Perfect Stranger by Jake Cross

Available on Amazon

Rating (1-5) 📘📘📘
Genre - Domestic Thriller, British Contemporary Literature
Format - E-book
Length - 1744 KB


*Amazon Blurb*

You let her in. You’ll wish you hadn’t.

Following a whirlwind romance, Rose and Chris’s marriage has been unshakeable for twenty years. But when teenager Katie turns up on their doorstep, blonde, wide-eyed and beautiful, their perfect life threatens to crumble to pieces. Because Katie says she’s Chris’s long-lost daughter, the product of a forgotten summer fling.

The couple is still reeling from shock when Katie tells them she has nowhere to go. The couple is her only hope. Kind-hearted Rose invites Katie to stay, despite Chris’s protests. The poor girl has only just lost her mother – they can’t leave her out on the street.

But soon after Katie moves in, strange things start happening. Someone crashes into a neighbour’s fence. An unexplained fire starts in the couple’s kitchen. And a family friend coming to visit disappears on the way to the house. Chris insists Katie has to go. But it’s Chris who won’t explain where he was at the time their friend went missing…

The couple’s dream life seems to be turning into a nightmare. With dark secrets about Chris’s history with Katie’s mother coming to light, Rose no longer knows who to trust. Soon, she isn’t sure whether she’s invited a dangerous stranger into her home, or whether she’s been living with one all along…

*My Review* 

Katie shows up claiming to be the daughter of Chris, who had a one night stand with her mom. Like any smart person he agrees to a paternity test. While waiting for the test results to come back an avalanche of crazy seemed to happen causing my head to spin. Katie begins by telling lies about how she got burn scars and other various parts of her life, a friend of Chris' daughter, Julia, gets attacked, a coworker of Chris' gets murdered, there's a guy that may be after Katie and so much more. I think there was too much packed into one book.

Not only did I find it hard to keep up with, but I also couldn't stand any of the characters. Rose came off as a control freak and a horrible wife, Chris had no balls, Julia was boring and Katie, well.....she was just annoying.