Two weeks before her wedding  to Matt, Amy is stopped in the street & told she is in danger. She finds this unnerving & is already pretty uptight about the wedding. Matt calls her to say he will be late home but never returns. Amy calls the police who initially don't seem too concerned. However when another woman reports on her missing lover & he seems to fit Amy's description of Matt their interest is piqued.

The story is told from Amy's point of view as well as her daughter Jess, Fiona (the other woman) & another narrator who does not reveal themselves straight away the reader gets a picture from many different angles. Who can they believe? This was an interesting idea, somewhat far fetched in places but overall a good read. Thanks to Netgalley & the publisher for letting me read & review this book.

Thank you very much to Netgalley and Avon Books for my copy of this Kindle edition in exchange for a fair review..

Synopsis: Two weeks before her wedding, a stranger stops Amy in the street and warns her she’s in danger. Then that night, Matt, her fiancé, doesn’t come home. Desperate, Amy calls the police – but when Matt fails to emerge, she’s forced to call off her wedding day. Then another man is reported missing, by a woman called Fiona – a man meeting Matt’s description, who was about to leave his fiancée for her.  He was supposed to be moving in with her – but instead, he’s vanished. Amy refuses to believe Fiona’s lover can be her Matt – but photos prove otherwise, and it soon becomes clear that Matt has been leading a double life. As the police dig deeper, two conflicting, yet equally plausible stories emerge from two women who allegedly have never met..

Review: I really enjoyed this book. It was full of suspense and tension and had me guessing so much throughout! There were so many red herrings, and I got most of them wrong! The writing style was exemplary and made it all the more enjoyable to read. I really liked the character of Amy and really felt for her.. I can't imagine what I'd do in this situation! I hope I never find out!

This reminded me of a similar book that I read not too long ago. That's not necessarily a bad thing though because I enjoyed both!

What a fun read.  You think you know the narrative and It clearly turns you around.  Howells keeps the story fresh with smart dialogue and expected and definitely unexpected twists.  Can’t wait for her next one!

Very readable and enjoyable! I finished it very quickly, as the pacing was excellent and the plot was very captivating.

The book started fine when Amy was about to be dumped and left at the altar. I liked knowing Amy, though she shocked me too with her past. But midway down the book, the story lost its steam and dragged quite a bit. It became repetitive and quite far-fetched. The prose didn't flow well, and I had to skim read it to get to the end. Overall, an okay read

The first part of the book is told by Amy, with some chapters interspersed from the perspective of her university aged daughter, Jess.

Amy is excited for her upcoming wedding  and life with loving fiancé Matt. She is very happy growing flowers and herbs to make tinctures and ointments for her clients in the surrounding community.  One day Matt does not return from work, and Amy finds out he has been leading a double life.

In Part 2, Matt’s other woman, Fiona tells the story from her perspective in chapters alternating with those  told by Jess, Amy, and a mystery narrator telling a story from 1996. At first, it is difficult to tell how the story from the past relates to the current story, and to know if  Amy, Fiona, or both are unreliable narrators.  As the book unfolds, all becomes clear.

Overall, this book was an enjoyable and quick read! The story, although implausible (thus my 3 star rating) kept me guessing until the end!

Thank you NetGalley and Avon for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

the writer knows how to keep you guessing and keeps surprising you with new things.
the writing style is nice and it was a really fast read.

The Vow by Debbie Howells is a great suspense novel with a very unique story line.  I enjoyed ever minute of it.  It involves a woman who is supposed to be getting married.  The groom to be disappears two weeks before the wedding.  The police become involved and some dark secrets are revealed.  This novel was a page turner from beginning to end.  There are themes about secrets, friendship, manipulation, and loyalty as the novel progresses.  This is definitely a 5 star mystery and suspense novel.  I would like to thank Avon Books, Debbie Howells, and netgalley for allowing me to read this enjoyable novel in exchange for a fair and honest review.]

An amazing psychological thriller that I couldn’t stop reading! Love that it is so fast paced, because that way I couldn’t put it down and read it in 1 day!

I had my suspicions about what had happened, but it really kept me guessing! By the end, it was obvious but I still didn’t know how it would play out. I think reading Jess’s POV was my least favorite thing, because in the first half of the book it gives too much away about Amy’s character, without that we would be having conflicted thoughts about her until the end!

 I would say it’s a great book for people who want to read this genre, with good writing!

* arc provided via netgalley*

I honestly don't understand how this book has been marked down in so many reviews! 
From the start I absolutely loved this book, and was picking it up to read at every available opportunity.
I found it fast paced, and I was so intrigued to find out what happened in the past etc as it was obvious it was connected to the present.
Would definitely recommend this to anyone :)

I’m sorry, I tried. Really tried. But 35% into the book I couldn’t take anymore.  I had to give up.  The characters were so 2 dimensional I couldn’t get to know them.  Also, mentioning the investigating officer as “WPC Page” really wound me up as women police officers are no longer called this; surely someone should have checked this out?

The writing was not edgy and I have to admit, I did skip to the end to see what had happened. Saved myself at least a week’s worth of dull reading!

