FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF Sometimes I Lie “Stunning. Addictive. This book should not be missed!” –Samantha Downing “Deliciously dark…will have readers tearing through the pages.” –Mary Kubica “Gives Gone Girl a run for its money…I couldn’t stop reading.” –Christina Dalcher There are two sides to every story: yours and mine, ours and theirs, His & Hers. Which means … every story: yours and mine, ours and theirs, His & Hers. Which means someone is always lying.
When a woman is murdered in Blackdown, a quintessentially British village, newsreader Anna Andrews is reluctant to cover the case. Detective Jack Harper is suspicious of her involvement, until he becomes a suspect in his own murder investigation.
Someone isn’t telling the truth, and some secrets are worth killing to keep.
His & Hers is a twisty, smart, psychological thriller. A gripping tale of suspense, told by expertly-drawn narrators that will keep readers guessing until the very end.
“For the ultimate rollercoaster reading experience this year, look no further than His & Hers by Alice Feeney.” –Woman & Home
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It is commonly said that there is always 3 sides to every story, His, Hers and the Truth. This would mean that someone is always lying. This book explores that concept in great detail.
The story begins with Anna Andrews the TV Journalist coming to a small town to cover the story on a string of murdered women. The Police Detective Jack Harper is the lead detective trying to solve these murders. There is also a third mysterious narrator which is the voice of the killer. Both Anna and Jack have hidden secrets and a motive to have committed these murders. However, it is unclear who is the killer as the reader keeps changing their mind as the story develops. The alternating perspectives is a great aspect of this type of world building as it makes you feel like you are getting inside the head of each character and the killer in particular.
Alice Feeney is so skilled at building suspense in His & Hers, I had to pause my audiobook listening while alone in my office building late at night.
I read this several weeks ago and I still think about it – the many twists and turns of the plot that one minute had me sure I solved the mystery and the next completely amazed by the turn of events. This is a contemporary British novel with a large cast of characters/suspects, and I appreciated that the plot was relatively believable which added to the creepy factor.
The narration by Richard Armitage and Stephanie Racine was excellent as well. All in all, a fabulous audiobook experience that would be great for autumn spooky listening.
4.5 Stars only because I figured out the twist at 50%. This book was a whirlwind of who did it and what is going to happen, hidden identities and secrets. The story is told from 3 POV, His, Hers and the Murderer’s. It is written in such a way that you think ANYONE could be the murderer.
Anna Andrews is a news reporter who will do anything to keep her job as presenter, but when she is demoted back to her correspondent job and is pushed to take an assignment in her hometown, There is a body of a woman found, a woman she is connected to. By going home, she will have to face her past, as well as her ex husband.
Jack is a detective and also has ties to the murder victim, but his aren’t from too long ago, he was with her the night she died. Oh, and he is Anna’s ex husband. He is investigating a murder that is close to him and when other murders end up happening to people connected to him, is he a suspect too?
This book was crazy twisty and gave me some serious anxiety, but I think it was more about Anna and Jack’s relationship and how painful it was more than the actual “thriller” aspect. I wasn’t expecting that.
It is a great read and the narration was fantastic.
This one was just ok for me. I was somewhat interested in it. I listened to the audiobook and the narrators were great. The ending, as Feeney’s endings tend to be, is more than a little unrealistic. I don’t necessarily mind that, but His & Hers had felt like so much was skipped over or unanswered or added just to get to the ending.
It was ok. I wouldn’t recommend.
Ehhh…I’m going to go with 3 stars on this one. It was entertaining, though the plot didn’t seem to move forward until more than 1/2 way through which annoyed me. I considered DNFing a few times.
Also, because the author suffers from “Second Novel Slump Syndrome” (SNSS – – a thing I just made up) where she had a SUPER popular and successful debut novel but the 2nd one didn’t live up to the hype; I walked in to this one with really high hopes of redemption. Did she vindicate herself from 2019’s god awful ‘I Know Who You Are’?? Perhaps, but the book doesn’t have the same bite as her debut. Maybe she’ll never recapture that magic, who knows. By the way, has anyone seen Paula Hawkins?
Holy shit. This blew me away.
: This is an unsettling psychological thriller told through two dysfunctional perspectives about a killing spree in a small English town.
: It’s a dark, fast-paced, easy read with plenty of plot twists and surprises. The audiobook keeps the guessing alive with the killer’s narration done through a voice-changer effect.
: The story is written well enough to keep wondering just who you can be trusted. Warnings: animal abuse, grooming, rape, infant death, infidelity.
