4.5 stars - As I previously mentioned, I usually don’t enjoy books about missing girls/women, but again, I loved this one! The story didn’t go where I thought it was going, which was a great surprise! Especially since I had been reading books about missing children back-to-back, I was not hopeful about this one. I was pleasantly surprised!

Some aspects were predictable, but it didn’t take away the unputdownable and gripping story this book was! There were many clever twists! Even though I didn’t love the ending, it’s a very minor complaint in the grand scheme of this book. Highly recommend!

Intriguing, thought-provoking and intense. This book just drew you in. Based on the synopsis, I didn’t think it was going to be as good as it was, but I was pleasantly surprised. Great read.

Stories about missing children always get me, and Her One Mistake doesn't let me down. It's fast paced and page turning. The emotions you feel for the mother .... Perks writers these scenes to heartbreakingly real. An enjoyable (word choice?) read that makes you wish this will never happen to you.

I wasn’t a big fan of this book. I couldn’t connect the characters or the plot. It dragged on for me and I began to lose interest.

When Charlotte was asked by her friend Harriet to watch her young daughter she thought it would be no problem. She would take the little girl along with her three children to the school fair and everyone could have a good time, never could she expect how the day would end.

Charlotte is a mother of three who takes her children along wither her best friend's daughter to the school fair, all should have been great, but during the outing her best friend's daughter goes missing during the outing.

Harriet already had a hard time trusting anyone and now her only child is missing. She is heart broken and misses her daughter. She can not bring herself to speak to Charlotte it's impossible to deal with anything.

Her One Mistake is a fast paced thriller. Told from dual preceptive of the two woman Charlotte and Harriet. As you follow what would be every mother's worst nightmare. Heidi Perks does a great job of really digging deep into the emotions of her main character and really make the reader feel the grief and fear both these mothers are going through.

I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a mystery thriller particularly of the domestic variety.

Thank you to Net Galley and the publisher for proving me with this Arc all opinions are my own.

Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for the Arc in exchange for my honest review.

Well this is another one that had me completely glued to their book until the very last page.
There is nothing more tragic than a missing child, especially if that child was in your care and the mother was skeptical leaving her child in the first place (not because she didn’t trust you per say, but she always been over protective and worried something would happen). Then is does, you turn away for one brief second and then, she’s gone!!!!

A slow burning thriller that keeps you gripped and on edge as the search for a little girl plays out! I couldn’t put it down!

The characters were relatable and it was an entertaining read. I would recommend it to my friends. Thank you!

Addictive, fast-paced and thrilling! This book had me hooked! Harriet and Charlotte are friends. They have children around the same age and one day Harriet asks Charlotte to watch her daughter Alice for a few hours. This is a big deal for Harriet, because she rarely lets her daughter Alice out of her sight. She is a very protective mother, and is nervous about leaving her daughter in the care of someone else, even if that someone is her best friend.

What should have been a fun filled day at the school fair turns into a tragic event, as Charlotte only took her eyes off the children for a second and then suddenly Alice is missing. Where did she go? Charlotte swears she looked away for that one brief second, and the unthinkable happens!

Charlotte feels horrible, as it was under her supervision that Alice goes missing! Harriet is furious that her best friend could let such a thing happen and is devastated! The search then begins for missing Alice. Days go by and there are no leads, and no one, not even the police, seem to know where Alice has vanished.

A page turner of a book that will have you sitting on the edge of your seat biting your nails as you flip through pages to see what happens next. Did someone take Alice? Who would take her and why? A thrilling ride to the very ending, which will shock and surprise you. I definitely didn't see the ending coming and I loved it!

Her One Mistake, by Heidi Perks, is a gripping read!
It's a story about every parent's worst nightmare: having your child disappear in the blink of an eye, while in the care of someone you trust.
As the story unfolds the reader delves deeper into the why and how such a horrific thing could happen.
I was pleasantly surprised with the author's unique and clever storyline, characters and surprise ending.

Thank you to NetGalley and Simon & Schuster Canada/Gallery Books for an arc of this novel in exchange for my honest review.

This book kept kept me on my toes the whole entire the time. I devoured the book. I say take the plunge and read this book !

