This was a wild ride of a read! This was my 1st book by Shari J. Ryan and I will definitely be giving her another read!

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Ok a crazy ride of twists and turns. The first line draw me in but the book kept me.
It was brilliant I had no idea what was happening. It was gripping intense with a well written crime and good characters

Told from multiple points of view I really enjoyed the twists and turns in this story, I really thought the narrator did a good job. The plot was unique and had me on the edge of my seat. I would definitely recommend.

The Homemaker is a twisty psychological thriller that centres around three women who are neighbours. It is set in the present day but moves to the recent past to tell each of the characters’ backstories.
It is full of red herrings and did keep me guessing until the end but was quite far fetched and unrealistic. A great read for fans of this genre.

Thank you Netgalley for this audio edition of The Homemake by Shari J. Ryan.

What do you do when you reach down for your baby and find that baby gone. And even worse, being told by everyone in your life, that there was no baby, even though you can feel him in your arms like it was yesterday.

Ooooh, this is quite the mind twisting little thriller, full of shady characters and a twisty plot. It got slow every now and again, but mostly you will be hungry to get to the bottom of what actually happened, and who is responsible.

The Homemaker
By Shari J Ryan

Thank you to Bookouture Audio and NetGalley for the ARC of the story.

This story is a mothers worst nightmare. After 9 months of carrying this baby, go through child birth and you wake up to your baby gone from his crib. I loved how one minute you were thinking you figured it out then boom 💥…nope.
Shari wrote a great psychological thriller that kept me on my toes and guessing.

Unfortunately, my Netgalley app crashed and I lost the ability to finish this title before it expired. Such a pity as it has such promise and I really wanted to find out what was going on!

Really enjoyed this first I’ve read by the author but look forward to more. Fast paced nice narration & amazing plot highly recommend this audio book.

I really loved and enjoyed this psychological thriller, set in America.

The story is about three women, called Ginger, Jenna and Peyton, who all live in the same area. Jenna gives birth to a baby boy called River, who she is told has been born sleeping. But she can remember giving birth to him and cuddling him while he was looking up at her, so she is very confused. What has happened to her baby boy? Why are the people around her telling her that he has died?

This is a really great book, which is full of drama and suspense. I loved the narrator of the story, who did a fantastic job. I really liked her voice. Highly recommended!

Many thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley for a copy of this book.

I have read and enjoyed one of Shari's previous books, The Stolen Twins, but this is entirely different but no less enjoyable.

This is a twisty and disturbing thriller that had me hooked from the first to the last word. Told from the perspectives of three very different women who all live within the same area but whose story is the one to believe?

Written at a good pace, with excellent characters, excellent twists and a fantastic narrator that only adds to the story, this is a great book that I would recommend to others who enjoy this genre. I do, however, have to say that there were times where I thought it was a little over the top but I just went with it because if you can't suspend reality in fiction, when can you?

My thanks go to Bookouture Audio and NetGalley for enabling me to listen to and share my thoughts of The Homemaker.

I’ve never read anything by this author before but it sounded good so I decided to give it a try. I really enjoyed this audio book that was full of twists and turns. It was very easy to follow and kept my attention. I will definitely be looking for more by this author in the future.

Ryan's thriller was fast paced and hooked me within the first three chapters. I consumed this within two days via audiobook and each time I would tell myself I was going to put it down at the end of a chapter, it would end on a cliff-hanger and there I still was, reading on. Focused on three first person accounts given by women that live in the same neighborhood, this mystery focuses on trying to determine who we believe. Well-written, I found my thoughts bouncing back and forth. I did start to have glimmers of what I believed happened about 1/2 of the way through, but there were enough twists that the additional details kept me hooked. I did dock one star because I wasn't a huge fan of the mental health representation.

Deceit and faithless hope lead you to one conclusion, and the manner in which the players perform really take your breathe away. Be careful who you trust!

