📚 Review: The Next Mrs. Parrish 💎
Now this is how you do a sequel 🙌🏻♥️ This book was SO good!! For those who are fans of The Last Mrs. Parrish, you will LOVE this book as well. Everyone is back for a new sick, twisted adventure. We have a new character and POV too, but I don’t want to say who so I won’t ruin anything. But this book was so great. I absolutely loved it!! You have to grab this one when it comes out in June. It did not disappoint. This was a HUGE ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 stars for me!
I highly recommend this one, but obviously you would have to read the first one before this. I even recommend reading the short story The First Shot before reading this one. It’s a prequel to The Last Mrs. Parrish. But it ties into this one in a big way, so it would benefit you to do that.
I want to say thank you to @netgalley and
@livconstantine2 and @randonhouse for this Arc in exchange for an honest review. I loved it.
Pub Date: June 18 , 2024

I was very excited to see that there was going to be another book from this series. The first book has been a favorite of mine that I think about a lot. It’s a book I always suggest to others when they are looking into more of a suspense book.
However, this book left me wanting more. The buildup to it all was great, the storylines- detailed. The ending? Rushed. There was buildup to then fall flat. I feel if she had been able to really finish it out in as much detail as the beginning had been done, it would have been a 5 star book. I received an advanced copy on NetGalley to read.
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Thank you NetGalley for the ARC! I really enjoyed reading this! The first book seemed like it took ages to get to the twist and I got kind of frustrated with how long it took. This one kept me entertained from start to finish! I love the ending and how it opens up for a third book or leave it to the imagination. Great storyline amongst the various characters. Will definitely recommend!

I was late to the party reading The Last Mrs. Parrish and I absolutely loved it! I did not really think that the sequel, The Next Mrs. Parrish, could/would be as good. WRONG!! Amber and Daphne’s ongoing story continued to keep me glued to the pages. All of the characters in this new book are so fun to love and hate and the twists keep coming and are so surprising! The ending? Total perfection. This is a book I wish I could read again for the first time! Thank you to the authors for such a fun read, I will be waiting for more from them. Also thank you to NetGalley and the Publisher for allowing me to review this book. It’s a definite winner.

The book you need to read to tie everything together from the first. So. Many. Mind games! Better written than the fist, good cadence to keep for a quick and easy read!

Absolutely loved this book! The twists were great and I did not see them coming. I would recommend that readers read the prequel The First Shot first for the background of Amber and Daisy Ann.

Thank you for the opportunity to read and review this book.

The Next Mrs Parrish. Another great read by the great Liv Constantine. I was excited to see a second book to such a fabulous first that I jumped right in. I will tell you now, these characters sure do get your blood boiling. The story is full of twists and turns to keep you engaged. Although I didn't love it as much as the first, I still couldn't put it down.

Amber Parrish worked hard to become the new and upcoming socialite and have the money she always wanted. She has a beautiful child, a full time nanny, money to spend and a husband who is in prison. While her husband was serving his prison term Amber starts thinking of new ways money can come into their lives because her habits are becoming expensive. But then her husband is released in good behavior and everything quickly starts changing. Determined to control both Amber and his first wife he starts concoting plans to get his wife and daughters back home. Meanwhile Daphne his first wife is facing challenges with her teenage daughter wanting to see her father and be around him more and more. Finally after some convincing Daphne agrees to come back to where Jackson is living but stays in a rental with the agreement of the girls meeting their brother and supervised visits with their father but things take a ugly turn very quickly. And we realize Jackson has some more nefarious plans in place.

I loved this book! I was on the edge of my seat the entire time! I thought I had figured out what Jacksons motives were and then something would happen and I was back to guessing. It was fast paced and very well written and thrilling. I would recommend this book a million times over and over!

Thank you so much to Liv Constantine, Random House Publishing Group, and NetGalley for the ARC of The Next Mrs. Parrish. Have you ever loved a book but couldn’t stand the main characters? As in, the author did such a fantastic job in making them so deplorable and vile that you just can’t hardly stomach reading about them? That’s how I felt about Amber and Jackson after reading Constantine’s first book. When I saw the ARC available I wasn’t even sure I could handle more of them! But the first book was so twisty and suspenseful that I had to give this book a shot! I’m so glad I did!! This book was void of a lot of the drawn out text and unnecessary conversations that I found in The Last Mrs. Parrish while still delivering on the crazy plot. If you’ve not read the first Mrs. Parrish book be absolutely certain that you go read that first! 4/5 stars for short chapters that help you fly through this book and multiple character POVs that keep you entertained! I definitely need to go check out the prequel!

I read and thoroughly enjoyed 'The Last Mrs. Parrish' quite a few years ago and still can recall the narcissist husband, wife Daphne, and evil Amber. Back in October, I was fortunate enough to spend some time with the Constantine sisters at a book event. They gave me a novella they wrote called 'The First Shot' which is Amber's story, which I loved. This book, which comes out this summer, is a continuation of Daphne's life. It picks up with Daphne, her daughters, and her mom happily living on the west coast and her ex-husband, Amber's husband, Jackson, currently in jail for his white-collar crimes. When one of Daphne's daughters tries to get to Connecticut on her own, without telling her mother, Daphne realizes she is going to have to travel east and let her daughters spend time with their dad. Has Jackson changed? Is Amber happy now? Will Jackson welcome a relationship with his daughters? Well, you'll just have to find out for yourself in this wild ride deceit.

