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I Know Who You Are

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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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I Know Who You Are is a fast moving and twisted psychological thriller.  An ideal book to read on a long journey.
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I really thought I would like this book when I read the synopsis but unfortunately it didn't hit the mark.

I found it to be tedious and long winded with very little really going on.  Yes things heated up near the end but it took a long time to get there.  I found that I just didn't want to pick this up and therefore it took me ages to finish it.  I was actually tempted at one point not to bother finishing it but I'm one of those people who likes to try and finish every book I read! 

I get that we weren't meant to really like Aimee and I don't usually mind that (who doesn't love to hate a ruthless character?) but even so Aimee is just not relatable or interesting in anyway.  

Would not recommend.
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When Aimee comes home and discovers her husband is missing, she doesn’t seem to know what to do or how to act. The police think she’s hiding something and they’re right, she is – but perhaps not what they thought. Aimee has a secret she’s never shared, and yet, she suspects that someone knows. As she struggles to keep her career and sanity intact, her past comes back to haunt her in ways more dangerous than she could have ever imagined. 

I found this book a little far fetched, and that's saying something as I read a lot of books in this genre. I would have liked a bit more information on if her Dad searched for her etc, I won't say too much as it would spoil the book. The ending was confusing, I couldn't quite understand what was going on, maybe because I had lost interest, I don't know.

But I suppose its worth a read.
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If your favoured reading material is a novel with a good sprinkling of darkness, surprise, doubt, twists and lies, then feel free to read this great book by Alice Feeney - I Know Who You Are. 

The book was really big surprise, but as this was my first novel by Alice Feeney, I had no particular expectations, either great or otherwise. Alice Feeney’s début, Sometimes I Lie, received such wonderful praise that others' expectations were very high for this novel. 

This was a gripping story, full of twists and turns, wondering whether the narrator was telling the truth or not. Aimee Sinclair wakes up to find her husband gone, and she's no idea what has happened. As the story progresses, the reader gradually learns more about Aimee's past and the bearing it has on her, currently. While the police investigate her for the suspected murder of her husband, the story keeps the reader in suspense and on tenterhooks. Did Aimee kill her husband or will the killer be someone else? 

Set in London, the story was based around two main characters - Aimee & Ben Sinclair. It was written from both the past and present perspectives of Aimee. What really worked for me was the distinction between the voice of the adult Aimee a successful, but insecure, actress who had a rocky marriage to Ben. and the voice of  five-year-old Aimee who led a very secretive and tragic childhood.

The writing style was absolutely wonderful and I found myself enjoying the story immensely, in this very well written and fast paced read. The pacing of the book was spot on though there was not enough explanation as to why the bad do what they do.  Hooked from the start, the story was good, but the way it was told was the most enjoyable part. Alice Feeney’s ability to construct such creative twists was amazing and I must give full credit to her for coming up with some wicked, cunning and crazy moments and a jaw-dropping ending! The final twist was fantastic - I definitely didn't see it coming! 

I Know Who You Are was a stand-out novel and was well worth the time invested. Overall, this was a really interesting story with some unexpected turns and there were a lot of things to enjoy about it.

I received a complimentary digital copy of this novel, at my own request, from HQ via NetGalley. This review is my own unbiased opinion.
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this book was well written and the story line was fantastic. took it as a holiday read and read it in one sitting. 
great plot and flowed beautifully.
would not have seen the story going that way! great author will be looking for more
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I received a free ebook version of this through Netgalley. Thankyou to both Netgalley and the publisher for allowing me to read this! My review is still honest.

I enjoyed Feeney's Sometimes I Lie and had high hopes for this one. I'm still unsure if this really met my expectations-in some ways it did, and others it didn't.
In a nutshell, I Know Who You Are is about an actress whose husband goes missing. That's about all I think you should know going in! There are some dark secrets and a twisted past involved, but it really is best to find all this out for yourself.
It was a little hard to get into at first, but once I got going, I really got going! I flew threw the last 300 pages of this so fast and I couldn't put it down. I never anticipated where this was going to go and I certainly didn't expect the twist at the end. I was very interested in Aimee's past and how the plotlines of the present and past converged and met. I also loved that Aimee was an actress, it added an extra bit of sparkle and something different to what could have been a story that we've all read before.
However, that big plot twist that I didn't see coming was a little too unrealistic for me. <spoiler> I could have understood the Ben being her brother thing because Aimee hadn't seen him for so long that it isn't unrealistic she wouldn't recognise him, but I can't get my head around that he could dress up as Aimee and be convincing enough to fool a bank employee in the flesh. </spoiler> It ended up just feeling like the author was trying to be as shocking as she could, and it could actually have been a really well done plot twist, but it went a little too far. I also felt there were a couple of unresolved plot points that could have been explored more, particularly associated with Aimee's past. 
On the whole, I did enjoy the reading experience and will read more from Feeney. However, this one had a lot of potential but a couple of things that let it down for me.
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A good enough read, but the ending was a bit too far fetched in places. A controlling husband, gaslighting, a B list actress, all the Hitchcock tropes are there. It's a dark story and a good read for gore fans, but the story just goes a bit off base by the end. Worth a read, but not a game changer.
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I read this book as a buddy read and I have to say there has been very mixed feelings. 

I started this and was looking forward to experience another Alice Feeney book after the sensational Sometimes I Lie. 

In the start I felt there was an overload of metaphors and felt it halted my enjoyment through those first few chapters, but this did even out through the book. 

I loved the chapters written from Aimee’s perspective as a child. I loved the writing style here and the perspective of the world from a child’s eye. Fantastic writing. The perspective of Aimee as an adult was very overloaded with many twists. It had a lot of lines of suspicion and this felt sometimes chaotic. 

However I did enjoy this despite the few flaws and have given it four stars.
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I had high expectations for this book given that Alice Feeney's first book had such fantastic reviews. However they weren't lived up to and I was left feeling completely confused, disappointed and a little disgusted. Don't get me wrong, I read all sorts of books with lots of twisted and dark storylines - but this one was so poorly written and unravelled in such a disappointing way that I couldn't feel anything by the end except that I had completely wasted my time. 

Apparently this book is the 'brilliant tale of two stories...' It's not a tale though, it's not brilliant, and it's just one story flitting from past to present day. In fact, even the synposis on Goodreads is written really poorly that I'm not going to do my usual and copy some snippets. Sorry! Basically, Aimee's husband goes missing and she's a prime suspect...all is not as it seems. (Never is, but there we go...) 

Alice Feeney has written a very complex plot. So complex in fact, that I think she twisted herself up in knots and left many loopholes and questioning lines. If all of the 'heard them before' metaphors were taken out of the book I'm pretty sure you'd be left with something half the size. I only kept reading until the end to find out exactly what had happened and how Alice Feeney wraps it all up neatly. Spoiler alert - she doesn't.
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I really enjoyed this book. Aimee is an up and coming actress. One day, her husband disappears without trace, leaving all his personal belongings at home. The police believe she knows more than she is letting on. The story is told in 2 time frames - the present day and back when Aimee was a small girl. The plot is very intriguing and made more interesting by Aimee's totally flaky character. It's quite far fetched, but a good read with a unexpected twist at the end. Thanks to NetGalley for a preview copy.
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