Book Review: The Perfect Family | Robyn Harding

The Stats

📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚

BOOK: The Perfect Family

AUTHOR: Robyn Harding  @rhardingwriter

Publisher: Gallery Books @gallerybooks

Stars: ⭐⭐⭐

Published: August 10,, 2021

https://amzn.to/3x2ea8w

The Review

✨ The Title/Cover Draw:

• I had read previous Robyn Harding books and wanted to try another. That’s the @netgalley and @gallerybooks for letting me read this ahead of publication.

💜 What I liked:

• This book is told from the perspective of all 4 members of the family, which keeps it interesting. They all have secrets and the family is being targeted. But by whom and why? There were a lot of misdirections which made it a fast read.

😱 What I didn’t like:

• This book seemed a little all over the place at times with the potential motive being a tad fuzzy. If the plot points were tightened and a little more complex, this book would be awesome. Nonetheless, it is a good read and very fast paced.

💁‍♀️ The Characters:

• Viv (the mother), Thomas (the father), Eli (the son), and Tarryn (the daughter) all have secrets that could destroy a family.

🚦 The Ending:

• When it is finally revealed who is attacking the family, it seems a little out of left field in one way, and in another way believable. I can’t fully explain why without giving things away though.

💭 Consider if you like:

• Fast paced thrillers that are easy to follow. 

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Received from Netgalley.

📘 Summary:

The bestselling author of the The Swap—praised by Samantha M. Bailey, author of Woman on the Edge, as “wickedly delicious, addictive, utterly compelling”—explores what happens when a seemingly perfect family is pushed to the edge…and beyond.

Thomas and Viv Adler are the envy of their neighbors: attractive, successful, with well-mannered children and a beautifully restored home.

Until one morning, when they wake up to find their porch has been pelted with eggs. It’s a prank, Thomas insists; the work of a few out-of-control kids. But when a smoke bomb is tossed on their front lawn, and their car’s tires are punctured, the family begins to worry. Surveillance cameras show nothing but grainy images of shadowy figures in hoodies. And the police dismiss the attacks, insisting they’re just the work of bored teenagers. Unable to identify the perpetrators, the Adlers are helpless as the assaults escalate into violence, and worse. And each new violation brings with it a growing fear. Because everyone in the Adler family is keeping a secret—not just from the outside world, but from each other. And secrets can be very dangerous….

This twisty, addictively page-turning suspense novel about a perfect family’s perfect façade will keep you turning pages until its explosive ending.