This was a slow build of suspense but it captures your attention and keeps it throughout the book. While there are only a few chapters throughout the book, each chapter is a different point of view.

Skyla is a nearly blind widow who recently lost her husband of 50 years and was a former nurse. Teddy is a gentlemen that rents a cottage from Skyla. Linella is a bored house wife that is attempting to connect to her former lover. Jeremy is Teddy’s adolescent friend that has been dealt a difficult hand. Everyone is connected and each chapter builds upon the others. There are so many secrets and twists that make this a suspenseful psychological mystery. This was a rather lonely and sad story but it was an enjoyable read!

***** Many thanks to William Marrow and Custom House, John Searles, and NetGalley for allowing me to read this ARC. It has been provided to me in turn for my honest opinion.

Thanks Netgalley for allowing me to read this book. No one said marriage would be easy. Skylar lost her husband last year. Linelle is unhappy in her marriage and meets a guy she knew decades ago i liked the different characters in this book.

A old creepy drive-in, a blind widow looking for a tenant, a tenant that seems to come along at just the right time, a woman whose husband doesn't pay any attention to her, and a man who can't hold unto a relationship because of his looks. Her Last Affair by John Searles brings all of these people together in the most unbelievable way! You have to read it to believe how this ends!

The book starts off bit slow and slightly confusing. You have Skyla, a recently widowed retired nurse who's losing her sight. Teddy, a gentleman just wanting to get away from the world, and Linelle, a blast from Teddy's past who Teddy decides to dig up. You mainly focus on Skyla and Teddy.

Skyla convinces Teddy to dig up Linelle, so he does. They text back and forth for a while. Linelle's husband becomes aware of it and it must stop. Also Skyla starts to fall for Teddy, who's Years younger than her, and she insists he stop, so he does. However Linelle decides to surprise visit Teddy, but pretty much fades from the story.

You then have Jeremy pop in the story with an assignment in the same area. He writes restaurant articles. We are now focused on Jeremys past and present with a lot of Skyla's past and present.

A little past halfway through the book, all the characters, even those not mentioned, make the story come together with explanations. It's full of twists, turns, and shockers. Once that started I couldn't put it down and it became an intense read.

I want to thank William Marrow and for my copy through NetGalley and have given an honest review of the book.

This is a story of sad and lonely people who are reflecting on their youth, first love and heartbreak. Jeremy is a writer and is sent to Providence to write a review on a new restaurant and it is his chance to revisit his past. Skyla, Teddy, Linelle, Jeremy and Maryanne’s lives intercept in this bizarre novel as truths and lies are brought to light. This is a mystery/thriller novel about desperate people.

A different, but compelling read. Three characters, each telling a story from a different point of view that tie together nicely in the end. Part heartbreak tale, part thriller this well written book is a thoroughly enjoyable read.

Twisty but not confusing, this novel ratchets up the tension slowly but surely although I thought the action at the end was a little bit rushedmi enjoyed this book thoroughly and put aside other things in order to have the opportunity to finish it! A page turner for sure.

John Searles’ Her Last Affair is just weird. I’m not even entirely sure what genre I’d categorize it in. Technically it’s a mystery that unfurls throughout the course of the book, as retired and widowed nurse Skyla Hull learns more about her tenant Teddy Cornwell. But it doesn’t really feel like it’s a mystery for most of the book, which alternates between Skyla in the present falling for Teddy and plotting revenge against the woman her husband had an affair with, a man named Jeremy Lichanel, who makes a decision to reconnect with an old friend from his younger years, and Linelle, a woman who embarked on a romance with Teddy years ago as a teenager. Eventually you learn how everyone is connected, if you stick it out long enough. This for me was hard, because Skyla was both embittered and falling in love with her tenant, and often doesn’t always seem entirely with it. This felt so different and disconnected from the storyline of Jeremy that it was like reading a chapter back and forth from two different books. The POV of Linelle only appears near the beginning of the story and the end, so it really does take reading the book all the way through to figure out why Searles included a chapter from her perspective early on. There are some books that are told from different perspectives that are on a crash course with each other that are compelling and interesting, but in this case the storylines were so distinctly different that I can’t say I was ever reading it imagining how the characters could possibly be connected. There may be readers that really enjoy this book, but it was a little too slow burn for me with not enough tying the storylines together until the end of the book. A copy of this book was provided via NetGalley by the publisher in exchange for a fair and honest review.

