Excellent book! I listened to the audiobook and the narrators were fantastic. I was invested from the very beginning and listened nonstop! I loved everything about it- plot, pacing, twists, dialogue. Highly recommend!

A fast paced and disturbing domestic thriller. This is one of those books that leaves you extremely frustrated with how the characters are acting, but you can’t put it down at the same time. Builds to a fantastic and twisty climax that really delivers.

The House On Cold Creek Lane is a dark and addictive thriller that kept me invested from start to finish. It is a fast enough paced read that is easily bingeable. It's about motherhood, grief and loss. For me it was just a little too predictable for my liking.

The characters were great, well developed, easy to love and hate, it was hard to trust any of them. The storyline was engaging and is what kept me truly invested even if sometimes it was a little meh for me. I don't know that I'd fully characterize this as a thriller, it's more of a domestic drama/suspense. I did want more twists and turns.

With all that said, the writing was excellent, just the execution for this one, I needed more. Overall, it's an enjoyable and fun read.

🎧 The narration by Emily Ellet & Gail Shalan was good. I enjoyed listening to them, they didn't fully keep me hooked at all times, I thought some things were lacking, but overall a good performance.

✨️Thank you to @netgalley, @dreamscapemedia & Liz Alterman for my gifted ALC in exchange for an honest review.

Holy moly was this one good! You can’t tell a book is good when you loose track of time and not get a single thing done during your day! This follows Cory and Laurel they both have lived a the house on cold lane at one point in their life lourel just moved out and Cory just moved in. Cory is wondering what’s up with the neighbors and why it’s hard to make friends. Why is laurel living with her mother? Alterman does a great job of keeping this relatable and you can feel what the character is feeling.

The absolute chokehold this book had on me all weekend. This is why I love thrillers. This is what I am looking for when I listen to a thriller audiobook. The narration was perfect. The story was twisty and relatable. At the end we understand the behaviors of the neighbors. It was just wonderful and so sad.

Thank you NetGalley and Dreamscape for an ARC of The House on Cold Creek Lane!

This book is such a gripping, twisty domestic thriller. It was creative, highly entertaining, and keeps you guessing who the real villain is.

It was a bit predictable, and some of the plot points could have been eliminated, but overall it was a great read!

Twisted domesticity? Check. The seedy underbelly of suburbia? Check, check. This is motherhood, marriage, mundanity, and murder all wrapped together and it’s *such* a one-day read. I couldn’t stop!

Premise - Laurel is a young mother who has newly moved to a new neighborhood and struggles with the demands of parenting two young children while plodding along in a marriage to a less-than-supportive husband. Her thought patterns veer towards PPA/PPD, her mother in law is a judgmental nuisance, and her own mother died years ago in a workplace shooting.

Corey is a divorcee who’s crashing with her mom at a retirement home after the tragic loss of her only child. She’s self-soothing with kleptomania and the only dependable thing in her life is the certainty that if things can get worse they will.

The two women have never met, but the secret linking their lives could destroy both of their worlds…

I love when an author sucks you into a character’s insanity so competently that they almost seem sane. Alterman 100% pulls that off in this and it’s so fun!

I listened to the audiobook version, narrated by Emily Ellett and Gail Shalan. Both narrators are strong, with a diverse range of characters in their wheelhouse, and together they give an engaging performance that wonderfully compliments Alterman’s story. I definitely recommend enjoying the book in audio form!

Thanks, NetGalley and Dreamscape Media, for the audio ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Dang. Now that was one heck of a book *chef’s kiss*.

This was an amazing suspense and I loved every minute of it.

There are a couple of different timelines that weave throughout the storyline and you aren’t entirely sure how they work together, but man oh man, they work together.

Also, if that was one narrator doing all of those voices, she deserves an award for her performance. Brava!

Thank you to the author, NetGalley, and Dreamscape Media for the ARC of this amazing audiobook in exchange for a written review.

Did I like this book? Yes. Did I guess the twist? Also, yes. I would still recommend. Good writing. Fun story.

I am thankful to have gotten the audioARC for free from Netgalley and Dreamscape Media so I can leave my voluntary and honest review.

I really enjoyed this popcorn thriller. It definitely had some lifetime movie vibes to it but it was better than that.
The prose was very well detailed and written.

I listened to the audio book and it was interesting. I couldn’t stand the other voices that the reader did and usually that ruins a book for me. But in this case it didn’t. Probably because it was a dual 1st POV which the regular voice of the 2 narrators was enjoyable and took up the majority of the book. Most times when a reader does different voices they are unique even when there are several characters. That was not the case here. There were different characters where nearly the same voice was used so it made it a tad confusing of who was talking at times. In addition 2 readers are credited on the book and I didn’t even realize it as they sound too alike.

I think the part that bothered me the most was when the reader did the kids voices. I was thankful that they only had sporadic lines.

All that being said, I wanted to keep listening simply because I wanted to know what happened! The book is not just a thriller with some predictable twists and turns but it also explores grief and how different people deal with it. So trigger warning it does talk about the death of a child and others but it’s done in a respectful way.

If you’re looking for a simple thriller that’s not too heavy, give this one a try when it comes out on August 6th 2023

My rating system since GoodReads doesn’t have partial stars and I rarely round up.

⭐️ Hated it
⭐️⭐️ Had a lot of trouble, prose issues, really not my cup of tea (potentially DNF’d or thought about it)
⭐️⭐️⭐️ Meh, it was an ok read but nothing special
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Really enjoyed it! Would recommend to others
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Outstanding! Will circle back and read again