Book Review: THE WRONG FAMILY by Tarryn Fisher

 

Title: THE WRONG FAMILY

Author:  Tarryn Fisher

Publisher:  Harlequin Australia

Read: December 2020

Expected publication: 6 January 2021

My Rating: 🌟🌟🌟1/2

 

Book Description:

 

Have you ever been wrong about someone?

Juno was wrong about Winnie Crouch.

Before moving in with the Crouch family, Juno thought Winnie and her husband, Nigel, had the perfect marriage, the perfect son—the perfect life. Only now that she’s living in their beautiful house, she sees the cracks in the crumbling facade are too deep to ignore.

Still, she isn’t one to judge. After her grim diagnosis, the retired therapist simply wants a place to live out the rest of her days in peace. But that peace is shattered the day Juno overhears a chilling conversation between Winnie and Nigel…

She shouldn’t get involved.

She really shouldn’t.

But this could be her chance to make a few things right.

Because if you thought Juno didn’t have a secret of her own, then you were wrong about her, too.

From the wickedly dark mind of bestselling author Tarryn Fisher, The Wrong Family is a taut new thriller that’s riddled with twists in all the right places. 

 

My musings:

 

WTH did I just read???? This was one screwy story! I don’t even know where to start reviewing it, because my head is still spinning from the way this one panned out. All I can say is that each and every character has a heavy burden of secrets on their shoulders, and I couldn’t decide who is the most dysfunctional of them all. Which made it a fun read on one hand, and a very disturbing one on the other. And whilst I just managed to catch one of the author’s curveballs in one hand to bring it into my court, my gloating was short lived as I was too late to dodge the fiery one that followed closely behind – and totally floored me.

 

I cannot say more without giving spoilers. Go into this one blind. Also know that it is disturbing and mind blowing and may give you a nightmare or two. One scene in particular still haunts me. But hey, I am a bit more fragile than normal this year. If you like unpredictable, then Tarryn Fisher is the perfect author for you. In a million years, and drunk on vodka slammers and adrenaline, I could not have guessed how this story would turn out. It kept me turning the pages, even though I now need a shower. And another stiff drink.

  

Summary:

 

Read at your own peril, especially if you like twisty, unexpected endings and thoroughly dysfunctional characters.

 

 

 

Thank you to Netgalley and Harlequin Australia for the free electronic copy of this novel and for giving me the opportunity to provide an honest review.