Not my favorite BA Paris book, but I enjoyed it. Definitely a good twist at the end, but not a real stand out psychological thriller for me.

The Therapist by BA Paris should have been a book I devoured. I love domestic thrillers, and I expected so much more from The Therapist than what I got.

The plot moved so slow. I can deal with a slow burn, but I almost felt like the story wasn't going anywhere. Also, I was not too fond of Alice, she was whiney, and it was hard to be on her side. I struggled to stay connected with the story.

I wish I loved the book more, but I will say that the audiobook narrator was so good.

@baparisauthor is another go-to author for all things twisty and suspenseful. #thetherapist is my absolute favorite of hers, catching me off-guard multiple times! definitely worth grabbing!! The narrator, #oliviadowd and #thomasjudd do a phenomenal job and were captivating! This one just hit the shelves this week and if #audiobooks are your thing, definitely download this one! Special thanks to @macmillan.audio and @netgalley for the #audioarc !

I’ve been slowly incorporating a few more mysteries/thrillers into books I read and from a plot perspective I really enjoyed it. I didn’t see the ending coming at all and had fun throughout thinking, “THAT person did it!” then “No, this one did!”

I would have rated it more than 3 stars if I didn’t find Alice extremely frustrating. None of her actions or reasonings made sense to me and that really took away from the story for me.

I received a copy of the audiobook via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This was a very interesting audio book. I love how the reader had an accent that the main character had! It has a slow build, but it's worth the wait. It doesn't take very long before it begins to get very interesting. I kept guessing throughout the entire book, and I was still surprised in the end. I was kept on the edge of my seat throughout, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I think this book could easily be renamed "To Tell the Truth"....there are so many people either telling full out lies or partial truths that it became difficult to keep up. Basically, only a few characters weren't guilty of manipulating the truth in some way.

You know right off the bat that the main character, Alice has experienced extreme tragedy in the past through the death of both parents and her sister. This loss continues to haunt her daily life. However, she is trying to look forward and create a positive fresh start by moving in with her boyfriend, Leo.

However, their new home brings mystery, questions and lies. There's an important fact about the history of the house which Leo fails to tell Alice about. This leads her to question if she ever really knew him at all. So, then she not only has an issue with the house, she also loses trust in her boyfriend. It only gets juicier from there....

I thought this was a different and creative domestic thriller. At times, I had to wonder if Alice's behavior made sense. But I figure there is no right or wrong way to handle everything that was thrown at her.

I listened to the audiobook and really enjoyed the narration. It was done in such a way that the storyline flowed quite seamlessly. The narrator's voice lent itself well to the characters and the inflection and tone used helped set the mood for the story. Very nicely done.

Thank you to NetGalley for this audio ARC. I voluntarily chose to review it and the opinions contained within are my own.

The Therapist is the newest thriller from B.A. Paris. We follow a couple, Alice and Leo, as they take the giant step of moving in together. Leo has purchased the newly renovated in The Circle. The Circle is a gated community with only 12 houses inside that are all in, you guessed it, a circle. The house seems too good to be true and as they spend time in the new house and getting to know the neighbors, they realize it just might be.

Alice finds out the disturbing past of their new home and starts to spiral when she isn't sure who to trust or what is real. She becomes enveloped in trying to solve what happened in her house two years before, but it seems everyone has secrets they would rather keep to themselves.

I really enjoyed this book and f0und it to be very engrossing. I had a hard time wanting to much else than read and find out what secrets the secret held. I will say I guess "who" the bad guy was very early on in the book, but the why and who he really was was a nice twist that I hadn't anticipated. This one kept me on my toes and I enjoyed the different characters within The Circle and out.

In B.A. Paris' latest novel, Alice and Leo move into a new London neighborhood. Shortly after, Alice discovers a secret about the house that makes her question everything. The neighbors all seem to be keeping secrets, Leo is keeping secrets, and Alice doesn't know who can be trusted.

