Lots of great twists and turns, and possibly my favorite by Mary Kubica. (There's still a place in my heart for The Good Girl!)

The Other Mrs.
By Mary Kubica
My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Content Rating: 18+
Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Suspense
Published: February 18, 2020, by Park Row


The Other Mrs. by Mary Kubica is a story that will keep you guessing to the very end. This psychological thriller delves into murder, suicide, paranoia, and madness with a dark, edgy plot. There are twists and turns, some I figured out, and some that I did not see coming…at all. The story was well written, but I felt the pacing in the middle of the book lagged a bit but then picked up again in the last few chapters.

The character development was excellent, I loved them all, even the diabolical ones. The story is told from three points of view, Sadie, Camille, and Mouse, an adorable, sweet six-year-old little girl who I fell in love with. Sadie is a physician who is married to Will and they have two boys. Camille, who was Sadie’s roommate, met and fell in love with Will before Sadie and Will met. She is the other woman.

“If it wasn’t for me, they never would have met. He was mine before he was hers.” “But I couldn’t stay away from Will forever.”


After his sister’s death, Will inherits her dark, eerie house located on a remote island in Maine and her daughter Imogen. In an attempt to escape their many problems in Chicago, Will moves his wife Sadie and their two boys determined to make a fresh start. Sadie is not at all happy with the move, and to complicate the situation further, Sadie must deal with Imogen. Imogen is, with good reason, is a broken, angry, disturbed teenager.

“I might not have seen her. But there she stands, a morose figure dressed in black.”

Life over the next seven weeks starts to fall into place. Sadie, a physician, has found a fulltime job at the local clinic. Will has a part-time as an adjunct professor on the mainland. And their two boys, Otto and Tate, are settling into their schools. When their neighbor, Morgan Baines, is murdered, life in this seemingly idyllic town turns dark and twisted. Unfortunately, that is all I can reveal about this story without spoiling it.

The Other Mrs. delivers a story that is filled with suspense and an eeriness that will have you turning on all the lights in your house. But the best part of this book is the multi-level reveals that will keep you turning the pages. I have been looking forward to reading a book by this author for some time, and I was not disappointed. I am looking forward to reading more from Ms. Kubica.



** Please note the quotes in my review are subject to change once the book is published**


*** I kindly received this galley by way of NetGalley, Park Row, and Mary Kubica. I was not contacted, asked, or required to leave a review. I received no compensation, financial or otherwise. I have voluntarily read this book, and this review is my honest opinion. ***

Such a great read!! Twisty thriller that kept me guessing. I thought I had figured it out, but oh how I was wrong! Mary Kubica has a way of planting these little seeds, and you think to yourself "ahhh I got it now" and then one page later your jaw is dropping and you realize how wrong you are! I love books like this! 4⭐ for this one!
Thank you to Netgalley and Harlequin for the digital copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. 📚

A Puzzling and Dark Psychological Mystery

Sadie and her wonderful husband Will and their two sons make a life-changing move to an island in Maine after inheriting her sister-in-laws house including her bitterly unhappy sixteen year old niece who Sadie had never before met. Sadie is a doctor and her husband works part-time teaching at the university so he can be the main caretaker and stay at home parent while Sadie is the main breadwinner for the family. A few weeks after settling in a young wife and mother is brutally murdered in their neighborhood and now the island is feeling unsafe for everyone who lives there. Neighbors are questioned and although Sadie had never met the victim one of the neighbors said she was seen having a vicious argument with the victim several days before she was murdered. The Sheriff seems to think Sadie is lying about knowing the victim, but Sadie thinks the Sheriff wants to pin the murder on her especially since her family are outsiders to the community. As the days go on mysterious events seem to follow Sadie. Cryptic messages appear on her car, strange drawings in her home and waves of paranoia seem to keep flooding her thinking that anyone on the island maybe the killer and that she may be the next target of the savage murderer.

I enjoyed this story very much although halfway through I thought Sadie was a very self-centered mother and wife. There were allusions to a possible affair that the husband had previously but she never really addressed the situation so somewhat confusing, then she was suspicious of her niece and her own child which seemed probable but ludicrous thinking on her part especially being a doctor. Sadie's erratic thoughts and actions were very concerning to me since she was GP and not giving her job the true dedication it deserved. Sadie's character was too flawed for me, selfish, unaffectionate, consummed with finding the killer instead of taking care of her family and her work properly. Then, suddenly at the 3/4 Mark the storyline takes off and all my questions and doubts are allayed a and answered by some terrific twists that I didn't see coming and they had made me a very happy reader. The mystery and suspense are prevalent throughout the book but the big bangs happen in the last few chapters!