: Unfortunately, this was a miss for me. The plot was a bit bizarre and outrageous. Despite the ebook and audiobook crossover, I still needed a more plausible reason for murder on this level. If you want to take a chance on it because of the other rave reviews, then do the audiobook, but note the trigger warnings.
{This is my honest opinion of a gifted book from Flatiron Books & NetGalley.}
Newsreader Anna Andrews is sent to cover the case of a murdered woman in Blackdown. She isn’t really happy about the assignment but she knows she must or she might end up out of a job. Even the lead detective wonders about her involvement but he is soon sidetracked when he himself ends up a suspect. With so many stories being told not to mention all the lies it’s hard to figure out just who is telling the truth. Read along and figure out just how these two are connected and what secrets they both hold. This was a thrilling and mysterious read that kept me guessing the whole way through, I was truly shocked in the end!
I preferred the audiobook version, the narration by Richard Armitage and Stephanie Racine was superb for this edge of your seat thriller. Their voices were made for the characters of Jack and Anna and made the characters and story come to life. Full of twists you don’t see coming, you will think you have this one solved and will be blown away when you reach the end! I definitely recommend!
Honestly, I’m not even sure what to say about this one. Dark and twisty doesn’t even seem to cover it. I thought I had this one figured out about 70% of the way through but, nope. I was wrong! Alternating between His POV and Hers, we also get to hear the killer’s POV. The audio version was brilliant because, in addition to having both a male and female narrator, it had the killer’s chapters narrated using a voice changer. A freaking voice changer! How awesome is that? It gave the book an entirely different feel and I loved it!u2063
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I don’t want to give anything away so I’m not going into any detail other than to say, go listen to this book! You will NOT see it coming!u2063
Outstanding! This book will keep you guessing to the very end! Just when you think you have it all figured out, Alice Feeney surprises you again and again and again!
His & Hers tells the story of Anna Andrews, a news correspondent, and Jack Harper, a detective. Their paths cross when a body is discovered in the woods. But, there is much more to Anna and Jack than this meeting over a case-there is a lot of history.
That history plays out in this novel as Anna’s past and present converge in a deadly game.
I absolutely loved this book! Highly recommend.
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What a captivating audiobook!
5 stars from start to finish!
At 71% I thought it was character A.
At 81% I thought it was character B.
To say I was kept on the edge of my seat would be an understatement.
The writing in this novel kept me hooked! The moment I learned of the connection between “His” and “Hers” I knew this would be a wild one.
There has been some less than positive thoughts about this book on IG and Goodreads but as a reader, I go into every fiction book knowing these are made up people and situations. With that in mind, I don’t struggle with triggers. This book has a lot of them but for me, again as an avid reader of mysteries and thrillers, I can handle them knowing this isn’t a true story. Take that for what you will, but overall, I think this is a MUST READ THRILLER!
I received an advanced copy of this audiobook via NetGalley and it did not disappoint.
STAR RATING
Suspenseful novel full of murder, scandal, and revenge! Twisted and dark. There are so many ties between the characters, some hidden and some that go way back to when they were younger. Everyone has a motive and seems suspicious. The killer is well hidden throughout.
I just loved everything about this audio book.
This audio book deserves a five for the narrators who made the story come alive and the story itself deserves a five.
The story is told through three different voices. His, hers and the killer. Is the killer her or him or somebody else? I never have read or listen to a book where I made so many wrong guesses. As all my suspects get killed of one after another which makes my hope that it can be neither him nor her goes up in smoke. Neither he nor she is very likable but they are not bad people so I have a hard time pinning the murder on either one. The end will surprise you. In an audio book the narrators can destroy a story or bring it to live as you are listening. Here you felt that each character was talking directly to you the listener that you almost felt like they had a personal conversation with you.
This book blew my mind. The clues in the writing were so cryptic that just when I starting thinking I knew who was behind the evil, something would make me swerve in a whole different direction in my thinking.
Seriously, I got to the point where I thought for sure everyone had to be guilty of all these horrible murders. It just didn’t make sense—they all had incentive, motive, and guilt. I really want to go back and re-read this book. Knowing now ‘whodunit’, I know I would interpret the clues differently. It would be interesting to experience it again in a whole new light.
His & Hers is a definite page-turner as you will race to the end as you try to figure out it for yourself. I highly recommend it but make sure that you have plenty of time to read it because you are not going to be able to stop once you start.
