I would like to thank Netgalley, Crown Publishing, and Claire Douglas for the opportunity to preview this book. The Wrong Sister is a very quick read, It grabs your from the start and moves along quickly. This incorporates family intrigue, quick plot twists and a surprising ending that does sum up nicely. There is a little too much "chatter" that I skimmed over while reading but over all a good read. I look forward to reading more by Claire Douglas in the future.

The suspense of who was the murderer and what happened to Alice and Tasha's younger sister are met with twists in turns. I loved how the story started but I felt that at the end , it was rushed leaving questions unanswered. Is this supposed to be a part one? I just felt like I was left hanging.

Sisters Alice and Tasha couldn’t be more different. Alice is a biochemist at a top biotech firm and married to a wealthy entrepreneur, Kyle. Meanwhile, Tasha is a receptionist living in her hometown of Chew Norton with her husband, Aaron, and their twin girls.
Tasha and Aaron haven’t had any time to themselves since the twins were born, so Alice suggests a “life swap” for a week. Tasha and Aaron will stay in Alice and Kyle’s holiday apartment in Venice while they watch the girls in Chew Norton for them.
This seems like a great idea, until Tasha gets a call that Alice is in the hospital and Kyle has been killed by an intruder. When Tasha and Aaron return home to take care of their children who slept through the incident and help Alice through this difficult time, an anonymous letter is dropped off. It is addressed to Tasha and says, “It should have been you…” They now have more questions than answers as more mysteries arise and family secrets surface. Could this have been a random burglary gone wrong or is it more than just an intruder?

This puzzle of family secrets was full of twists that kept me guessing. The ending was something I never seen coming. It was very original and I learned something new!

However, there was an overuse of the word “fantasist.” Anytime a female was describing another female that word was sure to be in there.

I really liked this. Once I thought I figured it out. I didn’t. It was an easy read that kept my attention throughout. Well done.

“The Wrong Sister” was a thriller in the beginning, making me double check my doors were locked, but then the rest was just a murder investigation.

A seemingly average family deals with a murder, conflicting evidence, and deep secrets. Sisters Tasha and Alice, along with their husbands, spend time in each other’s shoes and everything goes wrong. I guess every family really does have its secrets.

I found this book to have some interesting plot, but the way it ends is pretty far-fetched, and all too convenient.

Somewhat slow beginning, but the pace picked up in the second half. The characters' voices were unique and the plot intricate.

Expect lots of twists and turns in this one! I like it when a book keeps me guessing, and this one certainly did. The last chapter threw me for a loop in the best way.

Besides being an excellent mystery/thriller, The Wrong Sister, set in a small English town and told from multiple POVs (mostly Jeanette's, the mom, and Tasha's, one of the sisters), explores intricate family relationships and human emotions like grief and jealousy.

This was my first Claire Douglas read, but it won't be my last.

I don't know, maybe I'm in a reading rut but I just didn't enjoy this thriller as much as other reviewers seemed to. I didn't find it particularly intriguing and wasn't drawn to any of the characters.

This was a great read! Domestic suspense and thriller all in one. I have been loving domestic suspense books lately! And this hit the mark! It kept me guessing all the way to the very end! I will definitely recommend this one and see or being a hit!

3.75-4⭐️

Big thank you to Harper Perennial and Paperbacks and Netgalley for the ARC read of The Wrong Sister.

This was a rollercoaster of a book with the twist and turns. The only issue I had personally was it was a slow burn and with slow burns I have a hard time staying focused and lose interest. But if you like slow burn mystery’s then this is definitely for you! Some parts just felt like a filler and that’s where it dragged out a little bit but I did enjoy the actual story itself.

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The wrong sister
By Claire Douglas
⭐️⭐️⭐️.75 (rounding up to 4 since I can’t do 3.75)
Penguin NetGalley

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My thoughts:

this was my first book by Claire Douglas… What a great storyline and really liked the character development. I could relate and/or understand each of their personalities and how they dealt with their family trauma. I liked the bond between the sisters. Claires writing is perfectly descriptive, not over the top. She does a phenomenal job at setting the scene!

