamic enough to keep you turning the pages. From the very first page I knew I hadn't made a mistake in picking this. Sadly it is the 'thriller twist' aspect which is a let down.

In addition to the great writing style, the characters in this book were also extremely well-written. Our protagonist is likeable and has a fair bit of depth to her, and indeed all the side characters are similarly fleshed-out. Her friends maybe suffer a little bit in terms of depth and Alison does make some frustratingly-bad decisions but these are somewhat justified by her backstory and the plot. Overall, none of them felt like flimsy stand-ins or excuses to have more suspects which is very good.

As mentioned, my one major flaw with this book is I found it very easy to predict. I must admit that reading about a protagonist with prosopagnosia (face-blindness) was a nice gimmick for a thriller. I've read hundreds that have a main character with amnesia but this added a new layer to the whole 'can't recognise your attacker' aspect. As a psychology student, it was also portrayed fairly accurately as well. But even with this plot device, I still guessed the ending and I wasn't really surprised about anything along the way. There was maybe one twist I didn't guess but only because I had forgotten the character involved was in the story.

Overall, I would still recommend The Date as a nice, enjoyable thriller. It offers enough new things to be worth the read and I will definitely be seeking out more from the author. Hopefully next time I will be surprised.

Overall Rating: 3.5/5

I really enjoyed this book. I did not see the twist coming at all. I was gripped the whole way through. A lot of suspense and action and believable characters. Louise Jensen knows how to write a really good thriller.

Thank you to Netgalley for my copy.

The Date is a quick reading thriller about a woman who wakes up the morning after her date with no recollection of the night before. She has also lost the ability to recognize faces, which makes it extremely difficult for her to know who to trust.
I enjoyed the book, it was fast-paced and had a satisfying ending, although I did guess it earlier than I’d like to.
I thought it was such a neat coincidence that I read back to back, but very different, books about the inability to recognize people.
I’ll pick up more novels by the author @fabricating_fiction. 3 stars, it took me 4 hours to read. Thank you so much to @netgalley for the advance reader’s copy. My review is my own. .

This was a really great psychological thriller. Ali wakes up the morning after the night before with ripped clothes, bruises and bloodstained hands. She has no idea what happened on her blind date.

A head injury means she has developed prosopagnosia – also known as face blindness – everyone, including herself is a stranger.

She starts receiving threatening messages and tries to piece together the events of the night.

I thought I had the book figured out and then came another twist. Great compelling read

I love reading suspense. I love it when you read the first few lines of a book and it draws you in so quickly it practically takes your breath away. I love it when all I want to do is get back to reading my book, because I just can’t wait to see how it’s all going to play out. I love it when the book takes so many twists and turns, but the author does it so well that it still all adds up and makes sense. Unfortunately, this book wasn’t quite like that, at least not for me.

Recently separated from her husband, Ali roommate and her best friend encourage her to try out a dating app, just to “get back out there” and see who she might meet. But everything goes wrong when Ali wakes up the morning after her blind date, hands coated in blood and a massive lump on her head. And when she looks in the mirror and can’t even recognize her own face, that’s when things really start to get bizarre. I couldn’t put this book down while reading it, and it’s such a great premise—to have the main character suffer from face blindness. But halfway through the book, I started to question the storyline and where it was going. I think this could’ve been a spectacular suspense book, but since things just didn’t add up for me, it was only “okay” for me in the end.

**Special Note: Thank you to Netgalley and Bookouture for allowing me to read this book in exchange for an honest review.

Her Saturday night started normally. Recently separated from her husband, Ali has been persuaded by her friends to go on a date with a new man. She is ready, she is nervous, she is excited. She is about to take a step into her new future.

By Sunday morning, Ali’s life is unrecognisable. She wakes, and she knows that something is wrong. She is home, she is alone, she is hurt and she has no memory of what happened to her.

