A bit slow at first, but when it picks up there are several twists and turns I didn't see coming really enjoyed reading this book..

I am still reeling from all of the twists and turns of this book 🤯 Sibley, a successful divorce attorney, returns home to her estranged mom to seek answers from her childhood but uncovers more than she bargained for. Told from alternating POVs, this story will keep you guessing until the end and wondering what is real and what's not. I'm a sucker for thrillers and was so excited to revieve an e-ARC! Although not as face paced as I thought it would be, you should definitely add this to your TBR if you like slow burn psychological thrillers!

What a whrilwind of a book! Just when you think you have things figured out there's a twist you never saw coming. I'm almost wanting another novel as I want to follow Sib and her mothers tale further. I'm rooting for Sib and want her to succeed in making things right. Great first impression of this author and I can't wait to read more.

Thank you NetGalley and Marin Mongomery for the arc

This book starts off a bit slowly, but turns into a wild ride by the time it's over. It centers on mother and daughter Deborah and Sibley, who have been estranged for 16 years, since Sibley's father died. Sibley's marriage and job are both on the brink of failure, and she decides she needs to go back home and reconnect with her mother, as well as learn more about what really happened the night her father died.

The book starts out describing what is going on in both Sibley and Deborah's life separately, and then brings them together. This is the part that was a bit of a slow burn, but provided necessary background information that helps pull the story together later. Once they are together, you get unreliable narration from both sides to the extreme- each chapter I read made me question which one of them was lying and/or mentally instable. Though the book alternated between their POVs, Sibley's chapters were in the first person while Deborah's were in the 3rd person, which I found a little jarring.

I had some ideas about who was not all they seemed to be, and though some of those were proven correct, I could not figure out the motivation for some of the things that they were doing, and was surprised when it all came to light. There were multiple red herrings thrown in there that led me a different direction, then pulled me back again. There were a lot of characters in this book, but I didn't find it hard to keep them all straight and to understand the relationships between everyone.

Overall, I enjoyed this book and think the ending was very clever and twisty. I'd recommend this book to those who like psychological thrillers, and urge you to keep reading if you think it starts slow. Thanks to Netgalley for providing me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This book turned out to be unexpected for me. The beginning started out with a good pace and some thrills and chills and then slowed a little over a few chapters just getting through explaining the background of the characters so the story can be understood, but once the slow part passed the book picked up at a fast pace again and was a great thrill ride! This book had me making many guesses to whodunit and I was actually stumped until the near end. Deborah was a great character that had so many personal twists and inner battles that she was so complex but written well. Sibley was my favorite, she evolved from the beginning to the end of the book and really seen some growth and change. This is a great heart racing mother daughter duo, and being told by both them alternating views made the story seen from different POV. The secrets and tragedies definitely came to an exciting unraveling. Thank you to the author, as well as Netgalley for the copy to review based on my own opinions and thoughts. I hope others purchase those from Amazon when it releases in 2021. This would be a great book to screen pick!!

There was a lot of plots packed into one book - characters were rough and not likable, but the ending was satisfying and enjoyable.

While this was a solid read, it was not a favorite for me. I like the alternating POV, but Sibley totally running away from her life was a bit of a stretch for me especially since she was not a model character to start. The twists were unpredictable, which was a plus, but it took me far too long to drudge through it all and I was a little disappointed at the end. Thankful for the ARC.

Fast paced and thrilling, The Imposter is everything you can ask for in a book! Sibley’s life is, for lack of a better phrase, a sh**tshow, slowly spiraling down the drain. When she makes her way back home to visit her mother for the first time in years, nothing is as it should be. Her mother is acting weird and experiencing memory loss, and the events surrounding her father’s untimely death keep being dredged up. The ending is truly insane! The only thing that kept The Imposter from being a 5 star read for me is that I felt that some plot points were just being skipped to, like “Well, Point A has happened so now we have to be at Point B.” I would have preferred it to be a little longer to ease into what was going on. Overall, I still recommend The Imposter!

Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for an EARC of this book.
Even with characters I found really hard to like, the slow burn psychological thriller had a pretty interesting plot with suitably creepy parts. Slow and disconnected but still interesting.

Getting into the book was a bit slow as the story lines seemed a bit all over the place and moved very fast. Once I got to the heart of the story of Sibley and Deborah and their shaky past, I couldn’t stop reading! I needed to know how all of the different story lines and characters came together and the ending really delivered. Besides some of the slow/unnecessary plot points, Marin delivers with this one!

From the outside, Sibley seems like she has it all. She's an amazing divorce attorney and has a great husband. But... she drinks. A lot.
Having grown up with an alcoholic father and being estranged from her mother, she has her fare share of demons.
Pretty soon her personal and professional life starts falling apart. Forced out of her job and told to go into rehab, she chooses her own path. She travels back to her home town to visit her mother.
Before long, she realises something isn't right, secrets start to be revealed and not everyone is who they seem.

I found this one pretty slow, I won't lie. It took forever for me to really get into the book and I was constantly waiting for something to happen. By the time it started picking up, we were almost at the end of the book and it all started to feel a little rushed.
However, I did still find it fairly enjoyable.

