Member Reviews
I want to thank Netgalley and the author for gifting me the ebook. Perfect for Halloween Month 🎃 if you are into who-done-it mystery stories.
Dark thriller that had you hooked from the off. The book was very well written. Great plot. Very exciting. Fast paced to get your heart racing. Loved this book
I got this book for free from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review. Open House has well defined characters, and a plot that is dramatic with twists and turns.This is the kind of book you don't want to put down.
Ten years ago, Haley’s sister, Emma, went missing. Fast forward to present day, and 10 Emma’s bracelet was found. This leads people to start questioning if this was a homicide rather than a suicide in which it was originally labeled. Then another woman is attacked and it appears to have similarities to Emma’s disappearance. Emma case reopens as a cold case. This was a quick and entertaining read.
DNF - Did not finish. I did not connect with the writing style or plot and will not be finishing this title. Thank you, NetGalley and Publisher for the early copy!
Great book. Highly recommend and will most defiantly read more by this author and suggest to others!
This plot moves at a very fast pace with dual timelines and narrators. Unfortunately it was very predictable. I found I just didnt connect with the characters.. It was interesting but I wouldnt say fantastic.
Thank you netgalley and publisher for opportunity to read and review this arc.
This one isn’t bad. I wouldn’t say it goes deep or anything and there’s enough to leave you guessing and wanting to continue to find the whodunnit. The characters were ok though usually annoying but I was able to get past that to get through the story.
I enjoyed reading We Were Mothers by this author and was excited to pick this one up. Unfortunately, it wasn't as good as her previous book. The characters were unlikable/unrelatable and the twists were predictable. So sorry, a flop for me.
I loved this book! It was such a strong well written story. It was exactly what I needed with everything going on in the world! A mind bending escape!
This was a quick murder mystery with an abundance of possible suspects, all of whom had reasons to kill the victim. There weren’t a lot of layers to this, but there were a few fun twists and the mystery was good.
Haley McCullough is in college to be a doctor. She lives with her boyfriend Dean and they want to get a bigger place. Haley gets with friends from the past Josie and her husband Noah to be her real estate agents. By having contact with them brings back the hurt she has from the loss of her sister Emma.
Priya was once a teacher and her students included Josie and Emma. And even though she is a stay at home mom she still thinks back to the loss of Emma. She thinks back to the past when Emma was having an affair with her fiance Brad while she was pregnant with his child.
There is lots of twists and turns in this one.
An overdone trope that doesn't really set itself apart from other similar storylines. Its a solid read told from multiple POV. It's paced well and kept me guessing. A fast read that wasn't disappointing but didn't necessarily knock my socks off. Thank you NetGalley for allowing me to review this book in exchange for my honest opinion.
This is the first book I have read by Katies Sise and I found it just okay. It was a quick read, told through multiple viewpoints. I would definitely try another of her books in the future. Thank you for the advanced copy.
Open House focuses on a case of a missing student. Haley’s sister went missing ten years ago and now Haley and her husband are looking for a house in the same college town. Haley and her family have been haunted by the disappearance because there was not much evidence about what happened and so many questions left unanswered. When new evidence surfaces, Haley is determined to figure it out once and for all.
Good plot, decent twists and unique characters. The time jumps didn’t confuse me unlike some others I read this week. A decent read and a fast pace, just what I needed. Thank you @amazonpublishing and @netgalley for sharing this book with me.
Excellent mystery! At one point or another, it seems possible that any one of the characters could have killed the missing girl, Emma. The characters have depth, and the plot is plausible and pulls the reader along, the red herrings only provide fuel for the reader's imagination. Very good read.
I enjoyed this one. It was a good, easy read. I would also read more by this author in the future. Overall, I'd give 3/5 stars.
Thank you to NetGalley, Katie Sise and Little A for the free e-book in exchange for an honest review.
I really enjoyed this one and I'm sad that this is the first novel that I've read by Sise. I enjoyed reading this from the perspective of the sister and the missing girl to try to piece together the entire mystery of what happened to Emma and where her body is. There were a lot of missing pieces and the way we found them was quite interesting and I really enjoyed how it was all put together with all the action packed chapters. The characters are easy to mistrust throughout the entire novel and it left me wondering right up until the ending, who was the guilty party. Definitely would recommend. It is a perfect whodunit novel with teenage drama.
Ten years ago, Emma went missing. It was assumed she took her own life, but recently some new evidence has shown up that makes the police, and Emma’s sister Haley think otherwise. When two couples show up to an open house to find the realtor attacked, everything slowly starts to unravel.
I love when a book makes me change my mind several times throughout on who the killer was. While I was eventually right, its always nice when I second guess myself! It was told from the perspective of Haley in present day, and Emma ten years ago. While this one was a bit of the expected at times, I found it was the exact read I needed right now.
So in my opinion, I do not think this was worth 4 or 5 stars because it is about another missing person, who is loved and whereabouts are unknown. A bracelet is found by her sister's house and then the missing person case is reopened because there are new questions. There are some decent twists and turns, and the different POVs. I felt the ending was mediocre given all the twists and turns throughout, the ending just did not fit.
Still recommended...kind of.
Thanks to NetGalley, Katie Sise and Little A for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
Already available: 12/1/20