I always try to be fair to any author who has spent many months of their lives writing a book. I am in awe of anyone skilful enough to achieve publication. Amanda Coe has undoubted ability in creative writing and some of her descriptions were excellent. However, surely the most important thing when writing a book is to hold the interest of the reader with a dramatic story with a beginning, middle and end. The supposed main point was a 'dead' body discovered on the beach who miraculously came to life but would not or could not speak. This part of the story was largely ignored while I read page after page of Mel's boring life and her niece's teenage problems. When we finally discovered the mystery it was so lame I almost stopped reading. However, realising there were many more pages I continued but with enormous regret. There were no dramatic twists, many unanswered questions and the end was sadly desperate and odd.
I dreaded writing this review but I can't pretend it's anything other than as its title suggests, wrong.

Harmony is a tense fifteen year-old from a strange and unconventional family. Harmony and one of her cousins have the same maths tutor and Harmony has a deep crush on him. Things change for them all when Mel finds a naked girl on the beach during a fierce storm. Mel thinks she’s dead but she is revived, though doesn’t speak. They are all caught up in trying to find out who she is.
Everything You Do is Wrong is an interesting read but I do feel it lacked the essential components of a mystery/suspense/thriller or whatever the author's intended genre was.
The characters lacked depth and were hard to empathise with.
I kept waiting for something exciting to happen but sadly it did not.
Many thanks for the ARC.

This book started well - rather mysterious with the body of a girl washed up on the shore. But it degenerated into a series of caricatures - dodgy policemen, dysfunctional families, teenage lust, depression, and a mystery that wasn't a mystery at all. Sad to say as the blurb sounded great ... and the title didn't really work for me either.
Very disappointing 2*

Everything You Do is Wrong

Everything You Do is Wrong is an interesting read but I do feel it lacked that je ne sais pas! It was quite slow paced and so it didn't really grab me like I had hoped it would!

It would make a great holiday read as it's an easy read that doesn't take a lot of thinking about. Three stars from purplebookstand.

A young girl is dragged out of the sea, she cannot speak, she cannot remember who she is or where she came from.
Mel, walking her dog is the one that rescues her and becomes embroiled in the young girls life determined to find out who she is. But Mel has other issues to deal with. A sister, Aurora who fails to connect to the real world and barely cares for her daughter, Harmony and a family who desperately need her.
Then there is Harmony herself, home schooled, no friends and very little social skills and infatuated with her maths tutor.
Add into the mix two detectives trying to discover who the young girl is and you have a novel that is not really sure what it wants to be.
It is all very disjointed, with storylines running all over the place. The writing quality is ok, and it is very readable and would make a great summer holiday read.
The resolution to the mystery of the young girl left me hugely disappointed and I felt cheated out of a more substantial outcome.
Not the best but not the worst novel I have read just not for me

The publisher's notes about this book suggested something completely different from the book I actually read. The premise of the book is that a mystery woman is found barely alive on a Yorkshire beach. But if you're expecting a twisting plot where we discover a complex secret about Storm, as she becomes known, you will be disappointed. This is actually about the lives of the extended family of Mel, who found Storm and rescued her. None of the characters are likeable or particularly interesting and the book ambles along without achieving much.
Some of the author's descriptive passages and observations are interesting and I think she has massive potential with the help of a good editor so I don't want to be too harsh. But this just didn't do it for me.

I hate writing a bad review but I'm afraid I really didn't enjoy this book. Although I did keep reading until the end, it was forced so it took me much longer than it should have. I found the book confusing, I didn't completely understand the plot and found myself at times thinking 'what's going on?'. I didn't particularly like the twists, or the ending and I didn't connect with any characters. Thank you for the chance to read and review this, but it wasn't for me.

Gripping read from the start. Real page turner! Highly recommended

A nice book but I was not quite sure about the ending and sometimes I didnt know what the characters were talking about.

Hmmmmm undecided with this one, didn't have many twists or turns and the one at the end I didn't like! Was an easy beach read though and I did enjoy it, I liked harmony and enjoyed figuring her out! Not a bad read not a gripping one either though

I did not enjoy this book. I could not relate to any of the characters and I just thought there was no real story or meaning. The story centres around harmony,a teenager. Her Aunt Mel finds a naked ,live woman on the beach; the woman cannot speak. Harmony seeks to discover who the woman is , no spoilers but I could not believe nor understand the answer.

The story started well, a possible murder, family tensions, lies leading from one thing to another. I quite enjoyed the book, but found the end very disappointing I'm afraid.

Overall I was disappointed with this book. I thought it was a murder mystery yet it turned out to be more about the family that discovered a person on a beech. Often the characters were confusing and the plot seemed to not be going anywhere. Though there was some human interest unfortunately I did not really care enough about any of the characters as there seemed to be a lot of them with now real purpose or depth.. Both police characters seemed to be in the book because they had to tie in with the discovery but over all added very little. Very disappointing.

An amazing read read couldn't put it down definitely a 5 star read and I cannot wait for your next title

This book seemed to promise so much but in the end left me disappointed. It started off well, I was drawn in by the mystery of Storm and was intrigued to see where the story went. There is no doubt that the author can write and I enjoyed parts of it but it just didn't seem to go anywhere and the ending left me very underwhelmed. It would be difficult to categorise it because so much of the storyline isn't what you think it is. I like twists and turns in a novel but they have to make sense and for me I ended up asking myself what the point was.
I liked the book more when it concentrated on the relationships between the characters.
My thanks to Netgalley and Little Brown for this copy.

Thank you to Netgalley for an early copy in return for an honest review.

Unfortunately, I really don't rate this book very highly. Its bio made me expect more but in reality the story never really went anywhere. Two many loose ends were left hanging and the end was most unsatisfactory! I think I must have missed the point or misunderstood something important as to be honest I didn't really get it!

The mystery of the body on the beach could have been so much more hard hitting, instead it just had me thinking, really? is that the best you can do?

I didn't didn't not enjoy reading it - but it left me underwhelmed, confused and disappointed.

Everything you do is wrong starts with a storm and a mystery. Harmony’s Auntie Mel finds the girl by the beach. They all think she has drowned.

I read this book several weeks ago and didn’t write it up immediately. This isn’t because the plot lines aren’t tight. It read like a TV crime drama. The young, handsome policeman – not quite a detective in his own right – families broken behind closed doors, teenagers lying to the police for a little bit of attention, the exploration of stereotypes about different communities (here the travelling community).

It is a fun and page-turning read. But, and for me this is a big but, it ends with a sense of deflation. I didn’t feel provoked to continue thinking about the characters and their lives, or to ponder afresh my understanding of the world and how people move within it.

Perhaps I was asking too much of this novel that for the right reader would do all of those things. The characters are believable and their lives the heady mixture of mundane and awkward that feels so true to real life. It just didn’t do it for me.

What begins as crime moves into an elaborate drama in which everyone does the wrong thing, though sometimes for the right reasons.

This book was not for me. Whilst it might accurately reflect some of the issues/problems youngsters in their mid teens might face, "Everything you do is Wrong" did not grab my emotions. It was all rather monotone. flitting from one character to another without their ever really sharing or confronting the current matters in hand. I feel fiction needs to be slightly larger than life, challenging the reader to think more deeply. Regrettably this did not happen to me. Sorry.

A very good mystery a must read,great book I loved it