I thought Her One Mistake was a really fun and quick read. While the missing child premise wasn’t anything new, the twists along the way were well done. I did figure things out early on, but I felt like the author did a great job of leaving clues. This book took me 3.5 hours to read and I give it 4 stars.

Her One Mistake by Heidi Perks is one of the most interesting psychological thrillers I have read in a long time. Charlotte, an extrovert single mom of three children has become best friends with Harriet, a reclusive married mother of one daughter, Alice. Because Harriet seems over-protective of her daughter, she has never left her with anyone until the day of the school fair. Because she needs to attend a class, Harriet drops Alice off with Charlotte so all the children can enjoy the fair. Then the worse that can happen, happens. Alice disappears while playing with Charlotte's kids. She is nowhere to be found. The police are called and Harriet and her husband must be notified. Imagine babysitting your best friend's child and then losing her without a trace. Charlotte's and Harriet's worlds are thrown upside down and their friendship severely damaged. What follows is so convoluted that the reader will never guess the outcome. The storyline is very original and fast-paced. This thriller does not disappoint. Highly recommended. Thank you to Simon & Schuster and NetGalley for the e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.

A slow burn, but great thriller once you got half-way through the book. A little too many characters and multiple timelines for me to follow, but not a bad read otherwise.

Judging a Book by it's Cover - 2019-01-31
Another domestic thriller. Another hesitant approach. This genre is never ending, and I never want it to end, but I do want to be swept back up in the feelings I felt when I first discovered books like this. I liked the feel and the description of this and went in fairly optimistic.

Review - 2019-02-02
This book started out as one thing, something that seemed fairly structured and formulaic – a missing girl, a bunch of secrets, desperate people trying to find the truth. But very quickly, this story turned into something else, something that was really, really great.

It’s hard to talk about these twists and turns without giving anything away, and this is definitely a book that you want to go into blind, so I will refrain from saying too much outside of expressing my pure enjoyment of this and that I read it in nearly one sitting and was on the edge of my seat the whole time.

The characters were strong; Charlotte was your ordinary hard-working mom with three rambunctious kids of her own and her hands full at all stops. Harriet seemed a little passive and mousy, overprotective of her daughter, but also just heartbreakingly isolated and I really liked the somewhat unexpected friendship that she and Charlotte developed, a friendship that is truly tested the more you read through this. I really loved this friendship and what it meant in this book.

I also really loved how relatable the characters were. Their actions and reactions weren’t always the best choices or perhaps the most politically correct, but they were very real. I could easily see myself having similar thoughts and questions and reactions in a similarly intense and stressful situation. It wouldn’t be something I were proud of, but I think it’s painfully human and I loved that these characters were so painfully flawed and desperate and human.

The story is told from the perspectives of Charlotte and Harriet, both during the time that Harriet’s daughter Alice goes missing and a little further down the line after everything has unravelled. It was a lot of jumping back and forth and a lot of different strands of story being woven together, but Perks does this exceptionally well. It’s very complex and layered but doesn’t come off as overly complicated or jumbled.

Despite the hopping timelines and littered information, things that kept me on my toes through the whole story, it all came together very easily to the point that it seems unbelievable that I didn’t see any of this coming. But I didn’t. It’s very well crafted and subtly sneaky, the writing is strong, it’s perfectly paced and you’re sucked right in feeding off every word that Perks is very intentionally giving you. I can’t tell you how much I love when a book is crafted so amazingly well.

** I received an advance copy of Her one Mistake for honest review from Simon and Schuster Canada and thank them for the opportunity to read this and share my thoughts.

I would describe Her One Mistake as one part drama and one part thriller. The story explores the aftermath of a child’s abduction. When 4-year-old Alice suddenly disappears without a trace while at a school fair under the watchful eye of her mother’s best friend Charlotte, news spreads like wildfire and soon everyone is talking about it. Harriet, Alicia’s mother, has never left Alice with a babysitter before and is devastated. Her husband Brian is angry, questioning Harriet why she let their daughter out of her sight. Charlotte, with 3 kids of her own, is portrayed in the media and schoolyard as the scapegoat for losing another woman’s child.