Worse still, when she looks in the mirror, Ali doesn’t recognise the face staring back at her. She can’t recognise her friends and family. And she can’t recognise the person who is trying to destroy her…

I could not put this book down. How would you deal with not recognizing your own face or anyone that you know? The to be told it will stay that way? Then there is a couple of twists. I thought I had it figured out halfway through the book.

Another cracker from Louise Jensen, this one keeps you guessing until the end.

Ali Taylor, recently seperated from her husband, wakes up after a blind date the night before and has no recollection of the night. What she does have is a battered body. She cant remember anything about the night before.

As she looks in the mirror to clean herself up, she cant recognize her own face or indeed any of her family or friends, a result of the head injury she received.
When she starts receiving threatening messages, she tries to figure out what happened that night and what the attacker wants with her. But how will she know who he is? She cant remember the night and cant even recognize her own face?

The tension throughout this is brilliant and you are kept guessing until the end as our narrator, Ali, isnt really very reliable as she struggles to recognize who is who. The whole head injury and lack of face recognition is a brilliant vehicle to tell this story. There are so many possibilities as to what may have happened and its all told and played out brilliantly.

One of the better psychological thrillers I have read this year, you will be glued to this one as you, along with Ali, try to figure out what happened that night and who is after her.

An easy 5 stars. Louise Jensen delivers again!!

Many thanks to Netgalley, Bookouture and Louise Jensen for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers for providing me with an ARC of this book in return for an honest review.

I have read all of Louise Jensen's previous books and this one is probably my favourite title to date.
I was particularly impressed with the amount of research which would have been required in order to go into detail about the condition our protagonist is suffering with. There are so many issues dealt with in this story and each one is handled in a direct, yet sensitive manner. Of course we have the typical whodunnit situation and usually the reader will have some inkling of the person behind the events. Louise Jensen has done a fabulous job of weaving a situation which the reader will not even pick up on until the big reveal is in place.

I can't wait for her next book.

I have read Louise Jensen books in the past and enjoyed them and this one certainly did not disappoint me. Ali is a recently single young lady living with a friend she has not met that long ago. While trying to get her life back together her friends convince her to sign up for a dating site. She really doesn't want to as she still has hopes of getting back together with her husband. After chatting with Ewan on line she finds she likes him and her friends convince her to go out on a date with him. She wakes up the morning after the date and does not recognize the face in the mirror. In fact, she does not recognize anyone in her life. What happened on that date? I found the premise of this story so different from any others that I just wanted to help Ali remember what happened during that date. I felt like I was putting the pieces of her date and her life back together with her. A few times I thought I figured out what happened to her but each time another piece of the puzzle proved me wrong. That's what I like, when I cannot figure out the ending of the book. This one did not disappoint.

This book started off with a bang and kept me on the edge of my seat from the start when Ali wakes up with bruises and bloodied hands and no recollection of what happened on a blind date the night before. In shock, she looks in the mirror and no longer recognizes her own face. This was the first I’d heard of a cognitive disorder called prosopagnosia, not being able to recognize a face. Including this as a characteristic of a victim in a who-done-it was a brilliant move by the author. How do you pick someone out of a lineup? How do you know if your attacker is standing right beside you? The thrill of this cat and mouse game propelled me most of the way through the book. Unfortunately, I wasn’t crazy about the ending, just couldn’t buy it after everything I had read and imagined, so dropped a star. I think it would make a good book club pick as I imagine some lively conversation.

I actually liked this book enough to pick up some of the other books this author has written. I was hooked from the first chapter!

I received this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. A very well written psychological thriller. I was hooked from the start. It will also make you never want to go on a blind date! Ali wakes up bloody and remembering nothing. The story unfolds so smoothly and yet the intensity remains throughout. This is a must read!

The Date by Louise Jensen was just a Brilliant read. I just loved it especially the ending......and I'm still lost for words.
Ali has separated from her Husband Matt but she still loves him. Her friend Chrissie pressured her into a blind date, Ali was reluctant to go. All is all dressed up and goes on this blind date, But, wakes up the next morning battered and bruised, unable to recognise herself in the mirror. She can't recognise anyone else either, including friends and family and has no recollection of the date, who Ali was meeting that night, or anything else.
Ali is trying to cope with this trauma but finding it hard then starts to receive threatening messages. She knows her nightmare is just beginning or is her past catching up with her?
But doesn't remember a thing..................But, Who can she turn to for help and trust?

