B. A. Paris does it again! Secrets have a way of always coming out. In typical Paris fashion, the twist will leave you shocked.

🔑THE GUEST🔑
𝙶𝚎𝚗𝚛𝚎: 𝙳𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚌 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚛
𝙿𝚞𝚋 𝚍𝚊𝚝𝚎: 𝙵𝚎𝚋𝚛𝚞𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝟸𝟶, 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟺
𝙼𝚢 𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐: 𝟹.𝟻 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚜 ⭐️⭐️⭐️✨

🤏𝚃𝚎𝚎𝚗𝚢 𝚝𝚒𝚍𝚋𝚒𝚝...Laure has walked out on her husband after a confession of an affair & secret child. She goes to stay with Iris & Gabriel(mutual friends), but her unpredictable-ness is starting to take its toll on her hosts.

𝙼𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚜...Domestic thrillers are so my jam so I was excited about this one. While it started slow, I still wanted to know more. Then the slow burn just got to be a bit too slow & I didn’t like the characters at all! This usually doesn’t matter in thrillers, but I needed to root for somebody, ya know?!?! I also could not figure out why they let this guest stay for this long for a strange reason(no spoilers) …With all that said, the ending was pretty friggin great with a unique delivery and for that it upped my rating. I had the advanced copy in both audio & kindle & thought the narrator was superb on the audio. 🎧Her accent & voices was 👌.

B.A. Paris is so good at writing a domestic thriller.

We follow Gabriel and his wife iris. They are going through a hard time, as Gabriel’s dog and father have recently died, and he stumped upon a teenager who was minutes away from death, being with him as he died and hearing his last words. He hasn’t been the same since.

Upon returning from vacation, the couple find their friend Laure in their home. She has left her husband Pierre, because he states he had a one night stand years ago and fathered a child. She has brought her troubles to Iris and Gabriel.

As life continues, Iris meets a new couple down the street, pregnant Esme and her husband Hugh and their live in gardener/friend Joseph.

There is mystery woven throughout the story and many unanswered questions. Paris sets a great tense feeling throughout the book making us want to read on to see what would be revealed.

Leaving it at that, or I can also say SPOILER ALERT. This is a story that completely turns on its head and becomes something totally different in the epilogue. Everything is thoroughly explained with the full truth, not just the truths we learn about in the story, and it gives us an entirely different outlook. Definitely a fun twist tying everything together.

Thank you B.A.!

BA has been an automatic read for me since Behind Closed Doors, and she always delivers. Addictive and gripping and with an ending that will catch you off guard in the best possible way! Catch BA talking about The Guest -- and giving away copies -- on the Killer Author Club: February 20th at a special time, 4 pm ET. For how to watch, surf to killerauthorclub.com.

The Guest is a typical B.A Paris domestic thriller.. I felt like I had read this book before and had trouble getting into it.

I have been on a B.A Paris kick lately and I usually love their books. The Guest felt like it was all over the place. There were a lot of different plots in the book that either did not feel necessary or they were extremely rushed. Laure is definitely the character you love to hate, that character met that role quite well. Gabriel's character felt like he was lacking a lot. Overall, the book was okay and the ending plot was a bit unexpected, but I felt extremely let down that that was all that happened.

Thank you to St. Martin's Press and B.A.Paris for an ARC of the book. I wished I had liked this book, but I didn't. The plot was super slow and nothing happened till about 40% in and that too did not feel believable. The author kept repeating the same storyline so many times about how so-and-so character felt guilty, bad etc. that I got tired reading about it. The plot felt absolutely weird and off at times and most of the events felt improbable. There is only one twist which came at the 90% mark until when I was bored out of my mind and couldn't care less about who did what. Even though I had not predicted the end, it also felt strange in the same vein as the whole story. The dialogue between the characters was also something that felt artificial as if people don't really talk like that in real life! All in all, not a book I would expect from an author of B.A.Paris' calibre.

Iris and Gabriel’s marriage is on the rocks, and after they return home from a make-or-break holiday they have a have a surprise house guest, Laure. The atmosphere quickly becomes tense as she oversteps again and again: sleeping in their bed, wearing Iris' clothes, even rearranging the furniture.

Iris and Gabriel's only respite comes in the form of a couple new to town. But with them comes their gardener, who has a checkered past. Soon, secrets from all their pasts will unravel, some more dangerous than they could have known.

My thoughts:
Oh man. I was so freaking excited for this one after loving Behind Closed Doors. I was enjoying it until the last 10% where the book starts to get wrapped up. I don’t like how this book ended. It was like reading two different books, and the whiplash I got from that plot twist was just too jarring for me to jump on board with it.

B.A. Paris has some of my favorite books, especially the Breakdown. She is a queen of domestic thrillers. This one fell a little flat for me just because it was one of the tropes I do not enjoy.


Gabriel and Iris are a couple that seem to have it all. Until one day Gabriel finds a local boy dying at the bottom of a quarry. Working through the trauma of that and the lies he told, it all begins to come to a head when their friend, Laure, shows up unannounced stating her husband has a child with another woman. Who is the other woman? Why can no one get ahold of Laure’s husband, Pierre? And who exactly are the new pregnant couple down the street? As always, B.A. Paris sets the perfect atmosphere for this domestic thriller.


*****SPOILER WARNING*****





The twist was the reader being lied to by the MC, and I don’t enjoy books written like this. I still enjoyed the story overall, just wish it would have ended a little differently. B.A. Paris is still an auto read author for me.

