The story is about two London families (Jake and Faye and their son; Lainy and Tom and their two daughters), going on vacation to the seaside. Jake and Lainy are brother and sister, and grew up in the small seaside town. The story becomes ominous as they are greeted by old friends from their time growing up there. This is a page turner! Lots of twists and turns made for a very compelling story. Highly recommended.

I want to thank NetGalley, Shalini Boland, and the publisher for an Arc copy of this book. I have read all of Shalini Boland's books because they are so thrilling and suspenseful. They keep you guessing until the very end. They fill you with all of these possibilities about what could be going on only to find out it's even crazier then you suspected. Her books are the kind of books that keep me up all night not wanting to quit reading.
This book was no different Faye plans a perfect summer vacation for her family by going to visit the seaside town where her husband grew up. Her husband Jake and son Dylan go on a walk by the cliffs one of the mornings and just never come back. They find Dylan's cap but no sign of them. Immediately you think well something sinister is going on and throughout the book you come to find a lot of possibilities and they even have you questioning Faye. This book had me at the edge of my seat and was happily surprised by this twist. It's books like these that make me love psychological thrillers.

A one day read. Loved this one, quite fast paced and keeps you guessing to the end.

Loved how the past friendships and incidents roll into today’s story. A definite recommend.

You can always count on Shalini Boland’s books to not only draw you in and keep you hooked but also to have some cracking twists and turns along the way. The Marriage Betrayal certainly does this. Featuring dark pasta, secrets and lies. You’re in for a fantastic read with this book.

Thank you to NetGalley, Bookouture and the author for the chance to review.

Wow this book is excellent! This is how a psychological thriller should be written. Plenty of twists and turns and just when you think you have figured out where the story is going, then it all changes and you have to rethink.
Interesting characters and a cracking story, I really enjoyed this one.

Yet again Shalini Boland delivers a psychological thriller that had me gripped from the first page.Faye books a surprise holiday for her husband Jake and son Dylan for his birthday to Swanage where he grew up and they are joined by his sister Lainey and her husband Tom.But from the start Jake just doesn't seem happy and wants to return home to London,but on the day they all agree to go home Jake disappears with Dylan after an early morning walk on the cliff tops and Faye's world falls apart.The story is told from now and in flashbacks to Jake's and Lainey's childhood and without giving anything more away about the plot this really is a first rate psychological thriller,something that Shalini Boland seems to excel in,once again another 5 star winner for me !

Another fantastic book from Shalini, it kept me gripped throughout with good characters, very well written and an edge of seat psychological thriller.

Overall it was a good story which I thoroughly enjoyed and can recommend.

Thank you to Netgalley and Bookouture for giving me the opportunity to read this book.

I love Shalini Bolands books- they're a refreshing change from my usual genre and so very well written.

And this one was no exception- A thriller story revolving around the fact that a husband and son have gone missing while on holiday.

Shalini has this real knack of leading you in a certain direction and then out of nowhere surprising you- and when you sit back and think about it- the clues were there all along- you just didn't really pay enough attention to them.

It's a difficult book to review as no matter what you want to say regarding the story- you just quite can't get your point across without potentially dropping spoilers.

I have rated this one a 4* read- it was good but not as good as her previous books which I rated 5*'s.

I found the main character Faye quite annoying, and that affected my enjoyment.

FIVE STARS FOR SURE.
Wow, what a page turner! This was a great, gripping,tense, compelling , fast - paced phycological thriller that sucked me in from the very first page ! I am very impressed by this writer. The characters are well developed and hold my interest. I most highly recommend this book 100 %. However, don't start reading it if you have anything important to do for the next 24 to 48 hours. If you do, you will either be highly frustrated because you can't get back to the book or you will find yourself neglecting things you really should be doing in order to read. When I was not reading it, I was thinking about it. It's well written and nicely paced. Shalini Boland has become one of my favorite authors.

Wow! W.ha t a great book! This has more twists and turns tHan any thing I have read in a very long time. I have read so many books that I can usually know what the ending is going to be but not with this one. It was a total surprise. I truly loved this one.I highly recommend it!
Thanks Net Galley for allowing me to read this arc.

Absolutely loved this book and did not see the twist/twists at the end. Well paced throughout with an interesting cast, this book is a definite contender for book of the year.

Wow , wow , I absolutely loved this book . Full of twist and turns wondering whose the good one and who’s the bad one . I will be reading more from this author now after reading this . Highly recommend this book

I received an advance copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

This was a great thriller. I had a very hard time putting it down, and every time I thought I figured out what was happening a new twist in the plot was revealed. This is true up until the very last page. WOW .
Two couples and their children all go on a holiday together to celebrate Jake's birthday. Faye, Jake's wife, plans the whole trip and feels horrible that the trip is not what they all thought it would be, and everyone wants to leave early. Then, Jake and Dylan (their son) go to watch dolphins on the cliffs and never return. The police and all involved are convinced there must have been a terrible accident and set up a huge search to find them. Eventually clues are discovered, the plot twists and turns, and answers are revealed.
This book is written with chapters alternating between the past and present, giving readers much needed background information and look into the character's lives. The storyline and characters were well developed and made for a gripping thriller.
I never saw the ending coming. This is a must read for any fan of a great thriller!!
Thank you NetGalley.

