Synopsis:
Liam and Wren have accomplished the buying their first home. The house isn’t in the safest neighbourhood, is in desperate need of repairs, and is the result of the previous owner defaulting on their mortgage, but at least they finally won the bidding war. With a limited budget, it was all they could afford, and with endless plans to transform it into the home of their dreams, they’ve never been happier.
Until the previous owner, Monica, turns up at their door.
Monica begs them not to renovate, under the guise of the home holding years of important memories for her family. Liam and Wren initially brush off her strange request, but when she begins showing up almost daily, she pushes their boundaries beyond limits, destroying the dream they’ve worked so hard to accomplish. Strange, unsettling discoveries in the house only add to their unease, and Monica’s timing is too much of a coincidence. Has she come to take back what’s hers?
It’s obvious the house harbours a dark secret, one that Monica will do anything to hide. But the consequences of untangling the web of lies could be deadly.
Review:
We start by meeting Wren and Liam, new homeowners who have finally found their future home and are eager to move in and begin the renovation process. But then a stranger tells them to leave her house alone, starts to behave strangely, and even threatens them. They soon find out that she was the previous owner of the house. When women in the neighbourhood go missing and it seems to be connected to the stranger and the house Wren and Liam moved into, it becomes clear that something happened in the past that is linked to what is happening now.
This was my first book by the author, and after reading it, I’m interested in exploring more of her work. There were quite a few twists (some more, some less obvious) that kept me eager to discover what had really happened. It was a relatively short read, and I finished it in one sitting. It felt fast-paced to me, and the dual perspective – what is happening in the present and a woman’s story from the past – slowly tying everything together, captured my attention from the very first page. I was keen to uncover the truth, and once everything started to make sense, I couldn’t wait for the final pieces of the puzzle to come together.
🌙 Recension: No Place Like Home by Brianna North
📚 Genre: Mystery, Thriller
📅 Release Date: June 27, 2026
📖 Publisher: Thomas Nelson Fiction
📗 included in Kindle Unlimited
📱 Read as: Kindle
💸 I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
🗣️ Language: English
📆 Pages: 275
⭐️ 4/5
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