3.5/5

The Guest is about a friend who has overstayed her welcome, for the characters and myself. The pacing was slow and kind of boring at times. The twist was great but I was actually disappointed with how the ending was delivered. It was more of “well let me tell you what happened” instead of reader unfolding the story for themselves.

Definitely hooked from the beginning! Can’t wait to get the physical copy. Amazing read. Definitely will be reading more from this author..

The Guest by B. A. Paris is a slow burn mystery that is set in beautiful England! I struggled to get into this book and felt like it did not pick up until the last 25%. I will say I did not expect the twist and was surprised how things turned out!

When Gabriel finds a young man suffering from a tragic accident and stays with him until his last breath, he is left with a guilty burden and steps away from practicing as a doctor. His beloved wife Iris tries to help him cope and get back to his old self. They unexpectedly have a visit from their long time friend Laure. They open their arms and doors for her but things begin to seem suspicious with Laure’s actions and words. Iris and Gabriel become quick friends with a magnetic couple down the street who are expecting their first child. Iris and Gabriel hire their gardener to help with Gabriel’s project but have they made a mistake in hiring this stranger and bringing him into their home? While Laure’s marriage is on the rocks, can Gabriel and Iris’ marriage survive as well?

Thank you NetGalley for the pleasure of reading this ARC of The Guest! Publish date is February 20, 2024 🖤

Another great book by B. A. Paris! I have read many books by this author and I can say this one does not disappoint. The idea of having your best friend staying with you for weeks and not being able to get ahold of her husband kept me guessing what in the world was going on? The beginning captured my attention immediately and the ending was a surprise I didn’t see coming. A great book by a great author!

Iris and Gabriel have been married for 20 years. They have a grown daughter who is enjoying her gap year. Things are great until Gabriel experiences a traumatic event that he has a hard time sharing details of with anyone and it begins to eat at him. To add to the stress, their best friends Laure and Pierre are having issues and Laure shows up to stay with them while they sort through their mess. Enter Esme and Hugh, new neighbors with a hot gardener and you have the perfect storm for some drama as secrets start to emerge and destroy.

I was on the verge of really being disappointed with one of BA Paris’ books, but then near the end there came total redemption. Things all came together to make perfect sense and I had no clue how that would be possible. Well done!

The Guest-family, friend and neighbor drama. This ended up coming together in the epilogue. Lots of build up that still left questions in the “Esme, Hugh’s and Joesph’s “ relationship. The charter development was a miss for me. A quick struggle of a read.

I want to start off by saying B.A. Paris is an auto buy author for me. That said this wasn’t one of my favorites. I love a domestic thriller but this just didn’t hit the mark for me. It was a slow start for me and took me awhile to become invested and all the drama with Laure was a bit much. I found all the characters unlikable and while that’s sometimes a plus in a thriller, it just left me a little annoyed. It was also somewhat hard to keep track of all the subplots which left me struggling to try to piece together how they could all be connected. I did love the ending and didn’t see it coming. Thankfully the epilogue brought everything together and tied up all the loose ends.

This book was for sure a quick read/listen! I did become so tired of Laure, and I wanted her to go back home! She was annoying me, lol. However, the end of the book SHOCKED me! This wasn't my favorite work by BA Paris, but I still really enjoyed it. I kept wanting to listen to find out how everything actually played out. Thank you, Netgalley for this audio-book ARC!

Iris and Gabriel return home from a vacation to find that their close friend, Laure, has moved in unannounced after discovering that her partner, Pierre, was keeping a big secret. Iris and Gabriel feel too guilty to ask her to leave at such a difficult time in her life, and what was supposed to be a few weeks of living with them turns into several months. It doesn't take long for things to get uncomfortable between the group as more drama and secrets unfold, and Laure long overstays her welcome.

The pacing of this book was really slow. It wasn't until halfway through that things started to pick up and the plot became more interesting. The short chapters helped me stick with it. I had a harder time connecting with the characters and grew tired of them having the same conversations over and over again. I was able to predict parts of the ending, but I could see it catching others off guard. B.A. Paris is always an automatic read for me, but I felt like this one missed the mark. It was still a good read, and I recommend it to others; it just differed from the thriller I expected. Overall, I give it 3.5 stars!

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for a copy of this ARC in exchange for my honest opinion!

Gabriel and Iris are doing well in their life and marriage. They have a daughter currently working in Greece. However, there is something greatly bothering Gabriel. Arriving home from the trip, they discover that their good friend Laure is staying in their home. As they are good friends with Laure and her husband Pierre, the couple each has keys to one another's homes.

Laure tells Iris that she will be there for an indefinite period of time, and that she has found out something about her husband that makes her unsure if she wants to stay married to Pierre. Laure soon becomes the guest who never leaves.

Meanwhile, Iris wants Gabriel to get back to his jovial self. She knows what is bothering him, but not to the full extent. As Iris and Gabriel are navigating their lives, Laure's life is topsy turvy and what happens to her affects Iris and Gabriel.

While I have enjoyed many of B. A. Paris's books, this one didn't Wow me. I was interested in the drama, but that is what it was, drama. Iris and Gabriel's relationship. Lore and Pierre's fractured relationship. Other relationships. Nonetheless, Paris is a must-read for me and I look forward to her next book.

Many thanks to St. Martin's Press and to NetGalley for this ARC for review. This is my honest opinion.

Parish has yet again left my jaw on the floor! I love the writing style, the "who done it" suspense and those twists keep coming. Faced paced page turner I could NOT put down! Well done!