The Stranger in My Bed: An utterly gripping psychological thriller

by Karen King

• ISBN10: 1838889612
• ISBN13: 9781838889616
• Publish Date: 23 November 2020
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Bookouture
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 276
• Language: English

Reviews

[zooloo1983]

OMG YES YES YES and YES to this book! All the yeses! I really enjoyed this book if you hadn’t guessed. It was something else. A husband in a car accident loses 2 years of his memories. Phil can only remember coming home from his honeymoon with his wife Freya. He doesn’t remember the 2 years of their marriage, he doesn’t remember the abuse, the darkness nor the pain. He is the husband before that….or is he?

Freya, the woman who has been living in fear, isn’t sure who Phil will be when he wakes up. But can we believe this scared woman?

This book completely plays on you. Who is telling the truth? Who is the abuser and who is the victim? When strange things start to happen well it turned my head upside down. To the point, I woke up at 4 am and started to read it for an hour because like Phil and Freya I couldn’t sleep. This book played on my mind and I had to reach the ending.

The ending was bittersweet with a final sting in the tale. I loved that sting too. I was worried what direction the book was going to go and I was worried we might have a “Hollywood” ending and believe me we do not! I loved the ending and that’s all I will say.

Karens writing grips you. She makes you change your mind constantly on what you believe. One minute you are on one side, but when the books point of view changes, your point of view changes. I love books like that, it made my little brain work overtime as I kept trying to figure out who was lying! No matter what you believe, this relationship is toxic. With Phil we uncover information when he does, fleeting flashbacks haunt him and he’s not sure what is true. With Freya, we are shown a past that she lived and she has regrets. Love really doesn’t run true here. It literally hurts, but who is it hurting? It does make you think about you would do in that situation too! Would you give someone a second chance, despite their history because they have lost their memories?

This is my first book by Karen and honestly, this will not be my last. She is an author I will want to be reading and again and again. Hopefully, it’s not too long until the next one.