For me, the first part of the book was so fast paced, and made me feel like I was sitting at the edge of my seat. I love the multiple POV’s and it was quite the mystery to solve. But somewhere along the way the pacing really slowed down. It was not bad just different from the first half.

I teetered between 3.5 and 4 stars for this review so settled on 3.75. Here are a few reasons why it didn’t make it a 4 star read for me, 1. The ending was very clever but I felt it ended so quickly after figuring it out. It just felt abrupt. 2. There were some side characters/situations that really added to the mystery of the story while you were still trying to figure it out but then were never fully resolved once you find out what exactly happened. 3. And lastly, there were so many layers to this story that it almost felt unrealistic or too much.
But overall, I did love reading this and thank you Claire Douglas and NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to to read this fun book! It’s pretty quick and easy to read/follow!

This book has kind of a wild plot—is it possible your sister’s husband was mistakenly murdered during a house swap? Could their missing sister have returned? And a wild conclusion but Douglas always makes sure there are no loose ends. We know exactly what happens to everyone at the end of the book, even if we don’t agree! I really appreciate that because a lot of authors have complicated and even convoluted plots and drop a lot of threads. Everything gets tied together and actually makes sense.

Thank you to NetGalley, Harper Perennial, and Paperbacks for this ARC in exchange for my honest review. I gave this book 3.75 stars!!

I really enjoyed this book! I really liked how it was a slow burn thriller and that it struck more as a mystery than a super scary thriller. The one thing I was a bit confused about was the anonymous "letters" as part of the book. While they were attention grabbing, the more you read the more disconnected they seemed from the full story.

The ending was not what I was expecting. I thought I had it figured out, but I was wrong. Overall, it was a great book!

This one was not my favorite... especially the ending.

The beginning was intriguing, but even from the start we are left with questions that don't get answered (what happened in Venice?) Also found myself getting bogged down by too many characters, and one main character with three different names, which seemed like too much of a loophole. I'm typically not very good at predicting twists, but felt that some of the the smaller twists along the way in this book were pretty easy to catch onto. Still, I had to keep reading as the premise sucked me in... all to get to the very disappointing finish.

Thanks to NetGalley for this advanced reader's copy!

Tasha and her sister, Alice, decide to swap lives for a week. Tasha and her husband Aaron are in the throes of parenthood with their young twins, while Alice and her husband Kyle are at the peak of their careers. But overnight, it all goes horribly wrong.
If you like a domestic thriller full of twists and turns then you will love this book. There were just too many for me to make this book flow really well. It was still very engaging and a long wild ride.
Thank you to NetGalley and Harper Perennial and Paperbacks for an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review.

This was a great read! Domestic suspense and thriller all in one. It kept me guessing all the way to the very end! I will definitely recommend this one and see or being a hit! Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for the ARC in exchange for my honest review!

I felt this one took a long while to get going for me. I enjoyed it but it did take me longer to get through than most suspense books.
There were several parts abit disjointed overall but it was a good read - def one for winter weekends. Two sisters - two different lives - a swap of sorts, good writing per Ms. Douglas.

3.75🌟

Thank you to Harper Perennial, Claire Douglas, and NetGalley for an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest opinion!

In The Wrong Sister we follow sisters Tasha and Alice as they swap lives for a week. Alice and her husband Kyle stay back at Tasha’s house with their twin nieces, while Tasha and her husband travel to Alice's luxury apartment in Venice. This seems to be a great idea, until things go awry back at Tasha’s home, where both Kyle and Alice are attacked. As Tasha and her husband return back to their house to pick up the pieces, and look after their twin daughters, more secrets are uncovered, and new mysteries are revealed.

Why did I wait so long to read Claire Douglas?! Claire Douglas truly captivated me with this book. There were new twists and turns with every chapter, and I could not put it down. The plot line was super complex and there were a lot of characters, which I found to be slightly confusing at times. With that being said, overall the writing style was super digestible and everything was concluded very nicely at the end. The ending was shocking and I found the characters super enjoyable to read about which is exactly what I look for in a thriller. Definitely would recommend this for anyone looking for a super fast paced, twisty, complex thriller.

