I was really intrigued after reading the blurb and loved the atmospheric setting of the book. I was immersed in the author's descriptive writing and that the element of suspense was there right from the start but it started to slack somewhere in the middle. There were a couple of twists that I did not see coming although the reveal at the end was just mediocre and fell short of what could have been a great thriller for me.
I would still want to read Lynda Stacey's earlier works though.

When the man responsible for the murder of their mother is released from prison, sisters Beth and Molly seek refuge in their deceased mothers house on the Clifftops near Whitby. But the man responsible for this crime is far from remorseful and is set on getting revenge.

The Winters sisters are hoping that all of the traumas from the past are well and truly behind them, and feel as though the house is a safe place for them to gather their thoughts, but someone is determined to seek revenge, and worse still they know where Beth and Molly are now living..

I have read several books by Lynda Stacey and enjoyed each and every thrilling story to date, but I don’t think any of them have had me as addicted as No Place Like Home. The storyline itself is unique and daring, combining a mixture of complex emotions that result in an absolute page turner.

I really liked how both Beth and Molly were given their own voices and personalities, despite them being sisters and sharing the same devastating loss as one another, they were both dealing with the trauma in their own ways. The bond between them was wonderful and added a new depth to the entire book.

As the danger surrounds the sisters, the suspense levels really ramp up and have you perched on the edge of your seat waiting to see how they will evade such a dangerous person, and as the story unfolds and we are guided through many twists and turns along the way, I found myself holding my breath as the story concluded. This is another brilliant read by the wonderful Lynda Stacey and one I would certainly recommend to all my fellow psychological thriller lovers.

This is my first book by Lynda Stacey and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

The novel is about two sisters Molly and Beth and they are staying at their mothers inherited cliff top house which is based in Whitby, their mother has been horrifically killed and they need to be somewhere alone. But all is not what it seems as there are plenty of secrets that keeps the reader guessing and lots of strange and eerie happening occur. It is more than obvious that the sisters are being watched by someone and as a reader it is is very thought provoking as I found that I really felt for these sisters and the death of their mother had greatly affected and impacted their life in such a negative way.

I did find this but intriguing although it did take me a while to get into the novel but once I did I was fully immersed. I enjoy Lynda Stacey's style of writing and the picture that she paints through her descriptions.

Thanks to NetGalley, Lynda Stacey and the publisher for allowing me to have an advanced copy of this novel in return for my honest review.

I have read a couple of Lynda’s books now and I really enjoyed them. I read the synopsis for ‘No Place Like Home’ and it certainly sounded like the sort of psychological thriller sort of book that I particularly enjoy. I couldn’t wait to start reading and so without further ado, I grabbed a cup of tea, grabbed my Kindle and settled down for an interesting afternoon of reading. I wasn’t to be disappointed. I did enjoy reading ‘No Place Like Home’ but more about that in a bit.
I fell under this book’s spell from the moment I read the synopsis. This spell lasted until the moment I read the very last word on the very last page. I found that I just couldn’t put this book down. My Kindle wasn’t exactly glued to my hand but it might as well have been because it travelled everywhere with me. I couldn’t bear to miss a single second of the story. I had my own theories as to what was going to happen and I had to see if I was on the right track or if I had wandered down another path entirely. I would become so wrapped up in the story that I would lose all track of time and just how quickly I was getting through the book. It didn’t take me long at all to get through the book. I found ‘No Place Like Home’ to be a gripping read, which certainly kept me guessing and kept me on the edge of my seat throughout.
‘No Place Like Home’ is extremely well written. Lynda certainly knows how to catch your attention and draw you into one hell of a story. Lynda reels you in much like a fisherman reels in a catch. I love the very vivid and realistic way in which she tells the story. As a reader, I felt as though I was at the heart of the action and I felt as though I was another character in the book. I was so convinced by her writing that I felt as though I was going through every single emotion that the characters went through. Reading ‘No Place Like Home’ felt very much like being on one hell of a scary and unpredictable rollercoaster rides with many twists and turns along the way. At times, this was a creepy read and I loved every single minute of it.
In short, I thoroughly enjoyed reading ‘No Place Like Home’ and I would recommend it to other readers. I will certainly be reading more of Lynda’s work in the future. The score on the Ginger Book Geek board is a very well deserved 5* out of 5*.

I did not enjoy this book. Very quickly I grew frustrated with the plot and the character decisions. I could not get a grasp of any threat or tension and it felt like the developments used too many well-known clichés for me to believe in it at all.

