I really wanted to love this one and from the blurb I was excited to get stuck in. It’s my first by Natalie Bareli. It was an easy read but just so slow paced for about 3/4’s of the book. There was so much going on in the way of to many plot lines that some of them seemed irrelevant to the overall storyline. The main character Anna I wasn’t a big fan of and I just found her so unlikeable. Loved the authors style of writing and she’s very clever in how she introduces twists etc but the way in which the storyline plays out is a bit distracting. Wasn’t expecting the outcome and it really came out of nowhere but a bit more background information would have been good and added more to it. It fell short for me overall and I was left feeling like I was missing something.

Thanks to Netgalley and Bookouture for the opportunity to read this ARC and review that is due to be published on the 27th of Nov.

Wow! This book was insane! (In a good way!) I haven’t been that surprised by an ending in so long. I absolutely did not see one thing coming. Ah! I can’t say anything because I don’t want to give anything away! Just read it!!

Unfaithful by Natalie Barelli is a great domestic thriller that will have you questioning everyone.

Anna’s student dies unexpectedly. The police are investigating whether it is a suicide or not. Anna is very upset so decides to go visit her husband, Luis, at his studio since he isn’t answering the phone. This visit causes Anna to wonder Luis is cheating on her. They are happy, right? Who could Luis be having an affair with?

Anna starts to question everything and is suspicious of everything Luis does. She decides to try extra hard to make Luis happy. Anna is still worrying about Alex. What secrets are Anna keeping?

There are so many secrets and twists in Unfaithful. I really thought I knew where this book was heading and I was wrong. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time. All of the characters are so complex. All the different aspects of Anna and Luis made this book very exciting.

Anna is a math professor that is always trying to make her family happy. I felt like I learned some about the mathematics community and being a professor from reading Unfaithful. Anna has a strained relationship with her parents and has very few friends. I questioned all of the characters during Unfaithful.

The plot of Unfaithful was crazy. I read a lot of thrillers, so I figure out a lot of them. There were some things I suspected. I quickly forgot about my theories because there were so many twists that I just couldn’t figure out what would happen next.

I highly recommend Unfaithful to domestic thriller fans.

Thank you NetGalley and Bookouture for Unfaithful.

I am a huge Natalie Barelli fan and I couldn’t wait to tear into this book. It pains me so much that I didn’t enjoy it like I thought I would.

There is so much going on with the characters that didn’t make it believable to me. Anna the main character is just awful and I didn’t like her at all. The book started out with a death, then was so very slow and didn’t get good again until about 80% in where the twists came in. The twist was just so unbelievable that I just wanted it to end.

I absolutely hate giving bad reviews especially to one of my favorite authors but this was a miss for me.

🌟🌟/5

Unfaithful by Natalie Barelli

This book was fun, hooked me hard, and even though I tried to go to bed, I ended up staying up way too late to finish it. Anna is a humdinger of a character. She's an extremely unreliable narrator and will lie at the drop of a hat. She also drinks way too much and will verbally vomit embarrassing truths that she should never tell anyone...she'll start babbling to friend or stranger, alike. She also just might attempt to go for a roll in bed or on the floor, with some man or other, because she's drunk too much or because she's angry. She has anger issues and emotional damage from being raised by a cold mom and distant father. She makes spontaneous horrible decisions and some of those decisions had me laughing. Usually I can't stand characters like Anna but the author did a great job with her and the story and I could not put the book down. 

When the story starts, you can almost hear the birds chirping in the background. Life is perfect, her family is perfect, her marriage is perfect (if only her husband would walk the dog and fix the leaky sink), she's pretty sure she's going to be made a tenured professor. And then Anna gets to work and things go wrong and then get worse and everything Anna does is the wrong thing but half the time she thinks she can ignore the problems and they'll just go away. Anna can't focus, talks and laughs way too much (often she'll stop laughing and talking to realize that everyone is staring at her). Really, Anna is a mess and for good reason. Oh, and Anna is extremely paranoid and that paranoia rubbed off on me, so much so that the only ones I trusted in this book was her 14 year old daughter, her 10 year old son, and her cute French bulldog. Overall, this story was good fun. 

Thank you to Bookouture and NetGalley for this ARC.

