Prepare to escape to the Hamptons and dive into an ocean of secrets, betrayal, and twists you never see coming.
Maddie and Alex share a close sisterly bond, but after a falling out when their mother dies, Maddie disappears in the Hamptons. Alex leaves her small town life behind and settles in the Hamptons to solve the mystery of where Maddie is. What she discovers is far worse than she could imagine. Did Alex ever really know Maddie?
This novel was hard to put down and the setting of the story felt like I was whisked away to the charming beach town. Thank you NetGalley and Bantam Random House for the advanced copy!

The Perfect Sister was the first book I read by Stephanie DeCarolis. The perfect Sister kept me on the edge of my seat and I finished within 2 days.

The Perfect Sister was a great vacation read! Grab this for the beach/pool this summer.

Alex's sister Maddie has disappeared so she goes to the Hamptons looking for her. The sisters have been low/NC since their mother's funeral so Alex has little information to go on.

Alex ends up staying with the same rich family that Maddie was living with prior to her disappearance.

Well done thriller. Release date July 16th.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.

4 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Wow this book had the twists!! This was my first book by this author, and it did not disappoint.
This book follows Alex, who's sister Maddie has gone missing in the Hamptons. Alex goes to the Hamptons to try to find her sister and becomes involved with family that Maddie was staying with, the Blackwells. This story also has POV's from the members of the Blackwell.
This story takes you on a crazy ride while Alex tries to find out what happened to Maddie. Overall was a great book with drama, secrets, and things I did not see coming. I recommend for anyone looking for a fun. easy, fast paced, twisty read.
Thank you to Netgalley, Penguin Random House, and the author for the ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review.

*** I received an e-ARC of this book from Random House Publishing Group- Ballantine through NetGalley in exchange for my honest review***

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Summary: Alex and Maddie are sister who did not have an easy life. They become estranged following a fight after their mother’s death. When Maddie vanishes after canceling her annual trip home for Alex’s birthday, Alex becomes worried. Alex follows Maddie's last clues to the Hamptons, where she encounters the Blackwell family. As she delves into their world of wealth and privilege, Alex learns that appearances are deceptive and that luxury has its price.

Thoughts: This story is told from multiple points of view and different timelines. No one in the Hamptons is who they appear to be, and this story will keep you guessing until the end. Every time I thought I had it figured out, I was wrong.

🗣️ This was my first book from this Stephanie DeCarolis but it certainly will not be the last! She has a way of spinning a story with unpredictable twist that keeps you turning the page. This would be a great summer read for the beach or the pool!

✨ Thank you to the author, publisher, and NetGalley.

This is a story about a girl who goes searching for her missing sister and ends up staying in the guest house of the family her sister had been staying with while she searches for her.

I did enjoy the mystery of figuring out what happened to her sister. There was so much going on and so many people that were acting suspicious. In fact, it felt like all of the characters had a dark side. There were definitely some twists that I did not see coming.

Overall, I think this was a good story.

Two sisters, Alex and Maddie, didn’t have the easiest life growing up.

Maddie finds herself leaving home to go to school while Alex stays home to care for their mother. Maddie made a promise to be together every birthday, until this one.

Alex sets off to find her missing sister, in the Hamptons.

This story was full of suspicious characters, a few twists I was not expecting and an ending I wish I had a bit more from.

Told from multiple POVs, who can we trust? Where did Maddie go? Is Maddie who we think she is?

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC.

I am writing a review on a book titled "the Perfect Sister". The author is Stephanie DeCarolis and it is Published by Random House Publishing.
The Publication date is set for July 16, 2024.
At this time, I would like to Thank Stephanie DeCarolis, Random House Publishing and Net Galley for an ARC of this book to read in exchange for an honest review.
This book is in the General Fiction/Mystery Thrillers category. It will make a great summer read.
The story starts out detailing the characters of two sisters, Alex and Maddie. The first several chapters outline the background of their life together, the father who abandoned them and their grief-stricken Mother who becomes an alcoholic after she turns to alcohol for her comfort.
The Sisters are so close in age, their actions and mannerisms have many around them believing they are twins. They enjoy being called twins and almost believe it themselves.
After the death of their mother, they are alone in the world and each with a different reaction to their Loss, they separate, and their relationship grows cold. Much time goes by in between when they contact each other. After a long period of not hearing from her sister Maddie, Alex has the sense something is very wrong.
Alex travels to where she knows Maddie has been living, where she last has been working and contacts those that Maddie is acquainted.
Things don't add up, there is a tone of foreboding in the air.
Alex is led to the Blackwell family in the Hamptons, they are one of the wealthiest families in the area, with their big mansion home, their pool and pool house. There is no end to their wealth, but within this family there are secrets. No one seems to answer the questions Alex has about her sister Maddie. Is Maddie alive or dead is a fear she lives with as she closes her eyes each night.
There are many twists and turns amidst the sinister atmosphere.
This was a fast read and I was quite surprised the twists and turns and how it ended.
I would recommend this book. I know many will enjoy the unexpected ways this book takes it's reader.

THE PERFECT SISTER is a fast-moving thriller about a missing sister. I enjoyed the twists and turns, and the ending was a surprise!

Many thanks to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for the advanced copy of the book, which will be published on July 16, 2024.

My Thoughts

When does one let go of the past and learn how to live in the now?

That is a question that both Alex and her older sister Maddie finally find the answer to in this odd mystery suspense thriller which is also a hard one to put down until all your questions are answered.

There is a myriad of clues, many red herrings as well, before the reader gets those much needed answers.

The Walker sisters’ story is told from multiple viewpoints with some past to present chapters as well and for me was a prime example of why privilege from wealth does not come without cost.

