I listened to the audio version and enjoyed the narration. It really seemed to bring life to the story! I thought the book synopsis sounded interesting but it had a slow start and it took awhile to grab my attention. I didn’t feel like the book was anything mind blowing, just an average thriller.

Thank you Bookouture Audio and NetGalley for the advanced listening copy of this audiobook, out 4/6!

Sarah Aiden is basking in the glow of her perfect marriage to her husband, Kirk. Since marrying him, she has gotten used to the comfortable life he provides, allowing her to work because she WANTS to, not because she has to. That is, until one day Sarah suffers an unexpected injury, opening up the door to a myriad of unexpected secrets and lies that have been under her nose for years. Sarah decides to investigate herself and is NOT prepared for the answers she stumbles upon.

This was a fast-paced, palatable psychological thriller! I found the overall plot very interesting, though I did find myself confused a few times at the delivery. I think this one would have been better as a physical book; there were a number of perspectives and chaotic timelines included that had me rewinding to make sure I hadn't missed anything on a few occasions. I felt like I didn't connect with any character in particular, finding them all annoying or unlikeable in their own ways. There were a number of things that felt they would be important that were not, and things that felt unimportant that played large roles in the story towards the end. I devoured this book and finished it fairly quickly-- it was definitely a wild ride! I think this one was so close to being great, but left a bit to be desired in my opinion.

Sarah has a cozy suburban life. Her husband adores her, she has some nice friends at work, she even gets along with her mother in law. One day she wakes up in the hospital with a head wound…how?…who?…why?…she simply cannot piece together the altercation. What could inspire so much rage against her?

A year later Sarah is house sitting for her friends Candy and Josh while they are traveling. She’s chowing down on their organic frozen dinners, watching tv, and even reading the neighborhood book club book on Cady’s bookshelf. Their elderly neighbor, Maggie, comes by wondering why the couple didn’t tell her they were hiring a house sitter…

Why is Sarah so interested in 214 Palmer Street that she would lie to get inside? Is she really ready to unearth all the residence has been hiding for so long? And will it help her solve the mystery of her mysterious head wound last year?

This is a story of lifelong friendships filled with decades of impulsivity, narcissism, dependency issues and what happens when someone new comes along and gets that feeling in their gut that some things just don’t seem quite right…

I was so enthralled by this book that I listened to it in two days. Incredible. 5/5 read. Put this on your TBR list ASAP.

Thank you to @bookouture and @netgalley for an arc in return for an honest review of 214 Palmer Street.

W O W! I loved this audiobook. I honestly, couldn’t stop listening. There were so many twists and turns I honestly didn’t know how it would end. I really think people are going to like this book.

214 Palmer Street by Karen McQuestion

I received an advance review copy for free thanks to NetGalley and Bookouture and I am leaving this review voluntarily

A house with a secret. A woman with nothing to lose.

When Maggie sees the beautiful Venetian blinds moving in the Caldwells’ front window, she freezes. Her favorite neighbours Cady and Josh are away, so who is in their house?

The pretty young woman who answers the door tells a convincing story. She’s Sarah. The house-sitter. Just here for a month. An old friend of Cady’s who needed a place to stay. She’s pleasant and warm, and Maggie wanders back to her house thinking she might have made a new friend. Yet she can’t help but wonder why Cady never mentioned Sarah.

I found myself enjoying this book more than I thought I would based on the reviews I had seen. It is a quick read with high suspense. Full of twists and turns this is a good domestic thriller - from the beginning the reader is lead to believe that something is wrong, but it was difficult to pinpoint.

Rating 4/5

214 Palmer Street by Karen McQuestion pulled me in from the very beginning. I loved how the author wrote the characters and made me wonder at their motives. The way the story unfolded also kept my attention. Stacey Glemboski is fantastic at performing the book. She gives the characters distinguishable voices, so I know who is speaking. Initially I didn't know the significance of the address, but was intrigued. The twists in the book were very well done too! Thank you #NetGalley and #Bookouture Audio for letting me listen to this pre-release audiobook. I loved it!

This domestic psychological thriller starts with Sarah being discovered in the house at 214 Palmer Street. The owners are away on vacation and no one was supposed to see her there! She is there looking into her husband’s past after feeling like he is gaslighting her. This book will have you questioning how well you really know those you surround yourself with!

