This book is great! Would definitely recommend. Thanks so much to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.

Unfortunately, I have not been able to read and review this book.

After losing and replacing my broken Kindle and getting a new phone I was unable to download the title again for review as it was no longer available on Netgalley. 

I’m really sorry about this and hope that it won’t affect you allowing me to read and review your titles in the future.

Thank you so much for giving me this opportunity. 
Natalie.

I was intrigued by the secretive marketing of this book but was a little disappointed by the execution. It started intriguingly but became a bit slow moving.

Unfortunately despite trying to get into this a few times, I didn't finish this one and more than likely won't go back to it. Thank you for the opportunity to read it!

I liked the promise of this book perhaps more than the deliverance. A spooky old house and the villagers seem to be opposed to Caro who is sorting out the home of her late Mother.  I didn't find it as gripping as I had hoped, perhaps a bit of editing is needed but the ending was twisty and made me read to the end.

Unfortunately I read this book a while ago and seem to have missed it when writing reviews. - sadly I cant remember enough detail to give a full review.
However, thanks to NetGalley for the ARC :-)

I loved this book, it was so spooky and the perfect read for being tucked up in bed on a cold winter's night. I liked the plot and the characters. Would love to read more by Sophie Draper.

Caro has come home to her stepmother’s funeral. She and her sister, Steph, have not spoken in over 10 years. They decide at the funeral to try and mend fences. Steph goes back to NYC and Caro stays in her hometown to help close out the estate. As she goes about her daily shopping, the townsfolk seem to hate her. Weird things begin happening in her family home. Is she going Cuckoo or is it something else?
I enjoyed the premise of this book but it did seem to drag in a few spots. I also was reading an advanced copy, so maybe another sweep of editing fixed some of my issues. An overall easy read.

Caro returns to her childhood home after her stepmother's death.  The house stirs up memories of a pitiful childhood, unloved by her stepmother, abandoned by her older sister, never quite fitting in. 

She has just escaped a bad relationship and with nowhere else to stay the farmhouse could be a new start for her.   Can she also rebuild her relationship with her sister Steph.

She is unsettled by vivid dreams or are they memories.  She finds solace in the arms of the attractive neighbour Craig but is that enough to stop her torment. 

This is a dark story laced with fairy tales and has a gothic feel about it.  The story builds slowly and has you gripped and I swear I could even hear the pear drum when I was reading it!  

The ending was great, leaves you feeling a bit uneasy very reminiscent of the Tales of the Unexpected endings (for any of you old enough to remember them, how good were they! It was a spooky treat for me as a child.  For anybody who doesn't know Tales of the Unexpected were short sinister stories written by Roald Dahl with a twist to the endings, which were made into a TV series in the late 70s early 80s)

This is a perfect Halloween read.

Thanks to Netgalley and Avon Books for the ARC

Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for this arc in exchange for an honest review. Can you keep a secret? I loved the mysterious nature of this promotion. Who doesn’t want a secret book?
Cuckoo by Sophie Draper follows Caro who meets her sister after many years at their stepmother’s funeral. Her sister, Steph, isn’t interested in the inheritance and asks Caro if she wants to stay in their old home to pack up the things. Caro who’s strapped for cash agrees. But living alone in her old home causes painful memories of her childhood to resurface and people in the village are acting strange...and then there’s the unexplained, creepy things happening in the house...
I loved the writing and atmosphere. Draper conjures a claustrophobic feel with lots of references to fairy tales. However I did find the story slow moving and not much happens in the first half of the book, which was quite repetitive. Things do pick up in the latter half of the novel with lots of twists and turns. This wasn’t a perfect read, but it was creepy enough to keep me going and I’ll definitely keep my eyes open for her next book. 
It’s 3/5 from me.

I just couldn't get into this book - I got as far as 21% but just couldn't engage with the characters, hopefully I haven't made a grave mistake!

Definitely gripping from the start.
Full of suspense and you can’t put it down.
Will look for future titles from this author.

When Caro's stepmother dies, she moves back to her childhood home that she ran away from as soon as she could leave for college. Confronted with past memories, Caro begins to explore what really happened when she was a child and unearths forgotten memories. What really happened between Caro, her stepmother and her estranged sister Steph - who claims to want no part of the inheritance, all that time ago and is Caro safe in the house now even though her tormentor is gone?

This was a very sinister psychological thriller with roots in creepy fairy tales - particularly The New Mother by Lucy Clifford. I definitely felt a bit unnerved while reading this book. I did like that Caro began to fall into the unreliable narrator trope as it appeared her mind was beginning to unravel and her memories were mixing up and as a reader I wasn't really sure what she was actually seeing versus what she was imagining. 

I didn't really get on with Caro though as a main character, I never really clicked with her or the story in general. This is a slower-paced thriller which isn't really my favourite - I much prefer fast-paced ones that leave me on the edge of my seat. I found a lot of Caro's actions a bit silly, and as a grown adult I couldn't quite understand how much she wasn't in the know about her own situation. There was an attempt at showing tha Caro was recovering from an abusive relationship but I definitely think this could have been explored more, and didn't quite bring much to the story besides fortifying Caro as a person who has been abused for most of her life by people she should have been able to love and trust. She never really comes across as a strong character, even when confronting people. The whole book she seems a bit cowed and I would have liked her to rise from the ashes a bit more.

I did think for a bit that Caro's mental unraveling seemed a little bit odd and out of place, as up to that point she had appeared to be fine. The drinking was also strange as at the start of the book, there's a couple of references from Caro that she wasn't a big drinker yet several times during the novel she drinks a bottle of whisky (the results of which do serve to bring the plot forward but I still thought it all an odd character choice).

This book was fine, it just wasn't one I really connected with or found myself really engrossed in.

I never received this book unfortunately so cannot provide a proper review - not sure why or if there was a glitch in the system at this point.

Thank you anyway! :)

Cuckoo is a spooky, twisty thriller that had me in it's spell from the first page! I can't wait to read Sophie Draper's next book.

It's hard to know who to trust and what is going to happen. A suspenseful read. Am looking forward to Sophie's next book

An attention grabbing thriller with twists and turns throughout. Enjoyable to read and I'll pick up more from Sophie Draper in the future

This is an exciting thriller which was quite spooky in parts. It had lot's of twists and turns and a really surprising ending.

This is a brilliant read! There are moments which will send shivers down your spine. An excellent narrative. A must read.

I enjoyed this book, basically it’s a good psychological thriller based around a house inherited by one of two daughters. 

The 2 sisters haven’t spoken in years but then their stepmother dies unexpectedly. Steph moved to the USA at 16 & Caro stayed in the U.K.

Steph doesn’t want anything today with the house and Caro moves in, unexpected things keep happening at the house and some secrets won’t stay buried!

Great book look it up!