This book was hit and miss with me. It was a decent story, but towards the middle of the book the main character started to get on my nerves. I almost ditched the book, but decided to keep reading. The ending was very anti-climatic, more like a "Huh. Ok, so that happened." Good book, but not knock your socks off amazing.

Have you ever read something so dark that still made you so happy? This book made me so happy that I wanted to walk down the street high 5-ing people. The Date by Louise Jensen reminded me why I love this genre so much. I haven’t had much luck with psychological thrillers of late and had even started feeling burnt out. All that changed when this book came my way.

Ali wakes us after a date with no memory of what happened. Not only has she lost her memory but she is also suffering from face blindness. If you are like me and have never heard of this condition, it basically means that a person doesn’t have the ability to recognize faces. Can you imagine how scary that is? Ali could no longer identify anyone by their face. In addition, she forgot faces even after meeting people. It is evident that something bad happened to her. She had bruises, a damaged car, there was blood and then she started receiving threats. Somebody had done something to Ali and this person wasn’t going to leave her alone. Worse still, she has no idea who it was and what they did to her.

The premise of this book was brilliant. I absolutely couldn’t have guessed what happened to Ali. In addition, her face blindness made her an unreliable narrator. Her memories were all jangled up and she couldn’t even identify the people in her life. The suspense heightened as it became clear that someone was still after her. In addition, there were a few chapters narrated by an mysterious character. They were sinister, dark but captivating. I was going nuts trying to guess what was going on and why.

The Date by Louise Jensen has everything that makes thrillers entertaining. It was so captivating that I ended up reading it in just a day. This book is unpredictable, enthralling and definitely unputdownable. Guys, please read this book. Actually, just read all books by this author! She is brilliant, all her books are amazing and her writing is pure magic!

Thank you Netgalley for the opportunity to preview The Date by Louse Jensen.
A woman wakes up - she knows something is wrong - there is blood, pain, and then she looks in the mirror and doesn't recognize her own face.
She knows she went on a date, but can't remember anything after that. Her room mate is missing, her memory is gone, and she knows something is terribly wrong. Her brother, Ben, comes to her aid, but his face is no longer recognizable. What happened and what did she do.......
Good Book - slow in the middle, but picked up at the end.

Recently separated from her husband Matt and some persuasion from her friends, Ali Taylor decides to go out on a date with Ewan, that she has been chatting up on a dating app. But, the next day she wakes up all bloodied and bruised and she can’t remember a thing and what’s worse she is suffering from Prosopagnosia (face blindness). She cannot recognise her friends and family or even her own face. She cannot trust anyone. If that wasn’t bad enough there is someone secretly trying to ruin her life. Trying to get their own back on something she did in her past. Ali tries to piece together what happened that night and who is getting at her. The story goes from past to present and we find out more of Ali’s life and the secrets she holds.
I have heard great reviews for this book. Don’t get me wrong. I really enjoyed this. I thought it was really good. I liked its originality and there was so many twists and turns that kept me guessing to the end. I didn’t see the end coming. But for me personally it didn’t wow me. So I give it 4 stars.
Thank you Bookouture and NetGalley for an ARC of this book.

Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for the advanced copy.

This is the first Louise Jensen book I have read and it definitely won't be my last.

Ali wakes up the morning after a blind date and has no recolection of what happened the night before. She has blood on her hands and no memory of what happened. She looks in the mirror and doesn't recognize herself. She finds out that she has facial blindness. The book takes you on a suspensful ride and keeps you on the edge of your seat. What really happened that night? Is she going crazy? Can she trust anyone? It will keep you guessing right until the end. It was cleverly written. Can't wait to read Louise Jensen's other books!

A really unique story. I started wondering where this could go as it seemed a bit out there but should not have doubted the wonderful Louise Jensen. This is a gripping, twisty, dark psychological thriller at its best. I suspected all but never came close to guessing this ending.

