Today I’m joining the blog tour for Don’t Trust Him. My review is written with thanks to the team at Bookouture for inviting me on the tour and for my copy of the book via Netgalley.

Blurb:

His ex is missing. Am I next?

Charlie takes my breath away from the moment we meet, when he is dropping his adorable little girls off at the school gates at the same time as I’m waving goodbye to my son. Being a single mother has been hard. So when his gorgeous green-blue eyes hold mine and his lips curve into a smile I wonder if this is my chance to find happiness and escape the secrets in my past.

Charlie and I connect on the deepest level – talking late into the night in the stunning home his mother Alice gave him. For a long time, it’s been me and my seven-year-old son Liam against the world but soon I’m falling for this handsome man. He promises to be honest with me and, in my gut, I trust him.

As he gives me a lift to work one morning, Charlie shares his heartbreak: his ex-wife found another man, abandoned her daughters and never looked back. That’s why Alice finds it so hard to accept me, the new woman in her precious son’s life. I hope I can win her over, and that she’ll never find out the truth about what I did…

Then I discover his ex-wife Lynn’s journal hidden away in his house with a sapphire ring and a silk scarf. My stomach twists as I sense something is very wrong.

When someone walks into the room behind me, my heart plummets and I turn to face them. I think something awful happened to Lynn. But who is telling the truth – my new boyfriend, his ex-wife or his mother? And can I escape with my precious son before it is too late?

A nail-biting page-turner with a gasp-out-loud reveal. Perfect for fans of Freida McFadden, K.L. Slater and Jackie Kabler.

Review:

Don’t Trust Him is the first book I have read by Karen King, but it certainly won’t be the last! It’s fast paced and full of tension and I really struggled to put it down!

The novel is narrated by Sarah, and there are occasional chapters narrated by Alice. It’s Alice’s chapters that really shine a light on how well the characters are developed as it quickly becomes clear that Alice does not have completely honourable intentions. She’s not the only one though; as Don’t Trust Him gathered pace, it’s clear that no one can be trusted and I wasn’t sure who was telling the truth at all.

Around a third of the way into Don’t Trust Him, I did feel that I had guessed what was going on. However, there are so many layers to this story and so much happening that I was totally blindsided by many parts of it and loved reading as it unravelled. There were several twists and turns that kept me hooked until the very end.

Don’t Trust Him is available from Amazon.

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