This thriller was just okay for me. I just didn't ever fully get invested in the story or the characters. It started out interesting. I moved into a new house and neighborhood as I was reading this. My neighborhood is a "green" a half circle shaped drive with a green space in the middle, and in many ways, it reminded me a bit of the "circle" in this story. That parallel between what was happening in my real life and what happened in this story piqued my interest at first. It is interesting to think about what happened in the house before you moved in and what kinds of secrets the neighbors might keep. But as the story moved on, my interest started to wane.

There are a few creepy moments here and there, but not much happens until the end, and then it gets kind of crazy. There were a few twists that surprised me towards the end, and I enjoyed seeing where this story would take me, even if it took a while to get there.

I have loved B.A. Paris ever since Behind Closed Doors- I'm not exactly sure that this one comes close, but it was still a really fun read. I really enjoy a fast paced psychological thriller and this book was no different. This one kept me guessing until the end!

Wow! What a wild ride! Just when I thought I had everything figured out, something was revealed that lead me in a totally different direction until I just gave up trying to figure out the mystery and held on for the ride. This has been one of my favorite mystery reads in a while due to all the twist and turns. It really shows how someone can look guilty but be innocent. This book was a great audiobook as well. It helped to keep me from peaking ahead to see who did it! Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an ARC audiobook in exchange for my honest review.

Thank you so much to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for my copy of The Therapist by B. A. Paris, Narrated by Olivia Dowd; Thomas Judd in exchange for an honest review. It published yesterday, July 13, 2021.
It has been awhile since I haven't figured out the twist in a thriller, and this finally did it! I was pleasantly surprised. I felt like I was given enough "crumbs" and clues to think I knew where it was going before I was following a different trail of crumbs.
I appreciate that the author did not need to lean into gruesome details, sexually explicit material, or gain a larger word count with profanity. It made for a pleasant reading experience, and definitely shows the author's masterful skill of the written word, and proficiency in mystery.
The narrators did an excellent job, as was the recording job, (no background noise or breathing noise for example).
I think if you're looking for a new thriller, you should definitely check this out!

I love a good exclusive neighborhood drama - particularly if there’s a suspected killer involved. While the main character Alice was not the smartest amateur sleuth and I was able to figure out a few pieces of the story, I really enjoyed the dynamics of the neighbors and the misleading narration. Definitely worth the read! I was also able to listen to the audio for pieces and was equally satisfied with the way the narration revealed pieces of the story without giving anything away too early 🤩

Note: The audiobook file does not play smoothly in the netgalley app so I cannot review the audiobook itself.


This was an interesting book for me because I had very conflicting feelings about the characters and the plot development, but overall I enjoyed it and the ending was great. The author has always done an amazing job building suspense, making you suspicious of people without them evening really doing anything or without any major events happening yet. You just have this hair-on-the-back-your-neck tingling feeling that something is not as it seems. Someone is deceiving you as the reader. This book started off this way and definitely never let go. Every character is unreliable, even the narrator at times made me question whether I could really trust her.

The story flow tripped me up a little because it went from moving too slowly, to really creeping me out, cannot move the pages fast enough, and back to slow before the ending which was just wild. At times I felt like the narrator was just rehashing the same thoughts over and over, and even had a couple conversations that I felt like - wait, we already went through this, it's not new information. The narrator seemed so naive, but also just willing to live in a clearly dangerous situation without much caution. I also felt like her interest in "solving" this old murder was too strong - why was she so obsessed when she was not at all involved. Her excuses to others about it just felt weak and almost just a forced way to get herself involved.

But then the ending. I think a lot of my misgivings were cleared up. I could see how the book was a set up to some big twists and reveals and so in the aftermath, some of these things didn't actually seem as vague. I could see how the author purposely developed each and every character and the timing was also crafted to manipulate the reader.