Louise Jensen's The Date is a suspenseful psychological thriller that will keep you guessing to the end. It all starts when Ali Taylor wakes up battered and bruised after a date she doesn't remember. Recently separated from her husband she was reluctant to go on the date with a man she had been talking to on line and now she's woken up to a nightmare. Not only is she covered in blood but she has a bad head injury and can no longer recognise her own face or those of anyone else, including her family and friends. As if that isn't bad enough someone is leaving her hateful messages and threats.

The psychological tension builds as Ali tries to work out what happened that night and who would hate her enough to be threatening her. There are plenty of people for us to suspect and a quite a few twists in the story as all is slowly revealed and a web of secrets and lies is exposed. Thrilling stuff!

I have read all Louise's books and enjoyed each and every one of them. I found the storyline got me interested from the beginning which Louise's style of writing tends to do.

Overall I really enjoyed this book and found it difficult to put down and I would definitely recommend.

The Date is one thought provoking read, and a tale cautionary tale on online dating. Alison Taylor has been been separated from their husband, and her friend convinces her to start on online dating profile and find a date. Get out of the house, live a little. The date the Ali believes will turn things around for her, goes horribly, horrible wrong for her.

Alison wakes up, pain all over, and an excruciating headache. She’s disoriented but somehow she makes it out of the place she doesn’t know and makes it home. When her brother Ben learns of what happened, he takes to be checked out by a medical professional. Test after test gives her a diagnosis that she doesn’t understand and is scared to death of. Prosopagnosia, “facial blindness”! Wrong faces on those she has always known, is what she sees. Even her own face in unrecognizable. I couldn’t even imagine living like this, but this her life now.

She has no memory of the date, but this man/stalker soon takes over her life in so many ways. Not being able to recognize faces makes her days even more stressful. How do you know who is who? Can she even trust the voices of those she believes are ho they say they are with her illness? Strangers things start to happen, flowers being left, words that haunt her, and her scatter memories just add to the suspense of this, leading on one wildly thrilling ride, leading us to one climatic ending. And, boy was I wrong about just about everything, which I love too!

Jensen did some amazing research on facial blindness, and made one intensely engrossing tale. This is my first from her, and I will certainly be on the lookout for more from her. This was a fantastic psychological thriller!

Holy wow, this was so creepy and brilliantly written. Hugely unexpected ending with plenty of red herrings scattered throughout. . I really enjoyed!

Recently separated from her husband, Ali has been persuaded by her friends to sign up to a dating app. On Saturday night she had her first date. Its now Sunday morning. Waking up alone in the house that she shares with a friend Ali knows that something is terribly wrong. She is hurt, she can't remember anything and the face in the mirror isn't her. What on earth happened?

A head injury has left Ali with a condition that means that she can't recognise faces - even her own. Prosopagnosia is also known as face blindness and although it normally affects people from birth it can be brought on by trauma. Struggling to come to terms with her new condition Ali is still trying to piece together what really happened to her on her date. The facial blindness means that she finds herself mistrusting everyone around her. The only face that stays the same is the photo of her late mother. Her only constant in an ever changing world.

Slowly Ali starts to investigate what happened and as she gets closer to the truth she realises that her life and those dearest to her are all in mortal danger.

