The Wrong Family by Ellery A. Kane is fast-paced, tense, twisty and unpredictable.
This exciting and compelling tale kept me guessing right until the end. I was gripped all the way through and I couldn't put it down, reading it in one fell swoop.
I really enjoyed The Wrong Family. I found it to be totally unputdownable with just the right amount of twists and turns that kept me guessing right up to the end.

"I received a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own."

Thank You NetGalley and Bookouture for your generosity and gifting me a copy of this amazing eARC!

Once I started this I couldn't stop reading. It consumed my life, and now is not the time for that, I am campaigning for a friend.
Our girl is broke. She can't afford rent on her rundown apartment and she is working in a diner. She wants a college education but she grew up in foster care and has no support. She is looking for her father. I loved the responses to the letters so much! It felt real.
She ends up meeting a man who is a match on the DNA website and they click. She has nothing else going on so she heads to Lake Tahoe to spend a few weeks with him and his family.
Crazy things start happening and she gets caught in the middle.
It is the most eventful summer. I can't stop craving the lobster grilled cheese from the book if you want to send me the recipe!
Love it.
Thank you for the ARC

TERRIFIC domestic thriller, well written with great characterization & lots of drama until the shocking finale. I have read & highly RECOMMEND all of this authors' thrillers. Thanks to#Bookouture#NetGalley for #TheWrongFamily in return for my honest review.

This was a great read! I wasn't expecting the ending and the story moved at a good pace. I like how unique the premise is and that it isn't a typical thriller, it's unique. I would recommend this to those that enjoy thrillers. Special Thank You to Ellery A Kane, Bookouture, and NetGalley for allowing me to read a complimentary copy prior to publication in exchange for an honest review.

A woman in search of her father finds him and her family. What starts out as a good family reunion quickly reveals more than she is meant to know.
I love how this book kept me guessing. I knew things were not normal with the family but the author kept leading me in multiple directions. A great book with an unexpected ending.

Loved it! This was my first read by this author, and definitely not my last! Great characters, enjoyed the plot and all the twist! Very nicely done!

Ancestry websites are great for helping people reconnect with long lost relatives and those who they never knew they were related to. But what happens when you are paired with The Wrong Family? This was a gripping and twist filled book that kept me on my toes, turning the pages until the very last page. I love trying to figure out books, but Ellery Kane pulled the wool over my eyes as I did not see the reveal coming!

Hallie's mother died in an accident when she was young, and she grew up in foster care. She never knew her father, only his name. She wrote to all the men named Robert Thompson, but never found him until she sent a DNA sample into Family Ties and was matched!!!! Her biological father has been found! Not only has he been found but he has welcomed her into his home and business with open arms.

Things begin to happen, small at first but then they grow more dangerous and as the tension and danger mounts, all fingers point at Hallie. Then she learns Robert Thompson is not her father.

I felt for Hallie as she tried to fit into the family and tried to prove her cooking abilities. Hallie is a likeable character that has not had an easy life. She is determined, flawed, vulnerable, smart, and impulsive. As the plot progresses, readers get to know the family members, observe their interactions and the supporting characters. With any book, there are both likeable and unlikeable ones.

I was drawn into the mystery of whodunit and as I mentioned I did my best to figure out whodunit. I enjoyed the many twists and turns along with the two reveals in the book. Very clever. Plus, as I mentioned, Hallie wrote to men named Robert Thompson, hoping to find her father and I enjoyed reading the few responses that she received in return. I thought this was a very nice touch.

There was an undercurrent of tension flowing throughout the book. I always love tension in books, so this was right up my alley. I also enjoyed the family dynamic and how each member reacted to the strange occurrences and mounting dread.

Well written, tense, intriguing and hard to put down!

I enjoyed this book. The main character is a big mess at the beginning and that makes her easier to relate to. I enjoyed the growth she went through in the book, all the learning she had to do.

*I received an ARC from netgalley for my honest review.*

Imagine spending your entire life essentially alone, no family you can count on. The adults in your life continue to let you down. You don't know who your father is. Your mother died after battling drug addiction when you were still very young. You bounced around in foster care and group homes. Never really feeling wanted or part of the family. You have had to fight for everything all your life. As an adult you decide to throw all your effort into trying to find your father. You get a match and you have not only a father but he comes with an instant family, your dream job and dream home. Would you throw caution to the wind to finally get that feeling of acceptance, of no longer being alone in the world that you've been chasing your entire life?? Hallie makes that choice and it sends her down a rabbit hole of twists and turns. Everyone seems to be lying and keeping secrets. No one is who they claim to be. The author kept me guessing throughout the book and the ending left me shocked. If you enjoy psychological thrillers, you will love this book!

4⭐️!

I did overall enjoy this book! It’s marketed as a thriller, which it does have some, but I think it’s also a family drama. The plot immediately interested me, which is why I requested it. I have never read anything by this author or heard or them, but I’m glad I took the chance.

I will say my one complaint is that this book was a little slow moving. While I was enjoying the story, I wasn’t fully invested until about 200 pages in. I wish there was a little more action or twists before this. But once it started to get good, I flew through the last 100 pages! I also don’t love cooking, so there was just a little too much of that for me in this, but that’s a personal thing to me!

I didn’t see the big twist coming! I like when a thriller can throw me for a loop. I liked that it wasn’t a very unbelievable twist either. Then there was a couple other twists after this. I really enjoyed the inclusion of the emails from all the Roberts, I think it was done really well. The emails were short, and added to the story.

