Leaving home and going off to University is supposed to be one of life's big adventures. New opportunities,new friends,loads of freedom and parties. But Imogen (Imo) has been at University for only one week and she already feels like she has made a massive mistake.
She can't shake the unnerving feeling that she is being stalked by a mysterious shadowy figure and that her three room mates Amber,Regan and Phoenix are keeping secrets from her.
Then Amber disappears.
Can the remaining room mates overcome their differences and work together to find their missing room mate? Where is Amber and why has Imogen become so obsessed with her disappearance that it's starting to affect her everyday life and studies.
The chapters alternate between all four of the room mates,each of whom was a diverse individual with their own vivid personalities and hidden secrets. Out of all four of the girls,my least favourite for most of the book was Tegan although she did redeem herself a little towards the end of the story. Imogen was a complex character who carried around a lot of baggage with her due to her secret. The readers knew what her secret was and why she behaved the way she did but the other girls didn't find out what it was until quite late in the story.
This is a gripping mystery/thriller that is packed full of twists and turns,keeps the reader guessing and frantically turning the pages from the first page,right through to the breath taking conclusion. From the way that this story ends it appears that the author is planning to write a sequel. Fingers crossed that she is because one of the girls secrets is not resolved by the end of this book and I would love to read another story featuring these fantastic characters. Once I started reading this well written thriller,I honestly couldn't put it down and I think that this is Rachel Sargeant`s best book so far. Worth far more than five stars and very highly recommended.
AUTHOR BIO
Rachel Sargeant grew up in Lincolnshire. She is the author of Kindle Top Ten bestseller The Perfect Neighbours, a psychological thriller set in Germany. Her second novel with HarperCollins, The Good Teacher, is a detective mystery, featuring DC Pippa “Agatha” Adams. Her new psychological thriller, The Roommates, takes place during a university freshers' week. She also wrote Gallipoli: Year of Love and Duty, a novel featuring Great War nurses on a hospital ship. This is loosely based on the 1915 diary of her husband’s grandmother, a nurse at Gallipoli.
Rachel has a degree in German and Librarianship from Aberystwyth University, and Creative Writing MA from Lancaster University. She spent several years living in Germany where she taught English and she now lives in Gloucestershire with her husband and children. Her hobbies are swimming, visiting country houses and coffee shops, and going to the theatre to watch quality amateur productions.
Find out more about her writing and reading on her website: https://www.rachelsargeant.co.uk/
or follow her on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RachelSargeant3
or BookBub http://bit.ly/RachelSargeantBookBubfollow
or Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rachelsargeantauthor/
E-BOOK PUBLICATION DATE: 24th October 2019
PAPERBACK PUBLICATION DATE: 28th November 2019
PRINT LENGTH: 269 pages
PUBLISHER: Harper Collins
GENRE: Women's Crime Fiction
PURCHASE LINKS....
Amazon.co.uk: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Roommates-gripping-psychological-bestselling-Neighbours-ebook/dp/B07NKPZQ8R/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Harper Collins:
https://www.harpercollins.co.uk/9780008331894/the-roommates/
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