Firstly, I struggled to be convinced that Molly and Beth are sisters. True, there is a quite a large age gap between the two, but the relationship is incredibly estranged. Although they have no other family, Stacey presents a rather bleak pairing: Molly comes across as resentful as having to be the adult of the two, despite being employed in a good job! On the other hand, Beth is the typical 15 year-old teenager who hates having been moved to this remote house on the cliff tops and wants to do everything in her power to make her sister’s life a misery. To be honest, the way the house is described as so neglected, I thought it was a metaphor of the relationship between Molly and Beth. I agree that this is a reflection of reality but, actually, I was hoping for a little bit more positivity, rather than watching them constantly sniping at each other.

Throughout the story, I was irritated by the poor, uninformed decisions that were made. It was obvious, even to the most narrow-minded of people, that what Molly and Beth were doing would lead to trouble. As such, I found their behaviour unconvincing and had no sympathy when they felt threatened. Furthermore, like I was not convinced by Molly and Beth, I do not believe in the supporting relationships either. They felt hollow, rushed into and as a way of ensuring a romance was added to the narrative.

In case you had not noticed, I found this book rather tedious! With such a shaky plot, I thought it would fall over the cliffs – a bit like some of the garden in the story. The plot development felt too obvious and had elements that I had seen in other novels; it did not feel original, but lack lustre and slow.

With thanks to Boldwood Books, NetGalley and Rachel’s Random Resources for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Wow, this book draws you in and gives no reprieve! I have loved being hooked into the drama and disharmony straight from the start. The subtle hints that something is not right quickly unsettled me but I love that feeling when reading a book in this genre!

“Overnight their lives had turned into an unpredictable rollercoaster, one that wouldn’t or couldn’t stop.”

This is how the plight of Molly and Beth is described in the book and I’ve included it here as I think it definitely reflects the fast pace and gripping nature of the book. This has been a rollercoaster that I couldn’t, and didn’t want to, get off.

The characters are well-developed and their relationship is believable, especially Beth’s role as a petulant, ungrateful and moody younger sibling.

As the story develops, the back story plays an important role and themes of revenge, tragedy and lies come to the fore and build towards an anxious and unpredictable conclusion.

I have loved this book and would highly recommend it to fans of psychological thriller and domestic suspense novels.

A remote clifftop house – and one that belonged to the sisters’ murdered mother (and where the original owner met something of a sticky end too) – is a great choice of setting for an edge-of-the-seat thriller. I really liked the location too – high above the expanse of sandy beach at Hunmanby (and “high”, of course, tends to mean “sheer drop” too, in this case just at the bottom of the garden), the lights of Filey twinkling reassuringly from across the bay at night.

When sisters Molly and teenage Beth arrive, the house – at the end of a rutted lane that the removers baulk at negotiating – is considerably less than welcoming. They should have been greeted, but the house is deserted – the back door wide open, an abandoned bucket of hot water in the kitchen, the carpet in the hallway haphazardly and inexplicably torn out. When they’ve restored the electricity, and settle down for the night on a mattress in the lounge, Molly becomes convinced someone else is in the house – and there are signs the next day that she could well have been right. Living here really isn’t going to be the seaside idyll Molly tries to sell to an increasingly uneasy and disgruntled Beth – but things really are only going to get considerably worse.

Something I always rather enjoy in a book like this is the sharing of the thoughts and musings of an unknown observer – and here those thoughts are really sinister, focused on murder and revenge. With everything getting distinctly more unsettling by the moment, we then begin to try to identify some of the possible suspects. Beth’s father has been in prison for some time, and although she has good memories of him Molly remembers more clearly his propensity for cruelty and violence. Then there’s their nearest neighbour – seems like a nice guy (with a very friendly dog…), rather attractive too, but he does keep some rather unsavoury company. And Molly’s former partner Dan – something went wrong there (we’re not told what until some time later) and he does seem unusually persistent in his attempts to “help”, with some possibility too that he might know more than he should about their mother’s murder. To be honest, I had absolutely everyone we came across in the frame before the slow reveal and the book’s particularly explosive climax – I was looking askance at the girls’ grandfather for a while, and wondered from the start about the teenage surfer that Beth befriends.

I’m going to be absolutely honest though – this really wasn’t the book for me. There’s a certain amount of romance within its pages, and that’s something I always look for – some nice family drama too, particularly in the sometimes difficult relationship between the two sisters. But, with apologies, the darkness and edginess that built was rather more than I enjoy. We all look for different things in our reading – although it was clearly marketed as a thriller, my personal preference is for the romantic suspense I was more used to seeing from the author, but I have no doubt that there will be many readers who might like this change in direction rather more. So I’ll be looking forward to seeing the other reviews… there were a few elements I really did enjoy, but this book really wasn’t quite the right choice for this romance reader.