Thank you NetGalley and Marin for the chance to read this ahead of release.

Deborah, a mother with a daughter who left and never returned. Deborah hasn't talked to Sibley in several years, she was not invited to her daughters wedding and has no relationship with her besides those of her teenage years. Deborah still lives on the family farm trying to move on with her life, she has started seeing someone in secret, going to therapy, and living. Until her daughter unexpectedly returns home.

Sibley, is a divorce attorney who's drinking problem has caused the partners at the firm to ask her to take a leave of absence to get help. Her husband doesn't trust her, and on the day she was to attend rehab she never shows. Instead she returns home to the Midwestern farm her Mother still lived at to work through the issues and the past that followed them.

The characters in The Imposter, were interesting. I enjoyed the narration of Deborah, with the confusion and suspicion she was interesting to follow. Sibley I had many times wanted to yell at her asking what or why she was doing what she was doing. The environment of a out of town farm with the small town feel was on the mark, having been to small towns I see the same interactions described that might happen.

Overall, I gave this novel a ⭐⭐⭐ review. Some of the language felt choppy, and there were many phrases repeated that I didn't think were needed. However, the overall plot was well developed.

Thank you NetGalley and Thomas & Mercer for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This novel is available March 9, 2021 💚

Althougj this book is intriguing, I became confused. I could not discern what was happening and what the characters were up to. It is haraxter driven and one becomes invested in the protagonist. Try it. ,

Thank you to Netgalley and Marin Montgomery for my ARC of THE IMPOSTER in exchange for a review!

Sibley Sawyer has the model life- she is married and is a very successful attorney. However, the cracks in the foundation of her life start to make themselves known in more ways than one. When she gets into trouble at work, she is forced to attend rehab to get herself back on the right track, only she chooses to change up the plans a little bit and visit her estranged mother. As Sibley gets back to her stomping grounds, intent on getting back to the life she left behind, she soon realizes that her mother is a whole new person... and the town that she grew up in holds more secrets than she could ever know.

I'm always up for a psychological thriller, and never reading anything by Marin Montgomery before, I jumped at the chance to read this book in advance of it's publishing date (March 9, 2021). I gave it this rating because there was nothing about this story that kept me super interested in it, and I always chose to read something instead of this one so it took me upwards of almost a month to read. I was confused most of the book and couldn't figure out what the hell was going on, so I had to keep going back and rereading sections to try to piece it together. Both of the narrators (Deborah and Sibley) were extremely unreliable (which I know is the point!)

Overall, I thought that THE IMPOSTER was interesting, but it wasn't a favorite of mine. It features an in-depth mother daughter relationship along with several twists to keep you engaged. I would recommend this book for fans of a very slow burning psychological thriller.

Five stars for The Imposter by Marin Montgomery. First we meet Deborah, living alone on the farm where she grew up. She is widowed, estranged from her daughter, and traumatized by recent events. Deborah doesn't know if she can trust anyone, even herself. We are then introduced to Sibley. Sibley is Deborah's daughter who fled her hometown the day after graduation and has never looked back. She's a wife and an accomplished attorney but both of those roles have been put in jeopardy. Destructive habits are reignited and Sibley is forced to confront the past in order to have hopes of a future.

This book was full of suspense and twists. There were so many truly scary moments and shocking revelations I could not guess who 'The Imposter' was until it was revealed by the unexpected ending. Fans of novels like The Girl on the Train and Gone Girl will love this book!

Thank you to Marin Montgomery, Netgalley and Thomas & Mercer for an Advance Reader Copy of this book.

This book was not at all what I expected. It takes good writing for me to really hate a character and I really disliked some of the decisions that the main character made throughout. I was not expecting the final twist whatsoever, I decided someone else was up to no good. Loved the ending and how everything was wrapped up. At times the different storyline was a little confusing, but overall enjoyed it.

I enjoyed the plot and how all of the loose ends were tied up in the ending of this book. I found Sibley's parts to be more interesting than Deborah's.
The first few chapters were slow and didn't really keep my attention but it did pick up later in the story.

Marin Montgomery’s writing style is very descriptive and creative. However, I struggled with staying focused on the book throughout my reading session. The plot needed a little more “oompf” in terms of suspense for me.

The first few chapters of the book were not very interesting to me. I didn’t really get into the story until Sibley’s chapters.

This book confused me too much to really make a connection to the characters. I also didn’t like the ending. It was way too improbable for my liking.

I did like the general idea for the plot though. If the writing style was different I think I would’ve enjoyed it more.

Thanks to NetGalley and Marin Montgomery for a copy of this ebook in exchange for an honest review.

when @marinmont18 messaged me to read her newest thriller, I was pretty pumped! I'd given last year's 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙍𝙪𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙒𝙞𝙛𝙚 four stars (pre-booksta days) and enjoyed Marin's style. Well, 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙄𝙢𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧 did not disappoint! This book was 𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 of secrets and deception and I was so here for it. It's another 🌴🌴🌴🌴 four star read - AND! I sort of also binged two of her other thrillers via audiobook this week - 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙎𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧 and 𝘼𝙡𝙡 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙮 𝙇𝙞𝙚𝙨. Loved them both as well - @marinmont18 is an auto-buy for me!