The Wrong Family by Tarryn Fisher

A special thank you to Edelweiss and Graydon House for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Juno was wrong about Winnie Crouch.

Before moving in with the Crouch family, Juno thought Winnie and her husband, Nigel, had the perfect marriage, the perfect son—the perfect life. Only now that she’s living in their beautiful house, she sees the cracks in the crumbling facade are too deep to ignore.

As a retired therapist, she isn't one to judge. After being diagnosed with an illness, Juno just wants to enjoy the rest of the time she has left. But that is short lived when Juno overhears a chilling and disturbing conversation between Winnie and Nigel…

Juno shouldn’t get involved, but this could be her chance to make a few things right.

Because if you thought Juno didn’t have a secret of her own, then you were wrong about her, too.

Tarryn Fisher has a wicked and brilliant mind. The Wrong Family is her most well-written and polished book to date. Divided into three parts, the story takes place in a striking yet unsettling looking house in Greenlake, a neighbourhood in Seattle, WA. The narrative lives between Winnie's and Juno's third person perspectives. Both women are complex and well-developed, reader's will be shocked while living in their heads. 

The writing is slick and fluid, but there are a few missteps. There are instances where the narrative shifts in time causing overall confusion and for the reader to stumble. Fisher's audience will struggle with the book's overall bulk—there is an unnecessary scene (Friendsgiving) that introduces characters that do nothing to the plot, this is just filler. And at the climax/end/epilogue, there is a genre jump and the book reads more like a horror versus a psychological thriller.    

Tarryn's loyal and rabid PLNs will love this book. Her writing is completely captivating—Fisher wields words, they are definitely her weapon. Parts of the story are simply excellent! But the unreliable/unstable female narrator is so overdone right now and I wish that Tarryn would return to the more angsty relationships that are tinged with her signature darkness.  

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TARRYN FISHER is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Wives.

Born a sun hater, she currently makes her home in Seattle, Washington with her children, husband, and psychotic husky.

Tarryn writes about villains.