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Rachel Sargeant

Auteur de The Perfect Neighbours

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The perfect neighbours or the neighbours from hell?

When a book promises to be ‘the most addictive debut psychological thriller of the year’ you can’t help but to have high hopes for the book and it is a huge statement to live up to and as much as I enjoyed the book it did fall sightly short of that promised statement, however, take that statement away, it is a psychological thriller not to be missed.

With a plot centred around a British ex-pat community in Germany where everyone has something to hide and a back story intertwined throughout, this is a claustrophobic story with a real sense of menace throughout with the tension building up slowly leading to a slightly farfetched killer twist.

In between the chapters is the story of a young student in the UK called Fiona and for me these were some of the best bits with the majority of the other characters a pretty damned unlikable bunch to say the least! With friends like these, who needs enemies.

When violence and tragedy strike, cracks appear in the community and true colours begin to be surface leading to some unsettling plot twists.

It’s very hard to say much more without giving away too much, it is one that you really do need to read for yourselves.

I did find that the bits of German throughout the book to be a little distracting as not all of it was translated so I was having to go on to Google Translate to translate the German text myself incase I missed anything vital to the plot.

This is a great debut novel and I will defiantly be keeping an eye out for Rachel Sargeant’s next book.
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DebTat2 | 4 autres critiques | Oct 13, 2023 |


The Perfect Neighbours By Rachel Sargent was my first read of 2018 and I'm very pleased to say it was an enjoyable one.
When Helen moves abroad to Germany to be with new husband Gary she is thrust into a tightknit expat neighbourhood.
All her neighbours and her husband work at the local international school and from the start, it becomes apparent that things are not quite what they seem and as our story progresses we are taken down a rabbit hole of secrets and lies with events eventually imploding into shocking consequences for all involved.
what I liked most about The perfect Neighbours was I had no bloody clue what was occurring at all, I mean absolutely none at all, I was left scratching my head in confusion throughout until finally all the threads of the story were woven together into a semblance of truth.
Deciphering that truth here was half the fun and the perfect neighbours was intercepted with numerous red herrings to mislead throughout.
I would have scored this higher but I really found the main character, Helen, to be extremely irritating and quite prejudiced in her attitude to her neighbours and this spoiled my enjoyment somewhat.
She was guilty of the same reverse snobbery that she liked to accuse her arch nemesis Louisa of and she never really gave any of them a chance deciding from day one that she was better than them.
I mean yeh there were some real dodgy characters here. but Helen herself snubbed her nose up before she had accumulated this information for herself.
Pre-judged totally.
And then there's the husband, Gary the five minutes we actually saw of him wasn't impressive to me at all.
It was like Hi Gary, By Gary, that was the extent of his input to this story.
He was like this none entity, so little was his involvement throughout this.
But yeh The perfect Neighbours does make you think, who are we living side by side with, what are people hiding behind closed doors
I mean yeh myself, I don't really know many of my own neighbours, well just to say hi to in the street, it's the world we live in today sadly.
Books like this do tell me to batten down the hatches and stay anti-social for LIFE!!!!
Neighbours are scary.
But yeh, that is the main reason I scored this down really Helen.
But besides that, this is a good psychological thriller that will keep you guessing until the very end.
Thank You to NetGalley for proving me with an ARC of The Perfect Neighbours by Rachel Sargeant of which I have reviewed voluntary.
All opinions expressed are entirely my own.

Reviewed By Beckie Bookworm
https://www.facebook.com/beckiebookworm/
www.beckiebookworm.com
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carpathian1974 | 4 autres critiques | Nov 7, 2019 |


The Perfect Neighbours By Rachel Sargent was my first read of 2018 and I'm very pleased to say it was an enjoyable one.
When Helen moves abroad to Germany to be with new husband Gary she is thrust into a tightknit expat neighbourhood.
All her neighbours and her husband work at the local international school and from the start, it becomes apparent that things are not quite what they seem and as our story progresses we are taken down a rabbit hole of secrets and lies with events eventually imploding into shocking consequences for all involved.
what I liked most about The perfect Neighbours was I had no bloody clue what was occurring at all, I mean absolutely none at all, I was left scratching my head in confusion throughout until finally all the threads of the story were woven together into a semblance of truth.
Deciphering that truth here was half the fun and the perfect neighbours was intercepted with numerous red herrings to mislead throughout.
I would have scored this higher but I really found the main character, Helen, to be extremely irritating and quite prejudiced in her attitude to her neighbours and this spoiled my enjoyment somewhat.
She was guilty of the same reverse snobbery that she liked to accuse her arch nemesis Louisa of and she never really gave any of them a chance deciding from day one that she was better than them.
I mean yeh there were some real dodgy characters here. but Helen herself snubbed her nose up before she had accumulated this information for herself.
Pre-judged totally.
And then there's the husband, Gary the five minutes we actually saw of him wasn't impressive to me at all.
It was like Hi Gary, By Gary, that was the extent of his input to this story.
He was like this none entity, so little was his involvement throughout this.
But yeh The perfect Neighbours does make you think, who are we living side by side with, what are people hiding behind closed doors
I mean yeh myself, I don't really know many of my own neighbours, well just to say hi to in the street, it's the world we live in today sadly.
Books like this do tell me to batten down the hatches and stay anti-social for LIFE!!!!
Neighbours are scary.
But yeh, that is the main reason I scored this down really Helen.
But besides that, this is a good psychological thriller that will keep you guessing until the very end.
Thank You to NetGalley for proving me with an ARC of The Perfect Neighbours by Rachel Sargeant of which I have reviewed voluntary.
All opinions expressed are entirely my own.

Reviewed By Beckie Bookworm
https://www.facebook.com/beckiebookworm/
www.beckiebookworm.com
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carpathian1974 | 4 autres critiques | Nov 7, 2019 |
The perfect neighbours or the neighbours from hell?

When a book promises to be ‘the most addictive debut psychological thriller of the year’ you can’t help but to have high hopes for the book and it is a huge statement to live up to and as much as I enjoyed the book it did fall sightly short of that promised statement, however, take that statement away, it is a psychological thriller not to be missed.

With a plot centred around a British ex-pat community in Germany where everyone has something to hide and a back story intertwined throughout, this is a claustrophobic story with a real sense of menace throughout with the tension building up slowly leading to a slightly farfetched killer twist.

In between the chapters is the story of a young student in the UK called Fiona and for me these were some of the best bits with the majority of the other characters a pretty damned unlikable bunch to say the least! With friends like these, who needs enemies.

When violence and tragedy strike, cracks appear in the community and true colours begin to be surface leading to some unsettling plot twists.

It’s very hard to say much more without giving away too much, it is one that you really do need to read for yourselves.

I did find that the bits of German throughout the book to be a little distracting as not all of it was translated so I was having to go on to Google Translate to translate the German text myself incase I missed anything vital to the plot.

This is a great debut novel and I will defiantly be keeping an eye out for Rachel Sargeant’s next book.

Thank you to the author Rachel Sargeant, publishers HarperCollins UK, HarperFiction, Killer Reads and NetGalley for my copy of this book in exchange for an honest and independent review.

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DebTat2 | 4 autres critiques | Jan 14, 2019 |

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