Due to a sudden, unexpected passing in the family a few years ago and another more recently and my subsequent (mental) health issues stemming from that, I was unable to download this book in time to review it before it was archived as I did not visit this site for several years after the bereavements. This meant I didn't read or venture onto netgalley for years as not only did it remind me of that person as they shared my passion for reading, but I also struggled to maintain interest in anything due to overwhelming depression. I was therefore unable to download this title in time and so I couldn't give a review as it wasn't successfully acquired before it was archived. The second issue that has happened with some of my other books is that I had them downloaded to one particular device and said device is now defunct, so I have no access to those books anymore, sadly.

This means I can't leave an accurate reflection of my feelings towards the book as I am unable to read it now and so I am leaving a message of explanation instead. I am now back to reading and reviewing full time as once considerable time had passed I have found that books have been helping me significantly in terms of my mindset and mental health - this was after having no interest in anything for quite a number of years after the passings. Anything requested and approved will be read and a review written and posted to Amazon (where I am a Hall of Famer & Top Reviewer), Goodreads (where I have several thousand friends and the same amount who follow my reviews) and Waterstones (or Barnes & Noble if the publisher is American based). Thank you for the opportunity and apologies for the inconvenience.

A good read, which kept my attention throughout. I would recommend this as a good holiday reading book. Very enjoyable.

Fantastic novel that I didn’t want to put down. Believable characters that it was great getting to know. Thanks for the opportunity to read

A good read for the most part and the ending was good. I didn't expect it. I had expected more of a thriller vibe whereas it felt more like a non-thriller at times.

This book was awful. It was filled with fat shaming and also belittling people for their looks.
I DNFed this book due to these factors

My first book by this author and it certainly won’t be my last, from the very start I was hooked and didn’t want to put this book down,

A disturbing and compelling read in places and told from different view points, including the killer's. An entertaining read with some bits of humour. Not what I was expecting.

Wow! What a read this was.. I couldn’t put this book down as it’s such an enjoyable read. The story was amazing and the characters and the setting was so intriguing. It’s full of twists and turns, and a great ending that you don’t see coming. The first time I have read a book by this author and it certainly won’t be the last. I’ll be keeping my eye out for more in the future. This is Highly recommended for people who enjoy psychological thrillers.
Thank you netgalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read this for an honest review.

I’m a bit of a sucker for thriller books that involve social media and the internet, so reading the synopsis and seeing it involved online dating, my attention was grabbed immediately!

Unfortunately, the book fell a bit flat for me. I didn’t find it very ‘thriller-ish’ and felt it was more of something you would find in a soap or TV drama. I found it hard to relate to the characters, especially Heather who was horrid and not likeable in any respect.

The book is told from different perspectives, which I love and I felt that this helped the book and made it a quick read. Although I predicted the ending and some of the twists along the way, I still found it a page turner and read it in a couple of days. It’s just a shame there wasn’t more thriller and suspense to it!

Oh dear when internet dating goes wrong it goes very wrong for women in this truly engrossing story of murder most heinous. It contains all the ingredients for a fab read, murder, revenge, love, hate and a dash of humour. Yes I said humour the interaction with one of the female characters and her mum who at 70 has discovered internet dating and a newly reborn sexual life has great snippets to me of humour. Its good to read of older characters having a real life. Back to the darker side of the book , Mr Right Now is out there like a shark circling its prey because it smells blood in the water. That is what our man is doing, he’s a predator looking for his next victim through internet dating. Four different women all looking for a man for different reasons become potential targets for our killer. Told from different points of view it gives you a look in to the minds of the women and what might lead them to try to find love online. We also hear from the killer and what motivates him to do what he does. The plot is pacey, chilling and delivers an ending that sent shivers down my spine. BRRRRRilliantly played Joy Fielding I for one loved the book and I urge others to dip their toe into the shark infested waters of the book.

I enjoyed this book.

In this book, you find out that something bad has happened at the very beginning of the book and then the novel centres around the events that led to it.

This had a very creepy thriller sense to it and I really enjoyed it, however the "suspense" was lacking for me, for me to rate it any higher.

I look forward to reading more by the same author in the future.

