She got to stay home and look after the boys. She said you were having trouble finding a babysitter.” Leo turns. “Has everybody arrived, Eve, do you think? Alice is worried she won’t hear the bell from the garden.” The tall woman shakes her head, but there’s a smile in her voice. “Not good enough, Eve. I was expecting you yesterday.” Thank you so much to the publisher, Macmillan Audio and St. Martin's Press, for providing me with an early copy to read and review.

I came nowhere near predicting the end, although I don't generally try to do that. I like to just go along for the ride and let the author take me where they choose.

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Recognizing Eve’s voice, I look over Leo’s shoulder and see her standing in the doorway, an empty glass in her hand, a pink flush staining her cheeks, matching the pink tips she’s added to her white pixie cut. “It’s delicious! I’m not sure Prosecco is going to cut it for me in the future.”

I'm afraid this is where B.A. Paris and I part ways. She started strong with Behind Closed Doors, and The Break Down, but has gone steadily downhill since. She takes readers through a meaningful journey of understanding the moments that can make or break relationships and the value of effective communication and self-expression. She has also shared valuable advice on how couples can work with each other to build an everlasting connection.

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But the neighborhood is not as open and friendly as it looks. Alice realizes that looks can be deceptive. There is some secret that everyone seems to be hiding. Soon she discovers a haunting detail about her current house, one that she cannot ignore. If you enjoy reading about Alice's trust issues, obsessive thoughts and behaviour, and her mourning her country cottage and struggling to adjust to London life, then you might relate to this more. There just wasn't enough to hold my interest or move the plot forward. If I tell you, however, I’ll ruin it for those of you who haven’t read it. Let’s just say that I guessed two things right off the bat and was right on the money.

BUT-Alice exasperated me! She could talk herself into ANYTHING to justify some “not so smart” choices that she made. The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook follows the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy approach and puts forth some practical exercises that can help readers reinvent their lives all over again. A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy. A] thrill-stuffed novel about a posh London gated community that’s a hotbed of secrets and lies."— The Washington PostAlice and her boyfriend Leo move into a gorgeous house in a gated community called The Circle. After making friends with the neighbors, Alice unwittingly finds out that something bad happened to the last resident of the house. She was a therapist. But at the second half: the story’s direction and Alice’s ( our illogical heroine) way too much insistence to dig into the mystery escalated to an irritating level. Alice is an exhausting character, fretting about the neighbours and how she should fit in, wondering why Tamsin seems hostile, and why she has thoughts that someone is always watching her. However, Alice soon discovers that the house's previous owner, Nina Maxwell, was murdered by her husband, Oliver. While this is news to Alice, Leo has known this for quite a while - which becomes a major issue of trust and openness; why didn’t he explain all this before buying the house. I had a similar reaction when I read the author's The Breakdown in 2017 (which I loved and gave 5 stars too because it just had that addictive quality to it). So much better than last year's The Dilemma. The main character Alice even reminded me of Cass from The Breakdown! They are both naive and paranoid but still likeable. This wasn’t my favorite by the author because I am not a fan of OTT endings…but if you like em crazy-this might be your new favorite! 🦋

I met Eve properly the day after I overheard her and Tamsin talking outside my window, and I instantly liked her. It wasn’t just that—unlike Tamsin—she seemed eager to get to know me and Leo, it was also that she was warm and caring, understanding that it wasn’t easy moving into a street where everyone already knew everyone else. She and Will only moved to The Circle eighteen months ago, so things are still relatively new for her too. Do you know what Henry David Thoreau believed? Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will elude you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder. “ 🦋 The Developing Mind opens a whole new dimension to the science of human connections and its relevance in psychotherapeutic interventions. The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients – Irvin Yalom

When they began their relationship, Alice and Leo, were making a go long-distance. However, as time passed, it no longer felt enough to just see each other on the weekends. In this book, Alice and her boyfriend Leo, at Leo’s urging, move into a surprisingly cheap house in an exclusive gated cul de sac called The Circle. But Alice soon finds out there’s a reason it was so cheap — she’s living in a murder house. A RECENT murder house. And the killer may still be roaming around her cul de sac. I will admit, toward the beginning, feeling frustrated with Alice. She's a bit bullheaded and I just couldn't understand why she was so fixated on Nina. However, I was satisfied with how that was ultimately explained and as I grew to know Alice, it made a lot more sense.