Honestly, I really struggled to get into this. I ended up giving up shortly after the boat incident, and I rarely give up on a book. Maybe the name Tilda put me off, combined with a writing style I just couldn't get on with. Either way, it didn't really work for me. 2 stars, as it's not bad, it's just not my cup of tea.

I enjoyed this book and thank Netgalley and the publishers for giving me the opportunity to read it.

This was confusing at times. However it did include some really good plot points and twists. It was just a little slow for me in between. I like my thrillers fast paced so this was perhaps just not to my taste as there were a few plot points that I enjoyed.

Exactly what you want from a thriller. Gripping, unpredictable, and with well-drawn characters.

I found myself totally believing in the story and struggling with the innate desire to believe women's stories and the risk of being misled by an unrealiable or even manipulative perspective.

Oh geez.
I read this in one sitting. I hated it, I loved it.
It messed with my head so much I had to keep reading.

I know! Doesn’t make sense right?!

Why didn’t I read this sooner.

It’s creepy, it’s darn right out of this world illogically creepy yet I can’t help but have liked it.

I’m not sure what that says about me.

Go in with caution.

"Callie loves Tilda. She’s her sister, after all. And she’s beautiful and successful.
Tilda loves Felix. He’s her husband. Successful and charismatic, he is also controlling, suspicious and, possibly, dangerous. Still, Tilda loves Felix.
And Callie loves Tilda. Very, very much.
So she’s determined to save her. But the cost could destroy them all"

A fascinating insight into the intricacies of what it is like to have a twin sister who is the opposite of you. I was not sure at first who to trust and believe and empathise with, and this vein continued throughout the book, where I switched my loyalties from Callie to Tilda to Felix and back again.

A hugely tense psychological thriller and I was caught up in the whole secrets and lies right up to the end. A great lesson in the pitfalls of becoming too involved in other's lives and when you intertwine obsession and manipulation and sisters, it will never end well.

A page turning psychological thriller with an unexpected twist. Callie is obsessed with her twin Tilda and her boyfriend Felix, convinced that Felix is controlling her sister. She sets about searching online how she can best help her sister escape - with unexpected consequences. Highly recommended.

The perfect thriller is how I would describe this book. The setting, the characters and the rollercoaster ride of a storyline makes it so enjoyable. Your heart might stop a couple of times but don't let that put you off as it is flipping amazing.

I have mixed feelings about this one, some things I like others not so much. It had a good start but then it became a real struggle to read until mid-way through. This book definitely has quickly and creepy covered but perhaps it was a little dark for me?

Having said that once I got to the mid-way point I did start to enjoy it a lot more and found there were plenty of twists and turns to keep my interest going. For my full review click the link below:

https://bookwormbloggerweb.wordpress.com/2019/07/04/20-books-of-summer-book-3-white-bodies/

White bodies was an easy to read book. Lots of twists and turns throughout and kept me guessing right to the end. I certainly did not expect the ending.

Callie and Tilda are twin sisters, yet couldn’t be more different. Where one shines the other is hidden. Tilda has a new boyfriend Felix. She hopes Callie will like him and approve. But when Callie finally meets him, something is off. Way off! Is it his behavior? Tilda’s behavior? Just what’s going on in this relationship? Callie is driven to get to the bottom of this! Now she finds herself caught up in a whirlwind of deception and mystery.

Strangers on a train....

This book provided everything I look for in a twisty, psychological thriller. I was surprised by the ending...but not totally shocked. However, there were some very clever turns along the way. I was so anxious to get my hands on this book, and wasn’t disappointed! If you can move past the startling creepiness in the beginning then you will be treated to a cleverly plotted thriller.

I was initially interested in reading this book, however my tastes have shifted and I do not think I will be able to get to it now. Many thanks to the publisher for sending me a digital copy!

It took me a while to actually get around to reading this book and although the outset was good the book just didn’t follow through for me.

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A psychologically disturbing read, with a strangely fascinating take on domestic abuse, obsessive relationships and the many manifestations of love.
Callie and Tilda are sisters; Tilda has a petite beauty and grace that Callie adores to the point of infatuation. Tilda however, has fallen in love with Felix, and the two appear to be the perfect match in every way - until Tilda begins to change. She becomes thinner and more fragile, increasingly distancing herself from Callie, and passive in the presence of Felix. When bruises begin to appear on her sister's skin, Callie fears for her life. When her attempts to protect Tilda fall on deaf ears and fail, Callie, in desperation turns to an online support forum for victims of domestic abuse and begins to get drawn deeper into a sinister world of fear and violence which threatens to engulf her too.
I found this book very different from others I have read from the psychological thriller genre, and it was this difference which I personally found so compelling.
I gave this book 4*

An interesting concept that was well written. Lots of flawed characters - but you really understood all of them. I really enjoyed this book - would read more by this author in the future.

Since the success of The Girl on the Train, publishers have been competing to put the most thrillers about troubled women on our shelves. I mean, seriously, sit for a moment and think back over the current backlog of female-led thrillers and try to think of a protagonist that isn’t battling (or rather, neglecting to battle) some sort of demons.
Struggling? You’re not the only one.
There’s a myriad of them out there and there seems to be a pattern growing in which, if the plot is not propelled forwards by an über-masculine male police detective with his shit together, then the main character is most likely going to be a unlikable woman who you can’t really trust.
Seriously. Go and check your books now because, if they were published in the last five or so years, they are definitely one or the other.
White Bodies, obvious thanks to the fact that I am choosing to make this point, went down the second route. Callie is obsessed (honestly, rather incestuously obsessed to be honest. It went marching past sibling obsessed and just kept going) with her far more fabulous, far more successful, far more beautiful sister Tilda and becomes worried when she starts dating a man who seems to be controlling.
I say “seems to be controlling” purposefully because, at the start of the plot and when Callie has met the man a total of two times, apart from the appearance of a bruise on Tilda’s arm and a few rather odd comments, he doesn’t seem that bad. I mean, at least not bad enough to accuse him of being a domestic abuser.
To his face.
Fuck the consequences, right? I mean, if he isn’t one, you have pretty much screwed up your relationship with your sister and her new man for good, but even if he is one, what is going to do to Tilda in retaliation of a statement like that???
For me to feel drawn to a character, I have to understand their decision-making. I don’t have to agree, I literally just have to understand how they made the jump and yet, every single thing that Callie did made me nearly scream in frustration and bewilderment.
To make matters worse, Callie was so obsessed with her sister that she had the habit of eating things belonging to her - pages of her diary, shedded skin, her hair. As a sufferer of a chronic stomach condition, I can’t even stomach the thought of people eating actual food sometimes, so this aspect of the plot well and truly pushed me over the edge.
I can deal with a lot of shit, but that is not one of them.
Sometimes, in moments such as these, I am tempted to toss the mystery-thriller genre to one side, never to return. The non-food eating was just the cherry on the top of a rotting cheesecake of poor writing, implausible dialogue and a cast of characters that were little more than tired archetypes. Which, I suppose, makes it exactly the same as all of the other subpar thrillers I have read over the years.
Just with an extra, truly sickening twist.

A fantastic read. Thoroughly enjoyed this and it is not something I would usually pick up. Will look for more from this author in future.

What a disturbingly, creepy, entertaining, thrilling book I've read in a long time. It was well written, gripping and worth my time. Highly recommended!

A good debut novel. Takes obsession to the extreme, highly recommend.
Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC in return for an honest review.