I found this book just brilliant its a tense psychological thriller full of suspense , with lots of twists and turns. Looking forward to the next one by Louise Jensen.

Highly recommended book to read........
Big Fat 5 Stars from me.

Thanks to NetGalley and Bookouture for an advanced ebook in exchange for an honest review

The Date was another great book by Louise.
Gripped me from the start and I read it in a day, could not put it down. Full of twists and turns.

This story is the true definition of a psychological thriller. Ali is reluctantly separated from her husband and is rooming with a friend she met 6 months ago at the gym. She lets her friend talk her into joining an online dating app and they go to the bar to meet Ali's date. Ali wakes in her bed the next morning and is covered in bruises, blood, and has a severe head injury which leaves her with facial blindness and at a total loss of what happened to her. Ali's roommate is missing and Ali is being sent notes claiming she is a murderer. Ali must find out what happened to her that night bwfore she ends up dead or in jail. A crazy ride with a few well done twists. I highly recommend.

This book has definitely got to be up there as one of my very best psychological reads of all time. The storyline is full of twists and turns and I certainly didn't want to put it down for unimportant stuff like food, I practically gasped out loud in places, my nerves were on edge and my anxiety levels were sky high.

This was a truly fantastic book that had me at the edge of my seat from the very first chapters. The main character is convinced to restart het life again and start dating. Unfortunately the entry into the dating scene does not go as planned or does it? This book has so many twists and turns that you can't put the book down. Thank you NetGalley for allowing me too read this book and write about it.

I really was drawn in from the start, I can't even began to think of what it must be like not to know faces by looking, that would be very hard to handle, but I guess you'd have to get use to voices and find other means of reconizing people. Yes I would recommence this book to others Update : I never seen that ending coming, It was a very very good book,

This is the first book by this author that I have read. This is such a heartbreaking story once you have read it all and have the full details. That being said-it seems this book has everything you would want in a thriller: violence, mistrust, dishonesty, betrayal, shocking twists, paranoia and even a climactic confrontation.

Ali is recently separated from her husband and isn’t sure why. Her friends push her to make a profile on a dating app, then again pushes her to go on a day when she makes a connection with a guy. But that’s where her recollection of events ends. Imagine, waking up dazed and confused, possibly in shock, with a head wound and covered in blood but can not remember anything that happened the night before. The night you were supposed to meet the guy from the dating app. You can’t even remember IF you met him. It’s frightening to suspect someone wants to harm you and you wouldn’t even know the person if they stood right in front of you.

The big reveal was so shocking. As was finding out what REALLY happened that night. And what really happened in the past. I can tell you, I definitely cried. I finished the book last night and I still feel heartbroken for Ali.

The epilogue leaves me wondering who the person was, it kind of left an opening for a follow up book but I have no clue where it would go in a new book.

I definitely recommend this book and will be checking out this author’s other books as well.

This was a creepy, unsettling read that kept me guessing. Ali’s world collapses around her after a blind date. She wakes up to find she cannot remember a thing, has been badly injured and can no longer recognise anyone, including herself, her friends and her family. Did her date, Ewan, attack her? And is it him who’s now threatening and scaring her? Even if she tracks Ewan down she won’t be able to recognise him. Worse than that, she’s becoming convinced that she committed a terrible crime the night of the date. By telling the police, she may be jeopardising herself. I believe there are a few books out there now featuring prosopagnosia, or face blindness, but I haven’t read any of them, so this was my first exposure to this terrifying disorder and I found it fascinating. Ali had to learn how to recognise people’s clothes and jewellery to be able to identify them. Louise Jensen writes with great skill, and weaves a fantastic story that takes readers in loads of different directions as she gradually reveals more of Ali’s past, her friendships and her family. I thought it great!