The other thing that bothered me in this book (IMO) was there seemed to be a British flavor to this story with some of the names and phrasing which didn't sit well with me since I do enjoy British books but not when they try too hard to be American written, a puzzle for me since this author is from America so the writing left me somewhat put off and confused but the story itself was a really good one and definitely worth reading.

I want to thank the publisher "Harlequin (Us and Canada) Park Row and Netgalley for the opportunity to read this book a and any opinions expressed are unbiased and mine alone.

I recommend this dark and fun read to any reader who love to read a good psychological and suspenseful book!

I have given a rating of 3 Puzzling 🌟🌟🌟 Stars!!

Sadie and Will Foust have inherited a house on a tiny coastal island in Maine. Will's sister committed suicide and left him her house and teenage daughter. Moving is a culture shock for Sadie and her two sons, especially living with sixteen year old, Imogene. When a neighbor is murdered and the investigating officer confronts Sadie as to where she and Will were on the night in question, Sadie begins to question all of the people in her life including her son and husband. Someone is lying and Sadie begins to question her own sanity.

I love psychological thrillers and this one is no exception. Kubica weaves a wicked tale of evil and manipulation. Told in alternating voices, the reader is left to guess as to how and whom those voices belong to. I read this book in one day while self-isolating during the coronavirus pandemic. It is great escapism and engrossing enough to forget everything else. Netflix has made a deal for The Other Mrs. Details at https://deadline.com/2019/03/netflix-the-other-mrs-movie-deal-mary-kubica-1202579365/

The Other Mrs. was full of twists and turns, surprises and intrigue. I did figure out a few of the twists here and there way before they were exposed, but that did not take away from the enjoyment of the read. The characters were well written and the story was one that kept my interest throughout. I greatly enjoyed Sadie, the main character, but did not have much love for her husband, Will. He just rubbed me the wrong way.
This is my first book by Mary Kubica, and I am incredibly anxious to read more of her work. Excellent suspense and great storytelling!

I was in the mood for a dark twisty book and this fit the bill. This is the story of a family who moves from city living to a small island in the Northeastern US. MANY things happen - almost too many to be believable. I think the author threw all of these turns in to confuse the reader. I was trying to piece together the mystery and then another thing came at me that seemed unrelated. It will leave you wondering. This is a fun book for a rainy day - its dark and broody.
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Mary Kubica's The Other Mrs. is an addictive thriller that will keep
you up late into the night. It's filled with twists and turns that you won't see coming, and once you think they're over, they hit you again.

Will and Sadie Foust move their two sons halfway across the country into Will's sister's house after her suicide. They also become guardians of Imogen, Will's troubled teen niece. The people on this coastal island seem mistrustful and guarded of the new family. One day, their neighbor is found dead, and Sadie is deemed suspicious. She is prone to not remembering things, but she knows she is not a murderer. What really happened that night is something she needs to find out for both her and her family's sake.

What's most interesting about The Other Mrs. are the peripheral characters -- Camille and Mouse. How they are connected to the story are part of the mouth-dropping twists and turns I was referring to. This is a great read in a time when originality in this genre is tough to come by anymore.

MY RATING - 4

I’m a huge Kubica fan, and this book is a prefect example of why. Twisty and psychological, I couldn’t stop turning pages trying to guess at what was going on. And when I thought I had it figured out, there was one more surprise in store. Definitely recommend!

I was really intrigued y this book from beginning to end. I just had to know what was going on. I had a lot of theories and some were pretty close while others were way off. For an avid thriller like myself that is hard to find in a book. While I am not a fan of an author using a mental illness as a plot device, hence the fifth star missing, I think the author tried their best to tell the story while trying to maintain the appropriate level of respect to those that suffer from the illness.

I would still recommend this book and it was very atmospheric and made me want to only read it with all the lights on and never home alone. I love how they are kinda of trapped on the island but could still get out during the day. I enjoyed so much about this book.

I'm starting to think Ms. Kubica hit her high note with her outstanding first novel, The Good Girl. The Other Mrs. is fine, but forgettable, as evidenced by the fact that I have already forgotten the character names. Still, I keep reading her books hoping that she'll knock it out of the park again. In the meantime, you could do worse than this. (But you could also do better.)

