3.5 stars

I enjoyed this book more than her previous release. The first 40% was slow then suddenly multiple people die. A lot of time was spent discussing Iris, Gabriel and their needy guest Laure who had marriage trouble. I grew tired of Laure and reading about their daily lives in the beginning of the book. I became invested in the mystery, secrets, and lies. The story escalates and the epilogue came out of nowhere!

Thank you NetGalley and St. Marten's Press for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

BA Paris pulled me in to another page turning mystery.
So many lies, by so many characters.
The relationships and the strain, heartache, and struggles within those relationships, all made sense in the end!
It just took until the Epilogue to figure it all out!
I cannot say much more, without spoiling it for others.
Well done BA Paris!
Thank you Netgalley and St. Martin’s Press for the opportunity to read an advance copy in exchange for my honest review.

B.A. Paris is such a creative and talented author. She truly has a special way of creating an entire universe within the pages of her novels. I really enjoyed The Guest and felt it was masterly executed. 4.5 stars!!

Iris and Gabriel are returning home after a trip that didn’t go as planned. Gabriel is reeling from being a witness to an awful tragedy and Iris is trying desperately to pull him out of his heartache. Upon their return home their dear friend Laure is there following painful revelations from her husband, Pierre. Laure’s stay becomes anything but peaceful and the trauma that unravels has devastating consequences.

While reading this I did feel like it was a little drawn out BUT at the end of the book it all tied together and the little details made the outcome really shine!

I absolutely loved the ending/Epilogue and could not have been more pleased. Paris really threw me a curveball and I couldn’t have been more impressed!

Thank you to NetGalley and St Martin’s Press for the opportunity to read this ARC!

I have now read every book by B.A. Paris! I'm a big fan for a long time. I really enjoyed the characters in this book, especially Esme and Hugh. I wanted to be theirfriend and visit their house! I actually liked all of the characters in this book good and bad.
I will be honest though and say this book fell a little flat for me as a psychological thriller. This is my favorite genre and mostly what I read. I was hoping for more thriller type events and this didn't really have any. I wanted some twists and turns but it read more like a drama. I would rate this more as a 3.5.
I did really enjoy the bit at the end from the persons view!

The best B.A. Paris book since Behind Closed Doors. I literally couldn't put it down. It took a little time getting the characters straight at first but the story picked up and didn't disappoint. I highly recommend this one to anyone who loves twisty thrillers.

I always look forward to a B.A. Paris release and The Guest did not disappoint. While the pacing is slow at times, there was enough intrigue and suspense to keep me engaged. I finished the book in about a day and a half, which is an accomplishment for me lately.

The domestic thriller centres around married couple, Gabriel and Iris, as they find themselves in an awkward situation with an unwanted houseguest. Their closest friends, Laure and Pierre, are in the midst of a serious argument and Laure shows up at their doorstep unannounced while Pierre seems to be mysteriously absent.

The novel navigates the strange behaviour of both Laure and Pierre while throwing in a few odd neighbours to make the mix a bit more interesting. The final twist will be shocking for most, but the novel contains enough breadcrumbs to make it very plausible (a balance that is often hard to strike).

I took one star off because I felt a few of the side stories were a little rushed and the resolutions were delivered by one character explaining it all in one breath. The same can be said of the ending, which I have noticed is part of Paris' style of writing (just happens I'm not a fan of a drawn out monologue confession).

Overall another great read. Thanks to NetGalley and st Martin's press for a free digital copy in exchange for a fair and honest review.

Another great thriller by BA Paris! It was a slow start but once the drama unfolded, I couldn’t put the book down! When a couple finds that their best friend has come to stay with them, they’re not sure if she will ever leave. Will she return to her husband? Is she going to drive Iris crazy? This was a great thriller!

What a great ending!

I’m a big fan of B.A. Paris and this is a must read. You meet three sets of couples in the beginning so I did find it helpful to write names down to keep them separated until you get to know them better but so many characters really keeps you on your toes on who did what. I really didn’t see that ending coming, Bravo!

This was a solid three star ⭐️⭐️⭐️ read. The twist at the end was unexpected and a good change to the slower nature of the book. Overall a good read ☺️

3 stars!

What a fun, twisty, domestic thriller!

I really enjoyed the characters and the descriptions of the different European countries. The Guest definitely left me on the edge of my seat, I kept reading past my bedtime to know what was coming next!

Thank you NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for the ARC.

Unfortunately I did not like any characters, and just felt like the story dragged without enough to hold my attention all the way through. I have read other books by B.A. that gripped my attention immediately and I was unable to put down, unfortunately, this one missed the mark for me.

I absolutely love B.A. Paris, every book is full of unexpected twists. I received this book as an ARC and when it is released everyone should read this one!

A domestic thriller that keeps you wondering who is suspicious and who is telling the truth. Iris and Gabriel return home from their trip to find one of their best friends Laure staying at their house with no luggage and no plans to leave. They find out its because she and her husband Pierre are having problems. She ends up staying much longer then expected…. is she telling the truth about her and Pierres problems?

Iris also meets her new neighbors, Hugh and Esme and they hit it off. They have a “guest” staying with them that seems to be trouble…


This is more of a slow burn compared to the authors other books but the ending was shocking and it did not disappoint. I had trouble remembering all of the characters at first and who was who but I ended up loving this book, just as much as I hoped to!

In upcoming novel THE GUEST by B.A. Paris, Iris and Gabriel come home from vacation to find their longtime friend Laure sleeping in their bed and basically taking over their home. Laure is despondent that her husband Pierre has confessed to her that he had a child with another woman during their marriage. Iris and Gabriel reluctantly let Laure stay with him but push for her to reconcile with Pierre. Meanwhile, new friends Esme and Hugo are about to have a baby, and they have a mysterious gardener named Joseph who has a connection to Gabriel's past.

