I am fascinated by the process that it must take for two authors to co-write a novel together but in my eyes this book is twice as good for it. It gives me Gone Girl vibes- the hustle and pace of city life, pressure of not trusting people around and the characters walking a knife edge of good and bad intentions. The characters felt rounded and believable however the ending annoyed me slightly, it felt too over dramatised- however I think it would work so well on screen. I saw this book in my mind as I read it in a very cinematic way as the colors painted by the authors were so rich.

Another amazing book by these authors absolutely loved it. Well thought out, clever & a few twists along the way I would highly recommend any of the books by these authors they are all brilliant reads & all completely different.

Wow this book will take your breath away, from the start involving a horrific suicide until the very last word
It has more twists and turns than almost any book I have read, it is so clever even I thought I worked out what was going on but oh no miles away from the truth
There are people playing people and complicating everything and the main character Shay is being dragged into a spiders web of lies,deceit and murder
But why murder shay can't see a reason until the end
It will grip you this book

Did. Not enjoy this book, got totally confused and did not finish it,
Not for me.
I read half of the book and said I did not know why I was reading it, I never give up on a book so this was
Really unusual for me.

Wow. This story was incredible. It’s definitely gripping and gritty, twisty and turny, and also keeps you guessing to the very end. And what an ending it was as well! I didn’t see it coming!

The characters, an eclectic mix of women with different personalities and different styles, yet all with the same mindset, were fab to read about. Cassandra, Jane, Amanda, Valeri, Daphne and, of course, Shay Miller (the main character) were interesting and strange all at once. I found the concept of the story completely interesting, especially as we getting different POVs from each of the characters - we get their backgrounds in places, what they’re thinking and feeling and how they came to who they are in the present. They were amazing to ‘watch’ as the story unfolded. And it all starts with a very different kinda tragedy, shall I say.

The storyline was something I’ve never read before and it was eye opening and gripping. This author is incredibly gifted with words and imagination and I’m so looking forward to reading more of her work!!

I never guessed the ‘who dunnit’ (thank god) which is a MUST in a psychological thriller. You’ll never guess the ending either!! It was never even a thought in my mind.

Very well portrayed and executed to perfection.

There's a lot of mystery and intrigue in here, which is great.

It starts with a suicide.

When Shay witnesses a woman jump in front of a subway, it starts a chain of events no one could have predicted. Why did Amanda jump? And why are her friends, the Moore sisters, so interested in Shay?

It's a thriller with a real difference. So much going on behind the scenes which is unravelled very, very slowly. I had to read this in one sitting because I was too caught up in what was going to happen.

Put your life on hold for this one!

Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC without obligation.

I've read two books by these authors and although I always find them not quite as good as I'd like them to be, they're good enough that I keep coming back to them.

I really did enjoy this but there were elements that I had to work hard to get to grips with. The Moore sisters felt slightly two-dimensional to me but I suspect that was probably intentional. I definitely felt that I wouldn't fall for their manipulations but why would I? I'm not in Shay's position of feeling desperately lonely and adrift in the world. I know that some reviewers have found it hard to believe that someone as logical and analytical as Shay would fall into trap after trap after trap but I thought that because she is so strong on logic and weak on emotion she is the perfect dupe, so longing for friendship that her analytical self turns off and refuses to notice what might be wrong. And of course, she tells her own lies and every time she does you think "No, Shay! Don't tell that lie it's not worth it!"

Hmm, I'm talking myself around to liking this book even more than I thought I did! So! If you like a good thriller with lots of twists and turns, well written and with a strong female character who you'll engage with, then you will enjoy this. If you've already read these authors you know that. If you haven't, then give this a go and you will almost certainly go back to read An Anonymous Girl and the Wife between Us.

I read this ARC for an honest review
All thoughts and opinions are mine

What a great read !! Loved the plot and the twists - amazing

A must read

I was provided with an ARC of this book from the publishers and Net Galley in return for an honest review.

I don’t really want to outline this book in too much detail. This IMO is one of those books that would be ruined by knowing too much detail before reading it. It involves the story of Shay along with a host of characters and how their lives become intertwined after a horrific event and the unraveling of how things got to this point. Told from the viewpoint of Shay in short readable chapters!

It is well written, a definite page turner and one where you need/want to understand what’s going on! I would recommend this book to people who enjoy a mystery/psychological(ish) well I guess but I think I’ve read so many now nothing kind of makes me go ohhhh anymore) books! I kind of hoped for a bit more tbh hence the three stars but nevertheless definitely enjoyed it!

