"Elsewhere" is a riveting psychological thriller that consistently keeps readers on their toes. The story revolves around two sisters, Catherine and Anna, who attempt to enjoy a much-needed getaway. However, their seemingly peaceful retreat in a tiny seaside village quickly descends into chaos and confusion. As things start to go awry, suspicions are stirred, threatening to shatter the tranquil façade of their vacation. As the plot deepens, secrets are unveiled, leading the sisters to question not only the locals but also each other. This book brilliantly explores the complex dynamics of sibling relationships against a backdrop of escalating tension and intrigue.

Elsewhere by Sarah Tierney The book was narrated by Lorna Bennett and Cat Rose Martin both of whom I have listen to narration buy them before and enjoyed both of them as I did in this book I only think that the narrator who did Anne should’ve did Catherine and vice versa because their voices fits the opposite personality but that is just one person‘s opinion as for the book it was a great book about Catherine who her and her husband Joe want to have a baby and to get her away from the stress of that and the life he tells her to spend a week in his parents remote cabin in Scotland with her sister. Ann is a love ‘em and leave them type girl she likes to build bridges to watch them burn and get drunk while they’re burning. When strange things start happening at the cabin Anne takes things in stride but Catherine thinks she knows why they are occurring. Before it’s over little sister Anne finds her inner strength and inner adult to be there for a sister who always seem to have it together. I think the author did a great job handling the mental health issues in the book along with all the other heavy subjects but I did think The end to the issue in Scotland I thought came quite abrupt but having said that I thought the ending was a good one and despite all the negative it totally left me with a happy feeling. This is a book I definitely recommend an although they have a few minor issues it wasn’t enough to pass it up because I love thrillers and really enjoyed this one.#DreamscapeMedia, #NetGalley, #LornnaBennett, #CatRoseMartin, #SarahTierney, #Elsewhere,

Elsewhere is an intriguing thriller that will make you feel all the different things with the characters, while they process and experience small moments and big revelations. This story won’t just keep you guessing, but will touch on important topics such as mental health, family supports, and trusting your instincts.

I really enjoyed this story. I listened to the audiobook version of this story, which was done well. I listened at 2x speed (my normal audiobook listening speed is 1.75-2x speed).

Thank you NetGalley and Dreamscape Media for this advanced audiobook listening copy.

Elsewhere
Every family has its secrets…
Sarah Tierney
Two sisters with deep dark secrets.
In Elsewhere we meet Anna and Catherine they have been estranged, both physically and emotionally for many years. Anna tends to be a free thinker; a drifter and Catherine seems more grounded; she is focused on her career and her husband; she has always lived in one place. They are reunited at the airport where the tension starts. They are staying in an isolated cottage in Scotland. They are hoping to heal old wounds and reconnect. The people in the closest town are unfriendly to the point of being rude. However, strange things begin happening at night causing the strain to accelerate. Someone moves things off a picnic table, beats on the window. A dead bird placed on their sidewalk. A missing diary, a lighter appearing in their home, and scratches on their car.
They meet a girl with a baby; she seems to be watching them and always there when they least expect it. Catherine sees the baby girl and thinks it looks like her causing her to believe the girl is the child she gave up for adoption. . The sisters have never discussed the baby Catherine gave up twenty years ago. Catherine is desperate for a child but has not been able to conceive. There is a Scottish man that shows Anna attention; she finds herself falling for him. Anna finds it all confusing and Catherine is terrified.
As Catherine sinks deeper and deeper into psychosis, Anna calls her husband and asks for his assistance. He begrudgingly comes but does not help. Has Catherine lost her mind completely or is she being driven that direction.
This is a slow-moving book most of the time. It is told through the point of view of the sisters. The characters are well developed. The setting is beautifully described. The story unfolds slowly. Readers are fed a bit here and a bit there.
Thank you NetGalley for providing a copy of Elsewhere for review.

Thank you Netgalley, Sarah Tierney, and Dreamscape Media for the audiobook. A great narration by Lorna Bennett and Kat Rose-Martin. This story had me hooked and had me questioning my own sanity. A story that shows the depths that mental illness can effect ones own life and those around.

