An easy 5 star review. The thing that I like most about this author’s books are that you never know what you are going to get. They are the books I start reading before I look at the blurb. I know this author will transport me to a different time and place. This had me totally transfixed. I loved it!

Twist, turns, misinformation and disinformation, this was a book that I kept having to make time to read as I had to know what happened next, Dark and dangerous but a superb read

Abso-bloody-lutely brilliant!!! Holy crap, this is John Marrs at his finest. I read this book in one sitting, there wasn't the slightest inclination to skip paragraphs or even to take a break from reading! Just wow.

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If you open this book know it is going to take you one crazy dark and twisted ride! What Lies Between Us is a shocking and jaw dropping thriller. The content at times was difficult to read for me but yet so well written even if I walked away from the book I came back shortly after. I devoured this in under 24 hours. John Marrs talent to weave such a twisted, mind blowing, creative story with plot bombs( I can’t even call them twists) is nothing but sure brilliance!
If you have never read a book by this author I highly recommend that you pick one of his titles and start, I haven’t read one that I didn’t love!

This is such a page turner--I raced through it to find out just what had happened between Nina and Maggie that had Nina keeping her secretly chained up in the attic. I started out feeling sympathetic toward Maggie, then as secrets emerged, more understanding of what Nina had done, and then fully back to being firmly Team Maggie. I do have mixed feelings about this book though. As compelling as this was, and as much as I enjoyed following the twists and turns, it is ultimately a deeply ugly story, and left me feeling kind of gross and sad at the end. I would recommend this to fans of dark thrillers, but be sure you're in the mood for a deep dive into some really sad and disturbing stuff.

This was the first John Marrs book I have read & it certainly won't be the last. This book was absolutely brilliant. Nina was a very dark character & she certainly had a strange idea of how she wanted her family close to her. This was full of so many unexpected twists that I thought I'd guessed...but was wrong. Ninas teen 'relationship' had paedophile stamped all over it, did her father abuse her or not though? I hoped we'd see a different side to her when she got Dylan back into her life, that she'd develop as a mother & get her own poor mother the treatment she needed. Fab book deserving of more than 5 stars. Thank you to Netgalley for allowing me this ARC copy in exchange for my honest review.

Probably the darkest book I've read by John Marrs, or even ever. He never disappoints though and this book was absolutely brilliant, sickening at most parts, I was balancing between putting it down and never opening it again and reading it until I finish. Read in just over a day as it was the only way. 5 stars from me

The blurb for this book is positively sinister... and the book lives up to it.
Nina is quite clearly unhinged,and yet carries out every day life quite normally.
I had a good few guesses as to where the plot was going,and it's great to be right with them,but even better when you get thrown a curve ball and all the hints have led a false trail.
So there were surprises the whole way through.
Marrs has written a cracking book,and to be fair, he always does.
This one might just be my favourite yet.

What Lies Between Us by John Marrs is a dark and twisted family novel about long know secrets. They say every family has its secrets and this one has many... but wow, these continue to grow. This family also has a seriously intense love/hate relationship and are very dysfunctional.

As one of my friends on Goodreads said about this book, “Holy Cow”! And I say, double Holy Cow with cherries on top!

Brilliant and ingenious!

One more chapter. One more chapter. Just one more. This is what I was saying while reading the book. Please baby don’t start crying, just one more chapter. Please eyes don’t close, just one more chapter. I promise I will get up, just one more chapter…

“Sharing a house with a twisted spirit is better than being alone.”

This book is about Maggie and Nina who live together. Nina is a librarian and also the “primary carer” for Maggie. Maggie was working at a GP’s office once upon a time but now she stays at home. She lives in the attic, more like she is held against her will there.
But what has Maggie done to deserve this treatment? Why does Nina keep her a prisoner?

Sometimes appearances can be deceptive.

Thanks to John Marrs, Amazon Publishing UK and the NetGalley for the advanced copy of the book.

Wow just wow! As always with a John Marrs book your completely gripped and unable to put it down until the last page and this one was no different. How far does a mother’s love go? How do the lines get so blurred with what’s right or wrong?? This book was fabulous and kept me guessing all the way through, genius!

