The Other Guest: twisty, thrilling and addictive - the perfect holiday read!

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Laila loves watching people and soon becomes obsessed with one of the families at the resort. She is so jealous of Em and her husband and their two boys Theo and Issac. Hier haben wir zwei Perspektiven von 2 Frauen, die nichts miteinander zu tun haben. Wir haben einmal Leah, die ihre Schwester besucht, nachdem Tod ihrer Nichte und wir haben einmal Joanna, die nach der überraschenden Trennung von ihrem Verlobten, auf einen Barkeeper trifft und ihn in ihre Wohnung lässt ohne zu wissen wer er eigentlich ist. This sets Evie down the path of exploring her family’s past, uncovering the secrets of the Milton’s wealth and legacy, and coming to terms with their place in the modern world. The Other Guest is a very pictorial read as the people, their emotions and, above all, the sketching of the beautiful surroundings of the Italian Lakes, are perfectly done. The fact that they stand hand in hand with a possible murder, makes for absolute reading perfection.

I highly recommend this book and have marked May 27th on my calendar to get my hands on a physical copy. Grace and Charles are on the way of their dream honeymoon but destiny got different plans. Due to the weather, they had to stay in Saltwater. All the guest houses are booked so they have to stay at Anchorage, which is not what Grace had in her mind, she is more than unhappy but Charles is reliving his childhood/teenage visits here. Anchorage is not what it seems, the hosts are also hiding something.An unforgettable love story, a novel about past mistakes and betrayals that ripple throughout generations, The Guest Book examines not just a privileged American family, but a privileged America. It is a literary triumph. a b Metcalf, Mitch (September 29, 2017). "Updated: ShowBuzzDaily's Top 150 Thursday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 9.28.2017". Showbuzz Daily. Archived from the original on September 30, 2017 . Retrieved September 29, 2017. After several failed IVF attempts Laila and her husband James decided to take a break to a luxury island resort in Ixos in Greece. They use the money saved from their treatment to get away and recharge and rekindle their relationship, as the couple’s relationship is currently strained.

Metcalf, Mitch (November 21, 2018). "Updated: ShowBuzzDaily's Top 150 Tuesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 11.20.2018". Showbuzz Daily. Archived from the original on November 22, 2018 . Retrieved November 21, 2018. Metcalf, Mitch (November 14, 2018). "Updated: ShowBuzzDaily's Top 150 Tuesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 11.13.2018". Showbuzz Daily. Archived from the original on November 15, 2018 . Retrieved November 14, 2018. The progression, throughout the generations, though startling and inspiring, is still very fragile. Though Len and Reg regarded Moss’s optimism and idealism as naïve and ineffectual, that vision may have been the catalyst for change. However, the two men weren’t wrong in their assessment, and not just about the times they lived in. Their admonishments serve as a reminder that paying lip service, no matter how well-intentioned, is not helpful, and most people offering it, do so without fully understanding what it is truly like to walk in another’s shoes. Arjay Smith as Arlo (season 1), a fan of the show, seen only in cold open summarizing the previous week's episode to coworker Woody to entice him to watch the series. The book starts quite well with a good atmosphere created by the weather in coastal town and there is a distinct whiff of something very off and possibly rotten in the guest house with the Jeffrey’s strange behaviour adding to the strange vibe. You sense there is a story there and there are more unsettling off notes. It’s easy to read, there are some moments of tension, the occasional chill and a cloak of secrecy.As soon as they arrive Grace is already unhappy with the gloomy brooding atmosphere of the place and the owners are not helping. They seem somehow wooden and unwelcoming. Charles is loving it though as he remembers Pamela and Michael Jeffrey fondly. Soon, Grace is hearing and seeing things and things go bump in the night in an effort to ramp up the creepiness. It didn’t work for me. Not much actually happened other than a lot of contrived creepiness. Grace seems haunted and Charles is an odd one, he comes across as a bit of a cipher. The Jeffreys are made out to be creepy and the house haunted. And of course the landline is down and the cell phone tower is too so there not only trapped in the town but incommunicado. When they arrive at the 5* hotel they meet a couple who has two teenage sons. Laila likes people watching and spends most of her time watching the couple and their two sons. Her husband thinks she is jealous as they have two kids, and she has none. But instead of them both rekindling their relationship and what else as she got to do when her husband James goes off on trips on his own leaving his wife behind. A couple rents a beach house to work on their marriage, but the husband's obsession with virtual reality gets in the way and ultimately betrays him. The Other Guest by Heidi Perks was a great holiday read however, I found it very hard to get into, its about infertility issues between

