I have to be honest. When I read the title "The Other Woman" I automatically think well its another woman, not thinking a woman as close a mother. At first this books started out like the movie "Monster-In-Law", soon I find myself going through true emotions from hate to feeling sorry for this character. The author truly knows how to bring her characters to life. I was living within this book as if it was my everyday life. So I won't ruin it for anyone, but the ending was a complete twist. This was a good read.

Thank you to Netgalley & St.Martin's Press & Minotaur books for sending me this book in exchange for an honest review! I tried to win this in a Bookish giveaway but was a bit sad when I didn't win ! Surprise I still got my hands on it thanks to you all ...It was meant to be ❤️🙏🏻

Yes ! Yes! Yes! Yes!!!!! This book is everything you could possibly want in a thriller !!!!! Believe me I try to read almost every single thriller including both New Releases and the oldies but goodies! I am a huge critic when it comes to plot twists and pacing of a suspenseful novel and this one was spot on since page one! Gripping & addictive! Highly relatable characters, even the ones you can't stand, and wildly aggressive dialogue. I felt like I was Emily and was feeling her pain; her struggles!

I had a sneaking suspicion the entire time that I knew what was going on with good ol " Mum" but this book was so phenomenally written that I wasn't quite sure. 
I read this in less than a 24 hour time span and literally could not put it down! I even brought my iPad along with me for the ride to the restaurant For  dinner haha! 

Un-putdownable ( I made my own word) I fell asleep with it in my arms! This is the first Netgalley book to be added to my favorites shelf 🙌🏻🙌🏻 I also reviewed this book on my Facebook & bookish.

I'm pretty sure that this is a debut novel for Sandie Jones as well---- I commend you! Well done ❤️ Can't wait for more !!!

Wow.  Just wow.  This book was so uncomfortable but I HAD to finish it to make sure someone finally believed Emily about Pammie.

The end was a great twist!

Advance Review Copy

THE OTHER WOMAN is one pretty darned good psychological thriller from first time author Sandie Jones. It's a great summer beach read or cozy up to the fire with some munchies; whatever makes you relax and comfy. This isn't a book you want to think too hard about or question too much lest you start screaming at the heroine to run for the hills before it's too late! Just sit back and enjoy all the twists and turns the (slightly long) plot takes. It's worth it in the end. 

A well deserved 4 stars.

The Other Woman is about a man, his girlfriend, and the other woman—his mother.  Adam and Emily adore each other, but Adam’s mother Pammie wants nothing more than to see Emily out of her son’s life.  Pammie will do anything for her son and will stop at nothing to get rid of Emily.  
This was a really good book that had me hooked from the beginning.  The book is full of secrets, lies, and manipulations in a delightful mix of twists and surprises with a shocking ending.  Just when you think you have it all figured out, the author drops another bomb to completely throw you for a loop.  The plot was excellent, the characters were intriguing, and the pace was perfect.  I home the author’s next novel is just as good.  I’m looking forward to it!

I've tried my hardest with this book but I just couldn't get into it. It's rare that I DNF a book. For me its just all over the place and slow going. Maybe later down the line I'll give it another go.

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This book had me completely entranced the whole time. It reminded me of that Monster-In-Law movie with Jennifer Lopez and Jane Fonda a few years back where the mother-in-law was perfect in front of her loving son but an evil witch when left alone with the daughter-in-law. I don't want to give away any important details but this one threw me for a loop. Pammie is deliciously evil with her sneaky ways. Poor Emily is besides herself trying to figure out why her future mother-in-law has it in for her. She's determined to show her fiance, Adam, that is mother is a bad woman with bad intentions. Don't let this common storyline fool you. This is a book that I would definitely read again. A creative twist to the in-law dilemma. 

Thank you to Netgalley, Sandie Jones, and Minotaur Books for my ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This novel could be the prototype for the dysfunctional family.   Emily and Adam meet, date and become a couple.  They frequently express their love for each other and he brings her home to meet his mother, Pammie.  She is the other woman in his life and does everything in her power to separate the couple up to and including faking breast cancer.  It doesn’t work and although their wedding has been postponed indefinitely Emily gets pregnant.  The interaction of the characters is distressful at times and leaves the reader wondering who is the psychopath.  By the time the climax occurs the reader will know.  Thanks to Net Galley and Minotaur  for an ARC for an honest review.