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I enjoy thrillers but find myself being quite selective as to the authors that I read. Lynda Stacey is on the list and No Place Like Home reaffirms that decision. In this latest book, the tension builds slowly at first and then whips the reader onto a terrifying journey to its conclusion.
The relationship between sisters Molly and Beth is totally believable as the stressed-out dentist battles with the teenage angst and rebellion of her 15-year-old sibling. There is clearly love there, but it is in conflict with the power struggle brought on by overwhelming bereavement and Beth’s need to cling onto the familiar.
It is clear from the earliest chapters that the sisters are being watched and their observer left me feeling nervous as it was unclear whether their protestations of innocence were honest. The story had me questioning each character, not knowing who could be trusted. As I mentioned, the suspense builds to a frantic peak which left me enthralled and needing to see what the conclusion would be.
The whole book is cleverly constructed with the house and neighbouring cliffs creating an atmospheric character of their own. It was hard not to feel nervous for the sisters as the tension mounted and it was revealed who could and couldn’t be trusted.
Lynda Stacey has smashed it out of the proverbial park, once again.

I thoroughly enjoyed this. Unravelling the mystery and the story behind the circumstances surrounding the girls past and the death of their mother.
The telling from the different perspectives helped really build the plot and created masses of tension and suspense.
The setting on a wild and violent cliff edge just added to the danger and tension.
I loved the plot and was left guessing right until the end. A proper web of events to unravel until you find the truth.
The relationships are very raw, real and believable. This makes it seem all the more real and makes for a tense thrilling read.
Thankyou to netgalley for the ARC copy.

I appreciated the idea of this story, although I feel like it’s been done a time or 2, but various differences. I enjoyed it

I love psychological thrillers and especially those with a remote setting such as this. The sound of the wind whipping around the house's exterior. The scraping of the tree branch on the window. The banging of an open door. The whispers in the wind that sound as if it is calling your name. That sense of stifling claustrophobia that leaves you with nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. NO PLACE LIKE HOME promised all this and more...and I kept waiting for the hammer to fall. Instead a tree did...with a crashing thump to the beach below. And that fixed the scraping of the branch on the window at night.

Molly and her younger sister Beth are moving into their new house inherited from their mother by way of her deceased partner. It stands on a remote cliffside overlooking an almost secluded beach where only surfers seem to be the only ones deluded enough to venture into the cold waters of the North Sea. There appears to be no one for miles, let alone anything remotely resembling civilisation, with only a potholed lane leading them to the house.

For Molly, she is trying to give both her and Beth a new start...away from the memories and any chance of Beth's incarcerated father Charlie finding them upon his release. The letter in her pocket informs her of such and she keeps it hidden from her sister. Beth, however, doesn't want to be there. She has done nothing but grumble the entire journey and that doesn't change when she sees the partially dilapidated house. She hears noises and sees shadows and doesn't want to spend a moment more there, wanting instead to return to York and to live with Molly's ex Dan. But Molly refuses to be swayed. This is their new start.

Almost as soon as they step through the door something seems to be aligned against them. They hear noises that don't belong, shadows in the garden and on top of that, the back door has been left wide open with the keys still in the lock! Molly assumes Carol, the niece of her mother's partner Michael, had been to clear up and left the door open. I mean, the carpet had been ripped up and the kitchen was spotless with a bucket of still warm water left there. She ventures into the back garden and almost gets the sense that someone is watching her before dismissing it as ridiculous. Upon stepping into the shed, she is shocked when the door is slammed shut, locking her inside. Believing Beth is trying to scare her into changing her mind about staying here, she shouts her sister's name trying to get her attention. Instead, she gets the neighbour's.

Thus enters Niall McCormack and his German Shepherd pup Dillon. If anyone gave me the creeps, it was him. I don't know what it was but he just always seemed to be there watching and waiting...seemingly with an ulterior motive. I didn't trust him. Beth took an instant dislike to him. Maybe because she saw the chemistry between him and her sister and she wanted Molly to get back together with Dan. She spent rather a lot of time escaping the creepy house and in the company of new-found surfer friend Jackson.