Thank you NetGalley and Bookouture for allowing me to listen to this audiobook ahead of publication in exchange for my honest review. I honestly probably would have rated this higher if I had actually read the book instead of listening to the audiobook. I got confused between the different timelines and characters at first which would have been easier for me keep track of if I had read it.

This book was a quick listen and enjoyable for the time spent listening to it. I gave it 3 stars because of the way it is written. I, personally, am not a huge fan of this style of writing. There were a few times while listening that I had to rewind to catch something because of the mildly confusing style. I thought the plot was interesting though and the concept of an almost backward who done it was cool. I would have liked this book to be a Duology. The first book from Sarah's POV and the second from Cady's.

I was very interested since the beginning, the mystery and the suspense, I wanted to know who attacked her and why did she just run away?
I only gave it 4 stars because the time line, the coming and going of the story confused me a bit, but other than that its a great story for a rainy afternoon.

Thank you to Bookouture & NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for an honest review. I was drawn to the cover of this book and the plot sounded right up my alley. There were some surprises but I wished it was more of a thriller. A good easy read but not as much psychological as I usually enjoy. I would read more by this author
I will post this review on my Goodreads profile

Clearly 214 Palmer Street is significant. I mean, it's the title after all. But it takes a while before you truly learn the significance!

I kept thinking one person was a suspect and then a new chapter would come and - nope, now I thought it was someone else. It kept me guessing, which I love.

The start of the book makes you uneasy. What is happening? Sarah has a head injury and is trying to figure out what happened. Her husband seems attentive, to the point of being controlling. She isn't sure what is going on, and neither are we the readers. She decides she has to find out and then things begin to come to light. She doesn't trust anyone. And neither does the reader. I'm not even sure we can trust her many times during the story.

The back story is a group of teenage friends and the past they seem to be trying desperately to hide.
Sarah gets embroiled in this story and what happens has lots of twist and turns, revelations. and murders.

If you want to know what happened at at 214 Palmer Drive, pick this one up!

Many thanks to Netgalley and Bookouture Audio for an advance audio copy in exchange for an honest review!

I loved the blurb for 214 Palmer Street and couldn't wait to read it. Bookouture has done a fantastic job marketing it, and I was hooked right from the beginning.

Sarah wakes up in the hospital, having been hit over the head just outside the back of her own house. It got off to a great start, but this didn't continue through the rest of the book for me. This didn't feel thrilling for a psychological thriller, and it had quite a predictable ending.

There are multiple layers of mystery and intrigue to follow, and it was cleverly put together. I switched between the Kindle and the audio versions, but neither held my attention particularly well. The plot moved back and forth between current events and the events in Kirk's life before he met Sarah and in the present day.

The characters were shady and had hidden agendas. I didn't like Kirk's character with his lying, overbearing nature and hated that all was forgiven. Unfortunately, this tells the tale of another gaslighting, controlling husband and his wife, which seems to be a common theme of late.

This was an easy read and relatively short, so I got through it quickly. There are only four main characters: Sarah, her husband Kirk, her best friend Clarice and Kirk's best friend, who also serves as the town's bad cop. It explores an old mystery. It flows well, and I enjoyed the narrator's voice.

Overall though, it was a light and easy read.

I enjoyed this domestic thriller, which is about a group of people who, in their past, have covered up a crime, and in the present day, Sarah is investigating it. While she is investigating, a neighbour called Maggie notices her in a house and is suspicious of her. Maggie wonders what she is up to, and doesn't really believe her cover story. What is Sarah's husband hiding? There are so many secrets and turns in this story, and I found it all very thrilling and exciting. As the story goes on, we uncover many things that were hidden. The audiobook narrator was great, and I loved her voice. Highly recommended!

Many thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

A story of mystery that surrounds a group of adults that we’re friends as teenagers but had grown apart…or had they?
Sarah is in Maggie’s neighbor’s house, and Maggie knows that no one is supposed to be there because the owners had gone for a month long mission trip. So when Maggie sees someone in the house, she makes it her mission to find out what is going on. Then Sarah is struck on the head and wakes up in the hospital not knowing how or why she was there. The story picks up from there with flashbacks and varying POV and slowly the puzzle pieces slot into place and you get why Sarah is there and what terrible things are lurking at 214 Palmer Street.
I liked the narrator a little better than I liked the story ;)
Thanks to Bookouture and NetGalley for this audiobook arc in exchange for my review.

