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The First Mistake is leaning heavily on others to get you through the day, Alice is finding that she's been served a heavy portion of woeisme and Ican'tmakeitthroughthe day without a bucket of red wine served in a jumbo tumbler.
She's ten years out from the loss of her first husband, Tom, and she's on to a second marriage with Nathan.
Tom still dances a tango in her head from the moment she wakes in the morning and until she crashes in bed at night.
Move along, Girlie.

Alice and Tom had an interior design company and Alice has worked hard to make it a success.
Enter Nathan. Nathan is kicking this business up a notch with a proposition for designing a multitude of apartments in a highrise in Japan.
Alice, already selfstressed, is dragging her heels as to whether or not she wants to commit to such an international project from London.
Our gal is having a hard time even handling getting her two daughters off to school in the morning.
But Nathan assures her that he will do all the heavy lifting,

Enter Beth the best friend, Alice depends on her to help sort out her chaotic life, But now Alice suspects that Nathan may be cheating on her after she finds some suspicious charges on a receipt in his suitcase.
Beth knows what that is like because of her deceitful ex, Is it the blind leading the blind here

Let's get it out there, My Sherlock friends and I figured this one out early on, But this one is still an entertaining escape from our own daily lives Red wine tumbler optional, I did enjoy The Other Woman by Sandie Jones far more, I just think I've had my fill of clueless women characters that have been ponied out as of late.
Reality: Women can dance circles around the strong silent

type, blindfolded and hands tied behind the back, A.kicked up tostars. Will be checking out the next one by Sandie Jones, Alice is married to Nathan, has two children, a successful career and a beautiful house, It seems she has it all, although she does still live in the past, wondering how different her life would have been had Tom her first husband lived.
Alice has suffered through the dark hole of depression, She still relies on pills and alcohol to get her through each day, even though he has found a second chance at love and marriage.
She is also thankful to have a best friend in Beth, a single mum, who she has come to know through school.
Her child Millie is at school with Olivia, Alices youngest, Her eldest daughter Sophia, a fairly typical teenager is from her first marriage, but she gets along well with Nathan.
When Alice begins to suspect Nathan is having an affair she is unsure what to do, She turns to Beth, who knows all about having been cheated on, Is Alice right about Nathan Or is there something more going on
The first part of this story is told from Alices point of view before it switches to an earlier account of Beths life before coming back in partto the present day and both women.
Like many of the so called psychological thrillers or domestic dramas, it is a story with some twists and turns you may or may not see coming.
Yet I thought there was a certain predictability to it, Added to that, as often seems to be the case in these type of books, the main characters were not particularly likable.
However, even though I had my suspicions of what was happening, it did keep me interested enough to keep reading.
Did I love it No, But it was an enjoyable enough read though I didnt find anything that was particularly fresh or challenging, Maybe the whole psychological thriller idea has been done to death
As a book just to pass time and be entertained you could do a lot worse.
Again I suspect this will be one of those books some readers will love and others will just find an okay or even a good read but nothing startling, so give it ago and make up your own mind.
I admit I often find psychological thrillers seem contrived, so maybe I am not the best judge of this book as it did feel like that at times.
It certainly does gather momentum towards the end, even if is many ways the end is predictable, this was my first book by this author, so it might be interesting to try another, Where do I begin with The First Mistake

I am again torn as to what to give this book for a review.
This was such a fast, engrossing, and quick read! I was hanging on by the edge of my toes!! My goodness I couldn't turn those pages fast enough to figure out what was going on.


Although . my detective skills definitely didn't steer me wrong on this one, I had some of the plot/twists figured out but just needed a bit of help for that final twist.
But, unfortunately, the final reveal just left me a bit disappointed like her first novel did,

I will be honest, . . I feel like this plot continues to play out in psychological thrillers, I think it's really hard for this genre to take unexpected turns with something we haven't seen before, But, nonetheless Jones sure does know how to take you on one hell of a ride with her writing skills! WOW!


Overall, this was a fun and engaging novel!.
stars!

I'd recommend picking up if you're wanting a fast and compulsive read,

Thank you to Netgalley and St, Martin's Press for the arc via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review,

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Published to Goodreads:I literally figured out the entire ending by page, I'm too enraged to write any more of a review,angry! From the moment I read the first page until the moment I read the lasttimes over!, The First Mistake held me captive.
Real life ceased to exist as my heart rate picked up, my stomach got that funny kind of impending doom feeling, and I'm pretty sure I held my breath until this twisted story ended.
And then, I sat there stunned book in hand, staring at the final words, . . thinking "what the hll just happened"! I'll say it right now, . . Carve out enough time to read this book beginning to end in one sitting because once you start, there's no going back.


Alice is a content, wealthy businesswoman, mother, and wife, Life is good until suddenly it isn't. Nathan rode into Alice's life three months after she lost her first husband Tom, She'd been lost in the depths of her grief and despair, and he pulled her up out of the darkness into the light once again.
No one need know she still depends on a couple of antidepressants to get through her day, It's normal with all she's been through, right Nathan is a charmer with a killer smile a loving husband and father who works by Alice's side in the successful design firm she and Tom started.
Alice, Nathan, and the two children are the picture perfect family, Rounding out Alice's inner circle is her best friend and confidante Beth, Their daughters are playmates and when Alice makes a couple of disturbing discoveries that give her cause to question her marriage, Beth is the one she turns to for advice.
As this story plays out, dark revelations pile up, one after another, threatening to destroy life as Alice knows it.
With her heart, gut, and the evidence pointing in different directions, Alice has to figure out who's telling the truth and who's lying.
That's all I can say about the story without spoilers, and trust me folks, you do not want to read any spoilers before diving into this masterpiece of suspense.


A sinister yet mesmerizing story, The First Mistake is highly addictive simply impossible to put down.
I ignored the phone, doorbell, my husband, and even the dog as I frantically burned through the pages of this book.
My "need to know" level was off the chart, and I can say it's one of very few books I've read lately where I wasn't even close tocertain of the outcome by the end.
And oh that ending! How I wish I could talk about the shocking ending, but of course I can't.
Some will love it and some won't, but I think it's brilliant! The author sets a menacing tone within the first few pages and then elevates it and the pace throughout as she masterfully manipulates characters and readers withholding the final piece of the puzzle until the very end.
Through strong, realtolife characters, Jones delivers a relatable plotline that could mirror the life of any average citizen, making it that much more believable and terrifying.
Beautifully written and delivered, The First Mistake is one I'll be thinking about for some time to come.
An absolutely riveting "Are you kidding me!" Must Read Suspense Thriller!
With many thanks to the publisher for an arc of this book!
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