☆☆☆☆.5

A well written psychological thriller...and to know that the author doesn't write thrillers and this was her first, i LOOOOOOVED it. Can't wait to see what she writes next, hopefully it's a thriller.🤞🏻

This was an audiobook so the awesome narration added to the mystery. There were multiple suspects and the twists and turns kept me at the edge of the seat.

• This thriller was fast paced and i found myself totally hooked throughout. The story introduces the topics of marriage, friendship, neighbourhood, pregnancy, infertility, postpartum depression, assaults.

• I was so anxious about Jenna and her newborn. I enjoyed all the characters with their layered motives and secrets and how the story slowly unfolds and keeps you guessing along the way.

This starts well as a very good psychological thriller filled with lots of suspense.and over the first few chapters you get to know the main characters and when Jenna falls unexpectedly pregnant and her new best friend Peyton announces she too is pregnant they look forward to their babies being born and becoming friends
But when tragedy strikes and Jenna loses her baby during the birth Jenna ends up in a hospital as she doesn't know her son has died.
Then things start to unfold and there are a number of twists and turns as Jenna tries to come to terms with what happened and suddenly she has no one she can trust
Although I really enjoyed this book I do think the last few chapters were not as well put together as I had to listen to them a couple of times to get my head around it

3 ⭐️ Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an advanced audible copy !

Mmmm what can I say, didn’t like ANY of the characters apart from Ginger who had some “backbone”.

Toooo many wow now that would never happen moments

In this story we get to know Jenna. She recently gave birth to her beloved baby boy named River. Somehow she appears to be going through a form of psychosis.
However, her situation takes a twist when she not only finds herself admitted to a mental health facility but also discovers that she does not actually have a baby.

So what is really going on? Jenna is of course desperate to find out- and be prepared: this is a domestic psychological thriller as one can whish for perfectly narrated by Stephanie Cannon.

Thank you #NetGalley #Bookouture Audio for an advanced audio book of the Homemaker

This was my first thriller from Shari J. Ryan and I really enjoyed it. I thought the pacing was excellent and the tension steadily built throughout the book which helped make the reveal even more dramatic. She left many breadcrumbs so you could start to figure out the twist on your own which I enjoyed. I did get a bit confused with the jumping between POVs because Peyton and Jenna's voices weren't always distinct. I would have liked a bit more development of Peyton's character from her POV instead of the others POVs as well because I found her wickedly fascinating. I really enjoyed Ginger's role in the story as well. The ending was perfect in my opinion. I wouldn't have changed a thing. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This was a captivating story with a gripping plot, and although you start getting a sense of what the characters are actually like, I love to say I didn't see the ending at all.
Thanks to NetGalley, the editor and the author for the opportunity to access this ARC.

Holy cow! There’s a lot going on in this book without it seeming that way. A domestic thriller at its best. There are multiple narrators and multiple timelines and for a while I had absolutely no idea where this was going and didn’t mind. For the first bit of the book it almost seemed more like a neighborhood drama book, but of course it was the layered psychological suspense story promised in the synopsis. We know so much yet also know so little. A deceased baby, a history of bad things in the neighborhood and neighbors that don’t like each other. But until it all slowly unravels, you don’t know any details about any of that. The author does a fantastic job of staging everyone to seem a little unreliable, so I didn’t know who or even when we could trust the narrative. This is aided with not everyone being a POV character so that you rely on others to tell some character’s story.

I am not sure I particularly liked any of the characters, but I wanted to know what was happening on that street. The story moved along at a measured pace, making sure I didn’t grow bored, but had to wait for the layers of the neighborhood to peel back and reveal what ultimately happened over the last year. I was all in.

I both read and listened to this one and liked both equally well. Stephanie Cannon narrated the audiobook and did what a narrator should, conveyed the book and let it shine, I was able to tell who the POV character was by her different voices and had to double check and see there weren’t two female narrators that’s a good job