🎧 Book Review: Such a Loving Couple by Hayley Smith

4⭐
Genre ~ domestic thriller
Publication date ~ November 8, 2023
Page Count ~ 345 (63 chapters)
Audio length ~ 10 hours 2 minutes
Narrator ~ Candida Gubbins
POV ~ 1st & 3rd
Featuring ~ 3 part story, amnesia, infidelity, secrets, lies

My review:

You can tell something is fishy right from the get go when Becka wakes up with amnesia and there’s man by her bed that says he’s her husband. Freddie has photographic proof so it must be true.

I do enjoy a good amnesia story and I could just feel how she was trying to piece her life together. Later on we get some chapters told by Magdalena & Toby, but I’m not going to tell you who they are, you’ll have just to read it yourself to see.

This wouldn’t be a domestic thriller if it didn’t have infidelity, betrayal, secrets and lies. There were definitely some edge of the seat suspenseful moments that kept me fully engaged. Some twists a bit obvious and a couple that took me by surprise. Overall, I enjoyed my first experience with this author and I’ll for sure read her work again.

Narration notes:
Candida did a great job of distinguishing her voices. She didn’t try to be a man for Toby’s chapters, which was fine since they were in the 3rd.

*Thanks to the author, Bookouture Audio and NetGalley for the audio copy. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review*

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Book blurb:

I blink open my eyes, taking in bright lights and a white room. A man smiles warmly at me from the end of my bed. ‘Honey, I’ve been so worried,’ he says gently. ‘Do you remember me? I’m your husband.’ My blood runs cold. I don’t know where I am, or who I am. All I know is I’ve never seen this man before…

As he packs my things, the nurses tell me Freddie hasn’t left my bedside since the accident I was in days ago. They tell me I’m lucky. We seem like the perfect couple, and together we’ll figure out what happened. So I go home to a beautiful house with a fancy marble kitchen and manicured garden that is supposedly ours. But deep down I know something isn’t right. Even though my memories are gone, this doesn’t feel like my life.

Slowly, flashes of memory come back. First the accident – the pouring rain, a swerving car, a sudden scream. Somebody whispering, ‘ I’ll love you forever ’. But most heartbreaking of all are the haunting memories of a blue-eyed little girl. Is she my little girl? Was she in the accident too? Or is she in terrible danger?

Freddie is determined to keep me safe and hide me from the world. But I can’t shake the feeling that we aren’t the loving couple he wants us to be, and that beyond this house a precious child needs me now more than ever. So why am I here? What does Freddie want? And how far will I have to go, to discover the truth?

An utterly gripping and page-turning psychological thriller filled with dark secrets and deadly obsessions. Perfect for fans of The Housemaid , The Family Upstairs , and The Serial Killer’s Wife .

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