ARC REVIEW -NO ONE SAW HER GO
Sally Royer-Derr - Storm Publishing
JUST RELEASED - 4 Stars

Ever wondered what really goes on at summer camp after dark? Zoey Montgomery is about to find out, and her story had me hooked from the striking cover alone. Some books just know how to reel you in.

Zoey takes a job at Camp Medley, but she’s not there just for crafts and canoeing. She’s on a secret mission to find out what happened to her aunt Heather, who went missing at the camp thirty years ago. As a criminology student, Zoey is sharp and stubborn, ready to pull at every loose thread. The clues are there, but the Camp Medley crew clams up as soon as she starts asking about Heather. Rumors swirl, evidence stacks up, and Zoey won’t let it drop.

You get a big ol' side of secrets with your s’mores! Campfire stories get an upgrade when there’s a decades-old disappearance involved, and the woods feel just the right amount of creepy. Perfect for thriller lovers who prefer their spooky reads on the lighter side and a great one to add to your Halloween TBR! I zipped through the pages because I had to know what happened to Heather.

Thanks to the author and Storm Publishing for providing this #giftedARC via NetGalley. All opinions are my own.

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Camp Thriller ~ Missing Girls ~ Cold Case ~ Creepy Woods ~ Spooky Season Reads

No One Saw Her Go by Sally Royer-Derr was an excellent read from start to finish and I really enjoyed it.

Zoey Montgomery is a criminology student and she takes a summer job as a camp counsellor at Camp Medley, she is there to try and solve a mystery and what happened to her aunt Heather, she vanished from this camp. No one has heard or seen her this was over thirty years ago. Now Zoey begins as a quest for closure quickly spirals into something far more sinister especially as she digs deeper. Zoey finds out more about her own family secrets and lies she never new existed.

No One Saw Her Go was full of twists and turns with dark secrets that are buried deep within her own family. But as she digs she is shocked what she finds. . . . These secrets are there and slowly bubbling up to the surface.

I highly recommend this book. 4 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Big Thank you to NetGalley and Storm Publishing for my ARC.

This one is an amazing fast paced mystery as why Zoe's Aunt Heather vanished years ago from camp Medley. Zoe has become a camp counselor to do just that,even though she is becoming a criminologist. As she starts to uncover things from her aunts disappearances she starts to find other girls that have gone missing from the camp as well. Or are these all lies being whispered to her....or is Zoe able to believe anything she has uncovered?

This is a fabulous book. It keeps you guessing clear to the end. I loved it so much I can't wait for Sally Royer-Derr's next one!

Thank you to NetGalley and to Storm Publishing for the early read.

Another fab read by Sally Royer -Derr. Criminology student Zoe tries to solve an old family mystery. As she looks for clues as to why her aunt disappeared from a summer camp. She uncovers a lot more than she bargained for!
Packed with family secrets and lies.
Thank you NetGalley, Sally Royer - Derr and Storm Publishing for the opportunity to read and review this book.

3.5 stars rounded up
I absolutely loved the concept of this. The beginning did read extremely YA, which I do love a good YA, but the characters’ conversations were very cringe-worthy knocking my rating down half star. Also, the main character obsessively talked about breaking up with her boyfriend repeatedly, which I can understand but it was a little much. Other than that, the story was completely enthralling, and I couldn’t wait to find out what was going to happen.

Camp Medleyhas an aura of menace about it, not least with the reactions of some townsfolk to the camp counsellors who work there...compounded by the creepy family who run the place.
Zoey takes a summer job to try and find out what happened to her newly discovered Aunt when she was at the camp.
The story is told by both heather and Zoey, both of whom get entangled in the creepy owners family.
Plenty of tension as Zoey gets closer to both the truth and personal danger.

I thought I was going to love this book, a psychological thriller is just my cup of tea, and while all the ingredients were there, it fell very flat for me. It centres on the story of Zoey, who after just finding out from her Mum that she had an aunt that disappeared in 1989 when at a summer camp, Zoey decides to go work at said camp and solve her aunt’s disappearance (as you do). She has just trained in Criminology so this is going to be her first “case” and cold cases are (conveniently) what she wants to concentrate on.