In Unfaithful our heroine, Anna, is her own worst enemy. She'll make a mistake, compound it several times, and then get flustered by all her gaffs. Natalie Barelli does an excellent job of making the reader continue to turn pages. Twists, turns, and shocks abound. I want to thank NetGalley and Bookouture for an early copy to review.

‘Unfaithful’ was an intriguing read and packed full of mystery. Anna is far from perfect but I felt that I was on her side from the start even thought I cringed at some of her decisions.

The author does a fantastic job of presenting how downtrodden she was by everyone which made me hope that she would explode. As for her character, I totally enjoyed her being highly intelligent. Being someone who taught university maths and works with PhD students placed her high on the clever scale. It made it all the more disheartening when she was treated badly in the workplace. I felt her disappointment.

I loved how the story then wound around Anna’s suspicions and followed on with the gathering of evidence when it came to her husband’s suspicious behaviour. I also enjoyed how she was trying to juggle all that was happening in her own life. It was great that on the surface, she was always so together but as the reader of her first person POV, I recognised that rumble of thunder that was building up for a mega storm.

There are many tense moments and a few scary moments. There is one particular scene that takes place in a cupboard and that really creeped me out. The explosive ending was set up brilliantly and full of surprises! If you love a fast moving psychological thriller with infidelity at its core, ‘Unfaithful’ is just that! It’s punchy, exciting and knuckle clenching!

𝙬𝙚 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙗𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙮 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚. 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙖𝙩 𝙢𝙚, 𝙢𝙮 𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮 𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙛𝙡𝙖𝙢𝙚𝙨.

Obsession is a dangerous thing and this psychological domestic thriller from Natalie Barelli shows us the darker side of all-consuning love. Anna and Luis have so many secrets, some they keep from each other and some they keep from themselves. Natalie weaves an intricate story and we see how all these other characters influence the dynamic of this powerful marriage. 𝗨𝗻𝗳𝗮𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗳𝘂𝗹 comes out 11/27 and it's a 🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴 5/5 read you're going to want on your shelf; 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘺𝘰𝘶 @netgalley and @bookouture for my early copy!

A very twisty thriller with the main plotline being Alex finding out her husband is having an affair. Thrown in some extra plotlines to do with a Maths problem being solved amongst other things and a twist I did NOT see coming.

I really wanted to like this book and don't get me wrong it did have a lot of plus points but the book having not one likeable character along with missing that something that I just can't put my finger on, means that it sadly fell short for me.

Credit to the cover designer though. Stunning eyecatching cover.

This book was just what I was expecting and just what I needed. It was full of twists and turns, it kept me guessing and it was easy to read and follow.

This is the first book I have read by Natalie Barelli.

I found the book slow at the beginning and struggled to get into it.
It did get easier to read and there were lots of twists and turns.
I found it a little over the top and I really can’t say I liked any of the characters.
I found the book frustrating, the ending was good and like I said lots of twists and turns so you don’t know where it’s going next.

Simply Mind blowing!!! This book was literally unputdownable.


This must be my favourite synopsis, which didn't give away what readers are getting into without making it suspicious. 

I am a researcher and it is my first read which covered the academic side. So yes it got me just at the beginning. 

The synopsis gave away that this book is about a troubled couple, betrayal and about relationships. There was more than that and I loved to get betrayed 😂


I don't want to give away anything. 


I loved the way the author portrayed everything. Our narrator was so unreliable, I hated her but I was also feeling for her. Her stupid actions got that half star from my rating. There were so many characters which were so cryptic to make any assumption.

The ending was totally unpredictable. I never expected it but it doesn't mean I didn't love it.

Dr. Anna Sanchez is by her own definition “a rallier” - an academic, a mum, a wife and a survivor of a loveless childhood. She is there time and time again for the people in her life. She runs the house and feeds her family all whilst applying for the professorship at her university and mentoring her star PhD student Alex.. Everybody’s go to girl.
However, piece by piece each area of her life spirals out of control and Anna is determined to rally once more and do whatever it takes to put her life back on course.

Wow. what a book! It’s an absolute gift to a reader - the story slips under your skin by the end of the first chapter and enthralls you from beginning to end. It’s a rollercoaster of tension and drama with several events in the clever plot which came out of nowhere and hit me like a steam roller. It’s a perfectly named book. I didn’t guess the ending which is always a winner for me. The author has created an amazing character in Anna - she is so likeable and relatable that you become enthralled in the book very quickly. Even when she acted in a under hand manner or made a series of poor decisions I was rooting for her and willing for her to come up on top.

