This is a story about a Family with secrets ! Set in Dublin, Abi Mark and their two daughters Eva and Beth seem to have it all .Then on a French Exchange Corinne comes to stay and nothing is ever the same again .I found this initially quite a slow read ,over seven hours on my Kindle but the ending was worth it .Many thanks to the Publisher ,the Author and NetGalley for my copy in return for an honest review .

A extremely tense and gripping read that had me enthralled from the very start. I highly recommend this book especially to fans of domestic thriller genre.

I read this book courtesy of NetGalley. A disturbingly chilling read covering a lot of mental issues surrounding teenagers which all seemed to be loaded on one character. A psychological thriller with many twists and turns. There was a fairly unexpected ending, however due to the first few pages where it alluded to the fact that blood had been shed, just not whose, It was a little overlong having lost it's fast paced beginning but gathered momentum again towards the end. Good depiction of characters although I didn't really identify or take to any of them as they all seem to have rather a dark side apart from the parents who were too inward looking and weak.

Abi Holland considers herself lucky: she's happily married, her oldest daughter, Eva, is all set for a place at a top university. She can't help but worry about Beth. So when forign exchange student Corinne comes to stay, it's a relief for her lonely daughter to have someone to talk to. It's only when Beth starts to misbehave, that Abi begins to wonder how much they really know about their guest. Although this could be a bit of a slow and drawn out in places, it's still an interesting read. It's also a bit eerie and it has quite a lot of bad language. You know at the beginning that something awful has happened, but we are slowly given snippets of what had occurred. This still didn't make this any less shocking to find out. We find out more about the characters as the story progresses. The fantastic ending to this well written book was well worth the waiting for. I would like to thank #NetGalley, #PenguinMichaelJosephUk and the author #KarenPerry for my ARC of #Stranger in exchange for an honest review.

This book took me on one hell of a ride! It took me a little while to get into it as the beginning is quite slow but I am so glad I persevered and didn’t give up on it! Now that I have finished the book I can see why it was necessary for the slow start, it misleads you into a false sense of knowing. The book starts with one of the characters being led into a police interview room, covered in blood and clearly in shock following some tragic event that has not long occurred, while keeping from giving much away. It then moves back in time, to the beginning of the events leading up to the resulting tragedy. It is very cleverly done. The author has you thinking you know the characters, when in fact, you realise you didn’t really know them well at all. I was thinking badly of a particular character for pretty much a majority of the book. Following many twists and turns, manipulation and deception, secrets and lies. The book finally concludes with a bang! Unveiling shocking truths and tragedies that brings everything together, resulting in a HUGE SHOCKER of an ending! Although I found it slow to begin with, once I managed to get past that, the book had me hooked! The character are well written and their development through the book is good. The characters on the pages create the atmosphere for what you are reading and you can really get a good sense of the emotions of the characters, especially Beth. A domestic thriller that although slow to start, will keep you guessing and have you shocked to your core with its final events! Wow! ** I received an advanced copy of this ebook to read and review. Thank you NetGalley, the authors and publisher for allowing me the opportunity. What an intense read! **