THE OTHER FAMILY by Wendy Corsi Staub

 

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“Great psychological suspense with a wallop of a twist.” —Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling author

New York Times bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub makes her trade paperback debut with a fast-paced thriller in the vein of Lisa Jewell’s The Family Upstairs and Megan Collins’ The Winter Sister. Here, a family making a fresh start moves into a house which was the site of an unsolved triple homicide—and are watched by an unknown person...

The watcher sees who you are...and knows what you did. 

It’s the perfect home for the perfect family: pretty Nora Howell, her handsome husband, their two teenage daughters, and lovable dog. As California transplants making a fresh start in Brooklyn, they expected to live in a shoebox, but the brownstone has a huge kitchen, lots of light, and a backyard. The catch: its previous residents were victims of a grisly triple homicide that remains unsolved.  

Soon, peculiar things begin happening. The pug is nosing around like a bloodhound. Nora unearths a long-hidden rusty box in the flowerbed. Oldest daughter Stacey, obsessed with the family murdered in their house, pokes into the bloody past and becomes convinced that a stranger is watching the house. Watching them.

She’s right. But one of the Howells will recognize his face. Because one of them has a secret that will blindside the others with a truth that lies shockingly close to home—and to this one’s terrifying history.

MY THOUGHTS

I was very much disappointed in this book. It starts out strong and tends to pull you right in. Then it gets into things that are just not necessary. A lot of pages that to me are just boring. 

A family move from California to New York into a house where twenty five years earlier an entire family had been murdered. A local man sneaking around spying on them. He sounds very creepy... The mother has secrets. This family seems fairly typical. Mom, dad and two daughters. The younger daughter of course is beautiful just like her parents and the older looks nothing like them. They meet new friends and the secrets of the house come out. Someone in the family knows something but says nothing. Things are found. 

This one just didn't do it for me. I sure was hoping it would. Nowhere near enough surprises or twists. It just didn't do it for me. I did finish it and it was ok. A few things held my interest or I would not have finished it. 

Thank you #NetGalley, #WilliamMorrowandCustomHousepublishing for this ARC. This is my own true feelings about this book.

3/5 stars. Read it for yourself and decide what you think. You may love it. It just wasn't that great for me.