Woah. What a whirlwind of a book. I loved the unreliable narrators and how the whole book played out. The plot unfolded so smoothly and I was in equal parts captivated and horrified. Both Katherine and Lily are such dark characters that I didn't know what was going to happen next.

A stonking debut and I can't wait to see what the author does next.

I'm not entirely sure how I feel about this book.
It has some great ideas,two strong females at the lead,even if they're both more than a bit nuts.
It is a proper power play between them to be top dog.
However,there were times I could have put the book down and not picked it up again,not caring I didn't find out who won.
I did pick it up,and I'm glad to have got to the end,having all questions answered and thinking it couldn't have finished better.

Really enjoyed this thriller! Was a good and easy read and I feel people will love the story too. The author has a way to keep you enthralled to carry on reading!

Precious You is a obsessive thriller about generation gaps, revenge, and lies. Katherine is an editor in her forties, dealing with a takeover at work and a feeling of being past her prime. When she meets her new twentysomething intern Lily, she dismisses her as another millennial 'snowflake' who doesn't deserve what she's got. However, she also finds herself drawn towards Lily and her youth, and Lily seems interested by her too. A strange rivalry emerges, but neither of them are quite what they seem, and soon the stakes are very high.

This is a well-written novel that uses the current obsession with antagonisms between generations (in this case, Gen X and millennials) to twist expectations as the narrative unfolds. The main characters are unlikeable, but also troubled, and the story the book seems to be telling at first isn't quite what it is. Katherine can be a bit of a parody of someone who hates millennials, purposefully so but possibly makes her easier to dislike early on (or maybe that's just me being a millennial). The focus on mental health and trauma felt like another element that made it timely, though it did make the book less dark and more sad by its conclusion in some ways. The narrative is definitely gripping, and the two characters felt well-balanced, but the ending wasn't as satisfying as you might hope.

Precious You was an enjoyable read that felt fresh and explored interesting concepts through a tense narrative. The characters were complex and things weren't always as they seemed (the depiction of Katherine and Iain's relationship in particular was good as it unfolded), but the ending lets the novel down a bit for me.

This was an interesting read and went places I didn't quite see coming. One of the things I liked about the book was that all of the main characters were unlikeable. Obviously, I like novels where the characters are likeable, but sometimes it's nice to go against the grain.

Katherine is bitter and needs to own her age, her experience and what she has in her life rather than pining for her youth. She's a woman who wants to be respected but also refuses to grow up and seems to be a perpetual teenager in some ways.

Lily is entitled, selfish and deeply damaged and creepy. She's mostly easy to dislike and the obvious villain of the piece. But, is she the only villain? On the one hand, her efforts to bring Katherine down is vicious, but at times I did think "well, Katherine deserves some of it" because at times she was the author of her own destruction.

A secondary character, Gemma, Lily's aunt is also unlikeable and while Iain, Katherine's partner, is the closest to being likeable, but the's so weak and ineffectual that it's hard to feel anything other than slightly sorry for him. And then not slightly sorry for him at all.

And in the midst of all this disliking Lily is trying to destroy Katherine's life. Katherine knows it but neither she nor we, know why until the very end. Is the end satisfying? In some ways yes it is, but the reason for my 4 rather than a full 5 is that there were aspects of it that didn't sit right with me. That said I'm not sure what I would have done differently and this was definitely a book that I found hard to put down and wanted to know what happens next all the way through.

If you like a decent thriller you'll love this single white millennial thrillfest.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

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Best psychological thriller of 2020
Katherine dismisses her early-twenties intern as a millennial ‘snowflake’: soft, entitled, moralistic. But Lily’s youth and beauty remind Katherine of everything she once was, and she soon finds herself obsessively drawn to her new colleague. But is Katherine simply jealous of Lily’s potential – or does she sense that her intern has a dark hidden agenda?
Author's writing style is so good that i was hooked from the first page. Characters seemed real to me. Its the best psychological thriller.
Thanks to NetGalley and HQ for giving me an advanced copy of this book.

This book will blow you away. Such a great read. Will have you gripped. I found it quite a quick read and hard to put down.