This book was difficult to put down once I started reading it. It is one of those stories that grabs the reader and pulls them along. I knew there was something going on behind the scenes but what? The story alternates between Charlotte and Harriet’s perspectives with two timelines- then (during the search for Alice) and now (a police interview). As the plot develops, the reader learns about the dysfunctional relationship between Harriet and Brian as they try to piece together what happened to their little girl.

I liked this book. The characters were well developed and it was easy to get sucked into the plot. Although the mystery is revealed midway through, there is a lot of cat and mouse action that follows. A fast and engaging read that stays true to its theme from start to finish.

Thank you to Simon and Schuster Canada for an ARC on Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Her One Mistake by Heidi Perks. This was an emotional psychological thriller that had me hooked from the very start. I honestly couldn’t put the book down. The author’s portrayal of Harriet, the mother whose child was taken and Charlotte, the mother who was with the child when she was taken, is just so heartbreaking to read. But at the same time the storyline is suspenseful and chilling and makes the horror of a missing child very real. I could just feel the despair and anxiety of the parents emanating from the pages as well as the hell that Charlotte, Harriett’s best friend, was going through. A well written good story that I thoroughly enjoyed. Recommended.
Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review

Her One Mistake is a compelling, well-written, but somewhat disjointed and derivative novel. Using tropes that have become very familiar in the thriller genre like an unreliable narrator, a sudden shift in the story half-way through the book, and a jumping timeline, Her One Mistake feels too similar to other popular works to really hold its own.

A four-year-old girl goes missing from a school fair in a small English town, pitting two women and former close friends against each other. One woman is the missing girls' mother, and the other is the woman who was supposed to be watching her when she disappeared. Their friendship destroyed and the town in a frantic uproar, both women are subjected to media scrutiny and judgment from friends, acquaintances and complete strangers. As the case drags on and no new information surfaces about the girls' whereabouts, it becomes clear to both women that they made need each others help in finding the child.

Her One Mistake has some surprising and entertaining twists, and the writing and storyline are solid enough to keep you reading throughout the novel. But the book ultimately just has too many similarities to Big Little Lies, Gone Girl and The Girl On The Train to be truly original. While there's no harm in playing on popular themes and ideas, it felt like Her One Mistake was trying to incorporate too many overused twists and turns, and the result was a book that felt oddly disjointed and difficult to believe.

I did enjoy the portrayal of certain characters and relationships, especially that of Charlotte (the woman who is blamed for losing the little girl). Charlotte is a character who's easy to root for. She's nice, interesting, and relatable, and I found her plight to be the most riveting part of the book.

Heidi Perks is definitely a strong writer, and I'm keen to see what else she writes because she has undeniable talent. Her One Mistake was just a bit too derivative.

I never tire of suspense novels! My latest listen is Her One Mistake by Heidi Perks. And it was really, really good!

Harriet is a very protective mother. She has never left her four year old daughter Alice with anyone. She's taking a course (that she doesn't want her husband to know about) so she agrees to let her best friend Charlotte take Alice to the school fair with her own children. But, the unthinkable happens - Alice goes missing....and Charlotte is to blame. Is there a more frightening premise!?

Her One Mistake is told in alternating chapters from Harriet and Charlotte's viewpoints. As listeners we are privy to both women's thoughts, emotions and angst. But we also get a glimpse into their private lives. Despite being best friends, Harriet never really talks about herself, her past or her marriage. And there's a lot going on in Harriet's marriage. Her husband Brian is so well written. The public see one face, but Harriet lives with another. I love the back and forth method of storytelling. Although, it does ensure I stay up far too late, listening to just one more chapter.

But where is Alice? Is she dead or alive? Perks throws in a plot twist that I didn't see coming at all. And the title? Her One Mistake - whose mistake? And what mistake? You'll have to listen to find out!

Incredibly good book, and very well written. Although it gets slightly confusing as we bounce back and forth between the main characters points of view, it is still a very worthwhile read. You have no idea how this book will end, until you get there. Charlotte and Harriet explain their point of view of when Harriet's daughter disappears. A truly remarkable story!