The story was promising, it was told in two timelines 2024 with Zoey working at the camp (so she can solve her Aunt’s disappearance), and 1989 when her Aunt Heather was at the camp. The problem was the story telling read like a YA genre (at best), although the content was more suited to an adult audience, so it therefore didn’t work for me. The conversations between the characters were so unpolished, and there were so many eye rolling moments (both of their lives were in danger in the two timelines, so what did they do, well they continued to stay at the camp when it was obvious that was the worst thing they could do!). There was also a lot about their relationships and how madly desperately in love they were. It’s got teen drama written all over it. There was also a lot of repetition throughout the book, where I was sure I’d just read that exact same thing a few chapters back.

What could have been really good, unfortunately just didn’t work for me. That being said, I did finish the book as I was curious at to how it ended up! It kind of reminded me a little of a Scream movie, just a little bit daft…..

Ooh this was a good one. Very exciting and thrilling I quickly turned the pages and finished this in record time. It was so addictive and compelling. Highly recommend this one. My thanks to netgalley and the publishers for giving me the opportunity to read this book in return for an honest review.

The story is written in the present and the past. It is very interesting and full of twists. I loved reading the book and I think you would also appreciate. The story involves the lives of two sisters and how avoiding some difficulties may lead them to stay far from each other. I would recommend the reading to teenagers.

No One Saw Her Go was a little bit of a sad thriller. Zoey finds a picture in her basement of her mom and another woman. When she asks about the woman, she finds out that it's her mom younger sister, Heather, that went missing from camp many years ago. Zoey wants to find answers for her mom, so she signs up to be a counselor at the camp to get on the inside and ask questions. But what she's met with is silence, deflection, and fear. There are things that happened at camp that no one wants to speak of. Zoey will not stop until she finds answers, even if it costs her own life.
I wouldn't say that the story is entirely fast paced. It has some moments, but then it slows down again. There is a lot of repetition going on though. Characters keep repeating the same things whether in conversation or inner dialogue. There also wasn't much for character development. I did however, really enjoy the dual pov from Heather and Zoey. The writing style is easy to follow and the story is interesting enough to hold your attention. Give this one an add to the tbr!

Atmospheric and unsettling, this is a tense mystery set in a rural Pennsylvania summer camp with decades of secrets buried beneath its sunny surface. Criminology student Zoey Montgomery takes a job as a camp counsellor, but her real motive is to uncover the truth about her aunt Heather, who disappeared from the camp more than thirty years earlier.

Told through a dual point of view, the story alternates between Zoey’s present-day investigation and Heather’s final summer, slowly revealing the sinister undercurrents of Camp Medley. Rumours of other missing girls, strange accidents and unsettling whispers from the woods build an eerie sense of dread. Heather’s chapters are particularly affecting – it is impossible not to feel for her as events close in.

A chilling tale of secrets, danger and the inescapable pull of the past.

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No One Saw Her Go pulled me in right away with its intriguing premise. A young criminology student, Zoey, heads to a summer camp to investigate the decades-old disappearance of an aunt she never knew existed. The story moves between two timelines, one in the present day and one in 1989, and I found the shift in perspectives both engaging and immersive. The camp setting brought back that familiar “summer camp” feeling I loved as a child, only this time it was wrapped in mystery and suspense.

The short chapters made it an easy book to keep reading, with many ending on a small revelation. At times, I felt a few chapters did not add much to the plot in the moment, though they might have been pieces of a larger picture. The tone changes often, moving from suspense to horror to missing-person mystery and back again. I personally did not feel the horror elements were necessary, though they certainly heightened the tension.

Zoey sometimes made choices that were frustrating to watch, ignoring warnings and trusting people she had been told to avoid. Yet that very impatience I felt with her kept me turning the pages, eager to see what consequences she would face.

In the end, this was a mystery that kept me curious. It blended suspense, high stakes, and unexpected discoveries in a way that made me want to keep uncovering more. Even with its shifts in tone, the core missing-person investigation was compelling, and the camp atmosphere lingered with me after I turned the final page.

A missing girl, a summer camp. That premise alone sold me on this book. It did hold my interest but some parts were a bit repetitive and it wasn’t as thrilling as I would have hoped. Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the arc.

