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I Know Who You Are

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I really enjoyed this book. Kept you on the edge of your seat and wanting more. Well written and you really feel for the main character. Definitely recommend.

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I Know Who You Are keeps you well and truly on your toes. The unreliable narrator makes you question what is real and what isn’t. Is the main protagonist what she seems, or not: at only 24% in and I was already questioning everything.

The story flows along at a rapid pace, back and forth between 2018 and 1987/1988, which adds to the suspense. If you’re a fan of very dark thrillers with unusual twists, I'm sure you will enjoy it. It makes a great long weekend super easy read with good writing - I read it in a few hours at a time over a few days.

Many thanks to NetGalley and HQ for the opportunity to read this book in return for an honest and unbiased review.

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I loved the first book by this author. So read this with a bit of trepidation. No need! Absolutely lived up to the other book. I was kept awake as I didn’t want to put it down! 4/5 stars. A good solid read.

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A over dramatic far fetched book you will be gripped to read....yes silly....yes full of twists and unexpected surprises but a good read that you will want to finish!!

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This book has left me with so many unanswered questions!! The twist was unexpected and the ending left me a little bit confused but, other than an interesting twist, I found that the story dragged. I enjoyed Alice's first book so I have to say I'm slightly disappointed with this one.

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Aimee Sinclair knows what it is like to be a different person and not let anyone know the real you. Aimee has secrets from her childhood that she has tried to hide from a young age, however when her husband disappears and she is framed for his murder the truth threatens to be uncovered.

A real twister of a tale, I didn’t suspect the truth that came right at the end. Woah! Excellent work from Alice Feeney.

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What a complex and multi layered novel this is! This appears to be a multiple character viewpoint novel from the perspective of 3 or more characters, how may there actually are you can discover during your own experience of this book. I found this to be an absolute rollercoaster of a book which I throughly enjoyed from start to finish despite how disturbing the content was.

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I was gripped all the way through, until the end, at least. I didn't expect the big twist towards the end and while it shocked me, I couldn't help but feel it was a little too much of a twist and that did spoil my enjoyment somewhat. I raced through it, desperate to get to the reveal and I didn't connect with Aimee's character, largely because of not knowing whether she was playing a part or telling the truth — probably deliberate on the part of the author to keep the tension high!

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Full of twists and turns with an ending I was not anticipating! I felt that adult Aimee was a bit closed off which made it a bit difficult to connect and empathise with.
Would definitely recommend to a friend.

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Love the books by Alice and so couldn’t wait to delve into this one too, I found it hard to get into and I didn’t really like Aimee much to be honest but the book itself was okay, not as good as her previous ones in my opinion but that’s just me!!!

I didn’t get the twist at the end and it came from nowhere, not a bad read in all

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I Know Who You Are follows Aimee Sinclair; an actress who never seems to be able to stop acting. When we first meet her, her husband has gone missing and Aimee might be the number one suspect. After all, they had just had a huge fight the night before.

Parallel to her storyline runs another. This one tells us of a child, young Ciara, who ran a little bit too far away from home.

Both storylines are connected but how?

The parallel storylines were written well and I found myself reading faster because I wanted to know what was going to happen. As the plot unfolded, I thought I knew which way it was going to go but I never expected what actually happened and you probably won't either. I'm not faint-hearted at all but that twist took me completely out of my comfort zone and made me feel really grossed out. It's at this point that I started losing interest because it was too far fetched for me but if you're open to something very twisted and darker than anything you can imagine, it's worth a read.

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I really enjoyed this story. It did take me a little while to get into it and I did find some of the characters hard to connect to. I will definitely read more by this author. Thank you Netgalley for giving me the opportunity to read this book

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This was a well-paced thriller but I didn't fully engage with the protagonist unfortunately. It was an interesting concept - Alice Feeney is great at high concept novels, but I didn't love this as much as her first one.

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Eagerly anticipated following "Sometimes I Lie" - it fell short of that in terms of the impact it had. Intriguing premise. Well written and kept me powering through, but the final reveal and ending fell a little flat for me and was a bit of a stretch for me to buy into. Won't put me off reading Alice Feeney's next book though as really like her style of writing.

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Our protagonist Aimee is easy to relate to and for 2 thirds of the book I’d say it was a pretty good ‘twisty keep you guessing read’. However the end left me cold. The blurbs that say ‘you’ll never guess the end’ are right ‘cos it came right outta left field in my humble opinion and it made me want to go back and read certain bits again but I couldn’t be bothered! I’m not too hung up on realism but this just seemed to lose its way towards the end and left me feeling rather disappointed. I wish I’d read her first novel ‘Sometimes I Lie’ as it sounds much better. My thanks to HQ and NetGalley for an ARC in return for an honest review.

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A quick and easy read that left a bit of a bad taste in my mouth although I was fully expecting the twist at the end - unfortunately I knew who they were too! Not as fantastic as Alice Feeneys debut nor as suprising. Whilst not terrible by any means just a bit disappointing compared to her last book

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I'm going to try very hard to actually write a review of this book.
It's the first one star review I've given since I started writing regular reviews, and while a tiny part of me thinks it isn't TOTALLY warranted (I did finish it, after all), a much larger part of me was so angry and viscerally repulsed by this book that I just don't care.

We start off meeting Aimee, who gives us a watered down version of Gillian Flynn's 'cool girl' monologue in Gone Girl, and proceed to trudge through many, many, many chapters of cryptic garbage. The whole thing tries to be existential and deep but falls extraordinarily flat.

There are multiple scenes of extreme abuse, some of which I've listed under the spoiler, so obviously, read at your own risk. [A young Aimee is forced to eat food that has been thrown into puddles of urine on the mens' room floor; a young Aimee is put in a scalding bath with corrosive cleaner and then scrubbed with the same cleaner; Aimee's pet hamster is killed by putting it in a deep fat fryer. (hide spoiler)]

This book just failed. It relied on shock and horror to give it any kind of plot at all, and then tried to redeem the whole thing with one of the most terrible "twists" I've ever read. I'm astonished this has managed to average three stars.

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I struggled with this book a lot and couldn't finish it due to the abuse of children, animals, domestic. It was vile. Sorry

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This was an ok read, but I found it really quite slow and didnt grab my attention as much as I would have hoped. Just my opinion but others seem to have really enjoyed it.

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Aimee Sinclair is an actress in the up, unexpectedly her career has started to fly, but is Aimee who she says she is, when her husband Ben disappears without a word leaving all his things in their home suspicion turns to Aimee. Is she all you think she is or is she playing another role.

A great book with a good twist.

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