What on earth did I read? Teenage angst and random women? I was left feeling who cares, why does Mel care and what the hell is Harmony on? This whole story is about as unlikely as my husband becoming a Victoria's Secret model! I endured as had little else to read but otherwise don't bother unless you have some reason you can't move and don't like counting sheep!!!!!

A book about the ups and downs of family life and the discovery of a girl called Storm on a beach. This book is a quick easy read. I thought there would have been more about Storm in the book. I would have liked to have known more about her.

I found this book hard going. too many characters, too many disparate stories.
The denouement was a damp squib, the ending forced. Overall unrealistic and unsatisfying I won't be recommending it.

I struggled with this book from page one. Maybe I had too high expectations for it from the reviews and advanced publicity. The title, cover and descriptions I read all made it sound like exactly the sort of book I enjoy. A 4 or 5 star for sure. I'm sorry but I can't even bring it upon myself to give it a 2 star 'it was ok' as it just wasn't. The writing was very stilted at times with some phrases and sentences making no sense to me. And some of the language was just gross with far too much attention to bodily functions. It felt like it was being written by a puerile boy.

It's not often I give up on a book but having read a third and finding myself being constantly removed from the storyline to try and understand the meaning or being distracted by gross language I only skim read the rest.

With thanks for the chance to review it and sorry I cannot be more positive.

I'm sorry but I found this book not well written or constructed which irritated me. I finished it because I felt honour bound to do so in return for an honest review. However I won't post a review on Amazon etc as I could not with a clear conscience give it a glowing write up

I had high hopes for this novel. The plot, the cover and the authors earlier work made me think that this would be a gem. Unfortunately, I was left feeling rather disappointed. The plot was a bit too rambling and the ending was a little rushed and a bit of a let down for me. Just not my cup of tea I'm afraid. Thanks to Little Brown and NetGalley for the advanced copy, I'm just sorry I couldn't be more enthusiastic.

Maybe because there were so many threads to this story I found it difficult to engage with the characters. They were all facing their own demons and dilemmas, from Harmony with her teenage angst, to Dan the rookie policeman. True to the title I suppose. It gripped me enough to want to keep reading to find out what happened to them all, but there was no happy ending.

I think I missed something with this book as I really struggled to see the point to the story and was left with a feeling very underwhelmed. The story did not seem to go anywhere

Although not a style of writing I particularly like, this work by Amanda Coe proved quite engaging. Whilst there were some lazy cliches there were also some clever uses of descriptive language that created real people and events within the developing story.. I guess it depends on the intended audience but the lack of resolution in just about all narrative themes was, for me, a disappointment; it's perfectly acceptable to leave some issues hanging, but perhaps not quite so many. For all that, it was an enjoyable read and I'll look out for future works by this author

Interesting and compelling story of how the finding of a naked girl on a beach can effect the life of a family. I will not summarise the story as, of course, it is not released yet and I would not want to spoil it for any new reader.
When I first started to read this I found I was re-reading several times, the writing style I found tricky but soon got used to it, and I am still not sure of why I had the problem. My thoughts are that as it has been written by a screen writer it is a slightly shifted emphasis; the reason I chose to read it is because of Apple Tree Yard.
I did relate to the main character of the story but found that the character of Harmony was more compelling and sad....I am not sure that I will remember this storyline for long, although at the moment I want to find out what happened to Harmony

Everything You Do Is Wrong starts out with a secret about a girl named Storm, found lying on a beach in a small town. How did she get there, and why can't she speak? The mystery is a good one, and draws in the reader. I believe that had the book continued on this path, it would have been a good one, but it doesn't. Instead we run a sort of gauntlet for 256 pages of wildly unhappy people. A harried housewife questioning her life, her clinically depressed best friend, a failed rock star, a teenager with an all consuming crush plus an eating disorder. A book about unhappy people can be a good thing, but at times I felt this was a test of endurance because it was like wading through treacle with not much movement for most of the time and then suddenly the air went out of the plot like a deflated balloon. The narrative with Storm and her secret came to such a screamingly dissatisfying conclusion that I didn't really want to finish, but I pressed on and was rewarded with an odd plot twist that came out of nowhere. I really felt the end of this book was written for pure shock value alone, but it didn't even manage to be that.

I wish that the author had perhaps simplified her ideas, because this seems like a book with far too many of them. I can't figure out what, if anything, she has to say about any subject at all. Plus, there were so many characters that readers are stuck either with cripplingly disappointing conclusions, or often none at all. Lottie, who seemed like she had some interesting backstory lurking at the beginning of the book, went to the loo somewhere towards the middle bit and was never seen again. There are so many odd dead ends and strange choices that I just found this book too frustrating to enjoy.

Unfortunately I struggled through this one. The blurb had me hoping for a great story with a naked girl washed up on the shore thought to be dead but actually alive but completely unknown and unable to speak. I have to admit that I didn’t seem to hit it off with the writing style which may have affected the story in my head whilst also feeling the plot dragged a bit. Not quite as ‘twisty’ as I like which is a shame as I did have high hopes for it.
I am still thankful for NetGalley giving me the opportunity to read the book pre-release for an honest review.