There’s something about a missing girl story that hooks me instantly, but this one didn’t just hook me, it dragged me by the hand into the woods and refused to let go.

Zoey Montgomery isn’t just another summer camp counselor looking for a paycheck, she’s a young woman on a mission, chasing a ghost that has haunted her family for decades. Her aunt Heather vanished from Camp Medley over thirty years ago, and the trail has been cold ever since. But the way Sally Royer-Derr tells this story? It feels like the trail is breathing......alive, dangerous, and waiting.

From the moment Zoey arrives, the air is thick with unease. The lake glitters like it’s hiding something, the trees lean in like they’re listening, and the campfire stories cut a little too close to the bone. And then the patterns start, whispers of other missing girls, strange accidents, and the creeping realization that history might be repeating itself.

I loved how this book made me second-guess everything and everyone. The tension is relentless, but it’s not just jump scares, it’s that slow, suffocating dread that seeps in until you find yourself glancing at shadows in your own room. Royer-Derr nails the claustrophobia of an isolated setting, the paranoia of too many secrets, and the danger of asking questions you may not want answered.

Zoey is determined, flawed, and sometimes reckless, but she feels real. I felt her frustration when no one would take her seriously, her fear when the woods went quiet, and her stubborn, bone-deep need for the truth no matter the cost.

By the time the truth about Heather’s disappearance started to surface, I had that tight, cold feeling in my chest I get when I know something awful is about to happen, but I could not look away. And the ending? Let’s just say I sat there for a good five minutes afterward, staring at the wall, replaying it in my head.

If you like your thrillers with a beating heart, a spine tingling atmosphere, and secrets that refuse to stay buried, No One Saw Her Go delivers. And if you think you’ve guessed the ending, you haven’t.

Thank you to NetGalley and Storm Publishing for sending me this book to review!

The POV's switching between Zoey and Heather as well as the two time periods added so much to the creepy factor in this book. Heather's story had me sad, angry, and wanting to give her a hug throughout the entire story. I loved that Zoey only decided to go to this camp because of her aunt and it wasn't a coincidence she ended up there.

I felt at time the writing was more YA appropriate, but was able to look past it once the twists and turns hit. This story was a fast paced, easy read that had everything I look for in a thriller!

I was quite intrigued with the premise of this book, and whilst it is on the whole following the lines of a dark thriller it did fall short for me.

All of the elements are here but it felt quite disjointed. In all honesty I feel it is possibly better suited to young adults.

Many thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for this ARC which was very much appreciated.

I loved this book! It is a atmospheric thriller anchored by a camp setting (which is one of my faves) and a layered mystery that unfolds with relentless tension. If you love suspense that’s more about simmering dread than gore, and a protagonist who’s chasing family history while stepping closer to danger, it’s worth the read!

No One Saw Her Go
By: Sally Royer-Derr

5 Stars

Camp Medley is an ideal summer camp, but it holds tight to its secrets. Planning to be a counselor for the summer at Camp Medley, Zoey hopes to get some questions answered about her Aunt Heather, the aunt that went missing shortly after being at this camp. Soon, Zoey has even more questions than she did at the start, when the mystery around her aunt leads to a much bigger story. Zoey soon finds herself in danger, but from whom?

Wow. This author has learned her craft well. This story was such an awesome story. This story kept me on the edge of my seat from start to the bitter, shocking end. It is a story that sweeps through a camp and one that lasts years. An urban legend made too real. This story was fast-paced and filled with secrets. The characters were real, relatable, and complex. It really did give that care free feel you get with a hot summer day while chilling you to the bone from fear of the unknown. It was written well and told a horrifying, sad story with grace and dignity.


*I want to thank Netgalley and the author for this book in return for my honest review*

Stormi Ellis
Boundless Book Reviews

I really tried to get into this one but it was truly so repetitive and a little boring. The premise and the idea of the novel was so interesting but the execution fell flat entirely. I had to DNF.

This is a solid 4 star review from me. It sucked me right in at the beginning, but seemed to slow more than I’d like, before picking back up. It’s written from two perspectives years apart, yet makes sense and flows between the characters perfectly.

I chose my villains early on and I was only partly right.

Thanks to NetGalley, Storm Publishing and the author for an ARC!