This book is about Beth and Sofia, both lovely characters. Beth and her family move to a new house where the neighbours are not at all friendly. Sofia lives in the house next door but is living a terrible life. A disturbing story but very well written. I recommend this book and will look for other books by this author.

Not my cup of tea as it was a bit more far fetched than I prefer. I’m not one for hiding people away in a house and someone being helpless to the point of ridiculousness, (sorry just my opinion here). Plus I may have read too many ‘perfect’ titled books and I’m becoming a bit jaded.

I received an eARC of The Perfect Neighbour by Susanna Beard from Joffe Books and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you!
4 stars! I enjoyed reading this suburban psychological thriller. Quite the page-turner!

The story is told from both Beth's and Sofia's points of view.
Beth is new to the neighbourhood and Sofia, is a kidnapped girl.
Beth sees Sofia one day in the window holding a help me sign,
the ending seemed a bit….. The End

There isn’t really much more I can say about it without giving it all away.
It was a quick read for me as I brushed over it pretty fast,
It didn’t grab me.

I was given an advance copy from NetGalley for my honest review.

I really enjoyed this book. It is different to my usual style of thriller and it definitely had me hooked. I liked the dual narrators and seeing the different sides of the story and enjoyed the different spin on the timeline with us knowing who was involved earlier on than usual in a thriller but waiting to find out how things would play out.

I would definitely recommend!

I tried to love this book, I did. It just didn't deliver what I wanted it to. I didn't want to be parked for a day or so, undisturbed in my reading chair because I just couldn't put it down. I did put it down. It was kind of slow and plodding. I didn't find it very psychological or thrilling, mysterious or suspenseful.

Maybe it was just me, but I found it just okay. I am not sure based on this book that I'll read others by this author.

Thank you, NetGalley, for the chance to read and review this book. The opinions expressed are obviously mine.

This was a suspenseful novel! What secrets are the neighbors hiding? Well, this neighbor is hiding something right under everyone’s noses. And it’s a twist to the usual neighborhood secrets. Beth and her family have just moved to a new neighborhood. It’s not long before Beth feels that there is something going on in the one neighbor’s house.

This book is a little different from what I normally read, but I found myself unable to stop reading. I flew through it and was pleasant surprised with how much I liked it. The characters were well developed and I enjoyed the back and forth POVs throughout the story. Not exactly fast paced, but very interesting. Would recommend!

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I'd like to thank the publisher and Netgalley for providing me with a copy in exchange for an honest review.

We’re all curious about what goes on behind closed doors, especially when those doors are tight next to us. This was a page-turning quick read about just that.

Beth has just moved house and in trying to get to know her neighbours, she meets the glamorous Russian woman next door, her shifty gardener and a face writing “Help” messages on an upstairs window….

I loved the dual narrative and discovering why Beth was so keen to leave her last home too… I still couldn’t understand Matt’s actions though, regardless of what he was going through. Here’s hoping we’d all make choices more akin to Beth’s,

𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℙ𝕖𝕣𝕗𝕖𝕔𝕥 ℕ𝕖𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕓𝕠𝕦𝕣

Author - Susanna Beard
Rating - ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ / 5
Genre - Psychological Thriller

This was a hard book to rate. It gave me “Behind Closed Doors” and “Local Woman Missing” vibes throughout but when it came to the ending, it fell short.

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What I liked :
✨DUAL POV✨
✨ I enjoyed the story. It kept me guessing what was going to happen next!

What I disliked :
👎🏻 Gaps of time. In one chapter, one of the characters was reading a journal and then the next page the journal was given to another character who had already handed it over to the police 🙃
👎🏻 Two different story plots…the first half of the book was about one plot and the second half was a random plot out of left field
👎🏻 The changing of 1st person and 3rd person between characters. One character was 1st person and the other 3rd person. It wasn’t consistent and ended up being slightly annoying (in my opinion).

Overall, I think this book had really good potential! For me the ending was a bit flat and the grammar inconsistencies stuck out to me, but overall it was a solid, average read.

I wanted to like this one but I couldn't get into it. I didn't not finish it. While the story line seemed interesting there was something about it I didn't like.

I found this story a page turner and an addictive read even though I probably guessed most of what was going to happen. Probably because it is a fairly quick read I found the fairly simple plot engaging and was keen to learn what was going to happen.
I did find it a little unbelievable as surely at first sight of a person being held against their will you would call the police?

Beth (MC) is a new suburban home owner. She is desperate for friendship... desperate for friendship with Oksana. Oksana is the beautiful kind, next door neighbor. As the plot unfolds, Beth finds a "help me" sign in the window of her neighbors home. What are they hiding? You'll have to read to find out.

If you ever watched deperate housewives?! This is what this novel reminds me of. The characters are both unlikeable and likable is the best ways possible. The writing was fact-passed and direct. I appreciate the authors language and descriptions. I like the narrative and ending. Love when a thriller doesn't fall flat.

Wishes:
Wished it was more mature writting.
Wished it didn't unfold so quickly.

Best for readers who: Love fast paced thrillers, murder mysteries, unreliable characters, suburban housewives.

This book certainly grabs you from the first page which I loved and made me want to keep reading which is something I always want in a book.

Its the perfect neighbourhood...or is it?? Very hard to review without giving the plot away entirely but I would say if you like plenty of twists and turns this book is for you.

It focuses on a woman and her family who have just moved into the area and who is trying to find her way and trying to make new friends. I have to say the only negative is that she is slightly annoying and incredibly nosy and interfering but I appreciate this is kind of the point of the whole book.

Would recommend for anyone who wants a quick easy read who is looking for plenty of thrills. It was a real page turner for me!

Beth has just moved into the neighbourhood when she spots Sofia, the girl in the window. With the help of her corpus puppy Ruff, Beth starts to figure out what her very private neighbors are up to.

Well written, great mystery.

Good story but not really my type of subject (kidnapping and slavery). Would recommend if you are not bothered by the subject matter.

This is a first time read for me by this author and I was not disappointed. I found this to be a quick and exciting read and was definitely a page-turner. It is fast paced and kept my interest till the end. Beth and her family are new to the neighborhood and as she misses her friends and family, she tries to connect with her new neighbors in an effort to make some new friends. She meets Oksana, who is not very sociable and appears to be hiding something. She is kind of a mysterious character in the neighborhood and Beth is very suspicious of her. Her suspicions are intensified when she also meets Sofia, and learns her tragic story. This book definitely had me on the edge of my seat with the suspenseful, intense storyline. The unique plot made this a very suspenseful and interesting read. The author did a good job of taking a sensitive subject matter and crafting an entertaining and compelling psychological thriller. I would love to read more by this author in the future.

I received a complimentary copy from Netgalley and am voluntarily leaving my review.

I was worried that maybe this was going to be too scary. But it was a very mild thriller. Some parts were even a little anticlimactic. I think a little too much time was spent on character development, but it did allow for you to really get to know the characters involved. I liked that it made me aware of something that probably happens more often then we care to admit. A pretty good read but I would have loved a little more suspense. I’ll be looking at my neighbors differently now nonetheless!

A great read that keeps you hurriedly turning the pages to find out what happens. Intriguing read! Thanks to NetGalley for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review