I really enjoyed this book so much. It has a really great plot, superb main characters and I read it in one sitting. I would highly recommend this book.

Thank you to Tracy at Compulsive Readers and to the publishers Zaffre for my copy of the book in return for a fair and honest review.

The book starts with a really shocking opening chapter which the sets the scene for the book and it really does the reader a feeling of unease as you get to know the woman in the book.

Chloe discovers that her husband has signed up to a dating sight he denies that he has been unfaithful  but she cannot believe him and asks him to leave and tells him she wants a divorce. He is not happy with this but Chloe stays strong.

Chloe's friend Paige is there to support her as is Joan, Paige's Mum who are both also dating with online profiles.   Then there is Heather who is Paige's Cousin and also disliked by Chloe, Heather is jealous of Paige but this jealously may just backfire on her.

I did not  particularly warm to any of the characters except for Chloe who I felt had a tough life. This is a very different type of thriller than I usually read with more focus on the characters. I found it engaging and it is fast paced and dark and the unknown male Mr Right now who pops up throughout the chapters is seriously creepy.

An unsettling read about the perils of online dating how it is possible to find out so much information about a person and their family and friends and how trusting people

Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher and author for this ARC.

This is the first book I’ve read by this author. It began well, with the murder of a lady who had come to the attention of a serial killer through his online dating app searches. The main character is Paige and the book follows her online dating experiences. The other characters are Joan, Paige’s mum, Chloe, Paige’s best friend and Heather, Paige’s cousin. The book looks at their relationships and background histories and why each of them, for different reasons, try online dating. After the thrilling start to the book I found it slowed down and it took a while for me to get fully into it. I nearly gave up at one point and am glad I persevered as the more I read the more I got drawn into the story. The book is told by the different characters which I liked. The online dating perils covered about a quarter of the book with Paige finding herself being wooed online by Mr Right Now who is a serial killer and arranges a date with her. I thought the book built up to an expected, unsurprising ending which didn’t wow me. I think I’d look at reading the authors other books after reading this one. 3 stars.

This book was a brilliant look at the modern-day serial killer.
Told from multiple points of view (which I loved) it gives insight into both victim and killer.
Looking at may different topics from domestic abuse, family dynamics, online dating and casual drug use, it covers a wide spectrum of everyday issues.

It was a brilliant read.

This is the story of four women, Paige, Chloe, Joan and Heather who are all linked.

Paige is Joan’s daughter.

Chloe is Paige’s best friend.

Heather is Paige’s cousin and the woman who had an affair with Paige’s boyfriend.

These women are also using online dating, but one of them is in the sights of Mr Right Now, a serial killer……

Part family drama and part psychological that highlights the perils of online dating. There’s humour, drama and some dark and disturbing moments in the chapters from the killers perspective. A thoroughly entertaining thriller.

Thank you to The Publishers and NetGalley for a free copy of the ebook. This is my honest, unbiased review.

This is such a clever crossover of genres switching from psychological thriller to women’s fiction and then to domestic noir. It starts dark and full on, in the middle of a very warped date, and then leaves you hanging with lots of questions. Suddenly switching to the characters and their lives so you get to know and care for his potential victims.

Paige recently single and her mum Joan, her cousin Heather (who is the reason Paige is now single) and Chloe, Paige’s best friend are the four women that cross Mr Right Now’s radar. All fantastically written characters with realistic issues that see them using an online dating site all for differing reasons. But it’s the men that struck me. The author has cleverly made the bad men charismatic, charming and very dangerous. Mr Right Now is in a completely new league of his own in sociopathic terms. If I’m honest I loved it and rubbed my hands with glee every time he appeared. I like my bad guys to be very bad and highly intelligent and the author has done this with aplomb.

This book really sucked me in as I started to care about most of the women. The author has covered relationships, grief, domestic violence and sex from multiple age range viewpoints. No easy feat but it’s been skilfully tackled. Yes older women still enjoy sex but don’t tell your adult children.

This is a stand-alone book that would make a great Netflix series but I am putting it out there to the author that I would please like a Mr Right Now Book Two. The steak will be on me.

