This masterfully suspenseful narrative plunged me into a world of anxiety and fear, where the characters' quest for answers had me jumping at my own shadow.

Laila and her husband are on holiday at a luxury island resort in Greece. After several failed IVF attempts they both need a break.

Laila enjoys people watching and finds herself obsessively observing a family who have 2 sons.

When a body is found in a swimming pool Laila thinks she knows what happened and is keen to get involved in the investigation.

This was a great read with plenty of twists to keep you guessing until the end.

Thank you to Netgalley for my copy in exchange for an ho eat review.

A good read
Not one of my favourites
But still read to the end
Would still read more by this author
Thanks NetGalley

The Other Guest by Heidi Perks kept me guessing right up until the end. Thank you NetGalley and Penguin publishing for the opportunity to read an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review. This was an easy read that I could not put down. I really enjoyed the story from the very beginning. The characters were well written and the fact they were introduced via the main character Laila’s observations was quite clever. She is on a holiday of a lifetime with her husband in order to rekindle their relationship instead the events that follow turn their lives upside down.
This is a beautifully written book which will have you dreaming of luxurious holidays in the sunshine whilst desperately trying to solve a tragic mystery. I would highly recommend.

Very good premise for a book.
I thought the author’s portrayal of a couple’s struggle with infertility and a family dealing with the sudden loss of a loved one were well done. Enjoyed this summer read, a good drama for holiday read. The characters are good and the location is glorious.

The Other Guest is a great holiday who-done-it read with a great build-up throughout the book. The book is set on Ixos in Greece and follows a married couple on a last ditch holiday to save their marriage. After numerous failed IVF treatments, Lailas husband James blew a £5k promotion on a luxury holiday to a high class resort for the pair to work on their marriage. Laila wanted to be a therapist and loves people watching and takes a great interest in two of the couples on their holiday. James keeps going off on trips on his own, knowing Laila has no interest in the excursions he books. Laila has nothing much else to do and settles into watching said couples. Leila witnesses an exchange she shouldn't have, and then a body turns up dead in the pool. She thinks she knows who the killer is, and the story is built upon the suspense on what she saw and who the killer is.
I binged this book desperately, wanting to know firstly who was killed and then who the killer was. The ending wasn't as good as I'd hoped, but the fact it kept me hooked was good enough for me as I enjoyed the build-up.

The Other Guest

Laila and her husband go on a luxurious holiday to Greece to help bring them closer together after their fertility problems have been driving them apart, but when someone is found dead in the pool one morning what once felt like paradise soon becomes a prison.

I thought the author’s portrayal of a couple’s struggle with infertility and a family dealing with the sudden loss of a loved one were heartbreakingly well done, Perks has obviously done a lot of research into this and it definitely paid off

Enjoyed this summer read, it’s more of a drama than a thriller but wouldn’t say that’s necessarily a bad thing and would make a great poolside book

Fantastic premise for a book. Great characters and the location is glorious. I could picture every part of it. The ending was not what I expected.

The Other Guest by Heidi Perks was a great holiday read however, I found it very hard to get into, its about infertility issues between
Laila and her husband James. James books a holiday, on an exclusive Greek island resort. James is hoping that this holiday will help them both relax, as they have just gone through an unsuccessful IVF and felt they both needed a break. Laila is so obsessed with having a baby but James thinks they have both gone through enough especially as it's put a great strain on their marriage. But, he loves Laila and wants them to work.
Laila loves watching people and soon becomes obsessed with one of the families at the resort. She is so jealous of Em and her husband and their two boys Theo and Issac.
A dead body is discovered in the pool at the resort, Laila thinks she knows the truth about what has happened. she realises that everyone is under suspicion. However, it becomes clear to Laila and James that they are not the only ones who have secrets. But, secrets have a way of coming out......and they will come out in the end.

I highly recommend this books and all of Heidi's books.

Big thank you to NetGalley, Random House UK and the author Heidi Perks for my ARC of The Other Guest in exchange for an honest review.

I’m disappointed with this latest book from Heidi Perks. The plot is without much substance and the main characters did not compensate for this. I didn’t sympathise with the characters nor did I find anyone likeable.

My thanks to the author, the publisher and Netgalley for the opportunity to read the book and share my review. Hopefully, I’ll enjoy the author’s next book.

This was a fantastic holiday read, I got in to the story quickly and enjoyed the pace and the characters. I felt at times it was slightly dragged out but overall a very good read. Many thanks.