Amy is due to get married in two weeks time to Matt, she has been preparing for the wedding for months. She is stopped by a stranger when she is out and is warned of danger to come, this shakes her up but passes it off as nothing. 

Things then start to unravel, Matt goes missing after work. He was due to have dinner with a client however he never comes home. Amy is unable to contact him and reports him as missing. 

Much to Amy’s horror it appears that the man she loved had a mistress who has also reporting him missing. This thriller had me reading through as quickly as possible, what had happened to Matt. There were a lot of hidden secrets from both Amy and Matt’s passed and things coming back to haunt Amy.

A suspenseful mystery story about trust, guilt, and revenge

Amy thought her life with her wonderful fiancé Matt was perfect, but two weeks before their dream wedding, Matt doesn’t come home from work one night. A panicked Amy gets the police involved, and they start investigating his sudden unexplained disappearance. To Amy’s horror, they soon discover another Matt who fits her groom-to-be’s description has been reported missing, this time by his girlfriend, Fiona. It only gets worse, when Fiona starts to say that Matt was planning to leave his fiancée for her and suggests that perhaps Amy found this out and flew into a jealous rage. Amy initially refuses to believe that her beloved fiancé was leading a double life. Still, as the police start digging deeper, more secrets start to emerge, and Amy may find herself under the scrutiny of the law, whilst at the same time discovering that she may not have really known the man she loved after all.

This was an enjoyable mystery with lots of twists and cliff-hangers that keep you turning the pages to find out what will happen next. The author does an excellent job of building up suspense from the very first chapter. As she gradually reveals more about Amy’s past through flashbacks, and her life with Matt through the viewpoint of Amy’s daughter Jess and other characters, the reader starts to get the sense that all was not as it seemed in Amy’s supposedly perfect life. I found the themes of this book interesting, and the characters’ behaviours and actions all made sense as more about their pasts were revealed.

Unfortunately, despite a strong start, the second half of the story was a bit weaker, with the big twist at the end lacking a punch. Some elements of the book were also quite unrealistic – for example, Jess (a 20-year old university student) discovering lots about Matt’s life and background before the police who are meant to be investigating him! Additionally, I wasn’t a massive fan of Amy as a character, despite feeling quite sorry for her after the way she was treated.

In conclusion, this was a fun and readable mystery story with plenty of suspense and build-up but lacking a good ending to make all the preamble worth it. I would still, however, consider reading more by this author, as I enjoyed the tone and pace of her writing, and the story was easy and enjoyable to read. 

Daenerys

Elite Reviewing Group received a copy of this book to review.

I was really intrigued by this book, but I found the writing style to be somewhat disjointed and that kept me from enjoying it fully. It was quite suspenseful, though, and I kept reading mainly because I wanted to know what the ending would be rather then out of any attachment to the characters.

This book was a page turner that I did not want to put down! It will have you thinking if you really want to walk down the sole and say your vows!

The Vow was a book that caught my eye, interesting synopsis and fab cover and didn’t disappoint.
Amy and Matt live in Amy’s house, they are two weeks away from getting married. Lots to do with so little time but one evening Matt had a business meeting and didn’t return. Amy rings the police after 24 hours and an investigation starts. Someone else has reported their boyfriend missing at the same time but she is called Fiona and he is called Matt, are they the same person and has Matt been leading a double life? 
The book is split into chapters from Amy, jess’s (Amy’s daughter who is at university) and Fiona’s perspectives. The book works well in doing this as you start to realise through Jess’s chapters that maybe things weren’t as rosy for the couple to be as Amy makes out and that maybe both parties are keeping secrets.
I would like to thank Netgalley and Avon Books UK for this ARC I received in exchange for an honest review.

This was entertaining, lots of twists and and pretty much unbeliavable at times, reminded me of this other book Gone without a trace and It was heartbreaking the ending was like to Rush to explain everything at the last two pages and women forgiving men too easily kind of frustraiting for that. But the writing was thrilling

This book is a solid 4 stars until the ending. It kept my attention and unfolded in a way which presented lots of plausible explanations. I liked the characters, Amy is naive but interesting. The book lost its sparkle towards the end. And it is not because I hated the ending but the writing felt rushed and not as interesting. 

I'd still recommend this book. The good outweighs the bad.

I read this book in two days, I really enjoyed the pace of the book and the twists. I was guessing all the way to the end about who was setting Amy up or if there was another explanation.

However, parts of the story were repeatetive, every set of text from 1996 said the same thing in slightly different words and I didn't feel it added anything to the story. There are elements that if true, would be scary. The police are treating the whole thing as a potential murder trial but haven't considered looking into Matt fully enough to know that he had changed his name. Although they still wouldn't have had the full story from that information, it would make the investigation easier. I also didn't like that WPC Page changed from friendly and helpful to sharp and unhelpful. I don't think this is a true representation of how police officers act.

Overall the story was good and following the common theme at the moment of one's past catching up with them. The twists were good and written in a way that I wanted to get to the end.