All the while, as Molly and Beth settle into their new home someone is indeed watching them. He had only just made it out of the house in time the day they moved in, not even having time to remove the bucket or to close the door. Molly put that down to Carol while the locking of her in the shed and the disappearance of belongings she assumed was Beth trying to scare her out of their new home so they could return to civilisation and, more importantly, to Dan. But this someone is watching and waiting from the shadows, ready to make them pay for the secrets of the past. He wants revenge and he will stop at nothing to get it...not until they are dead.

Their new home should have been the one place the sisters were safe. For their is no place like home. But no place is safe forever...

After it's promising premise, NO PLACE LIKE HOME should have been an exciting atmospheric thriller with that sense of claustrophobia. But I found it lagged and was relatively slow paced. The plot was fairly predictable, although that doesn't put me off, but the twists just weren't there nor was the excitement and euphoria of tearing through the pages at the speed of light. While the pace was steady it was also slow and failed to pick up and I found myself just wanting to get to the end. Its saving grace was that it was a fairly quick read.

I really didn't like any of the characters, although I did quite enjoy Beth's spikiness which added a little zest to things. But Molly made some stupid decisions for someone who is supposed to be the adult here. The fact she is a dentist with talk of amalgams, fillings, extractions and stitches had me almost hyperventilating with anxiety...for that in itself is a horror story.

By the end, there was no real clear answer as to who, what or why was stalking the girls and some things just didn't add up. I didn't hate the book ; I just found it didn't live up to its premise. The plotline was good but it could have been better as it had more potential.

Overall, NO PLACE LIKE HOME is a decent enough read, it just wasn't thrilling enough for me.

I would like to thank #LyndaStacey, #Netgalley, #RachelsRandomResources and #BoldwoodBooks for an ARC of #NoPlaceLikeHome in exchange for an honest review.

Oh my, I barely finished this one. The characters infuriated me, and I wanted to throw my kindle across the room. I didn’t care for the writing style either. The synopsis was much better than any part of this book.

I really enjoyed No Place Like Home. It was a suspenseful, quick read that kept me guessing right up to the ending.
I highly recommend it.

Thank you to NetGalley and Boldwood Books for my ARC.

I liked the story in this book. But I felt I would have liked to see some of the characters developed a bit more, eg Jackson and Beth, seemed a bit rushed. Great story to this though, I enjoyed reading it

I had such high hopes for this book being a thriller junkie but it just wasn't what I expected. It was very slow to start and didn't really seem to get anywhere until about the last 50 pages. It also seemed really strangely narrated, I think because the most of the books I've read this year have had multiple narrators this just seemed really jarring. What I really enjoyed was the twist towards the end as I absolutely did not see it coming and lead into a nice ending.

*Thanks to NetGalley, Boldwood Books and Lynda Stacey for the copy of this book. All views are my own.*

I loved reading this book and read until late in the morning to finish it. It centres on two sisters who after their mum is murdered go to live in a remote ho and has been released from prison. Will he find them, did he have something to do with thier mums death. These are all answers about to be revealed.
I would highly recommend this book.

I wasn't the biggest fan of this one. While the idea and concept of the book was good, the execution just wasn't there in my opinion. I wouldn't really consider this a suspenseful thriller because the author pretty much laid out the entire plot in the first few chapters.it was pretty obvious who was doing what and how it was going to all turn out. There were really no twists or surprises. I also found all of the characters annoying and a bit unrealistic. This one was just not my cup of tea.

Sisters Molly and Beth Winters thought the remote clifftop house would be the perfect place to hide away after their mother's brutal murder. They were wrong. Because someone from the girl's past has already found their safe house and he's watching and waiting in the shadows., ready to make them pay.

Molly and Bethe are staying in their deceased mothers home on the cliffs near Whitby. They're trying to escape her violent partner who's just been released from prison. They thought they'd be safe in the house, but they were wrong.

It took me a little while to get into the book and the second half was better than the first. There were parts that seemed to be uninspiring. It's a good mystery with hidden secrets. The plotline was good but it could have been better, it had more potential. Overall, this is a decent enough read, it just wasn't thrilling enough for me.

I would like to thank #NetGalley #BlodwoodBooks and the author #LyndaStacey for my ARC of #NoPlaceLikeHome in exchange for an honest review.

Given the blurb, I think I expected more from this book.
I think the plot was an interesting one, but the writing let me down a bit. The characters were flat, the story line a bit messy, I found it hard to follow at times.
The villain chapters were confusing. I have finished the book, and I still can't decide who was the character in them. The ending was a bit predictable.

Unfortunately this book wasn't for me.

Thank you NetGallery and the publisher for this ARC in exchange for n honest review.

Loved the cover. Found it to be a good book full of twists and turns, a strong story and good believable characters