Jenson really keeps you in the dark in this twisty thriller and I didn't see that ending coming at all! A genuine page turner that will keep you guessing to the very last page.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for a free, electronic ARC of this novel received in exchange for an honest review.
After much persuasion by her friends, Ali goes out on a Saturday night, hoping to meet the handsome stranger she has been chatting with online. When she wakes up on Sunday morning, she has no recollection of what happened the night before, her clothing is covered in blood and she has, literally, lost her memory. Her friends, family and those closest to her are completely unrecognizable to her and no one seems to be able to answer any questions about what happened that night. As the days go on, her best friend, Chrissy, is deemed to be a “missing person” and soon the cops are asking questions. Questions that Ali can’t answer.
“The Date” by Louise Jensen has taken all of my expectations and blown them out of the water. I never did get around to reading Jensen’s three other novels, and I am surely kicking myself for it now.
“The Date” is completely and totally un-putdownable. Every chapter ends with a cliff hanger that left me desperate to keep reading, and the suspense-fueled plotline kept me on the edge of my seat.
This novel is creepy on many different levels, and has everything that a psychological thriller should have. The “whodunit” component is there of course, and the path to the actual ending is full of twists and turns, speculation and questioning. When the end arrives, it wraps itself up in a nice, succinct package, and is both unpredictable and completely satisfying.
Hands down, this novel took me by surprise in all the best ways. My next move will be to immediately check out the rest of Jensen’s novels.

I loved the characters and their interaction was superb, I literally had no idea where the story was going and then everything I thought I’d guessed right went straight out the window!!

Ali Taylor is estranged from her husband Matthew and living with her divorced friend Chrissy, right next door from her lifelong friend Jules and James. They support Ali as she and Matt try to find common ground and start a dialogue that may help them sort out their differences. One night Ali’s friends persuade her to join a dating agency and she soon discovers a gentle sounding man called Ewan. Eventually Ali arranges to meet him at the Prism bar and Chrissy goes along with her.
The next morning Ali wakes up and straight away she has the feeling that something is wrong. She aches all over and the clothing that she had worn on her date is scattered everywhere. She has the mother of all headaches. Not only that but blood is engrained into her nails and she has a head wound. She cannot remember anything about what happened and as she stares into the mirror she is startled to see that she doesn’t look at all like herself. She is looking at a complete stranger.
Her younger brother Ben takes her straight to A&E where she undergoes an examination and a series of tests, eventually receiving the devastating diagnosis of prosopagnosia, which the doctor tells her is also called face blindness. It is a cognitive disorder of face perception in which the ability to recognize familiar faces, including one's own face, is seriously impaired. In fact she may only be able to recognise 1 out of 1,000 faces. She is devastated; it is all too much to take in.
When Ben takes her home and she is eventually left on her own, she is stalked by an unknown male who is bent on playing mind games with her. He looks through her window, bangs on the door continuously, leaves packages for her; all with threats and hints that she will be in grave trouble with the law if she reports her attack. Her stalker is angry and determined to make Ali’s life a misery. He may even plan to kill her. She dare not seek help or confide in anyone as she is guarding secrets from her past. Does her attacker know what had happened? She has only Branwell her faithful dog for company because Chrissy has gone away on holiday while the shop is being refurbished. Puzzlingly she has also deleted Ali from her Facebook account, making Ali wonder whatever had happened for her friend to unfriend her. Things go from bad to worse at breakneck speed.
This novel is an absolute cracker of a psychological thriller. I was filled with empathy for Ali. She was all alone and frightened of everything. Imagine not recognising your friends and family. Everywhere she went she would not know her friends from complete strangers, or even from her stalker. She was desperate to unlock from her mind what had happened the night she had been attacked so that she could piece together the clues that may unmask her adversary. The storytelling is full of menace, tension and delivered with superb aplomb and at a terrific pace. The back story of Ali and Ben’s childhood is revealed through poignant memories of happier family times. It is a heart breaking story for two young children to have gone through. When the two stories are seamlessly merged, the truth is laid bare by the most frightening and unexpected plot twist of them all. I loved the measured ending as well.
Thank you for my copy of 'The Date', received through my membership of NetGalley and from publisher Bookouture, all in return for an honest unbiased review. It is a very good read and I will be thinking about this novel long into the future. It’s a 4.5* review from me.