With "The Last Mrs. Parrish" being one of my first entries into the thriller genre I was so excited to see this sequel! The writing duo Liv Constantine brings back the Parish family for another story of betrayal and deception. Amber is now disillusioned with being the new Mrs. Parrish and wants out. Jackson is ending his stint in federal prison for tax fraud and wants a new start. Daphne has moved to California with the girls to escape the ugly, traumatic memories of Bishops Harbor. Tallulah and Bella are not aware of what was happening in their parents' marriage before Amber came crashing in. Tallulah struggles with missing her dad and her old life and Connecticut. Daphne agrees to return for the summer thinking she'll be able to allow them to see Jackson without succumbing to his usual tricks.

The book is told from multiple points of view - Amber, Daphne, and a new character Daisy Ann. I would say this story is unique in the thriller genre in that you already know who the bad guy is from the beginning. This makes Jackson's tricks and schemes even more infuriating. Toward the middle of the book I had so much anxiety and distress over what was happening to Daphne and the girls. On the flip side I found the Amber chapters entertaining with her over the top level of entitlement and ultimate misfortune. Unraveling the secrets of this dysfunctional bunch made it a page turner. The ending was *chef's kiss* amazing and redemptive.

If you liked the original, "The Next Mrs. Parrish" is not to be missed!

First, I want to say I was a HUGGEE fan of The Last Mrs. Parrish and thought that was a great conclusion to the story. Talk about plot twists!! I love stories with multiple POVs and I’m absolutely obsessed with scam artist stories!

All that to say, sequels don’t always work. The first half of the book felt very disconnected and the addition of Daisy Ann was jarring. (I should’ve listened to the reviews and read The First Shot first). However, the descriptions of Daisy Ann and her family felt like a caricature of what people think Texans act/speak like, so I think I’ll skip that one.

I loved Daphne in the first book, but she was infuriating in this follow up!! Why would she think any of her decisions would be a good idea?? Why would exposing your children to their abusive father be better for their mental health than just telling them the truth? And everyone just lets her get closer and closer to him? I just wanted to shake her.

Amber and Jackson are absolutely evil and calculating, and I kind of loved it.

The last third of the book really saved it for me and it was unputdownable!! I stayed up too late finishing it because I couldn’t wait to see how it ended! When Daphne meets Daisy Ann? I was screaming!!! iykyk!

I think it all wrapped up nicely, but I could see an opening for a third installment to the book!?! Maybe unnecessary, and much as love to hate it, I’ll probably be here reading it if they decide to make this into a trilogy.

Overall, it was a fun, fast read and I’d recommend it to anyone who enjoyed the first book. It wasn’t as good as The Last Mrs. Parrish, but sequels hardly ever are.

Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher, and the authors for providing me with a ARC in exchange of my honest review.

WOWWW!!! What an AMAZING sequel to The Last Mrs. Parrish! This is one of those books that will make you need a "reading break" to fully take it all in, Liv Constantine makes the villians in this story so real and awful that you will literally want to jump into the pages and get rid of them for the heroes. What an excellent ending to this story! I was blown away! I will miss Daphne, Tellaluh, Bella, and Jax but am so proud of their story. This one will stay with me for awhile! Highly recommend.

It had been so long since I read the first one, but I think it actually made the story better for me. I felt I got to relearn the characters for who they are in this book.

Wow!!!! It picked up where it left off. Could t stop reading. Great character development, a fast-paced plot, and lots of twists.

Kept me on the edge of my seat! Great story line, and the characters are either really likable or they are a love to hate vibe. I would definitely recommend!

Thank you to net galley for the advanced copy of this book. I absolutely loved it, maybe even better than the first one. I liked seeing how each character’s storyline played out, There were so many twists that kept me guessing. I really enjoyed it and can't wait to recommend to my friends.

I really enjoyed the first book “The Last Mrs. Parrish” so I was so excited to see a sequel! I definitely wanted more Daphne and Amber! I wanted to see Amber miserable from her plotting and scheming! This was the perfect way to tie the story together and give you more of the characters!

Thanks NetGalley for letting me read this book!

While not nearly as un-put-down-able as The Last Mrs. Parrish, this was a good follow-up. The sequel has a lot of moving parts and lots of characters, making it slightly difficult to follow and lacked the major plot twists of the first book. It was good to revisit the old morally complex characters and get some resolution to their stories, the ending was a bit contrived.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Penguin Random House for the ARC of “The Next Mrs Parrish”

This books pick right back up in Bishop’s Harbor with the same characters from the first book: Daphne, Jackson and Amber as well as a few new characters. The drama is new and original and I could not put this book down. I had to know what was happening, who was getting the upper hand and I spent many chapters holding my breath.

I hope you enjoy it just as much as I did! The Next Mrs Parrish comes out on June 18, 2024