The perfect neighbors tell the perfect lies… secret…
When Helen moves abroad with her loving husband Gary, she can’t wait to meet her fellow expat teachers from the local International School. But her new start is about to become her worst nightmare…
As soon as the charming family across the way welcome Helen into their home, she begins to suspect that all is not as it seems. Then Gary starts to behave strangely and a child goes missing, vanished without a trace.
When violence and tragedy strike, cracks appear in the community, and Helen realises her perfect neighbors are capable of almost anything…
‘An original, gripping thriller that is both unnerving and shocking in equal measure. I was immediately drawn into the strange, claustrophobic neighbourhood and Rachel Sargeant creates a thrilling sense of foreboding throughout’ Phoebe Morgan, author of The Doll House
‘A gripping tale of dark secrets and domestic lies’ Sam Hepburn, author of Her Perfect Life
‘Builds from a creeping sense of unease to a jaw-dropping climax and a denouement I defy anyone to see coming’ Chris Curran, author of Her Deadly Secret
‘From the very first page I knew I was assured of a fluffing good read from an author I can’t wait to hear from again’ Jen Med’s Book Reviews
‘A riveting, twist-packed thriller that had me hooked from the first page’ Nicki’s Life of Crime
‘A chilling and cryptic novel, proving just how difficult it is to truly know someone, inside out’ Pretty Little Books
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Just okay. A quick read but fairly predictable.
The book was a little to weird for me. Was hard to get through reading but it kept at it. I was glad when I had finished and could move on to another book.
Not believable
Stupid stupid stupid!!! Hated even wasting my time!
1/2 STARS.
The Perfect Neighbours By Rachel Sargent was my first read of 2018 and I’m very pleased to say it was an enjoyable one.
When Helen moves abroad to Germany to be with new husband Gary she is thrust into a tightknit expat neighbourhood.
All her neighbours and her husband work at the local international school and from the start, it becomes apparent that things are not quite what they seem and as our story progresses we are taken down a rabbit hole of secrets and lies with events eventually imploding into shocking consequences for all involved.
what I liked most about The perfect Neighbours was I had no bloody clue what was occurring at all, I mean absolutely none at all, I was left scratching my head in confusion throughout until finally all the threads of the story were woven together into a semblance of truth.
Deciphering that truth here was half the fun and the perfect neighbours was intercepted with numerous red herrings to mislead throughout.
I would have scored this higher but I really found the main character, Helen, to be extremely irritating and quite prejudiced in her attitude to her neighbours and this spoiled my enjoyment somewhat.
She was guilty of the same reverse snobbery that she liked to accuse her arch nemesis Louisa of and she never really gave any of them a chance deciding from day one that she was better than them.
I mean yeh there were some real dodgy characters here. but Helen herself snubbed her nose up before she had accumulated this information for herself.
Pre-judged totally.
And then there’s the husband, Gary the five minutes we actually saw of him wasn’t impressive to me at all.
It was like Hi Gary, By Gary, that was the extent of his input to this story.
He was like this none entity, so little was his involvement throughout this.
But yeh The perfect Neighbours does make you think, who are we living side by side with, what are people hiding behind closed doors
I mean yeh myself, I don’t really know many of my own neighbours, well just to say hi to in the street, it’s the world we live in today sadly.
Books like this do tell me to batten down the hatches and stay anti-social for LIFE!!!!
Neighbours are scary.
But yeh, that is the main reason I scored this down really Helen.
But besides that, this is a good psychological thriller that will keep you guessing until the very end.
Thank You to NetGalley for proving me with an ARC of The Perfect Neighbours by Rachel Sargeant of which I have reviewed voluntary.
All opinions expressed are entirely my own.
Reviewed By Beckie Bookworm
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This book was unforgettable. Who would have guessed the outcome…….no one!
I couldn’t believe she was such good friends and didn’t recognize her.Great book
I wanted so badly to like this book. I kept reading and reading and 3/4 of the way through the story was still not good. It has way too many characters without enough development to even keep them straight and the plot twists just never come…disappointing.
So I’m not going to lie but i had trouble staying entertained by this book. I caught myself skimming through it a lot just so i could get to the end. I got a little confused at first by all the characters and what exactly was going on. I really wanted to like this book but i guess it just was not my cup of tea. Lastly, i did not like adding the German words in there, i got quite confused by some of it.
Different but keeps you reading.
Too slow at times and too rushed at others. I could probably count on one hand the number of times I read a sentence or passage and was impressed. To me that is not a great book. I just was not impressed at all.
Actually, I stopped reading halfway through. I just didn’t care how it ended.
This started off so strong and had such great character development, but the conclusion was so far-fetched it ruined the book.
Meh. Extremely pedestrian and ridiculous plot. If it had been set in America it would have scored even lower
I had a hard time getting in to the story .
It was just alright. Not much character development so I didn’t care about any of them.
I cannot decide if my two stars has to do more with where the story took place or if the book was not intriguing enough to hold my interest (or both). The story is slow, but then suddenly jumps to some vague point in the future where the reader can easily figure out where we are, but it is odd indeed. Helen is a wonderful woman, a bit naive and dim, but likeable. The mystery is who is this woman being written on the side, and the reader does not find out until the last 1/4 of the book. I got through it, but I wouldn’t recommend it as a keep me rooted in the nook reading it.
I think that I really should have liked this book…but it did not grab me at all. The storyline is good, but I found it a chore to read. That said, if you like mysteries/thrillers, give it a shot. Ultimately I think the ending is worth it, even if it feels somewhat disjointed!
I liked it. Didn’t love it, but liked it. Took a little too long for anything really exciting to happen. But with all the books out there, I don’t continue reading a book until the end if it doesn’t hold my interest.