This is my second book I’ve read, reviewed, and rated 5 stars, by Louise Jensen. This book is definitely a page turner. Ali had to grow up tormented by what her father did and then again with her mom’s illness. She goes on one date and her life is flipped upside down again. Her husband is about to do the unthinkable out of love and there’s so many twists and turns that will have you guessing time and time again on who is out to get Ali. The ending is definitely a shocker over all this book is by far one of the best psychological thrillers I’ve read thus far.

Exceptional! Another book added to my list of best books so far this year.
An absolute must read for every fan of this genre.
Very fast paced, superbly gripping and keeps you guessing all the way.

Ali wakes up the morning after a night out on a first date with no memories, a head injury, bruises and blood under her fingernails. How did she get home? What happened to her? Shortly after, she is diagnosed with a condition of face blindness which renders every familiar face to her a relative stranger. Her first date seemingly is stalking her and tormenting her with threatening notes. She's utterly terrified.

I really enjoyed The Date, particularly the first half. The first half of the book is heart stoppingly gripping and claustrophobic. I read the first half in practically one sitting with my mouth open and one hand over my eyes! The situation Ali finds herself in is terrifying in our modern day world and something that happens all too often. The first half of The Date was to me like a cross between Into the Darkest Corner and Before I go to sleep.

However in the second half of the book the pace slowed considerably and the tension that was so utterly gripping and shocking in the first half, fairly fizzled away. Unfortunately I figured out the culprit fairly early on but even so, found it a bit unbelievable and a bit of a let down. It was also inconceivable to me that Ali wouldn't have called the police to report matters and the reason for this, while part of the overall story, wasn't convincing to me.

Overall though I enjoyed the book and I would like to read more by this author. Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher and Ms Jensen for an advance copy of The Date in exchange for my honest opinion.

After going out on a blind date Ali wakes up in the morning bruised , battered with blood on her fingernails but having no idea what happened to her last night.In the hospital along with amnesia she is diagnosed with facial blindness which makes her unable to recognize anybody’s face including her own. Trying to cope with this trauma is hard enough but when she gets threatening messages she knows her nightmare is just beginning.

The Date is a tense psychological thriller full of suspense , twists and turns. An entertaining , engaging read and will eagerly look forward to the next one by Louise Jensen

I would like to thank Bookouture & NetGalley for providing an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest and fair review.

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Ali, recently separated, has moved in with a friend while she attempts to reconcile with her estranged husband. As her husband Mark continues to push for divorce, Ali slumps into a deeper depression. Her friends convince her to join an online dating app in an attempt to move forward with her life. Ewen's profile strikes Ali as different, he seems kind, and she reluctantly agrees to a date.
Ali wakes up in her room covered in blood; she's sustained head trauma and has no memories of the events that took place the night before. From the bruises on her throat it appears as if someone tried to strangle her. When Ali looks in the mirror to examine the extent of her injuries, she doesn't recognize the person staring back at her. Ali begins to receive threatening notes, implying she did something terrible for which her assailant is seeking revenge. Unable to recognize faces, Ali must piece together the events of that night before her attacker returns to finish what they started.

The Date is an intense mystery/suspense/thriller with a twist. Ali is left with a head injury that affects her ability to recognize faces. Ali’s attacker begins the game of cat and mouse, using her injury to their advantage, Ali is left defenseless unable to identify friend from foe. I really enjoyed the author’s use of this plot twist as a way to increase suspense and leave the reader guessing who it might be. This one had me second guessing myself several times as new information is revealed. Definitely a must read for fans of this genre.

This is the first book I’ve read by Louise Jensen and it certainly won’t be my last.
An amazing psychological thriller that grips you right form the start and keeps you guessing til the end. I changed my mind a few times about ‘whodunnit’ as the information that is woven throughout the book makes you suspect everyone. There were moments in the story where I could hear (in me head) the creepy music you get in horror films just before something happens that makes you jump out of your seat. The story is written in such a way that you can almost imagine yourself in the book with the characters, giving them advice, willing them on or telling them be careful. A must read for any fan of psychological thrillers.