The Perfect Home by Daniel Kenitz

 

My thoughts

I was very pleasantly surprised with this book. A new to me author and a very exciting book. It was filled with a lot of action and some edge of your seat tension. 

While I would not call this a book about fixing up houses or a girl truly gone missing, it is about a tv personality who remodels homes and a woman who takes her twins and leaves. 

The main couple, Dawn and Wyatt Decker have been married five years. They are part of a reality tv show called The Perfect Home. It's Wyatt's life. He loves the show more than anything. He loves being the center of attention. He loves money. He will do anything to get what he wants. Dawn is more down to earth. She was raised by her mother after her dad left when she was eleven. When she met Wyatt she fell in love and wanted a family. He does something he should not have to help ensure that they have a baby. Illegal in the US but not in Germany, he orders and takes a drug that is suppose to enhance fertility. Seems he was the cause of them not being about to have a baby. How dare the universe do that to Wyatt Decker...

The story is about their life and how things went from good to horrible after the birth of their twins. Wyatt turned into a stranger. A threat to his wife and their babies. Who can she trust now? Her two best friends. One who is sleeping with Wyatt. If you can't trust your best friends just who can you trust. Dawn goes through a lot to keep her babies safe. The world loves Wyatt. The world thinks Wyatt has been wronged. 

This book has you going along with Dawn on a trip trying to keep not only her twins but herself alive. When she read what Wyatt had written she knew she had to get away. With nowhere to go and no one to turn too she leaves Tennessee. Someone from her past comes to her aide just in time to keep her from being arrested. Together they try to find answers to clear her and make the world see what Wyatt truly is.

I enjoyed this book. It was a quick read and had me guessing in a few places. One surprise and then all the tension of facing Wyatt kept me on the edge. Overall this book is very good. I recommend it to anyone that likes a good edge of your seat with a couple of not huge twists. 

Thank you #NetGalley, #Scribner, for this ARC. 

4 stars.

About

Fixer Upper meets Gone Girl in this suspenseful and witty domestic thriller set in the world of home renovation TV—featuring a woman who becomes public enemy #1 after a horrifying discovery prompts her to flee her celebrity husband with their twin babies.

Dawn Decker is an American everywoman and the salt to her husband Wyatt’s sweet, media-friendly charm on their Tennessee-based home renovation reality TV show, The Perfect Home. While Dawn bristles at the trappings of their D-list celebrity status, Wyatt hungers for greater fame. The couple also faces infertility issues stemming from Wyatt’s low sperm count. He secretly orders experimental fertility drugs, and they conceive, but his personality takes a dark turn—he becomes moody, withdrawn, and even cruel.

When Dawn discovers his horrifying plot to manufacture a tragedy in order to skyrocket their celebrity status, she takes their infant twins and goes on the run. Wyatt appears on national television to turn the public against her, painting Dawn as an unstable kidnapper suffering from postpartum psychosis. His charm is so compelling that even Dawn’s closest friends doubt her. She will have to dig deep into the past—both hers and Wyatt’s—to find allies, protect her children, and beat this beloved all-American celebrity at his own game.

Told in dual perspectives from both husband and wife, this smart, captivating, and twisty thriller is a fun, addictive read from the very first page.