This novel moves slowly, ploddingly so. I also struggled to differentiate the characters from one another. They didn't have unique voices, and it was hard to care about them. We don't hear from two of the men much at all (Pierre and Hugo). We hear from Joseph only when he has dialogue. Even without hearing from many of the men, it was tough to keep everyone straight.

I did like the epilogue. But it felt like a little too late to redeem the novel. In many ways, it felt like you could have taken 10 key chapters of the book plus the epilogue and had a rather good novella.

Thank you to Netgalley and St. Martin's Press for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

The Guest is a fast-paced thriller that follows a household through a houseguest that overstays their welcome. I have read and greatly enjoyed other B.A. Paris books, but this one wasn't on the same level as past reads. I felt that the twists were not as 'twisty' and were more predictable than I would have liked. Overall the characters were likeable and I enjoyed reading the story, but I was left wanting more of an exciting aspect to the tale.

I have read many books by B.A Paris, and The Guest did not disappoint. From when their best friend shows up at their house until the surprise ending that I did not see coming. Thank you NetGalley for the advanced copy.

The Guest is a story about friendships, secrets and suspicions. The tension becomes more and more palpable as the reader gets drawn into the complexities of different relationships - between friends and between spouses. When people start showing up dead, secrets are revealed and revelations surface.

Laure showed up on the doorstep of her closest friends, Iris and Gabriel, after finding out that her husband fathered a child years ago and only now told her. Iris and Gabriel are happy to have her as their guest until she overstays her welcome and becomes a nuisance. Gabriel is on leave from his job as a physician while he deals with a recent traumatic experience and his marriage is suffering as his mental health crumbles. Iris tries to placate Laure while trying to hold her marriage together, but circumstances spiral and tragedy strikes again and again.

I thought I had everything figured out, but boy was I wrong. B. A. Paris certainly knows how to keep readers on the edge of their seats. Don’t let the slow start deter you from finishing this one. I promise you, it’s worth it.

Many thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for this thrilling 5-star read. Opinions expressed are mine alone. Publication date is February 20, 2024.

terrific book I loved this story, I couldn’t put it down, it’s full of twists you won’t see coming, you’ll keep reading into the night.

The first thing I would do is retitle the book: The Guest’s Secrets would be MY title if this was my book!

I am a huge B A Paris fan, and this book did not disappoint! The main cast of characters sure did seem
like such lovely people, really just people we’d all want to visit us in our home, Turns out, by the time
I finished the epilogue, I was simply stunned…and still being surprised by what took place.
In order to walk back a single choice of decades past, and try to keep a huge secret forever, Iris must
be very careful, and she’s kept her big secret successfully~ unbeknownst to her, her husband, Gabriel,
also, has a big secret, but he’s not as good with secrets.
While they are out of town, a good friend …. Of theirs, Laure pops in to stay after she and her husband,
Pierre, have a serious problem. A few more important characters will be along, but the big problem is
that Laure, their good friend, arrived while they are gone. With no luggage. Evidently with no plans to
leave. And with a very big secret suspicion.
There are more characters and this book is an absolute stunner around each corner. Last night I just
would not stop reading after reading a review that had me dying to get the answer to one question:
WHY?
I recommend this book to absolutely everyone! My thanks to St Martins Press via NetGalley for the
opportunity ,to read the download copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

I had the pleasure and priviledge of reading an ARC of THE GUEST by BA Paris!

Iris & Gabriel return home from a vacation to find their friend Laure staying at their house. Turns out, Laure left her husband Pierre in Paris after finding out he fathered an illegitimate child at some point during their 20 year marriage.

Meanwhile, Gabriel is dealing with his own inner turmoil and Iris is struggling with the distance it is putting between them.

As Laure begins to overstay her welcome and no one can get a hold of Pierre, Iros and Gabriel start to wonder if their friend will ever leave and if their marriage will survive.

In classic BA fashion, these characters' lives and their secrets unravel until we don't know who we can trust, if anyone at all. That eilogue though 👌 I literally felt like I got punched in the face at the end of this book. Holy shit 🤯

Make sure to grab your copy of #TheGuest releasing in February 2024!!

Thank you #netgalley & #baparis

3.5 stars

The Guest by B. A. Paris is a twisty thriller that leaves the reader guessing, and wondering where the story is going to go next. This psychological thriller definitely gets the mind spinning with all the loose threads and uncertainties that keep popping up, and it had me wanting to know the answers and to find out what was really going on with all of the characters and the various mysteries they seemed to bring to the story. Just went it seemed like the answers were clear some new information would pop up which made for all new questions and kept the story from getting stale.

I will say it was very much a slow burn plot. At points I felt like it was dragging on for no clear reason, seeming to take a while to get to the meat of the story and for anything real to happen. However, the unanswered questions and the suspicious characters did keep me coming back for more, intriguing me enough to keep going to find out what was going on and what secrets people were hiding.

I felt no real connection to any of the characters, so I wasn’t invested enough to feel as if their problems were mine or to overly be attached to anyone to be nervous about what might happen to them. Not to say they were unbearable, just that I could take or leave any of them and not be affected. Luckily the plot was enough to keep me going, and I often find thrillers don’t always need that connection to characters as they tend to be short and to the point anyways.

The twist ending all felt worth it in the end though. At first I thought it was ending with no clear conclusion to what had been going on, but an epilogue follows that breaks down everything that happened step by step and how it was accomplished which I really enjoyed. And finding out everything behind the scenes was both a worthwhile revelation, and a pleasant end to the story. I was glad I stuck with it in the end, and it did end up being a surprisingly intriguing story to me that kept me coming back for me and not wishing to put it down until I had all the answers I felt I needed.