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Couldn‘t put this thriller down! Thanks @AmyG Lots to unpack in this psychological thriller about a daughter keeping her mother hostage in their house. Alternating between 25 years ago and the present, as well as alternating both viewpoints, leads to many truths, lies, murders etc. Plus a satisfying ending by a very good writer.

Loved it! Couldn‘t put it down, I just had to know what was going to happen! (55)
⭐️: 4/5

Very well written but extremely disturbing. I‘m between a pick and a so so here because of that. The ending should have come a couple of chapters earlier for me. Leaving us in limbo would have been a better finale I feel.

Well, I‘m stoked I was almost finished with this when the election disaster happened, because it‘s completely banana pants and batshit crazy. I definitely needed the escape! @5feet.of.fury you were right, absolutely bonkers 😳🫢😂

Well. If this quote isn‘t appropriate for this “misinformation age” we‘re living in, I don‘t know what is 😵‍💫

I had to read this quick because the trauma was ALOT. Unlike many reviewers I had little to no sympathy for Maggie… I was glad when Nina took her rage elsewhere because it somewhat balanced the story.

I was so eager to see how the backstory unfolded & Marrs did a masterful job writing both the women

#HauntedShelf @PuddleJumper #HexesandCrows @Catsandbooks

This is not my favorite book by Marrs, but it was still a great thriller. The dysfunctional family in this book was an extra special brand of crazy. I like how Marrs is able to make you feel for characters even when you dislike them and their actions.

I read this book in one day. John Marrs again knows how to keep you wanting to read on. This is the story of a mother and a daughter living together, one the prisoner of the other (no spoiler), both are seemingly very unreliable narrators. I saw many twists coming, yet it didn‘t keep me from racing through to find out what happened.

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Holy moly… what a crazy, twisted roller coaster right up until the very last page! Just when I thought I had things figured out… bam… a twist would come out of nowhere! Make sure you buckle up if you are going to read this one!

It‘s giving chaotic, psychotic, neurotic, traumatic, and even a touch of necrotic. The only phrase you need for this book is WTF. I imagine this one will stick with me for some time.

Dude, 21% of the way in and this is cool! Why does the mc have her mother locked in a soundproof room upstairs? So twisty already!

This was a wild book to read 😳

4.5/5

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This one is pretty dark and has a Whatever happened to baby Jane vibe going on but instead of sisters it‘s a mother and daughter dynamic. Nina chains her mom to the attic upstairs out of vengeance but why?

I have to say this was a great page turner trying to figure out how these two women ended up in the situation they seem in which is dysfunction to the extreme!

🎧 📚 This was such a dark psychological thriller!

We open up with a daughter living at her mother‘s house. She‘s locked and chained her mom up in the attic & the story takes off from there.

Why is she locked up! What could make a daughter do such a thing?

It‘s dark but good. You are faced with 2 points of view and different time lines telling the story. Is either one of them or both an unreliable narrator?

Read it & find out! 😁

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One of my new favorite authors. I‘m determined to read his entire catalog. His thrillers are filled with hidden twists and turns and are fairly creepy. Perfect for me!!

They say every house has its secrets, and the house that Maggie and Nina have shared for so long is no different.

I was totally into this book until…
Until she had her son and his family didn‘t suspect her to the point of turning this into the happy ending I wanted.

#JoyousJanuary #Readathon
@Andrew65
2nd book read

I am really not having any luck with books lately. This started off with some potential, but the ending was so misinformed in such a classicly inaccurate portrayal of a specific issue that it made me angry.

My review, WTF was that? Dark, twisted, deeply disturbing and not at all predictable. Every second day, Nina and Maggie eat dinner together. Then Nina takes Maggie back to the attic, where she switches out her long chain and shackle for a shorter one. Nina feels the need to punish Maggie for what she has done. But there are things Nina doesn‘t know. This one gets all the stars!!
#OutstandingOctober Goals: 4 books off the TBR
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This is my second John Marrs book and he is officially on my auto buy list. This book was probably the most dark and twisty mother daughter relationship I've ever read. I am still processing all the dark revelations and outcomes in this book. This was on my kindle so one down many more to go :-)
#SCARATHLON2020 #TeamSlaughter #CYOREADATHON #Screamathon #KindleClearOut

Thanks to #netgalley for the ARC in exchange for a fair and honest review. I was captivated from the first chapter. It was such a great read. So twisty and suspenseful and just when you think there cannot be another twist coming you get slammed with another one. It was one of those books I couldn't put down and when I finished it I was left thinking wtf did I just read?! In the best of ways of course! Such a deliciously dark read. #johnmarrs

This is a mother and daughter story unlike anything I have read or could even imagine. Nina keeps her mother, Maggie, locked away in the attic. Maggie has done things that Nina can never forgive her for. Alternating POVs from mother and daughter from the past and the present. So many secrets and wtf moments. Well written and compulsively readable. Family dysfunction at the highest level. This one is available on Kindle Unlimited.

What a ride! This is sure to be one of the best psychological thrillers of the year. I was in suspense the entire time.

It is finally cooling off a bit so doing a little audiobook listening on the porch with they two nubbins.
#dogsoflitsy #mork #millhouse
Leanna you are right! This book is crazy!
@guinsgirlreads

Wow! I don‘t even know what I just read! This book is a total mind-f**k about a horribly screwed us relationship between a mother and daughter. I couldn‘t stop reading it! You just have to see what‘s going to happen next and how (or if) they get out of the toxicity.

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Next #NetGalley read.

This book took me for a rollercoaster ride. You have a mother Maggie and daughter Nina who live together in a house full of lies and deceit. But who is telling the lies and who is deceiving who? These characters had me going back and forth as to who is really the bad guy here. The book is written back and forth from years before and present day to tell you the full story. My second book I have read from John Marrs and he does not disappoint!!!

My first experience with this author- and it certainly won‘t be my last! This fast-paced domestic thriller tells a very twisted tale of a mother and daughter- and the horrible ways they have damaged each other. The plot seems to take some familiar turns- but watch out for some of those turns to be completely turned upside down! Darkly addictive, I couldn‘t put this down, despite not ever rooting for Nina or Maggie! Impressively done!

Getting a few chapters in while I wait for this chocolate/vanilla marble cake to bake... I finally found a story that is managing to blow me away again!! 😍📖

Creepy, twisted and very disturbing.

Another fast paced story by John Marrs. His books never let me down.

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Pub date. 15 May 2020