But I will say I couldn’t not stand Natalie!! My god she was making me want to pull my hair out every time she spoke or talked about her followers.

Loved the little romance with Nick! I wish we got more on that. I also wish at the very end it didn’t leave on a cliffhanger. I want to know what it said!!!

Edit to add: this does feel like more of a YA novel even though hallie is 28. Just the way it is written. I also kind of think the main twist about Robert not being new father maybe shouldn’t have been in the back description? But at the same time, it’s what drew me to request this book, so I’m unsure.

But overall I did enjoy this book and do recommend it! This comes out on august 30th!

I received a complimentary copy from Bookouture and all opinions expressed are entirely my own.

This is a domestic thriller with an interesting premise. The book follow Hallie who has been looking for her father and so signs up for Family ties . Robert reaches out and that changes everything for her as he claims he is her father. Well written , well executed , entertaining and thrilling. I highly recommend it to lovers of domestic thrillers.

Well for starters I have never read more similes and metaphors in one book…
After we get over that fact the plot is decent. I didn’t see the ending coming, but I also wasn’t itching to keep picking the book up. It was all a bit unbelievable and the writing spelled everything out way too much. Like so explicitly. Too much for an adult book, we get it, we’re smart.
I think this book would be a good read in one sitting- booking through it in a day at the beach. The twist was fun but the epilogue ruined it.

Thank you for the ARC!

Thanks to #NetGalley and #Bookouture for the ARC of #TheWrongFamily by #ElleryKane. This book kept me guessing to the very end. I loved the relationships, the banter, and the jealousy this book out out. This was a new author for me and I plan on reading more by Ellery. Highly recommend.

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The Wrong Family is a thriller where we have Hallie Sherman as the main character, who is a woman who has grown up without a father and who, thanks to her search and perseverance, has finally found.
He invites her to spend two weeks with his family and this time will not only help her get to know him but also get her into trouble that everyone is willing to hide.

Positive points:
-It has a very compelling plot.
-The writer's style is so fluid and addictive that you can't stop reading it.
-The mystery is maintained throughout the book and each character brings new intrigues.

Points I didn't like:
-I couldn't get attached to any character, so their destinations were indifferent to me.
-Certain situations seemed to me little credible or quite convenient.

With all this, my experience reading The wrong family was quite positive, so I recommend it to all thriller lovers.

Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for giving me the opportunity to read and review this book.

“𝙸 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚣𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝙸’𝚟𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚜𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚒𝚜𝚗’𝚝 𝚊 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚘𝚗, 𝚒𝚝’𝚜 𝚊 𝚏𝚎𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐. 𝙰 𝚏𝚎𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚘𝚏 𝚋𝚎𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚐. 𝙸 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚖𝚢𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚏. “

Tired of being alone, Hallie is looking for her biological father through a genetic testing site. After years of trying she receives confirmation about a match being found for her DNA . She thinks that’s the answer to all her problems when in fact, that’s when the problems start to surface.
A captivating thriller that was focused not only on the plot but on the characters too, showing that people would go to great lengths to prove their worth to the ones around them.

Thank you to Netgalley, Bookouture publishing and to Ellery Kane for this ARC

As always Ellery's books are awesome and twisted. Since there are so many twists and turns, I never like to give any of the plot away. Not sure I could if I wanted to. I will say this: I was married to an adopted man, and he always wanted to look for siblings and we tried. We did trace his mother and grandparents, and possible cousins. So, this story relates somewhat, and there the similarities end! Be careful not to get ahead of yourself. Read, Enjoy, be ready for a Surprise or maybe not?!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Hallie has craved a blood connection since her mother died. Jumping between foster homes and never quite finding her place in the world, she finally receives an email confirming that she finally found her father after years of looking.
This book had thrilling and twisty aspects, but was really carried by the characters. Not everyone is who they seem to be, and everyone has secrets they’d rather not have exposed. I recommend this book to anyone looking for a good mystery.

This is definitely an enjoyable read, but not one that’s going to knock your socks off. The concept is really intriguing (girl tries to track down her father, her father appears and he’s wealthy and welcoming and wonderful, but weird things keep happening…) but the execution is a bit off, primarily because the main character seems to be a bit thick! She doesn’t have any concerns at all about the homeless person she’s hanging out with despite him potentially being an extra suspect in all the mysterious things going on - of course this comes back to bite her! The murderer is also a bit of a surprise and the ramifications aren’t fully explored. That said, I found the scene setting very evocative and the slowly escalating list of mysterious incidents enjoyably creepy. Would recommend but don’t expect too much.

I became a fan of ELLERY KANE whenever I read "The Good Wife". She has not disappointed me yet. This was a fun, suspenseful book that made me hold my breath at times. It was a page turner for sure.

The MC (main character) Hallie has used a genealogy site to find her father and now years later there is a match. She's excited to see that she has found her father and is then reunited with him and his family. In true KANE fashion you are taken along for a crazy ride. Strange things keep happening and it always points to Haddie. She knows she hasn't done anything though. But if it's not her then who is behind these strange occurrences and equally important is the question of why?

This was compelling, suspenseful, a true thriller and kept me wanting to turn the page. ELLERY KANE does it again!

Thank you to NETGALLEY and BOOKOUTURE for this ARC!

This was a fantastic thriller despite the Pacing being off a bit. I love thrillers where I don't trust any of the characters and twist after twist Is revealed.

Totally recommend

Thanks Netgalley and publisher. All thoughts are my own