I’ve loved the past two books by these co-authors and loved them. This one started off a bit slow and I did get a little confused by all the characters and back and forth. However it was a great read and I’m happy to have it in my collection.

Hmmmm, okay, I’m fairly unimpressed.

From the outset, I didn’t buy into Shay’s feelings about the tragic incident she had witnessed. The fact that she became so obsessed with the victim, and that she was so haunted by the tragedy, just seemed over the top to me. I mean, let’s say you witness something disturbing happen to a total stranger, do you become so obsessed that you take it upon yourself to find out where the person lived, then go and leave a flower at their door, then attend their funeral and end up in a psychologist’s office because you’re battling to cope with their death? I don’t know. I don’t think so. The sad truth is that we live in a world where bad and upsetting things happen to people all the time. Are we effected by this? Sometimes, but not to the extent of over the top obsession.

I also think I felt a little let down by this read because it’s the first book that I’ve read by this author duo, and the two books they’ve written previously have received sterling reviews. Perhaps I was expecting too much, or perhaps it’s just a story that was a little too slow for me. At about 50% I found myself asking, what has actually happened in this book? And unfortunately, the answer was, not much. The book only gathers momentum in the last 25% which means that there’s a lot of reading to do where there’s much to get excited about. Because of this, I found that my attention would drift, and suddenly I’d jolt back into my listening and realise that I’d missed the majority of the chapter. I couldn’t tell you what it was about. That’s never a good sign.

I found the protagonist, Shay, to be a very weak, naive and gullible character. I didn’t warm to her much and overall she seemed to be a little bit pathetic. I’m sure this was intentional and it was, I suppose, necessary for the story to work, but it didn’t endear me to her.

My last criticism is that I found it difficult at times to keep up with all the different characters. This might have been a bigger problem because I listened to this one as an audio book and so I couldn’t page back to refresh my memory, but I did find it a negative in this read.

Now on to the positive. I liked the different stories linked to the different time periods, and I was specifically interested in the histories of the women that befriended Shay. It was fun to read what had happened to them in the past, and what had turned them into the people that they are today. Also, each of Shay's chapters started with a statistic, which I really enjoyed. That was something that I don’t think I’ve seen done before in fiction books and I loved the novelty of it.

I wish I could award more than 2 stars to this book, but in fairness to my feelings, I just can't because it just wasn’t for me and I didn’t enjoy it as a whole. I will try and read some of the other books published by this author as I think that this one may just have been a hiccup.

You Are Not Alone by by Greer Hendricks; Sarah Pekkanen I found hard to get into. I heard so much about this book I had to read it to find out what all the fuss was about.

You Are Not Alone, which is set in New York.

WoW................Shay Miller's day could not get any worse! or could it?

But, It only took 22 seconds to dramatically alter Shay Miller’s life. Shay witnesses a brutal suicide at the underground train station. She tried to save, by shouting or reaching out sooner etc but sadly she was unsuccessful. Shay feels like she is a failure in many things but this has to be the worse day of her whole life!!!! Shay needs something to take her mind of things and becomes obsessed with the dead woman who she say kill herself. People have warned her to leave it alone, but Shay wonders why she killed herself and wants to find out more about the woman! Shay attends a memorial service for the woman and meets some of her close friends. She becomes friendly with Cassandra and Jane Moore, strangely she feels an instant connection to them. Cassandra and Jane are very successful, very beautiful and are sisters. Soon they invite Shay to their inner circle.
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Will Shay find out Why she killed herself?

However, as Shay becomes closer to Cassandra and Jane things does not seem to be real about them!!!!

I recommend this book However, can be bit far fetched at times.......

Big thank you to Pan Macmillian for sending me an advanced copy of this book to read. All opinions are my own and are in no way biased.

Geez! What a rollercoaster! Who needs enemies with friends like these! Everyone wants what they don’t have, the grass always seems greener on the other side... yeah that’s until these nut jobs befriend you!! Another brilliantly written psychological thriller.

Shay is waiting for the subway when she notices a woman on the platform. Just as she realises what is about to happen Shay reaches out to stop her but is too late and the woman jumps in front of the oncoming train.

Shay suddenly finds herself unable to think of anything else and she can’t bring herself to travel on the subway. Shay becomes obsessed with the woman and soon finds herself entwined in the dead woman’s life. She attends the memorial and finds herself becoming friends with the woman’s best friends. But is there more to the blossoming friendship ? And does Shay realise what she is getting into ?

