We follow Alison who seems to have a perfect middle class suburban life with her husband and daughter until one day there is a knock on the door and a stranger tells her their daughters were switched at birth. Their awkward reunion and evident distance in the intervening years has much to do with the bitter memories of their childhood after their father’s sudden death. She's both excited and scared when her sister tells her that she's going to turn the house and the rest of the inheritance over to her. As if that wasn't enough, Tom's visit delivers a second, equally as devastating blow, that makes the family question their future together as well as their past. Cuckoo by Sophie Draper is that book you've looked forward to reading and when you do it just doesn't hit the spot,it took me a long time to actually get into it,I stayed with it hoping it would get there but it never did I think my problem with this book is I've already read this kind of same plot in another book and it felt a little repetitive but that's my problem for reading the same kind of books 😌.

Thank you to NetGalley and Avon Books UK for providing me with a digital ARC in exchange for my honest review. Confronted with past memories, Caro begins to explore what really happened when she was a child and unearths forgotten memories. With only tattoos to identify them, police desperately hunt for their names - and their two housemates. The reader learns that main characters, estranged sisters Caroline and Steph, have inherited the estate left by their (step) mother—the home where they grew up. I actually didn't like the main character for most of the book, but she intrigued me, kept me turning the pages.Meaningless details were emphasized in great length, some of which had no significance at all and didn't carry on the plot.

The funeral of first-person narrator Caro’s stepmother, Elizabeth Crowther, in the hills of Derbyshire brings Caro and her glamorous sister, Steph, together for the first time in almost twenty years. I spent hours past my bedtime to finish this book and find out the ending and I wasn't disappointed.

Dee Dee Moore, 36, offered in 2008 to start a company with Shakespeare, to protect her partner from these "users. Really what can I say, Adele Parks is one of the masters and although I did think the book was a tad overlong it was nevertheless a good read and recommended to Parks fans or new Parks readers alike. Caro hadn’t really kept in touch with her stepmother and her relationship with her sister had also grown apart so when their stepmother passes the girls are left the inheritance and the decision of what to do.

All the characters – from the MC to the gross love interest to the background townfolks – were evasive, unusually shady and one-dimensional, apparently only existing to provide more opportunities for Caro to be weirdly suspish but without actually spicing up the plot. When a Brooklyn co-op owner, his friendly handyman, and a greedy real estate owner fight over money and possible tenants, one person goes missing and another gets away with murder. There was an attempt at showing tha Caro was recovering from an abusive relationship but I definitely think this could have been explored more, and didn't quite bring much to the story besides fortifying Caro as a person who has been abused for most of her life by people she should have been able to love and trust. Read all Successful editor Deb sends Dan on an out-of-town assignment just as he moves into his dream house. The inclusion of a sinister story as part of the plot was a nice addition and helped move the story along.

A haunting and twisty story about the lies we tell those closest to us, perfect for fans of Ruth Ware and Cass Green. I thought she was a very frustrating character at times especially when she had her,I can't be happy unless I am with a man moments. Then once I received the galley I was instructed to go ahead and read it but not to talk about it anywhere until Halloween.

When Tom transforms, when Annabelle turns up and the horror of it unfolds, it is utterly mesmerising. Oh, I’d love to answer your question which would very much help you, but I can’t because we’ll talk about it next time,” is not good plotting.

We spend a lot of time in Caro's head thinking about all the things she doesn't know and I hate to that it got old pretty fast. She was GUILTY on all Literary Pet Peeve counts of creating miscommunication and withholding information for no reason other than to keep up the mystery of the plot. While she is there she has recurring nightmares of her childhood and there are creepy things happening at the house. After the funeral, the estate needs to be settled and Caro needs a place to live so she goes to the house to sort through things. It is heartbreaking to see what she went through as a young girl and how it still affects her decision making skills today especially when it comes to her mysterious neighbor.