Laila and her husband have arrived for a much needed holiday in Greece. There are troubles in there marriage and they are struggling to conceive. Lying by the pool Laila's attention is drawn to Em. Married to a workaholic husband with two perfect boys. As Laila stares, Em finds the attention unnerving.
Then a few days into the holiday a body is found floating in the pool. As the police descend on the resort everyone is put under the microscope.
This book did a good job of developing the two female characters. It showed that there was more to the women than was seen on the surface. A perfect holiday read.
Many thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the opportunity to see an ARC

The Other Guest is a fantastic mystery, perfect for summer reading!
I found Laila's character a little obsessive and weird but I suppose that was the point.

My Review
We meet Laila and her husband James in this story. A
relationship that seems very strained.
James has booked them on an expensive holiday to the Greek
island of Ixos.
Laila is understandably furious as she feels they needed the
money for more rounds of IVF treatment.
James feels they need to work on their relationship and maybe
now is the time to stop.
When the son of a young family is found dead in the swimming
pool of their hotel, their holiday becomes tense and fraught
with suspicion.
Laila feels concerned but seems to be going the wrong way of
showing it while James becomes secretive about what he is
doing on the island.
An extremely exciting read for Heidi Perks fans.
She creates a narrative that grabs your attention so easily. I
loved this one.

This is one to grab when you're going on holiday. It's easy to read and the twists keep it interesting. The first 100 pages are a little annoying where we keep getting hints of what happened last night ...it's somewhat overdone. Less can be more!

Laila and James are on holiday in a swanky resort in Ixos and there's a "perfect" family for Laila to people-watch. James is antsy all the time and Laila doesn't know why.

When one of the hotel guests is found floating, dead in the pool, everyone's secrets begin to come out of hibernation.

I have read other books from Heidi Perks and really liked them so I was excited to grab this one.
It started off great. Leila and her husband are on holiday after another failed IVF attempt and we also have Em and her family at the resort.
First off, I want to say Leila was creepy, who watches people that intently on holiday, surely you would want to relax and enjoy yourself.
Then the event happens.
Sadly, this fell flat from the even onwards. I didn’t particularly like any of the characters in this book and it did not hold my attention enough.
It was labelled as a thriller but seemed more like women’s fiction.

The other guests was mainly narrated by Laila a women desperate for children and having had many failed IVF attempts. The holiday is booked so she thinks to reconnect with her husband but he has other reasons to be there.
Laila loves to people watch as we all do but White sands is a 5 star resort where the people watching turns into a murder.
I struggled to connect with the characters and found the story pretty slow in places. The ending wasn’t worth the time of reading the book.
However it is an excellently written story and well thought out characters. Worth a holiday read for definite.

Thank you to Netgalley, Random House UK and Heidi Perks for an ARC in return for an honest review.

'The Other Guest' is a very fast-paced thriller. It is told from different character perspectives which made it more enjoyable. It gripping and thrilling. Loved it.

The Other Guest by Heidi Perks is a holiday thriller set in White Sands, a luxury five star hotel resort.

Laila and her husband James are staying there, hoping to reconnect after some revelation has put their marriage under strain. They are also struggling to start a family, with Laila having completed several unsuccessful rounds of IVF.

Laila's habit of people-watching grates on James, but could it be the thing that puts them in the clear when a body is found in the pool?

There's a sort of comforting familiarity in the way this story is told. It's quite nostalgic to me, reminiscent of some old murder programmes I used to watch on TV - the setup is very back-and-forth, with each chapter ending with some kind of revelation that prompts us to go back over a previous timeline.

Unfortunately, this was the thing that began to grate on me as the story progressed - I just felt that the drip-feeding worked up to a point, and then it detracted from the main story.

It's definitely not a thriller, it's more of a mystery, and it plods along. If an unreliable narrator irks you, I would read a different book. For a beach/afternoon/holiday read, you could pick worse, but there are better ones out there.

Laila and her husband James are staying on an exclusive Greek island resort. James has booked the holiday as they have been going through unsuccessful IVF and felt they needed a break. Laila is obsessed with having a baby but James thinks they have gone through enough as it has put a strain on their marriage. Laila is a people watcher and soon becomes obsessed with one of the families at the resort. She feels very envious of Em, her husband and her two teenage boys Isaac and Theo. When a body is discovered in the pool Laila thinks she knows the truth about what has happened but realises that everyone is under suspicion. It soon becomes clear that Laila and James have been keeping secrets which are gradually revealed. I enjoyed this book and it would certainly make a perfect holiday read.
Thanks to Netgalley and Penguin for giving me the opportunity to read and review this book.