I think the Mother In Law is the scariest person in a relationship most of the time.  Emily is unlucky enough that her future MIL lets her know from the beginning that she will stop at nothing to keep her away from her son.  Masquerading as the sweet, innocent mother to everyone else she makes everything tough on Emily from the beginning of her relationship with Adam.  When Emily starts to uncover secrets from Adam's past relationship gone wrong she's floored at what she discovers and wonders if she's strong enough to stand tough for the man she wants. .  . if she decides her life is worth it.

So good......the type of book that you stay up late reading, then get up early the next morning to finish.  I read it faster than I have read anything in a while.  The Other Woman is the story of Emily and her relationship with Adam, the perfect guy.  The only problem is Adam's mom is crazy and doing everything she can to destroy Emily and Adam's relationship.  A crazy whirlwind follows.....
This book is a must read for your summer vacation!

I received this book free from NetGalley in exchange for my honest and unbiased opinion.

I had not read a mystery/thriller in a while as I have been in the historical fiction kick.   I enjoyed stretching my brain ad reading a different genre.  That said (or written), I thoroughly enjoyed The Other Woman.

Emily finds what she thinks is the man of her dreams in Adam.  What also comes with that relationship is the Banks family consisting of mom Pammie and brother James.  Mom does everything to sabotage the relationship.  James comes onto Emily with Adam oblivious to it all.

Even though none of these characters are fully developed, there is just enough to support the storyline and keep the pace moving   This book will be out in August.  Look for it for a great end of summer read.

Thank you NetGalley for an advance copy of The Other Woman in  exchange for an honest opinion.

Best book I have read all year! The British author sadie Jones has become a author that i will follow. Page -turner to the very end!! A must read!! #beware of pammie is no joke.

Such a good book. I couldn’t put it down. It is a well crafted story with an unexpected ending. It does bother me when intelligent women ignore warning signs because they are “in love”. But that happens all the time in life.

Thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for an ARC of this book! Release date - August 21, 2018

I’m disappointed in this book. I have been wanting a really good twisty mystery/thriller lately and based on the description and some of the other reviews I really thought this was going to be it. But sadly it was not. It read much more like chick lit than a thriller, and it’s only “fast-paced,” as the description says, because it covers so much time and jumps ahead so much, with months between chapters, not the exciting, edge of your seat, can’t stop reading feeling that you usually would think “fast-paced” means. 

This book was SO unrealistic, and that usually doesn’t make me bring my rating down, because how often is fiction truly realistic? But so much of this had me rolling my eyes. Emily put up with so much from both Adam and Pammie that I was just frustrated. Why didn’t she stand up for herself or talk to Adam about her concerns like a normal committed relationship would do, or for heavens sake see the red flags and get the heck out of this crazy family?

So almost the entire book is just this, jumping ahead throughout Adam and Emily’s relationship, zooming along, his mother acting crazy. There are one or two things throughout that I'm sure the author meant as twists but they were so predictable. And the we finally get to “the big twist” in the last few chapters and I just rolled my eyes. It made the rest of the book make no sense at all. At least give us more of an explanation! But no, we are just expected to believe this randomness at face value. 

Sorry to say but I’m disappointed in this. I would not classify this as a thriller because nothing thrilling happened. There was nothing scary and no creep factor at all. And while it was a little bit of mystery the twists were either predictable or made me roll my eyes. A low 3 stars for me.

Not your usual British police procedural. Rather, a riveting domestic thriller. Emily falls in love with Adam. The "other woman" is his mother Pamela (Pammie). As Adam and Emily grow closer, begin living together and get engaged, at every turn Pammie tries to drive a wedge between them, trying to drive Emily away. At first Emily thinks she herself is paranoid but as more evidence accumulates she becomes convinced that Pammie has gone over the deep end or at least is determined to wreck any chance of an ongoing relationship between Adam and Emily.

The day before the wedding Pammie announces that she has been diagnosed with advanced breast cancer so Adam cancels the wedding at the last minute to care for his mother. Adam and his brother James take turns driving Pammie for chemo. But Emily discovers that they drop Pammie off at the hospital door and return later to pick her up. She becomes suspicious that Pam's cancer and chemo are a sham. So she decides to replace Adam one day as the driver and take Pam to the hospital. Despite protests by Pam she does so. Pam will not let her accompany her to the chemo unit. Emily races around the hospital and sees Pammie entering a shopping centre. She follows her to a coffee shop within the mall and sits nearby. Ultimately Pam sees her and Emily threatens to expose her. But Pammie fights back saying that she knows Emily had been seeing James a few times and on the verge of having sex with him. Emily denies this but Pam claims she knows because James had told her. So they are at a standoff.