Good lord. Is Katherine an anxiety ridden paranoid? We are taken along on a “vacation” with Katherine and her sister Anna. They don’t have the greatest relationship. Having spent their childhood together, that was enough. Katherine’s husband had gone on a vacation with his family the year before and felt that it was important that she and her sister go.

We visit a series of flashbacks where each of the sisters gives their recollection of growing up from their point of view. Each girl saw their sister and their own experiences so differently.

My personal opinion shifted as the book continued from “what a crappy bunch of occurrences to happen to them” to “she’s making it all up.”

The ending was different than I expected so kudos to Sarah Tierney!

Thank you Sarah Tierney, NetGalley, Dreamscape media, Lorna Bennett and Kat Rose-Martin for the ARC! I’m excited to hear what others think.

The premise sounded interesting. Two estranged sisters spending time in a desolate, run down cabin. Would they find love for each other, understand each other, kill each other? It appears that something sinister is happening to them. No phone service, no internet... And the people in the tiny town seem unfriendly.
I found the book to be quite slow moving and it never really grabbed me.

I listened to the audio version. The narrators did a good job.

Engaging, entertaining, and expertly narrated. A recommended purchase for collections where crime and family noir is popular.

3⭐
Genre ~ psychological fiction
Setting ~ Scotland
Publication date ~ June 25, 2024
Est Page Count ~ 276 (before+ 13 chapters +after)
Audio length ~ 8 hours 37 minutes
Narrators ~ Lorna Bennett & Kat Rose-Martin
POV ~ dual 1st
Featuring ~ remote cabin with no cell service, old secrets, slow burn, long chapters

Estranged, total opposite, sisters, Catherine & Anna, are off to Scotland to try to reconnect. It's not proving to be too easy when weird things begin happening at the cabin. Add in no cell service and the creep factor for them is intensified.

This was a super slow mover and the secrets and twists weren't exactly mind blowing. Some chapters were very long, like over 40 minutes and one was even over an hour, which is way too long in my opinion. I did enjoy the creepy vibe of the location and the very end. All in all, fine, but I can see other's enjoying it more than me, especially if they read and not listen.

Narration notes:
I'm not sure which narrator was for who, but I felt like Catherine's was yelling at me the whole time. She seemed very grumpy with her gruff tone, which I guess maybe was fitting since she didn't really want to go on the trip in the first place. She took me out of the story a bit. The other did a perfectly fine job.

TW for mental health issues, miscarriage, adoption, and IVF.

I had to stop at about the halfway mark on this one, it was too heavy for me. That said, this book is so well written. If it weren't, I wouldn't have had to stop reading.

The characters are so compelling and so is the story. This book has you questioning everything you are being told constantly, and as new situations arise you only have more questions. I didn't get to the satisfying answers part of the book, but I'd love to know how this ends, I just can't take that journey right now. Maybe in 5-10 years, I'll revisit this book and finally know the answers to all my questions.

I'd recommend this book to anyone interested in wants a compelling look into someone having a paranoid attack and those that like psychological thrillers.

This one falls between 3 and 4 stars for me. Two sisters reconnect through a getaway at a family cabin in a small town in Scotland. Quickly things begin to seem off and it seems maybe someone is trying to scare them. Overall I feel this book was well written. It shows an aspect of how we can be affected by pain we carry and hold and how events can impact an entire family even though it may have been mostly one person’s trauma. I like the developing of relationships and some of the characters and how they grew and changed. The cons. I was kind of expecting more maybe. And I felt like towards the end everything kind of tumbled out and into place. I wanted a little more. I’m not sure what that is exactly, but I wanted to be shocked a bit more than I was.

Thank you to netgalley, the author, and publisher for this advanced audio copy of this book.

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC audiobook by Sarah Tierney.

