Title: The Surrogate    

Author: Louise Jensen

Genre: Mystery, Thriller   

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Format: Paperback

Pages: 321

Rating: 3/5 stars

Synopsis (Goodreads):

 

From the USA Today bestselling author of The Sister and The Gift, this is an unputdownable psychological thriller which asks how far we will go to create our perfect family.

Kat and her husband Nick have tried everything to become parents, and are on the point of giving up. Then a chance encounter with Kat’s childhood friend Lisa gives Kat and Nick one last chance to achieve their dream.

But Kat and Lisa’s history hides dark secrets.

And there is more to Lisa than meets the eye.

As dangerous cracks start to appear in Kat’s perfect picture of happily-ever-after, she realizes that she must face her fear of the past to save her family…

 

Review:

Thank you to @grandcentralpub for sending me a copy of this book!

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This book sounded really interesting! When Kat runs in to her childhood friend after not seeing her for a while, they catch up and Lisa agrees to be a surrogate for Kat and her husband. But then things aren’t what they seem, and we slowly learn how Kat and Lisa became estranged.

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The premise of the book is really interesting, but it didn’t keep me engaged as I was hoping it would. The plot moved slow for a thriller, and I found the writing a bit choppy and hard to follow. This is just a personal opinion, and when I find the writing hard to follow I don’t find myself as engaged as I would like!

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Kat was also kinda annoying for me, and I feel like it was because we didn’t really know what she experienced until the end! I think if I knew more about her past I would have felt more for this character, but this was part of the suspense so I’m not sure how that would have changed? –

If this sounds like a book you would like though, I would highly recommend you check it out for yourself! Because the writing may work out for you!

Happy reading!