Emily, who is pregnant, sulks. After Emily gives birth Pammie continues her weird behavior using the baby as a pawn. Meanwhile James has warned Emily that Adam is "not what he appears to be." That becomes clear when one evening she discovers Adam having sex with a bridesmaid in the back garden at the wedding of a friend. She confronts him and returns home. What happens after reveals that Pam is not just the doting mother that she has appeared to be but rather has been trying to protect Emily from an ugly truth. (less)

Certainly a page turner and not at all what I expected it to be! Excellent writing and character development. I read it in one sitting.

When you find “the one” that you plan to spend the rest of your life with, what is often overlooked is knowing you’re not only marrying the love of your life, but you’re marrying their family and baggage too!  Actually, Emily didn’t find anything out of the ordinary about the latter part of my opening statement, in fact she embraced it at first.  That is until she actually met Adam’s mum, Pamela Banks, better known as Pammie.  Yes, Emily Havistock loved everything about Adam.  They were so perfect for each other.  He made her feel like no other man had ever made her feel and she couldn’t wait to be the newest Mrs. Banks.  

Oh, but wait a minute!  Pammie wasn’t so sure she wanted Emily as a daughter-in-law.  Why, Adam was her son and the sun rose and set upon him.  There was no woman, other than herself, that was good enough for her son.  And just who the hell did this Em think she was coming into Adam’s life trying to take over?  Pammie did the unthinkable—just about every horrible thing you can possibly think to do to another human being.  She had nothing kind to say to Emily.  She constantly inserted herself into Emily and Adam’s lives.  Adam was such the mama’s boy that he never saw the nasty underhanded things Pammie was doing to his girlfriend.  No matter how much Emily complained, Adam wouldn’t hear of it.  It liked to drove Emily insane.  So much so, Pammie was pretty much about to become a deal breaker for the two love birds.

I never met a character that I wanted to bitch slap more than I wanted to Emily.  I kept thinking is this woman just that thick in the head or was she crazy like a fox?  I couldn’t figure out either.  This novel had me speaking out in the open because I couldn’t believe how much Emily was willing to take from a woman that would soon be her mother-in-law.  To make matters even worse was her boyfriend, Adam, who thought his mother was a saint and could do no wrong.  He never took Emily’s side of anything, and that, to me, raised several flags, but seemed not to wave at all in front of Emily’s naïve eyes.  The situation got so bad that her best friends and parents could see what Pammie was doing, but Emily kept on pressing forward trying to love Adam despite his crazy mum’s antics. 

When I say the ending is one I never saw coming, would be an honest understatement.  This was an outstanding read!  OMG, my jaw dropped when I got to the end.  Holy cow Jones wrote the hell out of this book.  She wrote dysfunction at its truest form without fault or apology.  She was extremely masterful at keeping the reader in quite a state of mind only to find out life has quite a few twists and turns.  Wow!  I loved this story!  If you’re a fan of Shalini Boland’s, such as myself, of The Girl from the Sea, and the ending that was a shocker, get ready readers, because this one is going to knock you for a damn loop.  Jones had me.  I really enjoyed this story and it’s one that I will never forget.  I love when an author can fool a seasoned reader like me.  When you can do that, you’re a damn talented writer.  Well done!

I received this ARC from NetGalley for an honest review.  I really enjoyed this book. The story deals with mental illness and we are not really sure which character is not stable until the very end. There are many twists and turns and surprises that keep the reader in suspense .  The story is about a couple who is engaged to be married and a very sadistic, evil mother trying to break them up .   At first , I was amused by the tactics to separate the couple .  Then, when there was a death, that all changed.  I liked the author ‘s style of writing and would definitely recommend this book.

DISCLAIMER: Thank you to the publisher for access to this book for my honest review.

All I can honestly say about this book is WOW!!! It is full of twists and turns and a surprise ending!

This starts when Emily meets Adam while away at a conference for her job. They date for a few months and he takes her to meet his mother. This is where the sinister turns start. Is it Emily or is Pammie, Adam's mother, really to blame? Emily finally decides to have nothing to do with Pammie, but she really loves Adam and the suspense continues until you reach the clever twist at the end! 

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36212848-the-other-woman?from_search=true

Woah! The tension in The Other Woman built and built, and then the ending blew me away. I definitely did not see it coming. I have been going back through the book in my mind trying go figure out what clues I missed.  The characters were well-developed.  I really did not like Adam and at times was frustrated with Emily for staying with him so long. The Other Woman would make a great movie!