Excellent thriller
I mean, what is there to say about His & Hers by Alice Feeney that hasn’t been said already? This book is CRAZY, and if you are going to consume it in one way that has to be the audiobook. Forget reading this one, the audio is probably the best one I’ve ever listened to and brought so much to the story that I can’t even imagine just reading printed words on a page. Richard Armitage and Stephanie Racine are the narrators and Armitage is now one of my favorite narrators thanks to this book. Also, the mysterious killer’s voice on the audio is too good/creepy to miss!
As for the book itself, I thought the pacing was relatively slow, but it was interesting enough to keep me going and I was dying to know what was going to happen next. At first I thought it was going to be a bit of a police procedural because of DCI Jack Harper’s viewpoint, but I didn’t really find that to be the case. The story is more about the characters and trying to find out whodunnit, but not in a detective/procedural way. Most of the excitement really comes from Anna’s perspective, but I still loved the dual narrators along with the addition of the killer’s viewpoint.
His & Hers does have a couple of very disturbing scenes that come towards the end, so this isn’t going to be a read for just anyone. Despite the triggers I thought it was just so well done, and I loved Feeney’s writing style plus the format of the book in general. The end hit me like a bus, and I did NOT see any part of it coming. Feeney did an amazing job of throwing suspicion on lots of different characters and I had very little figured out.
Read His & Hers if you listen to audiobooks because frankly if you don’t like audiobooks I just don’t think you’re going to enjoy it as much as you have the potential to with the audio. I haven’t read any of Feeney’s other books yet, but I will definitely be doing that now, most likely via audio. This book is an experience and I highly recommend it to my crime/thriller lovers!
Thank you to Libro.fm and the publisher for both my advance listening copy and advance review copy. All opinions and thoughts are my own.
This was my first read by Alice Feeney, and it will not be my last. I really enjoyed this audiobook. The narrators were so good!
I go into most of my thrillers blind because sometimes things in the blurbs, give to many things away for my preference. I’m so glad I did with this one! It was such a wild ride and I enjoyed trying to figure out all of the pieces to the puzzle and was stumped until the big reveal.
The alternating narrators, plus a mysterious third voice, sucked me into both view points of this story and I couldn’t listen fast enough. I usually only listen to audiobooks in the car but with this one, I was trying to find other times during the day to find time to get more listening in.
Grateful to have received a complimentary ARC copy to honestly review.
No one can plot — or write — a story like Alice Feeney. His & Hers is a stunning, addictive novel that makes you wonder who you can trust — if anyone. Captivating from beginning to end, this book should not be missed!
His & Hers had terrific potential, but it suffers from a bad case of too much – too many unlikable characters, and I mean really unlikable, too much back and forth between unreliable narrators, and I can’t believe I’m saying this but too many red herrings. At one point, I’m pretty sure every single character had said, done, or thought something that made them suspicious. As far as time inside the characters’ heads, we have Anna and Jack, which is the bulk of the book, but we also get the occasional chapter from our killer, who could be Anna or Jack either one or any number of other characters. Everybody has the opportunity at some point in the book and the same goes for motive. In fact, there are various comments and thoughts throughout the book that can lead you to suspect most anyone. In most cases, I would say that twists I don’t see coming are a good thing, but some of these were just completely over the top, especially one toward the end. There’s a point close to the end when we’re hearing from Anna, and honestly, had the book ended with that chapter, I likely would’ve rated it higher. Instead, it goes on and ventures into some pretty improbable territory. Anything is possible, I suppose, but this was just a little too much for me. It kind of felt like it had to go on just to get one more twist in, only that one more twist didn’t work for me. The pacing was another problem for me. It started out well, and the author does provide a pretty good hook at the beginning, and from there it’s a mix of really good storytelling and some serious lags in the pace. Those slow parts walk the edge of boring, and then it picks back up again with a decent hook. It just bounces between fast and slow a lot. As this is the audio format, I should mention that we have dual narration done by Richard Armitage and Stephanie Racine. Now, for the most part, Armitage and Racine do a solid job with this book, except for the chapters from the killer’s point of view. As I mentioned, those chapters could be anyone, so they’re done a bit differently than Anna’s or Jack’s chapters. It kind of sounds like the person is speaking through a voice changer, and I suppose it’s effective. My problem is that while it distorted the voice, it also made it sound as though the person had their mouth full. It was just shy of muffled. I realize that I’m in the minority here, but it is what it is. In the end, I liked the narrators well enough that I’d listen to them again, but the story has left me disappointed.