Good story that makes the reader want to read the book all in one setting. The characters were well written and the whole story was enjoyable.

Good Gosh the competition is getting wild.

Anastasia Zadeik completely crushed her debut novel, Blurred Fates.

I always find myself in awe when a debut novel makes me feel all the feels while reading. Blurred Fates, completely took me by storm and I am left in astonishment over the writing skills that shined within the pages.

Zadeik, has a natural talent to pull the reader right in and thrust them into a fast paced thriller. I was left with so many questions that I could not flip the pages fast enough to discover the answers.

What would you do if your perfect world (or so you thought) began to crumble?

Kate, had it all, two beautiful children, an adoring husband and a home that belonged in a magazine. Then, the unimaginable happens, her husband comes to her with a big secret, he has stepped outside their marriage and cheated on her. Kate's world begins to plunge into a downward spiral.

Kate isnt completely innocent, she has her own secrets and they are about to come crashing down on her....

Blurred fates narrates a story between past and present and we have a front row seat for all of the twists and turns. This book packs such a punch, there is no way you will be able to see this twist coming...

Now, before I get ahead of myself and spoil anything, I am going to advise you to pick up this book and watch the story unfold for yourself. You do not want to miss this one.

Unfortunately, I have been locked out of my netgalley account for a few months and was not able to see which books I had on my list, in order to properly read and review. I do apologize and am doing a 3 for neutral. Will update once I’m able to obtain a copy and read!

Great suspense this was well written with great characters with depth. A very good read. on a Sunday afternoon.

I couldn’t pick up the rhythm Of this book. I tried to remain open and u defats do the appeal, but I failed.
This book wasn’t for me.

Anastasia Zadeik has me hooked! From the very first page to the last I couldn't put this book down. So much was happening but it all flowed together flawlessly. In this you will follow the main character Kate who seems to have it all until the past is brought up through infidelity, lies and deceit. Amazing first novel and I cannot wait to see what else the author puts out!

Anastasia Zadeik, the author of “Blurred Fates” has written a captivating, intense, and suspenseful novel. The genres are Psychological Thriller and Domestic Thriller. The timeline for this story is set in the author’s present and goes to the past regarding the characters or events. The author describes her dramatic characters as complex and complicated. Betrayals, threats, suspense, dark secrets, untruths, gaslighting, infidelity, and danger are part of this novel.

The protagonist, Kate Whittier has a wealthy husband, two lovable children, and what looks like a perfect life. Unfortunately, it is all a facade for Kate, hidden by dark secrets, omissions, and lies. Kate realizes that the life she has can be over if the past surfaces. Kate comes from an extremely dysfunctional family, and her husband comes from a wealthy and distinguished family.

A mutual friend, Ryan McCann, a journalist, introduced both Kate and Jacob. He is very involved in their lives and the children’s. Ryan confirms the night that Jacob was so drunk that he had a sexual indiscretion. This sexual indiscretion makes Kate question everything about her marriage and her life.

I appreciate that the author discusses important issues such as mental health, rape, sexual and emotional harassment, and stress. I like that the author mentions the importance of honesty, trust, second chances, family, love, and hope. I highly recommend this thought-provoking and memorable novel.

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BLURRED FATES
Anastasia Zadeik
Mystery/Thriller

This book is about love and how it can stand the test of time even through trials and tribulations. It is also about closing past doors and opening new ones.

I thought the author did a really good job dealing with some tough subjects that happen in everyday life. I read this book in about 24 hours and it was definitely a 5 star read for me.

What threatens Kathryn's wonderful life, her loyal husband and her two lovely children: her husband's drunken stag party? her addiction-driven brother Daniel? her dicey history? Or the guy who is bent on saving her?
Kathryn Wittier has it all but doesn't really feel that she deserves it. Her mother-in-law seems to see through her tenuous grasp on normality, but even she has no idea what Katherine experienced as a child. She relies on her psychologist for advice on how to construct a family and validation that she is doing a good job as wife and mother, but has not told her psychologist the whole story-but then she receives a call from Daniel and the whole facade is upended.
This novel has a very original plot and the reader follows Kathryn, a most unreliable narrator, down the rabbit hole of possible madness. I immediately got hooked and read the novel in one large gulp. It had some great surprises and a very satisfying ending. I enjoyed it very much.

Kate Whittier has reasons to never disclose her past to her husband Jake. She is living the perfect, up-scale life, until her life isn't perfect any longer. Believing she is infected with an STD received from her husband who received it from a stripper, her carefully constructed life quickly falls apart. We discover her past to be even more traumatic, involving a mother who killed herself, a father who retreated into his bottle and a brother who is downright scary and inflicts himself upon Kate in the most unsavory ways imaginable.

We meet Ryan, Jake's and Kate's dear friend, who as it turns out, may not be anyone's friend. Kate trusts him, Jake trusts him but is their trust severely misplaced? To their dismay, Ryan inflicts great psychological harm on everyone he is involved with.

Can Kate and Jake put their marriage back together again? Do they even want to do that? How does one move forward after suffering great levels of psychological and physical trauma? Lots of twists and turns in this novel.

Who knew.
Not me, certainly, before learning the other day in the Times that you can indeed get an STD from oral sex. Not possible, I’d have thought, without some kind of penetration, and even now for my having been told otherwise by so authoritative a source (the Times!) I’d still think highly unlikely. But such a scenario is the driver for Anastasia Zadeik’s psychological thriller, “Blurred Fates," in which its main character, Kate Whittier, comes to believe that that's how she came to be infected herself – from her husband having been fellated by a stripper.
Quite the shock to her hitherto comfortable existence, understandably, causing her to evict her husband and resurrecting for her traumas from a troubled past including a mentally disturbed mother who killed herself, a father who turned to drink and a brother who's easily one of the most despicable villains I've ever encountered in fiction.
So despicable, indeed, is the brother, so without any redeeming features whatsoever, that a reader can't turn the pages fast enough whenever he puts in an appearance. Regrettably, though, he's not on stage nearly enough (there's a reason actors favor playing villains), and there is never the final climactic scene between him and Kate that I kept anticipating. Instead, there's a final revelation about the stripper encounter -- an unfortunate twist, to my mind, for its Perry Mason-like quality -- that turns the novel on its head and makes it less a probing psychological treatment in the manner of, say, Christine Mangan or Lawrence Osborne, than your standard woman-in-trouble story in which the woman emerges on the other side with her world set to rights.
Not that Zadeik hasn't fashioned a novel estimable enough on its own more commercial terms – the writing is top drawer and Kate is a particularly well-drawn sympathetic heroine – but I just couldn't help thinking that without that somewhat strained last-minute disclosure and with more allowance for susceptibility to moments of the flesh from all her characters (Kate is, after all, not free of transgression herself), the novel could have legitimately taken its place among the best of literary psychological fiction.

This ARC was provided to me via Kindle, She Writes Press and by #NetGalley. Opinions expressed are completely my own.

I liked but didn’t love this one. I felt it could’ve had a more satisfying conclusion. Kate’s origin story is definitely intriguing.

This book was amazing! I enjoyed every single chapter, and it kept me hooked the entire time, which I loved!

I liked this book, but I didn't love it. I liked Kate and her husband and was intrigued by her childhood and family story and the way she reinvented herself, but the ending was kind of unsatisfying. Most of the action occurred offscreen and there were no consequences for any of the "evildoers".

I think Kate's childhood and upbringing were fascinating, but the finale just fizzled and I was left wanting more.