The Other Family by Theo Baxter
Published by: Inkubator Books
Publication date: January 26, 2025
Genres: Psychological Thriller
Format: eBook
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This is one family you don’t want to join.
Things haven’t been easy for fifteen-year-old Sam Cotton. She’s just recovering from the death of her mother when her father Jesse has a mental breakdown.
She’s taken out of his care and given to a foster family, the Bradfords. The Bradfords live in the middle of nowhere and seem like pious, God-fearing people.
But Sam soon notices some disturbing things. The forbidden rooms. The strict rules. The cameras that track her every move.
When Sam discovers that two girls previously fostered by the Bradfords have disappeared without trace, she realises she may be in grave danger.
Sam is smart and resourceful. And she’ll need to be - because the Bradfords have a dark secret. A secret which will thrust Sam into a terrifying nightmare from which she may never wake.

Just when I think Theo can’t go any darker…he delivers this! A book of corruption and so much intensity it is unreal. When Samantha is removed from her dad to live with the Bradfords, you are just unsettled from the start. The house isn’t right, nothing is right. The thing is you know what is going on, without being told what is going on….until you are told. Wow! The way these girls and Mrs Bradford are conditioned…. unreal.
There are a couple of moments where my jaw just dropped and one when I did yelp as I had no idea it was going to happen. I was on edge constantly throughout. It is very dark and twisty and seriously well…dark.
I detested Reverend Gareth Bradford, who was a nasty, vile messed-up man. His wife wasn’t much better. In my head, I pictured them as the characters in that creepy painting you see in Rocky Horror, or old school clothes and a pitchfork. They deserve zero sympathy in life, and they got none from me.
The girls, it was heartbreaking. What they had been through. What they were going through. A life of fear and projected sin. They should have been enjoying life and smiling and free….none of that was happening here.
This book terrified me. It made me squish the little one that bit tighter.
But what a book!
Until the next time xxx

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