Thank you NetGalley for this engaging book. There are two story lines but the one that got me the most was Skyla’s. (Great, original name btw). She is a widow, her husband Hollis has died recently. Did Skyla help with that? She wears a lanyard around her neck with keys. In her pockets are an assortment of pills, they’re all jumbled together because Skyla is losing her eyesight. This doesn’t stop her from flirting with her tenant in the twin house of her’s in New York State. I loved the descriptions, the smell of the woods, the way Searles describes life. The fact he includes a dog. This would be a great book for book club—one chapter at a time.

While this wasn't the thriller I expected, I ended up liking this book a lot. Three people, at crossroads, two of which are defined by various betrayals in their life, overlap and........ well no spoilers but worth the read

I'm rating this book 3 stars, simply because the description of the book as a 'tense and terrifying thriller' really did not fit the book that I read. I read about half of this book, which was a more slowly paced character study, before abandoning. Is it possible that the second half of this book does indeed become fast paced, tense, and thrilling? Of course! But I found the first half of the reading slow going. I found the characters detailed and interested, however these types of novels are not my preference.

Her Last Affair is an emotional roller coaster for the reader. Skyla is an elderly woman losing her sight, living on the edge of what used to be a popular drive-in. When she rents a cottage on her property to Teddy Cornwell, her life has new purpose and a new focus. Across the country Linelle is a bored housewife who reconnects with Teddy, the one who got away, and they start to rebuild a relationship they thought was long gone. And then there's Jeremy, a writer with low self-esteem who seems to have trouble building a lasting relationship. When all these lives collide none of them will ever be the same.

So I have to say, this book is a journey. It goes back and forth and you get very confused about what is going on, but hang in there. The main reason why I gave this four stars though is that the flow was up and down. And you have to "push through it" to get to the good parts of this book.

Skyla is a bit of a mess. A former nurse and now widow, she is dealing in a world where she can no longer see. When she rents one of the small houses near her house out, she finally thinks she has found someone to share in her life (Teddy Cornwell). Though Teddy is decades younger than her, Skyla tells him some of her story and listens to his tale of his first love, Linelle. Linelle finds herself in an empty marriage. When she is contacted by her first love Teddy, she starts to think about going to see him. And then a journalist named Jeremy finds himself agreeing to an assignment which leads him back to Providence. 

It takes a while to figure out how all of these people fit. It's pretty simple to track between Teddy and Linelle. And then Teddy and Skyla. But after that you go what is going on. 

I thought the writing was very good. Searles does a great job shaping everyone. You at times will want to shake Skyla, pity her, and then want to shake her all over again. Teddy seems to be the most perfect person ever, but one wonders why he keeps putting up with Skyla when it appears she wants something more. Linelle's marriage felt suffocating just reading about it. And Jeremy, I ended up pitying for the most part. 

The flow was up and down though. It takes a while for the book to find it's rhythm I thought. 

The setting of the book moves around from Providence, Florida, New York, and a few places in
between. 

The ending was definitely a shocker. I liked how it ended.

What a story teller! Several stories converge, some in first person unreliable narrator form, into a novel that doesn't miss a beat. Newly widowed Skyla, a retired nurse living in the shadow of the screen of a crumbling drive-in theater formerly owned by her in-laws, accepts a renter for the "second house" she owns next door. To reveal anything further would give away this plot of secrets and misleadings so cleverly crafted and difficult to put down. Nothing very deep, nothing terribly illuminating, but a tour-de-force of characterization and plotting that held me throughout.

Thank you to Net Galley and the publisher for an advanced copy of this book.

Unfortunately this one did not thrill me. The title and the cover peaked my interest but the book dragged on. It was told from several viewpoints and did not capture my interest. It took a long time to get going. I was not excited to read or pick it up.

Her Last Affair is an offbeat yet undeniably interesting book. It was difficult for me to get into the narrative with its slow start and rather confusing alternating points of view. The pace did pick up, and once I reached the last third of the book, I did finish it rather quickly. I did enjoy the surprise ending which raised my opinion of the book quite a bit.

My thanks to NetGalley and William Morrow Custom House for the opportunity to read and review this book.

This was a very unique thriller. I was a bit confused from most of the book, honestly. Things that seem to come together in the end and it was a very satisfying book. The cover art immediately made me want to request this.I really enjoy the authors writing style in the creepy atmosphere of the story.

A perfect domestic thriller! I give it five thumbs up! Super timely and interesting. The next gone girl! Yay

Several lonely, disconnected, disenchanted victims of their pasts and their presents- from the freak accident at the drive in to the lonely hearts. There is a disjointedness about this which affected how it is read. Its ok.

Very quick, fast paced read. A psychological and twisty novel, centered on the secrets kept between spouses and friends, our perceptions of what people tell us, and whose buttons get pushed just a little too far. Just enough foreshadowing to make clear what might happen, but not enough that the ending doesn't come as a surprise!