This wasn't anything too surprising in the end. I just thought there were way too many plot holes to be believed and the ending was a letdown. I thought that the main character, Tasha, was written inconsistently. And per usual, writers make it seem like the police are just going to hard shrug about murders and let them go, especially when there's enough evidence to make you go, hey person A looks suspicious. Ah well.

'The Wrong Sister" follows married mother of two wins, Tasha. Tasha and her husband Aaron are dealing with a rough patch in their marriage. Her older sister, Alice, offers up the vacation home she and her husband Kyle have in Italy. While in Italy, Tasha and Aaron are given terrible news, someone broke into their home and Kyle is left dead and Alice injured. The book jumps back and forth between three characters, Tasha, her mother Jeanette, and a mysterious woman that seems to be tied to the family in the some way. We also at one point get Alice's point of view. And I believe at one point we even get Aaron's mother's point of view. At this point my memory of this book is just scrambled.

The character development of Tasha, Jeanette, mysterious woman, and heck even Alice were all over the place. I think Douglas should have shown more of Tasha and Alice's growing up. You keep hearing how much Alice did for Tasha, but as asides. Jeanette too wasn't written very well. I think most of the characters Douglas wrote to do some dun dun dun stuff so at the end of each chapter you are left guessing about who did what. It just didn't work for me after a while. The husbands in this story are given short work so I didn't pay them any mind.

The flow was off through the whole book in my opinion. I just didn't need the points of view and you working through what time period is person A in versus persons B and C. It just got confusing after a while and I stopped tracking things.

The setting of the village of Chew Norton could have been better used. I think at one point we only get a handful of scenes with other than the core characters and the police. And I have to wonder why Douglas made it seem like this place where a character like Tasha would not know who all of her husband's friends were. It was weird. And it made zero sense. It felt like Tasha just could not have people over ever or her mother in law (who we know loves to babysit) would not have watched the kids so she and Aaron could go out. The whole book was like that. Things would happen and you would go, that doesn't make sense and I would shrug.

The ending was I swear written for Netflix or Lifetime. Douglas tries for a what would you do in this situation and how hard it would be, but I called BS and shook my head.

Tasha, her husband, Aaron, and their young twins live a modest life in the small town where they grew up. Tasha's sister, Alice, on the other hand, left that small town life and has become wealthy, well-regarded in her career, and even has a vacation apartment in Venice with her entrepreneur husband, Kyle. To try to help Tasha spice up her life and marriage, Alice and her husband offer to swap lives for a week. They'll take care of the twins while Tasha and Aaron spend a week in Venice. A few days into the lifeswap, Kyle is murdered and Alice is seriously injured during an attack in Tasha's home. Tasha rushes home to be with her twins and Alice and finds a mysterious note stating that it was supposed to be her. Was the wrong sister attacked?

'The Wrong Sister' is a mystery and slow-burn thriller filled with family secrets, tragedy, and the strength of family bonds. The book contains multiple past and present mysteries, which interweave together as the story progresses.

I enjoyed the alternating female points of view throughout the book as each character helped unfold a new perspective of the story. The book's pacing was also well done and kept me captivated. There were a few minor plot holes, but they didn't really detract from my enjoyment of the story. Overall, I found 'The Wrong Sister' to be an engaging, easy-to-read twisty mystery. The book would be a great vacation or beach read!

Thank you to NetGalley, Harper Perrenial and Paperbacks, and Claire Douglas for providing a digital review copy of this book.

3.5 ⭐️ I had a hard time deciding between 3 and 4 but decided to go with 3. Overall, I enjoyed this book - the story really built and the second half of the book was hard to put down. Not a full 4 ⭐️ for a two main reasons: 1) there was a LOT going on and extra characters/plots thrown in as red herrings and 2) those characters/plots that were so focused on were never resolved. Who was the man in Venice? Did Zoë actually write the note and why? Good book but the ending left a little more open than I liked.

Thank you to NetGalley and Harper Perennial and Paperbacks for providing an ARC of this book