This a great mystery thriller with plenty of twists. Some of the chapters are written in the past so we get to see what events led up to the present day and we also get to see how people ended up the way they did. A great psychological thriller that will keep you hooked until the very end.

Thank you to Pan Macmillan and NetGalley for a digital copy of this book.

This wasn't a bad book, not at all but i didn't enjoy it as much as the last one. Maybe i was comparing them or my expectations were too high but this just missed the mark for me. There wasn't much emotion in the story and i didn't connect with Shay so when the twists came along i didn't really care.

I didn't want to put this book down. You Are Not Alone is the intense, fast-paced, twisty and twisted thriller I hope for every time I pick up a book in this genre. I loved every minute I spent reading it. The chapters jumping back and forth in P.O.V and time, worked especially well because the characters were all so unique and interesting.

My reasons for not giving the book 5 stars are:

1) By 50% of the book, the protagonist Shay didn't seem to really have a goal, and therefore the stakes weren't very high. The suspense and tension were built from us as the readers being able to see what was going on with the antagonists, outside of Shay's P.O.V. I still enjoyed Shay's chapters because she was such a relatable character but I would have preferred for her to have had a more pressing goal for more of the book than just to get her life back on track, as this could have raised the tension and suspense even further.

2) I don't think Shay went through a Dark Night of the Soul period in the book. The ending seemed a little easy after Shay started being proactive and putting the puzzle pieces together, staying one step ahead of her adversaries and never really seeming like she was completely out of options. After Shay told the reader she was going to verify Santiago's identity with Williams before she went to the subway station, it was very obvious that all the bystanders in the subway were police before it was revealed. This a bit of a letdown and potential tension was lost because of it.

3) The entire plot relies on a HUGE coincidence: the fact Shay strongly resembled Amanda in all physicalities and was therefore available to be set up by the Moore sisters, relatively easily. I know the book is about statistics and the likelihood of Shay being in the right place at the right time being incredibly low, but this meta-type of acknowledgement didn't really let this part of the plot off the hook, for me. If Shay had been successfully set up by the Moore sisters without this deus ex machina, I'd have given the book 5 stars.

Overall, I'm sad the story had to end and cannot wait to pick up another book by these brilliant authors.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for sending me a free ARC in exchange for my honest review.

4.5*

Review without spoilers also posted to Amazon.co.uk under username Puchowska - awaiting verification.

This was a super twisty and intriguing thriller that follows a whole cast of vindictive but badass women. Shay is our protagonist and we follow her after she sees a woman die by suicide and the unexpected consequences of this. She ends up getting involved with a pair of sisters who seem to be absolutely lovely on the surface... but do they have an ulterior motive?

There's absolutely no way to briefly describe the twist and turns that follow but here are the reasons I loved this book:
- very interesting and complex female friendships
- genuinely interesting twists - at one point I thought I knew where it was going but I was wrong
- it's really fun to read from Shay's perspective and I loved the insights into her "data book"

The main reason I didn't give this 5 stars is that although there was a range of characters, a lot of their voices sounded the same and it got confusing at times.

Thanks to netgalley for ARC
The blurb was intriguing
I love the writer duo's writing style.
Fast paced thrillers are just awesome
It is a good read.
But like their other story, I found few things predictable.
Apart from that, I loved it

Quite a good read overall. I found it a bit far fetched and a bit too slow going.. The OCD cure was totally unrealistic. The characters were well drawn but unlikable. As it's an American book I did find myself mentally correcting spellings and phrases but I appreciate that's my problem. I wonder too, if it might be an idea for the authors to write independently. as I did find that the book didn't really gel together in places, almost like it was being pulled in two directions. The story did jump about quite a lot which I found confusing. . An interesting premise for a book that could have been a bit better thought out.
If you found this book in the hotel library on holiday it would make a good pool side read.
I thank NetGalley for the ARC

On Kindle the chapters need to be better laid out and have page numbers

When Shay Miller gets entangled in the lives of the Moore Sisters her life changes quickly and not necessarily for the better, but it’s hard not to be mesmerised by the sisters.

I loved this book. The action hits fast and you end up following Shay on this journey, willing her to see what’s happening and find a way out. I’ve read that some people were disappointed by the ending but I thought it tied everything together nicely. I really enjoyed the different character’s perspectives throughout the book and felt like I got to know each character as well as I needed to. Definitely a must read if you want some suspense in your life!