The Other Couple

Pub Date: Dec 6, 2020

I don't quite know how I feel about this book, and usually that's not the best sign. This book follows Joe & Skye who are con artists. Their next victims are Maggie & Brad, who graciously (and crazily) invite the couple to stay in their vacation home with them. The synopsis points out that Maggie has a secret, one of which I was hoping would be much more sinister and dark than it actually was. The reader is also exposed to this secret veryyy early on in the book. It's one of those things where as a reader you're like, “wait, is this what the twist is?” After her secret is exposed, there's some slight action followed by about 100 pages of waiting for another twist or something gasp-worthy to occur. Then, the ending was a bit predictable (I definitely wasn't shocked); the epilogue exposes a secret of Skye's which to be honest was a bit predictable as well but I still wasn't expecting it (if that makes sense?). Overall, it didn't have me saying OH MY GOD at any point, although it wasn't incredibly boring either. With that, I give it 3 stars.

Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC. All opinions are my own.