Review: No Place Like Home by Rebecca Muddiman

No Place Like Home by Rebecca Muddiman
My rating: 4 of 5 stars






Polly Cooke has had a long,hard day at work and is really looking forward to getting home,having a large glass of wine and relaxing in her cozy living room. Maybe she will watch some tv or decide which room she is going to renovate next. Polly loves her house,it's the first house she has actually owned, the sort of house she has always dreamed of owning. She deserves this house after all the hard work she has put into making it her own.

But as she approaches her house,she is sure she can see a figure standing at her bedroom window.

Jacob,a local man who has been watching and following her for weeks has somehow got into her precious house.

What does he want? Why is he so obsessed with Polly?

In this twisty,intricately plotted thriller is what it seems. Sometimes you really need to be careful who you let in.

For just over 63% of this book,the story flips back and forth between what is happening in the house and events leading up to Polly finding Jacob in her precious house. Then the author throws in a unexpected,jaw dropping curve ball that throws everything you thought you knew out the window and sends the story in a totally different direction,changing the readers preconceptions of Polly and Jacob. It's difficult to say too much about Polly and Jacob without giving away spoilers so I will just say that I felt so much sympathy for one of them and the other one deserved everything that happened to that character. One of them was a master manipulator who was prepared to go to any lengths to get What they thought they deserved in life,no matter who got hurt in the process. To be honest,the story was a bit repetitive at times especially in some parts set in the past. There was quite a lot of Polly getting on a bus,going to work,getting on another bus,going to see her mum then getting on another bus and going home. But I was willing to overlook those little quibbles because the story was otherwise very enthralling and I wanted to know how it was all going to end. And speaking of that ending, omg,I was like nooooo,WHAT ARE YOU DOING,don't do that,shut the door...you IDIOT.

No Place Like Home is a well written,gripping,chilling story of manipulation,deceit,greed and self preservation. I really enjoyed this book and look forward to reading more books written by this author in the future.

                                                          ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rebecca was born and raised in Redcar. She has lived and worked in Holland and London, and travelled across America on a Greyhound bus in 2002. She won a Northern Writers' Award in 2010 and the Northern Crime Competition in 2012. When not writing she spends her time watching Game of Thrones and dealing with her two unruly dogs.

PUBLICATION DATE : 6th August 2018

PUBLISHER : BloodHound Books

GENRE : Psychological Thriller

PURCHASE LINK...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/No-Place-Like-Home-psychological-ebook/dp/B07FYJFB5S/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1546013377&sr=1-1&keywords=no+place+like+home