Another great Mary Kubica thriller! Sadie, Will and their sons move to an isolated Maine island to take care of their orphaned niece, and things go from awkward to strange to deadly pretty quickly. A neighbor on their street is brutally murdered, and the police start looking at everyone, including Sadie. Sadie is jealous and controlling of her husband Will, but only because he's a bit of a player and had an affair with Sadie's old roommate, Camille, who happens to have followed them to the island from Chicago. To say any more would give it all away, so buckle up and enjoy the ride yourself.

Thank you for the opportunity to read this. I will be posting a full review to Goodreads, Amazon, and Instagram.

This title intrigued me from the start with comparisons to You. I enjoyed this thriller and the way that it was told from three perspectives, with each person's role in the outcome relatively unknown for the majority of the book.

Kubica is a great thriller writer who leaves the reader guessing throughout and who's plot twists are wrapped up in a meaningful way. I had to go back a few times to check myself on some things but found this book overall enjoyable as a mystery and one that kept me guessing until the very end.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for this ARC.

This book had me on the edge of seat and I didn’t see the twisty ending. Buckle up and be prepared to devour this book in one sitting.

The Other Mrs. is a twisted psychological thriller/murder mystery with an ending that bit me with an unexpected surprise. Dr. Sadie Faust and her husband Will, a professor, relocate to Maine when Will inherits his sister Alice’s home in Maine along with her 16 yo troubled niece, Imogen.

Just after their move, their neighbor is murdered. The situation becomes overwhelming as the town is weary for a murderer in their midst. The tension builds up as the island becomes isolated at night with only the ferry to move people in and out of the island and the possibility of the murderer still in the island.

The story unfolds through the viewpoints of three different characters—Sadie, Camille, and a young girl named Mouse. There is a few distractions in the plot which add to a dramatic mystery surrounding the questionable suicide by Will’s sister, strange behavior from Imogene and their oldest son.

I was highly entertained by this fantastic read and the surprising mind bending twist in the end. I recommend this book for an engrossing thriller that reads fast and will keep you at the edge of your seat.

Mary Kubica is one of my very, very favorite authors.

This being said -- perhaps my expectations for this title were too high.....but "The Other Mrs." was not a win for me.

This book was painfully slow with characters that I was unable to relate to. I tried several times, but I could not get into the storyline. The book was not suspenseful and was replete with many unnecessary and annoying tangents..

It is difficult to believe that "The Good Girl" and "The Other Mrs." were written by the same author. I could not put "The Good Girl" down and I read the book twice. This book, however, was difficult to finish.

Special thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with a review copy. I am sorry that I was not able to give the book more stars.

After moving to Maine to care for her husband's recently orphaned teenage niece, Sadie Foust finds herself strangely on edge. When her neighbor Morgan Baines is found dead in her home, Sadie is sad yet politely distanced from the neighbor that she didn't know. As details regarding Morgan's death are revealed, and Sadie is thought to have played more of a role than she ever thought possible, her carefully ordered life begins to crumble around her.

I've been a fan of Kubica's since her first novel, and this book is as well-written and enjoyable as any of her other novels have been. This kept me guessing until at least 3/4 of the way though, at which point I began to put all of the details together. Kubica did a great job of writing the character of Sadie Foust, distant yet polite, and described her in a way that really made me want to get to know her better.

This book kept me turning the pages well in to the night in an attempt to figure out what was happening. Gripping, interesting, and surprising, this is a must-read for psychological thriller fans.

*Also Reviewed on Amazon.ca*.

likes
- good tone & atmosphere
- partially liked one of the twists

dislikes
- writing was SO overly descriptive in some parts; this probably could have been shortened by ~50 pages
- the side-plot of Imogen & her mother just went nowhere in the end??
- ***spoiler*** REALLY don't like the use of DID as a plot twist & the trope of people with DID being psychotic/murderous being included***
- epilogue was super unnecessary

it was okay but I don't know if I'll check out other books of Kubica unless the plot really interests me

Thank you to NetGalley, Mary Kubica and Harlequin for the free e-book in exchange for an honest review.

Oh guys, this novel was amazing in so many ways and this is definitely one that I would say is 100% a must read! I loved the characters and there was so many little things going on that made you think that I didn’t want to stop reading. This whole family had issues but it’s hard to know whom to trust. I loved the three perspectives that this novel is told from and the closer to the end you get, the more exciting this novel gets! The end was shocking to me and I was thrilled! I adored the entire way it went down and I will be thinking about it for ages!