2.5 rounded to 3

I was intrigued at the beginning of this book but then I started guessing what had happened. It didn't leave a lot to the imagination in my opinion. Some of the things just seemed a bit unrealistic in a thriller. Things just couldn't happen that easily without drawing suspicion. It was a quick listen and I did like the narration.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publishing company for an advanced copy of the audiobook.

A great fast paced domestic thriller. With multiple layers of mysteries to uncover.
The more thrillers I read the more it takes for a story to keep my interest and in this story I had no issues with that, intriguing from start to finish.

Who attacked Sarah in her own backyard resulting in a severe head injury? Is her husband Kirk attentive or controlling? Who is the woman pretending to be the house sitter for 214 Palmer St and why is she there? Who is the person who appears to obsessively involved in the goings on of the Adains and are they dangerous? These questions are just the tip of the ice burg to this story.

For the audion book the narrators did a great job on the multiple characters making each distinctive enough but somewhat close so that the chapters for the unknown character(s) were still a mystery until reveled.
I definally plan on reading more from this author.

Thank you to NetGalley and Bootouture Audio for an advanced audiobook for review.

** spoiler alert ** This book was great! I loved all the twists and turns to get to the ending! I did not love Kirk and his lying and overbearing ways and hated that in the end that was basically all forgotten and he was seen as the greatest husband ever, simply b/c he died. He was still flawed and had a ton of shit to answer for with and regarding his wife! I do have to say that I saw the ending of the Chief of Police getting murdered by a prisoner he put away as justice, he was such a piece of crap and took NO responsibility for all the things he did or put into motion. I will definitely be looking for more books by this author!

#214PalmerStreet #NetGalley

Thank you NetGalley for this advanced copy. I loved this book! I assumed it would be a book about someone hiding in the house after they had killed the owners. WRONG! Wow! What a plot. A bunch of high school kids share a secret about what happened to their friend. This book is about a wife trying to track down whether or not her husband was a killer. She hides out in the house to dig up the bomb shelter in hopes of getting some answers. The teenage group comes to light with backstabbing, secrets, and murder. Sad ending but a great way to wrap up the plot. The narrator was great too! I wanted to slap Clarice every time she spoke!

Thank you Bookouture and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I am already a fan of Karen McQuestion, so I jumped at the opportunity to request an ARC of this one. Plus the description intrigued me. I did enjoy the book, and it did keep me wanting to find out for sure what happens. However, this one fell a little flat to me. Especially after recently reading The Moonlight Child. I feel like this one was a little bit too predictable for myself. But, I would still recommend it.

Sarah and Kirk are a happily married couple, but after Sarah is hit over the head with a hard object while in her back garden and left for dead, she is left with more time on her hands while she convalesces at home, and she starts to realise that her husband hasn’t been as forthcoming about his past as she has been. She just assumed that as she hadn’t kept anything back from Kirk, he’d done the same; but the more she finds out and the more that things don’t add up – her suspicions grow and she finds herself on a mission for answers – not knowing they could lead her into so much danger!

I found the story interesting and suspenseful, it was cleverly put together with a psychological and domestic feel – but unfortunately not all that thrilling. The story went back and forth on viewpoints and timelines, so that as the story progressed in the present day – you also learned more about the backstory of Kirk and what happened before he and Sarah met.

I did find the story unpredictable, leaving me not knowing what or who to believe, which was fun, but around the halfway point, I had a good idea of what was going on and what was going to happen at the end – which was a bit of an anticlimax, but I did enjoy the story and the characters, many of who were shady with hidden agendas!

I was lucky enough to be gifted the audiobook and the narrator, Stacey Glemboski did an excellent job with the large list of characters that she had to voice!

My thanks to the author and Bookouture for my advance copy to review via NetGalley. Due for release 6th April 2022!


☆Three unpredictable- ish, twisty stars ☆