My thanks to Bonnier Books U.K. Zaffre for an eARC via NetGalley of Joy Fielding’s ‘All the Wrong Places’ in exchange for an honest review.

This was an interesting combination of crime fiction with domestic drama/women’s fiction. The title references the popular adage: ‘Looking for love in all the wrong places’. In this case it’s internet dating, which in this story has attracted the attention of a serial killer using the handle Mr Right Now to lure his prey.

While this sadistic killer lurks in the background, the main focus is on the lives of four Bostonian women. The main character is Paige Hamilton, who is dealing with the loss of her job due to a company takeover and the breakup of her relationship. She’s moved back in with her mum, Joan, who is rediscovering herself following the death of her husband.

Then there is Chloe, Paige’s best friend, whose marriage is in trouble and finally Heather, Paige’s cousin, who has always copied Paige and covets everything of Paige’s. This included Noah, Paige’s boyfriend, as his infidelity with Heather was the cause of the breakup.

So Paige is now tentatively experimenting with online dating unaware that she’s already on the radar of Mr Right Now. The occasional chapter written from his POV I found very unsettling.

I don’t want to spoil the story with two many plot details but will say that it proved a highly engaging read. As noted above, I would be reading about the interactions between the women and the men in their lives when Mr Right Now would step in with his sinister observations to effectively creep me out and make me realise that he posed a real danger to Paige.

I felt that aspects of the novel demonstrated confidence on the part of Fielding in terms of her narrative. It had its moments of humour alongside the serious issues explored such as bereavement, infidelity, and substance abuse.

I certainly would recommend it and would welcome reading more of her novels.

I really liked the characters in this, I felt that Paige was definitely likeable to the reader, even if she was a little bit perfect! I think she was written excellently, because it meant when she did break out of her perfect little bubble, her emotions and choices were all the more impactful because it was so different for her. Chloe’s story was again particularly emotional to read – it hit quite deep for the reader to see her going through a difficult marriage, and the ending definitely took me by surprise.

I personally loved Joan, Paige’s mother – what a brilliant and confident woman! She was funny, bold and not afraid to be herself, and I personally loved seeing her character development throughout. Heather was actually quite a tragic character, as in the struggles she faced were not so obvious on the outside, but as the book revealed more about her life I felt quite sad for her. For me, this focus on the four women blended the best bits of both thriller and women’s fiction.

The chapters written from the perspective of the killer were genuinely chilling… His thought process and his ability to switch personas and stories was definitely quite terrifying. As his plan becomes clearer throughout the book, the tensions rises and the pace quickens as well. It’s a real rollercoaster and I was hooked throughout.

The ending really does just happen so quickly there’s barely time to blink. I loved this, as there’s so much that happens that among all the action there is a sinister build up to something else. I only saw it coming at the last minute, and honestly I thought the ending was great. A very sinister ending to a book that gave chills throughout.

If ever a book will put you off online dating then this one will! It’s the story of how a dating app affects the lives of 4 women in very different ways. Paige has split up with her boyfriend Noah (well, considering she discovered him in bed with her cousin Heather I’m not surprised!!) and has had to move back home with her widowed mother Joan. Her best friend Chloe is married with children but has discovered that her husband is using dating sites. So with these women all searching for answers about what forms the most important part of a relationship, their connection to the world of online dating is about to prove very dangerous indeed for one of them…

Although we know at the start that something awful is going to happen, the mystery didn’t really develop the way I expected until much nearer the end. I felt it was much more character led than her previous books and explored relationships in an insightful way becoming more about the women themselves than Mr Right Now, the psychopath stalking those looking for love. I especially enjoyed the mother daughter relationship between Paige and Joan exploring the needs of older women and how their children struggle with knowing their parents still need a more physical relationship.

I must admit that I didn’t see the ending coming but for me it was just perfect! I know it’s probably not everyone’s cup of tea but I gave a real chuckle of satisfaction at the way things turned out. But it wasn’t all about the twist for me with this one as I really enjoyed the slightly different style of the narrative and became completely invested in the women and their relationship dilemmas. I have read lots of Joy Fielding books and this one is one of my favourites. I throughly enjoyed it!