Book Review: The Other People by C.B. Everett

 Disclosure / Disclaimer: I received this ebook, free of charge, from Simon and Schuster via edelweissplus for review purposes on this blog. No other compensation, monetary or in kind, has been received or implied for this post. Nor was I told how to post about it. All opinions are my own.

SYNOPSIS:

A group of strangers gathered at a mysterious country house are in a race against time to stop a serial killer in this twisty, high-concept thriller that combines Agatha Christie with Shutter Island.

Ten strangers.

An old dark house.

A killer picking them off one by one.

And a missing girl who’s running out of time…

And then there was one.

Ten strangers wake up inside an old, locked house. They have no recollection of how they got there. In order to escape, they have to solve the disappearance of a young woman. But a killer also stalks the halls of the house and soon the body count starts to rise. Who are these strangers? Why were they chosen? Why would someone want to kill them? And who—or what—lurks in the cellar?

Forget what you think you know.

Because while you can trust yourself, can you really trust The Other People?

REVIEW:

For starters, this is a book you either really like, or you can walk away from. However, all sides will agree, if they read the last 3 chapters, that the twist was not expected. But you gotta GET there, and that can be problematic. The first couple of chapters had me, and then it started- I had zero like for any of the characters and started to see why the killer was after them. But still, when you can only read a few chapters before getting frustrated withe pacing and whining, then it may be an editorial issue, or that the author has too many characters. For me it felt like the blurb was the meat of the story, and if you read the first 4 chapters, then dropped back in for the last 5, you had the book. So it's a maybe for me because of the ending. If you like mystery combined with thriller horror, then you'll probably like the book.  It's on the maybe shelf for me.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

C.B. Everett is the pen name for author Martyn Waites. He trained at the Birmingham School of Speech and Drama and worked as an actor for many years before becoming a writer. His novels include the critically acclaimed Joe Donovan series, The Old Religion, and The White Room. In 2013, he was chosen to write Angel of Death, the official sequel to Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black, and in 2014 won the Grand Prix Roman Etranger for Born Under Punches. He has been nominated for every major British and French crime fiction award and has also enjoyed international commercial success with eight novels written under the name Tania Carver.