The Other Woman by Sandie Jones @realsandiejones @MinotaurBooks #bookreview #thriller
Title: The Other Woman
Author: Sandie Jones
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Publication Date: August 21, 2018
Page Count: 304
My rating: 4 stars
About the book:
The most twisty, addictive and gripping debut thriller you’ll read this year.
HE LOVES YOU: Adam adores Emily. Emily thinks Adam’s perfect, the man she thought she’d never meet.
BUT SHE LOVES YOU NOT: Lurking in the shadows is a rival, a woman who shares a deep bond with the man she loves.
AND SHE’LL STOP AT NOTHING: Emily chose Adam, but she didn’t choose his mother Pammie. There’s nothing a mother wouldn’t do for her son, and now Emily is about to find out just how far Pammie will go to get what she wants: Emily gone forever.
THE OTHER WOMAN will have you questioning her on every page, in Sandie Jones’ chilling psychological thriller about a man, his new girlfriend, and the mother who will not let him go.
The Other Woman by Sandie Jones is another of those books that make me crave popcorn once I pick them up and start reading. It’s the type of story that early on you get the entire general idea of what will happen but still fun to sit back and wait for the fireworks and enjoy the show along the way.
Emily has come out of a relationship where she caught her boyfriend cheating with a good friend of hers so she’s a bit hesitant to get back in the game until she meets Adam. The more Emily gets to know Adam the more she thinks he’s absolutely perfect for her, that is until he brings her home to meet his mother.
On the surface Emily’s first meeting with Pammie goes well but for Emily the doubts begin to creep in after that meeting. While Pammie appears to be friendly and welcoming little things she does or say seem to get the best of Emily but Emily is not willing to give up her love for Adam despite his mother.
The story inside of The Other Woman is not a new one but it’s one that has managed to grab my attention time and time again. The good old ‘evil mother in law to be’ trope did manage to entertain me until the very end again this time and oh what an ending it was. Emily and Pammie made such an entertaining pair this go round that I flew right through the book and would certainly recommend this to those that enjoy a good old fashioned drama filled suspenseful ride.
I received an advance copy from the publisher via NetGalley.
Find this book online:
Goodreads / Amazon
About the author:
Sandie Jones has worked as a freelance journalist for over twenty years, and has written for publications including the Sunday Times, Woman’s Weekly and the Daily Mail. She lives in London with her husband and three children. The Other Woman is her debut novel.
Carries Book Reviews 
Looks good! Great review
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Thanks Helen! 🙂
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I’m NOT going to go over to look on NetGalley to see if this is still available. I’m NOT!
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Wow what a lovely review…you created so much curiosity about the book and the ending… Fab
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Thanks Shalini! I wouldn’t call this one “twisty” like they did in the book blurb but it does have that addictive drama of just waiting to see what will happen between the two ladies. 🙂
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Kim the book is there. Head over to NetGalley…
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*Sigh* Already did Shalini. I’m so weak.🙇🏻♀️
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Hahaha… I am planning not to open NetGalley till I finish 10 books. Then I check😉😉 at least that’s the plan baby….
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Heck I finish one and go to turn it in and I look….. who am I kidding I look before I’m done and I read pretty darn fast so that tells you how often I check. LOL
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Yp I saw that. You read about 5 books a day with 5 posts. You are just amazing
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Haha not quite, I have been doing two a day though for a while and I still keep a long list. The secret is just listening to the audio so I can get them read faster. My other posts though are just sharing books. 🙂
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Still, it needs a great capacity to do that along with regular life. I am still in awe and amazed
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That’s just what I was telling someone else though, all the little things you do daily I “read” while doing. Dishes, laundry, even just going to the bathroom my Kindle fits in my pocket when I’m up and walking around. LOL
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Hahaha and OMG
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Well it’s true! 🙂 I even have an adapter to listen over my car speakers so other than the handful of books that weren’t able to use text-to-speech I can listen all the time. 🙂
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Wow… Fabulous
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Good Luck Shalini!
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I kind of raised the white flag and requested one book. I got rejected so I am not sure if I should be happy or sad
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I’ve been there Shalini.
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Hahaha.. I got rejected because I am not from US
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Grr.😡
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It’s fine. I will buy the book when it releases… 😘😘 No Grrrs. Everyone is bound by their rules.
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True. Still frustrating though.🤗
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I grrr if they are only following their rules when they feel like following them, there’s a few publishers that state one thing but hand them out to some that don’t make that list. Not that this one was but you get my point. LOL
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I know but it is okay. I will buy it when it releases. I have a book budget. Every month
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Hehe I’d be dead broke if I bought all of them I wanted but thankfully if I miss them I have a really good library here. I hope you can grab a copy though and enjoy it when you do. 🙂
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I will… We don’t have libraries here. So every month comes a book budget, and I really hope I don’t go overboard. Most days I am good with it
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I know some others that have that same problem and I always hear it’s good to put them on an Amazon wishlist and watch for the sales too. They all seem to drop in price at some point so with a little patience you can probably stay way under budget. 🙂
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Probably but by then a new book pops up and I am like — my precious!!
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That’s me daily on Netgalley. LOL
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I always get a little sad but then tell myself to move on, there’s always more to click and if anything I can pick that one up later.
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You are in a different league than me, Carrie. At the pace you read and review, NetGalley should give all their books to you and you would still say – anymore? Hahaha you are that good.