Wow, this book took me on wild ride. So many twist and turns. That's what I love about a book. The writing was amazing and it kept me hooked from beginning to end. The story was so captivating that I never knew what was going to happen next. Absolutely worth the read. Now I need to read more from Shalini.

Thank you Netgalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I have read several books by Shalini Boland and the one thing I can say that connects them all is her plot twist gets me everytime.

She keeps you on the edge of your seat and just when you think you have it all figured out you realize that you were again mistaken no matter how out of the box you think.

The Marriage Betrayal is a fast paced book that will keep your mind moving and guessing all the way until the end!

Another fabulous book by this fabulous author!

I loved the writing style in this book, and was hooked right away. It held my attention throughout and I finished it over a couple of days. I enjoyed the story, the wondering, the mystery and the twists and turns.
However, I did feel the story didn't match the 'blurb' given very well. This didn't matter, because the story was still good, it just meant I was expecting certain aspects of the story that never came up. I also feel that one of the major big twists left many earlier character communications making less sense, but that may just be me. The final twist was good though, quite dark.
I will definitely be checking out other books by this author.

The Marriage Betrayal – Shalini Boland

Well Ms Boland you certainly took me on a whirlwind journey with this novel. I can honestly say that I absolutely freaking loved it. This is a psychological thriller and a half. I think this could be a hard to review for me to do; I really don’t want to give up too much of the plot so hopefully there won’t be too many spoilers here.

A whole afternoon and early evening was lost to this novel (no ironing was done), I seriously couldn’t put it down, just one more chapter led to me reading it all with only one quick break. I was left with a serious book hangover and felt unable to start a new novel until the next night (So not me). My mind kept going back to the final twist and how it was so unexpected it took my breath away.

Can you imagine how horrific it would be arranging a surprise for someone you love and during said surprise one of the very worst things that could happen to a family happens? Someone going missing and taking your child with them the bottom falls out of your world. The journey of trying to piece together who, what, where, when and why is a complex tale with a fantastic sting in the tail.

Being told to us in chapters alternating between the past and the present in each we find out more of the secrets that are being kept by two of the main protagonists, such sad and somewhat dark scary secrets. The other two protagonists are quite manipulating but I didn’t realise how much till the end.

The novel has some sensitive issues within its pages; Ms Boland has woven a story involving domestic violence and child abduction with a somewhat unusual resolution with the final shocker in the epilogue.

If you’ve never read anything by Shalini Boland I suggest you treat yourself to one or two of her novels. In my humble opinion she’s getting better and better with each novel. I’m waiting rather impatiently for the next one.


Read for an honest review. Thank you Netgalley and Bookouture

Faye surprises her husband Jake by booking a surprise holiday in his home town for his birthday along with their 6 year old son Dylan, her brother and Jake’s sister Lainey. Unfortunately her surprise goes down like a lead balloon as for some reason Jake and Lainey are anything but happy to be back where they grew up.
On the last day of the holiday Jake takes Dylan seal spotting but they don’t return and it becomes apparent that their disappearance is liked to an occurrence in their past and Faye sets out to discover what it is thus setting off a chain of events full of twists that will keep you on the edge of your seat until you reach the very last page and an ending that left me breathless..... Shalini you did it again !!!!!!!!

Many thanks to NetGalley, Bookouture and Shalini Boland for the arc of The Marriage Betrayal my review is honest and unbiased.

I love Boland's books so was excited for this one and it did not disappoint! When Faye plans to surprise her husband, Jake with a trip to his hometown for his birthday, she has no idea why he seems sullen and uninterested when they arrive. And then when he disappears after an outing with their young son the next day, Faye is frantic and worries that something sinister has happened to them. But of course we discover the secrets and lies that are hidden in Jake and his sister's pasts--told in alternate chapters--and we see why neither of them is happy to be back. And nothing is as it seems so there are several twists that you won't see coming. Definitely my kind of book!

I’ve read a couple of books by Shalini Boland and I really enjoy her writing, and The Marriage Betrayal was no different. I thought Faye was a really interesting character, at the beginning she felt a bit flat but as the story developed, so did she. There is a lot more to this story than I initially thought, and I enjoyed finding out about Lainey and Jake’s childhood.

I found the ending a bit too neat and convenient, but actually that didn’t really bother me -there aren’t that many characters in the book, so it wasn’t a particularly surprising finish, but it was satisfying, and there are some great little twists. Sometimes you can read a thriller that is so complex you’re left reeling and a bit confused, whereas Shalini Boland’s books, while suitably twisty, are actually quite straightforward thrillers – if that makes sense! If you like thrillers, this is a really enjoyable read!

Thanks to Netgalley and Bookouture for an advanced copy in exchange for my honest opinion.