A tense chilling read a husband a wife a relationship gone cold a missing child.So well written so dark so gloomy perfect atmosphere characters that come alive .An author I will be following highly recommending.#netgalley #avonbooksuk.

When Claire marries she believes it will be forever. Duncan her husband has worked his way up to become a very sought after vet andthey had a very large but expensive house built. It should have been their dream but when they have their son Joe who needs more looking after than other children cracks appear. She suspects Duncan is cheating but with whom. Then there is a coin brought into the picture that Joe found which brings memories flooding back.It comes back and forth from the past to the present and has you progress into the book it all makes sense.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and how it was written.

Thanks Netgalley and the publisher for the advance copy. Claire and Duncan's marriage is falling apart. She wants to leave him, he has a very shady past. She wants to take her son Joe and disappear but Joe goes missing and now Claire needs to do the unthinkable to get Joe back. It is a very slow moving book. I didn't care for it as much as her previous title "Cuckoo".

Claire and Duncan's marriage is in trouble as they have grown increasingly distant.
Claire knows lots of secrets about Duncan and she is determined to leave him and take their son with her.

However, things don't go as planned and little Joe goes missing.
Now alone and hiding from Duncan, Claire must face all the lies and secrets in her life and marriage if she is to find her son and bring him back to safety.

Although I liked the premise of this novel, I found the narrative pretty slow for my taste, and the characters were really unlikable.

3.5*** rounded to 4 as despite its flows it kept my attention to know how all this will end.
Thanks Netgalley, Avon Books UK, and author Sophie Draper for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Great read! Magpie had me on the hook from the beginning with it’s eerie premise! This addictive novel time hops between the past and present which worked well with the storyline. Sophie Draper does a great job with methodically leading the reader directly into unforeseen twists and turns—love that! I know I’m reading a well written mystery/thriller when the hairs on the back of my neck stand up and that happened almost the entire way through! I haven’t read Sophie Draper before, but I will absolutely be checking out her prior novel Cuckoo!

Magpie By Sophie Draper.

As with "Cuckoo" the blurb for this book looked very intriguing, something I would want to read and enjoy. I was again- wrong.

Long winded, takes a long while to get going.
The storyline doesn't hold, alot of the start is focused on her son Joe and his past times and I I felt as if everything was being repeated alot, at the same time being aware it was an advanced uncorrected proof. Or maybe it just the writing style?

Going on from that to talking about cooking and her Gran's fridge? It was as if it was being filled with random context to make a longer story?.

The before and After setting in the book flips from Duncan and Claire. It's all a bit Mish mash and doesn't flow very well. In my advanced copy the chapters were not broken down on the pages properly which made for hard reading, I found I was reading the same lines over and over at times if I had stopped reading and to go back to it.

Another problem were the characters, none at all likable in the slightest, I find once you find that within a book, you tend to lose confidence in what you are reading and kind of give up with it.

So all in all that's what I ended up doing at 49% nothing still hadn't really happened of interest. I'm sure there's a plot somewhere in there but this book just wasn't holding my interest enough to wait for it.

Thank you to Netgalley & Avon Books for the advanced copy, but in this instance. (& After the same dissapointment with Cuckoo) I think this Author & this book were just not for me.

This was a great mystery novel, I felt that it had something different that made it special. The characters were great and I loved the atmosphere

I found Magpie well written as in it flowed and I was interested in the plot but I’ve never met such unlikable characters! Slow start but it’s worth continue I gotta as does pick up!
3/5.

I received an advanced reader’s copy in exchange for an honest review

I am in the minority’s here, the story was well crafted but the characters were all so flatly unlikable i has a hard time getting sucked in. I just wanted everyone to do better. It was s relief to finish and get away from them

This is a stunning read, incredibly well executed, dark and brooding! All things I love in a novel. Flawed characters, a bleak setting and just about the right level of tension makes this book a belter!

I would like to thank netgalley and the publisher for an advance copy in exchange for an honest review. As soon as I saw this book on here, I immediately requested it, without even knowing the premise. I previously read Sophie's prior book, Cuckoo on here before the title was even revealed and I loved it so I dove right into Magpie and I couldn't put it down. The book focuses on a husband and wife who are growing more and more distant either each passing day and their lives before and after their son goes missing. Just when I thought I had a handle on the story, a plot twist I didn't see coming threw me for a loop and just when the dust settled, another one came and wow! With interesting characters, and plot weaving in the past and current day told by a husband and wife, I thoroughly enjoyed Magpie and can't wait to see what Sophie comics up with next!

Magpie by author Sophie Draper is a very anticipated read for me! Have only started but will update when finished, I am sure Sophie Draper will not disappoint. I first found this author on Netgalley as a “secret” read and review. Reviewers went into her first novel, Cuckoo, totally blind! It made the book perfect in my opinion! That alone (the way she drew in the readers) made me instantly want to read and review her next book, Magpie!

Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for an arc copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.