Two sisters Catherine and Anna meet up for a stay at a remote cottage. Anna is a free-flowing person who is in her thirties and hasn't decided what she wants to do with her life. She was living in Canada but had recently moved home with her mom and dad. Catherine is the total opposite and very responsible. Catherine has become paranoid as years have gone on. When she was in her teens, she had gotten pregnant and had to give up her child for adoption. This book deals with a lot of mental health issues and the toll it takes on their families. Catherine's husband is fed up with it all, he has tried to support her, but she does not believe she has a problem. How do you help someone when they refuse to admit they have issues?

Elsewhere by Sarah tierney. There are times in our lives which will draw us back in the future. People will say to us, where were you ?. When we were lost in thought. We will say ELSEWHERE

This is a well-written, entertaining, gripping psychological thriller. It is fast paced with beautiful, vividly described settings, a touch of humor, intrigue, suspense, mystery, twists and turns, and a satisfying conclusion. The two distinct voices of the talented narrators, Ms. Lorna Bennett and Ms. Kat Rose-Martin, made listening to this audio book, which is told in the first person from the viewpoint of two sisters, a pleasure. I received an advanced listener copy of this outstanding novel from Dreamscape Media, NetGalley, and Ms. Sarah Tierney. This is my honest opinion.

Anna and Catherine are going away on a vacation. The sisters are very distant and couldn’t be more different. As they reach the cabin, things start happening that don’t make sense. Any one event can be easily explained away. However, all of them put together start to make things suspicious. Things scattered off the picnic table. Pounding on the door in the middle of the night. A
Dead bird in their walkway. A missing diary. A mysterious lighter showing up in the home.

A pretty interesting setting, the setting has daylight nearly 22 hours per day in Scotland at this time of year.

Definitely a slow build, with some reveals along the way, this is a different type of mystery, no murders, all psychological mystery. This reviews of the audio version , I e joyed it and the accents are transparent and well acted. The reveal fell a little flat for me, but it was enjoyable to get there and definitely enough to keep me reading.

Thanks to NetGalley and Dreamscape media for the advance audiobook.

I enjoyed the narrators as they had a great Scottish Accent, which added to the pleasure of the story. The descriptions of the scenery made me feel like I was there. The story was a slow build which added to the uneasiness of the situation. It really built the tension between the two sisters. My reason for the 3 stars is the ending was rather abrupt and left a couple of things unfinished.

Catherine and Anna are sisters who haven't seen each other in years. whilst Catherine and her husband are staying in the wildy wilds of northern Scotland by the sea he suggests a reunion and Anna agrees and comes from Canada to join her sister, but something is not quite right. Many thanks to netgalley for the arc/audiobook - i loved the beautiful accents!

I loved this. It is so weird and creepy. The setting is amazing. It took me a second to get into a pace with the narrators because I am a dumb american, but once I did it just flowed. I did suspect the twist with the baby right from the beginning, immediately, but I loved the journey we went on with the sisters.
Wonderful!

Many thanks to NetGalley and Dreamscape Media for the free audiobook in exchange for my honest review. This is narrated by Lorna Bennett and Kat Rose-Martin who do a great job! I loved their accents which really added to the story based in Scotland.

Two estranged sisters, Anna and Catherine, meet up in a family cottage off in the wilds of Scotland for vacation. Anna and Catherine are polar opposite with Anna being the party girl, and Catherine being a career minded woman with a husband. Once they arrive and get settled, strange things begin to happen.

Honestly, I was underwhelmed by this one. I found the pace to be too slow for my taste. I kept listening and waiting something to happen. Yes, this is a slow build and there are twists and secrets but there was not enough action to keep my interest up. Catherine's big secret also was a let down.

Not sure this was the right read for me. If you enjoy slow build mysteries and tales in the wilds of Scotland, I would recommend this for you.

Sarah Tierney has written an enthralling thriller that keeps you guessing! When estranged sisters Anna and Catherine reunite at a remote Scottish cottage, their tense relationship is only the beginning of the drama. Mysterious events and eerie characters add to the tension! I l enjoyed the alternating perspectives, but personally I feel like the narrator for the oldest sister, Cathrine, read the part more like an elderly woman instead of someone in their late 30s.
Overall I personally have mixed feelings on the book, but I think fans of psychological thrillers will enjoy this read!