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A review by lottevanderpaelt
The Mother-in-Law by Karen King
fast-paced
4.0
First of all, thanks to NetGalley and the author for providing me with an ARC. The fact that I received a copy of this book for free does not affect my review at all. The author wants to know my honest thoughts and opinion, so that's what I'll give her.
In The Mother-In-Law, we get to know Dana, a twenty-something bride to be. After only a few months of dating her boyfriend, Sam asks her to marry him and Dana feels as if she's never been happier. Sam is perfect and so will there life together be. When she starts getting to know his family however, she begins feeling less and less sure about that. Sam's mother, Evelyn, doesn't seem thrilled about the upcoming wedding and before long, accidents start happening around Dana. But surely it must all be a big coincidence. After all, no one, and certainly not her future mother-in-law, could possibly be hurting her on purpose, right?
Okay, wow, this was good. To be completely honest, I thought this book would be a little cliché and predictable but I am definitely pleasantly surprised. Some things that happened were a bit predictable, but this didn't actually bother me or stop me from enjoying the story. I did like the characters, despite some flaws, but those made sense at the end of the book (see spoilers for an example). King's writing style isn't mind-blowing, but it's definitely not bad either. The story was interesting, thrilling and very well worked out. I am looking forward to read more of Karen King's work in the future! If you want to know my thoughts a bit more in detail, you can go onto the next part, but be careful, there will be spoilers about the ending of the book!
I did think Sam was a bit of a mama's boy, but when we found out he knew she had been abused by Harold in the past, it completely made sense. I did really like the shift at the end of chapter 42. Up until that point, I had assumed it really was Evelyn doing all that stuff and trying to get Dana killed. I only started suspecting Harold when she mentioned she should've never trusted him. Whenever Dana mentioned that she shouldn't have stayed in the house etc previous to this chapter, I assumed that she was talking about Evelyn, but when I realised it was Harold, I also realised King had never out-right said it was Evelyn she should be scared off. She kept it very ambiguous as to not give the plot twist away, which is a detail that I think is brilliant. I did think it was a bit obvious that Ruby had some bigger part in the plot and it was very on the nose when the birthmark was mentioned, but that was a minor thing so it didn't really bother me too much.
In The Mother-In-Law, we get to know Dana, a twenty-something bride to be. After only a few months of dating her boyfriend, Sam asks her to marry him and Dana feels as if she's never been happier. Sam is perfect and so will there life together be. When she starts getting to know his family however, she begins feeling less and less sure about that. Sam's mother, Evelyn, doesn't seem thrilled about the upcoming wedding and before long, accidents start happening around Dana. But surely it must all be a big coincidence. After all, no one, and certainly not her future mother-in-law, could possibly be hurting her on purpose, right?
Okay, wow, this was good. To be completely honest, I thought this book would be a little cliché and predictable but I am definitely pleasantly surprised. Some things that happened were a bit predictable, but this didn't actually bother me or stop me from enjoying the story. I did like the characters, despite some flaws, but those made sense at the end of the book (see spoilers for an example). King's writing style isn't mind-blowing, but it's definitely not bad either. The story was interesting, thrilling and very well worked out. I am looking forward to read more of Karen King's work in the future! If you want to know my thoughts a bit more in detail, you can go onto the next part, but be careful, there will be spoilers about the ending of the book!
I did think Sam was a bit of a mama's boy, but when we found out he knew she had been abused by Harold in the past, it completely made sense. I did really like the shift at the end of chapter 42. Up until that point, I had assumed it really was Evelyn doing all that stuff and trying to get Dana killed. I only started suspecting Harold when she mentioned she should've never trusted him. Whenever Dana mentioned that she shouldn't have stayed in the house etc previous to this chapter, I assumed that she was talking about Evelyn, but when I realised it was Harold, I also realised King had never out-right said it was Evelyn she should be scared off. She kept it very ambiguous as to not give the plot twist away, which is a detail that I think is brilliant. I did think it was a bit obvious that Ruby had some bigger part in the plot and it was very on the nose when the birthmark was mentioned, but that was a minor thing so it didn't really bother me too much.