What the hell did I just read? I’ve been feeling some kind of anxiety since I’ve started this book. I know I might have finished this earlier but I had to stop reading it a few times. It’s that sick and odd.

I put down the book having finished it a few minutes ago but I’m still not sure what to make of it. I’m exhausted trying to figure out how the hell did he come up with such tragic and rattling story.

It was filled with dysfunctional characters that you won’t be able to decide which one is sicker than the other.
I would have love a different ending.

My mind’s still all over the place.
I’ll just edit this review later.

One of the greatest experiences in life is when you fall in love with an author, and I have fallen head over heels in love with John Marrs. I’ve read his previous novels and I say the same thing each time: this is his best one yet!

What do you do when you love someone so much you would do the unthinkable to protect them? What do you do when you despise someone so much you would do the unthinkable to get revenge? This book answers those questions in a way only Mr. Marrs can do.

It will twist your insides, it will turn your world upside down, it will rattle your bones, and still you won’t put it down.

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Oh my word. I'm sitting here absolutely speechless having just finished reading this.

This book had me hooked from page one and didn't let up. I read it in one sitting because Nina and Maggie are such complex characters and their lives are so incredibly warped that I had to keep turning the pages to see what was going to happen next. We learn at the very beginning that they are mother and daughter sharing a house, but with the unusual circumstance of Maggie being chained so that she can't leave. The story flits back and forth in time and between both Nina's and Maggie's points of view, slowly unraveling the hows and whys of how they arrived at their current situation, but thanks to the clear chapter headers it was never confusing. I always knew who was narrating and the timeline. The twists and turns and curveballs just kept coming but there's no way of expanding on that without risking spoilers.

I've been a fan of John Marrs since the first book of his that I read and they just keep getting better!

Wow wow wow. Thank you so much Netgalley for this ARC. John Marrs has done it again.

Having read all John Marrs books I didn’t think they could get any better but he has smashed it again.

I don’t even know where to start with this one. Each chapter flicks between Nina and Maggie the books main characters. Slowly the chapters then begin to flick between the past and the present. Just what happened between this mother and daughter to explain how they have come to where they are now ?
As the story unfolds further the secrets and lies begin to emerge with some fantastic twists, turns and shocks.

I don’t want to give anything else away as you HAVE to read this book. If I could give it 10 stars I would.

Highly recommended. Fabulous book.

Whoa. This book was twisted haha! But not in like a way that turns you from it. Like in a way your passing a car wreck and terrified of what you might see but curiosity gets the best of you. YES. That was this book. Great read, I’m looking forward to reading other books by this author now.

Another fantastic read from John Marrs, I’m savouring his books as I don’t want to devour them and then have none left! These books seriously disrupt my life!!! The way he writes gives you little glimpses and teasers right until the end. Brilliant just brilliant.

I was so excited to read the latest John marrs book and yet again it didn’t disappoint. I thought how can he compete with the passengers, nothing will live up to that book. It was just as good. I loved the little twists in the story throughout. I often felt sorry for Nina until a new part of the story was told then I changed my mind again and again.

Wow! John Marrs has done it once again!
An absolutely stunning read so cleverly written meaning it takes the reader a while to work out who is the untrustworthy narrator. The plot shows a fractious, unloving relationship between mother (Maddie) and daughter (Nina), trapped in the family home that Nina grew up in. Now an adult Nina has her mother chained to her room, allowing her to eat dinner with her every other day but why?
The story is told alternating between modern day and 25 years ago where the original trauma stems from and switching seamlessly between Maddie and Nina’s version of events. Clues are slipped in and there are so many twists in this dark, breath-taking and devious story line.
Overall, an absolutely fantastic read. I’m sure this book will do well once published and I have no doubt that it will end up as one of my top reads of 2020.
A huge thank you to NetGalley and Amazon Publishing UK for this ARC.

It was an intriguing set-up and it certainly kept me reading. However, I can't say that I really enjoyed it. The two main characters were deeply unpleasant. Also, the ending was too slight for me.