It was a gripping and entertaining read which made me want to immediately read all the other books from the author.

I don't know what to make of this book as at the beginning I found it incredibly slow and I struggled to get into it but once the twists and turns started happening I started to enjoy it and I did not see the ending coming at all.
I did not find any of the characters likeable but that was the point of how they were written so that as a reader you are suspicious of them all.

Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for my ARC.

Well this was a blast !!!!! I requested this after a recommendation and they were so right . What a fantastic , fast paced twisty book . Anna is a professor marries with 2 children to Luis an artist . She suspects he is having an affair so instead of confronting him she tries to turn herself into her best version , the version he fell in love with . Of course there is a lot more going on a sexually harassing boss , a pupil working on groundbreaking work who ends up dead and lots of twists and turns . To say I was shocked at the end would be an understatement and then wham shocked again . Brilliant . I loved it !!!

This is a good read with plenty of twists. This is a fast paced story with a lot of action and some unlikeable characters. I thought that it was not believable in places and well written in others.

Thank you to Netgalley for my copy.

Well of all the places this book went I didn’t expect that ending and I’m kicking myself! Well done!

Having read another novel by this author, The Housekeeper which I really enjoyed. I was blown away by how the differences.

This novel, I kept thinking was set in the UK. The references and some of the words, but I double checked. Not set in the UK. Something is niggling my brain. I bet the author is. Sure enough.. Both settings would have worked.

The premise is a familiar one. But I think so deftly was I thrown off track that I was had. Didn’t even see it coming. My money was on, well, I won’t say.

This novel is a slow burn. Took a while, which I now think was deliberate and then bam. What’s happening. There’s so much going on. Stick with this and you’ll be glad.

Thank you for my advanced copy.

I was very surprised by the book and have read it in one evening. The main character has changed- I had lot of mixed emotions around her, Great book with a great twist! I would definitely recommend it to everyone!

That was a crazy ride! Anna Sanchez is an associate maths Professor, married with two young children. She and her husband adore each other. Life is great - until it isn’t! She is working with a graduate student, Alex, to solve a long-standing maths conjecture which will have life changing implications for the solvers. But then suddenly, and strangely, Alex kills himself and Anna’s world starts to crumble.

She begins to suspect her husband, Luis (an artist), is having an affair with Stephanie - the curator of the gallery he recently exhibited works in. But Anna makes some pretty dubious decisions herself and soon she is facing harassment at work, a sexual harassment complaint against her and her professionalism is called into question when she can’t produce notes showing the derivation of the maths conjecture solution. To top it all off she is afraid she may be arrested for murder!

The blows keep coming for Anna and the twists keep coming for the reader. None of the characters are very likeable and you have no idea how this insanity will end. It was totally far-fetched and over-the-top but an entertaining read nonetheless. This book will appeal to readers who like a bit of crazy in their day and anyone who enjoys escapist fiction. 3.5 stars rounded up. Thanks to Netgalley, Bookouture and Natalie Barelli for providing a copy. My opinions are my own.

Have you read any books by Natalie Barelli? This is my second one (The Housekeeper was my first) and I feel confident in recommending her books to you! She is another author who writes stories that keep you reading way past your bedtime.

Here is the premise for Unfaithful:

When I arrive unannounced at my husband’s studio in need of a shoulder to cry on after hearing that my best student, Alex, has died, I see a pair of wineglasses drying by the sink and my deepest fear is confirmed: my husband is having an affair.

Most women would fall to their knees in tears and throw him out of the house—but I just can’t bring myself to do it.

Instead, I go home and cook a healthy dinner for our children, walk the dog and unload the dishwasher without complaint. I will make him see that I’m still the woman he married; attractive, successful, the glue that holds our perfect family together. I need this marriage to work to protect a terrible secret of my own, something that would destroy everything I’ve already sacrificed so much for.

But when the police arrive at my door asking questions about Alex’s death that I can’t answer, and threatening text messages start appearing on my phone, I know that someone close has been watching me very carefully.

This is a smart, well written, high-octane suspense that will keep you glued to your seat as you power through this story! Perfect for those of you who love thrillers/suspense/mystery stories.

Order here and get it on November 27!