I really wanted this Emily Giffin book, I have put it in my wish list On Amazon
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LOL! Not sure about that but I would do my best to make it through them all believe me! 🙂 Really though I know a few on Goodreads are way faster than me and I get jealous thinking if I could do that many I might make a dent in my TBR. 🙂
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The faster I read the longer your poor TBR gets….. oops. 😦
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LOL!! You so are going to look and you know it. It should still be up for quite a while…. *checks for you* Yep, archives Aug 21st when it publishes. Needed a book with an author named Jones for a challenge so I’m really early on this one. Well, that and dang it I want to get ahead and not be doing them all at the last minute either. 🙂
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NOOOOO!🙇🏻♀️
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*innocent look*
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Fabulous review Carrie! I am really looking forward to this one, and I’m so jealous that you are reading books that come out in August, I guess I could but I have so many still to read that are coming out in June, however I’m reading a July really is right now, and it is really good!💕
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Thanks! I’ve been doing my best to get my shelf back to being ahead and not waiting until the last minute for everything lately so I joined back up in the challenge on Goodreads to help motivate me. One of the categories was an author named Jones so this one got pushed ahead, believe me I still have plenty of July to do too. 🙂
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Are you back with Sarah and Abby? Love them just couldn’t take the drama anymore, LOL 😝
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Haha yep, and things haven’t really changed much as far as it’s the same old complaints each month. They are absolutely amazing at coming up with creative and fun ideas for comps but definitely need work on running them, almost worse than before because it seems they don’t even want to come online much…. can be up to a week before a score update now. But I needed a bit of motivation to get myself back ahead and not have to be skipping so many books I want to click and read so at least it’s been fun that way. Talked Tati into coming back and joining me next month too now. LOL
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I’m trying hard not to go over to NG myself! I’m also still reading June books so I probably shouldn’t look, but your review is wonderful, and this does sound very good!
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Thanks Jennifer! I’ve actually been doing some clicking this week because I’ve gotten June about caught up and starting on July now but grabbed this one for a challenge a bit out of order and early. I’ve had it for quite a while and have wanted to read it anyway so why not? 🙂
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That is wonderful, Carrie! I am hoping I can catch up soon! I have been a naughty clicker!
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I’ve been reading like crazy just to click more, darn addiction. LOL
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Lovely review Carrie. My comments have gone as reply to Kim…
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I actually found you in my spam but I think I have them all fixed and sorted now. Had a ton in there and I try to check every few days. Not sure why in the world WordPress keeps doing that to people but I learned to try to keep an eye out since I was told it was happening to me on other blogs. 😦
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Yp I am in the Spam list on mails too… Sighhhh
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Sorry, I can’t figure out why it does that to people who should be approved, doesn’t make sense. 😦
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It’s fine. Keep checking spam
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Yeah, I’ve learned that from others telling me they found me there. Check mine and at least a couple times a month I find people that have commented before tossed in there along with others who are making perfectly fine comments. Of course there’s tons and tons of actual spam too so I’m not sure I’d want all that coming though either.
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I agree… But good people are also tossed there. I am found there nowadays even though I don’t put up a link or any odd words. Yet…
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Yeah, doesn’t make sense sometimes if you’ve stopped to check out a review or congratulate someone.
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I comment on all posts. None are ever seen so they think I don’t bother and till they comment on mine, I can not direct them to the spam folder
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I know, at one point I was wondering why I wasn’t getting responses sometimes but now I figure I’ve probably hit the spam and how do you tell someone if they didn’t see the first comment? And truth be told I wouldn’t be able to remember and go back to each time I never got a response anyway. LOL
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Same here. If I do remember and if that blogger comments on my post, I can tell them. I mail them via contact page sometimes till I realized my mail is going to the spam list
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Very true, but I’m sure I would still miss noticing a non response occasionally. I know some people don’t comment back for a while and eventually get there where others are more immediate and sometimes I get behind reading blogs so I’m commenting on older posts and it may just get missed or overlooked that way too. If only WordPress would do as it should and just post someone who had been approved like it says it will. *sigh*
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I think there is a setting for that, does it not work?
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No or I wouldn’t have found yours in there tonight, you have commented before so there’s no way it should have tossed you. 😦 And I know it works the other way too on blogs I had commented on regularly and I end up in there. I read that if someone accidentally or I suppose on purpose marks you as spam you end up there for everyone…. but really I might believe that if it were a rare thing but it happens all the time.
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Ok it is a bug in wp and we have to live with it
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Yeah, that’s what I figure. I’ve seen bigger issues affect people so this one is just a nuisance really.
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This one sounds so good.I’m glad that you enjoyed it Carrie.I have the Arc so can’t wait to read it soon.Great review.
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Thanks Diana! I know I’m early on it but I hope you enjoy it when you get to it. 🙂
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I’m glad you enjoyed this one, Carrie! Fantastic Review!😍❤📚
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Thanks Dani! 🙂
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You’re welcome, my friend.😁
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I do enjoy this type of story and your review makes it sound so good, but I must restrain myself. I have not yet tired of the evil mother-in-law trope, perhaps because my MIL was pretty amazing.
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Oh I know what you mean, I’m sure there are in laws that are hard to get along with out there but in fiction you just know it’s going to get completely crazy and don’t want to miss it. 🙂
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Absolutely.
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