I didn't particularly enjoy this book. I did not engage with the characters nor did I find them sympathetic.
The reason behind Storm appearing naked and unconscious with no memory was not believable. I became a little irritated with the story as it unfolded and did not like the ending. This was just not for me.

I found Everything you do is wrong very disappointing and gave up 75% of the way through. It began well with a young naked woman found at the brink of death, so I thought this was a psychological thriller - who was the girl, why was she naked and half dead? Who had done this to her etc.

The two main characters are teenage Harmony (horrid name) and her aunt Mel, who found the girl she named 'Storm' as she was unable to speak or tell anyone who she was. So far so interesting. But the plot led nowhere and the real reason for Storm's appearnce on the beach was unrealistic I felt. There were also too many characters, most of whom I felt nothing for and the plot point where one of the policemen dies left me bewildered. Thanks to Netgalley and Fleet Publishing for the opportunity to read and review this book but it really didn't work for me at all.

Everything you do is wrong by Amanda Coe is a family drama that begins with the mystery of a young woman washed up on the beach of a rundown seaside town. Told from the viewpoints of Harmony, a troubled teenager; the policeman who deals with the case and Harmony's step aunt who finds the girl. I found it a passable read but the ending was unsatisfactory.

This is my review, which will be posted on Goodreads in October 2017:

The flow of the writing makes this book a little unusual. There is a large cast of characters, with a complicated set of relationships.

I liked the pace of the narrative and the elements of humour, especially those involving the rookie constable Dan Mason.

However I found the story rather hard to follow, some of the jumps in time made the plot seem stilted.

I liked the range of characters and the way they developed and interacted. This is a novel which is a journey through the lives of these people. I wondered if it was going to reach a conclusion.

I did like the twist in the tale. Yes there is one!

My thanks go to Netgalley and Little Brown Book Group (Fleet) for a copy in exchange for this review.

I found this a disappointing read. It was a thin story and rather messy. I find it difficult to know exactly what the main theme was. I think that it can be a little boring when all the loose ends in a story are tidied up, but in this book none of the themes seemed to be completed. We don't know how the exams went, how the dance show turned out, how the gay couple continued, whether Harmony saved the dog -- or indeed herself. I can't recommend this one.

Very well done, mysterious tale that kept me guessing. My first book from this author and I'd definitely like to see more. She tells a good story and I found the characters interesting and the dialogue believable!

The theme tune to accompany this book was "High Hopes" as that was exactly what I had. The plot, the cover and the authors previous writing credentials all had enough pizazz and oompph to make me feel that this was going to be a cracker. The title proved right in this instance - everything I did was indeed wrong.I was left feeling rather disappointed. The twists were not that twisty, the plot was a bit too rambling and the ending was slightly meh, for want of a better word. All the hallmarks of a corker but let down in the delivery. Thanks to Little Brown and NetGalley for the advanced copy and the chance to be an ungrateful sod by giving an honest but unflattering review

The story was not quite what I had anticipated but nevertheless I persevered with it, reaching the final chapter feeling a little unfulfilled in terms of outcomes.
The story opens to a reasonably promising plot, a young girls body being discovered by Auntie Mel at the bottom of a cliff during a violent storm. Having called the paramedics, the girl survives the ordeal but seems unable to communicate or recall anything of her history.
Mel, fast approaching fifty, mother to three boys and wife to Ian has much on her plate. I felt in tune with her character as she rushes around, preserving a satisfactory home life for her boys, organising her dance school business and becoming a mother in all but name to Harmony, the daughter of best friend Aurora who has recently attempted to take her own life and is currently recuperating in a home run by nuns.
Harmony, a home-schooled sixteen year old is a sensitive teenager, who never cut it at the local state school and Mel makes it her responsibility to pay for private lessons in maths and supports her in English to enable her to at least have a start in life and maybe get into Sixth Form. Although Harmony lives with Stu, Mel's brother and Aurora, when she is at home; they are so wrapped up by their own inadequacies in life that they have little time or focus for Harmony, and her awakening desire to be noticed, which leads her into a few scrapes along the way. However, she is the one who manages to reach out to the girl from the beach and this eventually leads to the mystery being solved.
Policeman Dan is also a key character in the story, being one of the officers called to the scene in the opening chapter. He is young, keen and desperate to solve what could be a crime, if only he can get to the bottom of it.
Coe's style of writing is wordy and engulfed by lengthy sentences punctuated by colons which took some getting used to. However, she gets inside the heads and thoughts of all three main characters in a realistic manner which makes them feel like real tangible people in the throes of their mundane and busy lives.
I only wish the girl from the beach, called Storm by hospital staff, had had a more exciting story wound around herself. Sadly, It all felt such a let down when the truth was finally revealed.