Please note: throughout this review, I kept typing The Beach House instead of The Guest Book, but I guess Hallmark owned the rights to that one. And I also kept typing The Lake House, and I'm crippled by the thought of Keanu Reeves showing up in this book. C.L. Pattison's The Guest Book offers the readers to delve into the hidden mysteries of a guest house and how it uncovers the dark realities of human psychology. There’s a stunning scene toward the beginning of Sarah Blake’s new novel, “The Guest Book,” that follows a wealthy young mother gliding around New York and then to her elegant mansion in a charmingly choreographed dance of delight that ends with her 5-year-old son falling from a window to his death. Powerfully displays how we often think secrets are the best way to protect those we love, but they often cause more damage than good.”– San Francisco Book Review Pure, thrilling escapism. Whip-smart twists make this summer sizzler impossible to put down. The Other Guest is unforgettable' Chris Whitaker

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Jill and her husband decide to drug their son Ethan's atheist fiancee Lynn at the cottage to perform a baptism. The next day Lynn awakens to discover that her leg has become infected and learns she might lose it.After a short hospital stay she makes a full recovery and accepts the possibility of God. Jill abandons her faith as she believes her prayers went unanswered. Meanwhile, in Central England, thirtysomething Joanna is recovering from a surprising break-up when she is swept off her feet by a handsome bartender. But when she learns that he is on the run from something in his past, and that their meeting may not have been a coincidence, Joanna realized that he may just a bit too good to be true. This week, I had an epiphany. Not just to do with Blake, but to do with many of the investigative nonfiction books coming out right now. It’s a popular idea that we have the right to tell stories about the cultural wrongdoings we have enacted throughout history by using our personal experiences and by putting our bodies and our stories into cultural and religious and queer spaces that do not belong to us. There are some stories, however, that we just don’t have the right to tell. And as every two-year-old toddler knows, we don’t get to forgive ourselves. Only the people we have wronged have permission to do that. And if by chance we’ve wronged the world itself, we never get to make our peace; people have long memories, but Uranium-235 has a half-life of almost 704 billion years. The carbon cycle will hold your footprint against you for longer than the dinosaurs walked this planet. With its keep-you-guessing story line and holiday setting, fans of domestic thrillers will devour' Heat magazine The Guest Book must be read deliberately and at the right time as there is a lot to absorb. If you read too fast you will miss the depth and nuanced ways in which Blake weaves together themes of entitlement, privilege, prejudice, racism, social injustice, idealism, love and family. It really makes you look not only at the characters, but at yourself and your own family history through a different lens. One of my favorite things about reading it, is that there were moments sprinkled within the book that seemed inconsequential at the time and then later on in the book these moments reappeared and it was like an emotion bomb was dropped. If this weren't a library book, I would have been on a highlighting frenzy for all the brilliance that was put on display.

Another thing I really enjoyed was being transported to the seashore Cornish town of Saltwater. The whole atmosphere was well constructed and I felt like I was there – even more so, I want to go there! The eerie vibe of The Anchorage was also masterfully built.

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Thankyou to Random House UK, Vintage for providing me with a copy of The Guest House, via NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review. The book started off pretty well with a really unsettling atmosphere when a couple of newlyweds get stranded in the coastal town of Saltwater when they’re on their way to their honeymoon. The storm, the strange vibes of the town and the weird behavior of owners of the B&B where they end up, were pretty disturbing. Add that Grace and Charles seems to be hiding a secret of their own and you had everything for it to be a fantastic read. Metcalf, Mitch (August 25, 2017). "Updated: ShowBuzzDaily's Top 150 Thursday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 8.24.2017". Showbuzz Daily. Archived from the original on August 26, 2017 . Retrieved August 25, 2017. Fans of British mysteries will love this debut…It is difficult to put down. This is one that readers may not figure out fully, if at all, in advance of the denouement, but the author ties all the secrets together in a most satisfying reveal.”– Library Journal (starred review) The book does justice to the title of the book. The guest book in the story plays an important role in determining the plot of the story. It also foreshadows some of the incidents that are revealed later in the novel. Although it appears once in the story and has been referred to a handful number of times later, the weight it provides to the plot does not go unnoticed.