I felt so satisfied by the ending. I was on the edge of my seat and needed to know how the characters would react to the twists, so I was definitely more invested than I originally thought. Overall a very enjoyable domestic thriller with a great creep vibe without being too much to read before bed.

Oh my goodness!!! I love this book. When the last part of the book unfolds, I gasped so many times I couldn't hold it in! B.A. Paris has done it again, given us a book that can keep you guessing.
I liked Alice and was curious about her boyfriend Leo. The house he wants to buy is wonderful, but priced below what is market value and one has to be curious as to why. Sure enough a woman was murdered there, and her husband committed suicide, and the police sort of just assumed he did it even if it didn't add up. When Alice learned about the murder she's angry with Leo for keeping it a secret, and she becomes obsessed with learning about Nina and Oliver who lived there before them. Alice tries to endear herself to the neighbors and wants to make friends and also dig into their knowledge of what happened. I did feel Alice was chasing after wild theories, but on and on it went. Her naiveté at being in a larger city like London, and meeting new people stand out. She's perhaps too trusting.
I figured out a few things in this book, but not the ultimate who done it, or why or how until it was revealed near the end.
The writing and atmosphere set was spot on, I could imagine the intimate neighborhood of the circle, a bit of privilege and snobbery. I listened to the audio of this book and the narration by Olivia Dowd and Thomas Judd were excellent. I'm careful with British accents but these were very good.
Thank you to Net Galley, St. Martin's Press and Macmillan Audio for the both the advanced readers copy and the advanced audio copy of this book.

I enjoy the twists and turns of B.A. Paris' writing. The Therapist was one such novel and I liked it the most of her works thus far. Perhaps it was because I listened to it as an audiobook (which really enhanced the experience) or maybe it was the overall premise of the story. Either way, I wasn't totally sure of my "whodunit" guess until about 80% through. The title of the book was a bit misleading and the character of Nina, the therapist who was murdered, wasn't really developed. And although Alice appeared to be all over the place in her assumptions and characterizations of others, Paris did a good job in providing enough of a backstory and internal dialogue to explain her character flaws.

I enjoyed Dilemma by B.A. Paris but am so glad she wrote another suspense/thriller. I had a slight suspicion of who the killer was but the connection to other characters in the novel threw me totally for a loop..

This was such a frustrating read. The main character doesn’t make the best decisions and that was really difficult to go through. It was a quick read and I liked how the thriller aspect of it kept me intrigued. However, the ending was over-the-top.

If it weren’t for the narrators, I probably would have DNF’d this book.

Another fast-paced domestic thriller from B.A. Paris! This one will definitely keep you guessing while trying to figure who is telling the truth, who is keeping secrets and who to trust (or NOT!). The narrator was excellent, and made this book a good one to listen to while driving back and forth from work. The only problem is, when you get to work (or home) you won't want to turn it off!

Would you think your boyfriend was a murderer? Would you stay with him in the same house where the murder was committed. I would prefer an American narrator. The British accent is at times hard to understand. I was surprised at the ending.

This is my first book from B.A. Paris, and I'm not sure why (aside from so many books, so little time) - she's right in my psychological-thriller wheelhouse, and she's been on my want-to-try list for a while now. After this book, she's on my must-read-them-all list. This was a very interesting book and I thoroughly enjoyed the listen. A series of unexplained events begins after Alice and Leo move into a newly renovated home in what we'd call a "gated community" in the US. While Leo seems willing to let most the incidents slide on by, Alice becomes more and more obsessed with finding answers. Questions were constantly brought up in my mind, especially about Alice and Leo themselves, and were answered at some point or another over the course of the book. The narration was excellent - I'm not sure I've listened to anything narrated by Olivia Dowd before, but I'd certainly listen to more of her work. Thomas Judd was also excellent narrating the small parts he read. Overall very enjoyable, and B.A. Paris has now moved way up my TBR list.
Many thanks to Netgalley and Macmillan Audio for providing a copy for an unbiased review.