Review: The Family on Smith Street

Book: The Family on Smith Street

Author: Elisabeth Carpenter

Thank you NetGalley and Bookouture Audio for an advanced audio copy.

The Family on Smith Street for me started as a confusing mess but then slowly started to make sense and by the end I really liked it.

I love books that have multiple POVs. This book is one of them but unfortunately that’s what made me so confused early on. It was multiple POVs and multiple timelines with a lot to try to remember.

In one timeline you are following who you assume is a killer and then in a present-day timeline you are following Joanna who is being held captive. In that time line both her husband and her daughter are looking for her and her daughter finds out a lot of unsettling details that bring us to the conclusion. n

The timeline where we are in the past was not as interesting as the present. A lot of those details are needed but I wish it would have been delivered better.

The twist and turns as you get to the end make this a worthy read.

Final score: 4/5