Opening the door to her new home, Libby can’t believe she can afford such a beautiful place. As her new landlord follows her into the bright, open living room, watching her every more, she feels so lucky she spotted the ad online.
‘You’re just the tenant I’ve been looking for,’ the landlord tells her as he drops the keys into her hand. Libby smiles as she unpacks her small suitcase and thinks about the troubled life she has just walked out on.
Days later, Libby is woken by the sound of her neighbours arguing through the wall. As she listens to their angry words, she swears she hears her name mentioned. Why would they be talking about her?
As the weeks pass, Libby can’t help but feel that someone is watching her and when she hears that the last girl who rented her apartment before her vanished without trace, she starts to double lock her door every night. Then she finds a handwritten message in her apartment telling her she’s in danger, and her new home no longer feels like the safe haven it once was. Did someone from Libby’s past follow her here? And just how safe is she behind closed doors?
If you love gripping psychological thrillers like Gone Girl and Mark Edwards’s Here to Stay, you’ll be blown away by The Houseshare. Addictive, tense and with an ending you won’t see coming, you’ll be up all night turning the pages.
The Houseshare is a rework of To Let, which was previously published by the same author. ~taken from Goodreads
Author, Carla Kovach, is one of my favorites. Her Gina Harte series is divine, and you can read all the books of Kovach's that I have have reviewed here on my blog.
It wasn't aware this was a rewriting of a book she had previously self-published under a different title a few years ago until I had finished the book and read the letter from the author. I think that made me feel better about it, as I was a bit disappointed with this novel.
The first half of this started out strong and I really got sucked in from the start. The variety of characters felt authentic and there was a flow to how the story was told. Some tension here and little suspense thrown in there. Kovach has a way of telling a story and dangling mystery in at the perfect time to keep the reader interested.
The second half was a letdown though. It seemed like a cd that was scratched and just kept skipping and repeating. The same things kept happening over and over and it was easy to see that who we were expected to thing the antagonist was, was in fact not the antagonist.
I will say there was a plot twist that came at the end that I was NOT expecting at all! It really threw me for a loop, and I did have to go back a re-read it because it was that surprising! However, I feel the ending was very rushed and a bit unsatisfying.
"The Houseshare" is available today! It was a 3 star read for me! You can download the e-book from your favorite digital retailor or order a physical copy today for a quick beach or weekend read!
Thanks to Netgalley and Bookouture for allowing me an advanced digital copy to read and give my honest review.
Happy Reading!
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