A very solid twisted tale that kept me guessing all the way till the end.
[EArc from Netgalley]


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WOW. I did not see that ending come!

When Alex and Maddie were younger, they made a promise to always spend their birthdays together. When Maddie doesn't show, Alex knows something is not right. Alex is determined to find her sister and heads to the Hamptons to do so. She spends days walking the steps her sister had just days prior to disappearing. She finds herself at the Blackwell Manor where Maddie lived in the pool house, and nobody seems to know where she has gone. Are they trying to help her find Maddie or are they being misleading? Alex knows something is not right and does not give up on her search for her sister. This story is full of lies, betrayal, suspense and danger.

I thoroughly enjoyed that I had no idea WHO the "bad guy" was until the very end. The author provides you with all the character and all the pieces, but you have no idea what is coming next. There are a lot of characters and the dual perspectives of this story kind of threw me off initially. It can be challenging at times to keep up with who is speaking and who they are in relation to the story. Once established with the storyline and who the characters are, it got much easier.
This was a quick read for me, and I really enjoyed it.

Thank you, Stephanie DeCarolis, Random House Publishing, and NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

A gripping thriller that leads Alex to search for her missing sister Maddie in the Hamptons. Full of twists and turns, this is a must-read.

Thank you so much to Random House and NetGalley for my ARC!

This book was so good! The first part is a little slow as your start to understand who the characters are, but as their stories twist together for the perfect storm, I was exactly sure what was going to happen. I didn’t know everyone pretty much had a hand in the outcome. But I’m so glad it had a happy ending still.

3.5 rounded up.

When Alex’s sister Maddie goes missing, Alex goes to the Hamptons to search for her. What Alex doesn’t expect is to end up at the last place her sister was seen, the Blackwell family mansion. While looking into what happened to her sister, Alex meets no shortage of unsavory characters who could have been involved in her sister’s disappearance.

This book was a slow start for me, but as it picked up I found myself trying to guess who did it. While I saw a couple of the twists coming, there were several more that were a surprise, keeping me interested. Worth a read if you like a thriller that is a bit light on the drama but still keeps you guessing.

Thank you for this advance copy. I really enjoyed this book. It kept me up all night reading, I just could not stop!

Alex and her sister Maddie are best of friends. They grew up with an absent father and an alcoholic mother so they learned early they could only depend on each other. When Maddie goes missing after temporarily moving to the Hamptons, Alex will stop at nothing to find her sister.
I love disappearing thrillers/mystery and I read this in two sittings! Fast paced and full of suspense, it was so hard to put this down! Twist after twist, I just couldn't get enough. DeCarolis' writing is exceptional and I'm looking forward to seeing what else she has for me to read. Highly recommend!

PUB DATE 07.16.24

This book focuses on Alex, who is determined to find her sister after she hasn’t heard from her in a few days. She follows her to the Hamptons and re-lives all the steps her sister took just days prior.

A fast paced read, honestly I could have read in just one or two sittings if I didn’t have so much going on this weekend. The author had a great writing style, and makes me want to check out her other books. The only thing I didn’t love was the constant back and forth flashbacks, sometimes I would get confused if we were in the past or present because it happened so often.

Read if you love:
-dual timeline
-multiple POV
-unbreakable sister bond
-family secrets
-search for missing person

4⭐️

Thanks so much to NetGalley and Random House for my eARC!

Alex and her sister Madison have always been close, so when Madison stops responding to texts while spending the summer working in the Hamptons, Alex rushes out despite the blowout fight they had after their mom's death. She finds the ultra-wealthy Blackwell family who had let Maddie stay in their pool house and a whole lot of "she went back to the City." Refusing to give up, Alex digs in to find the truth about what happened to her sister. There's a whole lot of backstory that took too much time before landing at the action, but once it got there the twists were (mostly) worth the wait.

Alex’s older sister Maddie has cancelled her annual trip home for Alex’s birthday, claiming she found a job in a seaside town in the Hamptons. When she stops answering Alex’s calls and texts, Alex goes searching for the sister she always looked up to. Following in Maddie’s footsteps leads her to the Blackwell family, a wealthy and well-connected family of real estate developers with whom Maddie was staying, and who were the last to see Maddie.

As the story unfolds, through multiple narrators, it becomes clear that there were a lot of people who may have wanted to harm Maddie. And with each revelation, Alex begins to wonder if she really knew her sister. But her love for Maddie draws her deeper into the secrets of the very rich at play in the Hamptons.

The plot moves along quickly, with a good amount of suspense building and twists that for the most part I didn’t see coming. The multiple POVs and the shifts in timeline could get a little confusing at times, but mostly both worked well.

Thanks to NetGalley and Ballantine Books for the opportunity to read an advance review copy of this book.

Alex and Maddie grew up close. Maddie was the older sister and made sure to take care of Alex especially when their family life become unstable. But after their mother’s death and a horrible fight, the sisters weren’t as close, yet Alex knew Maddie would always be there for her. When Maddie cancels their annual trip and stops returning calls, Alex knows there is more to the story. Following Maddie’s trail to the Hamptons, she discovered the Blackwell family, a wealthy family that has it all, a beautiful home, a thriving business, all the luxury Alex has never known. Why was Maddie living in their pool house? What do the Blackwells know about Maddie’s disappearance? Alex is determined to follow in her sister’s footsteps, hopefully she can avoid disappearing as well.

This is my first time reading this author but I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The story is told by multiple characters, each bringing a clue as to what happened to Maddie. The mystery of Maddie’s disappearance is told, like an apple is peeled, it is continually flowing through the chapters slowly revealing what happened. The setting in the Hamptons added to the plot and the Blackwell family definitely churns the story to its ultimate conclusion. Well crafted story, don’t miss this read.