I’m writing this review in an emotional post-book high but hopefully what I lack in coherence, I make up in enthusiasm because this is probably the best thriller that I’ll have read this year.

I first heard about The Wife Stalker from Girl About the Yard, who named it one of her Top 3 Books for 2020. I know, I know, I should have had higher expectations but I had just finished The Family Upstairs, which was also pretty good and I was expecting this to be a ‘typical’ thriller about an ex-wife uncovering the dark secrets of her husband’s new wife – the kind of book that you use as a palate cleanser between books.

But nope, that twist in the book completely killed me (metaphorically). And the thing is: it felt completely believable. I mean, apart from hints that both narrators weren’t 100% reliable (we get the story from Joanna, the ex-wife, and Piper, the new wife’s POV), the characterisation was done in such a way that I start to question myself halfway. I was like “am I supposed to like this character? Wait, am I supposed to hate this character? Why do I feel like I’m at odds with the good vs bad person here what is happening??”

Clearly, that was my gut instinct that had figured out who was the real good girl and who was the psycho.

And to think I started off thinking of possible endings for the book, because it was such an easy read that I thought I knew how it was going to end and I wanted a twist. Serves me right because I got the twist that I did not expect and probably did not deserve.

The book only had one flaw and that was at the very end when we got one more revelation. I kind of see how the author was building up to that, but to be honest it did not hit me as hard, or strike me as being as believable, as the main twist and climax of the book. But, you know, it’s a tiny thing in the grand scheme of things.

I definitely can’t talk about the story or even give you the usual summary to try and entice you to read the book, but if you are at all a thriller fan, you have to read this. If you can guess what happens ahead of time, I give you major props.