From the bestselling author of Burying the Honeysuckle Girls comes a riveting novel about a mother and daughter separated by grief, secrets, and a conspiracy that threatens to destroy their lives.If there’s a healthy way to grieve, Erin Gaines hasn’t found it. After her husband’s sudden death, the runaway success of the tech company they built with their best friends has become overwhelming. Her … become overwhelming. Her nerves are frayed, she’s disengaged, and her frustrated daughter, Shorie, is pulling away from her. Maybe Erin’s friends and family are right. Maybe a few weeks at a spa resort in the Caribbean islands is just what she needs to hit the reset button…
Shorie is not only worried about her mother’s mental state but also for the future of her parents’ company. Especially when she begins to suspect that not all of Erin’s colleagues can be trusted. It seems someone is spinning an intricate web of deception—the foundation for a conspiracy that is putting everything, and everyone she loves, at risk. And she may be the only one who can stop it.
Now, thousands of miles away in a remote, and oftentimes menacing, tropical jungle, Erin is beginning to have similar fears. Things at the resort aren’t exactly how the brochure described, and unless she’s losing her mind, Erin’s pretty sure she wasn’t sent there to recover—she was sent to disappear.
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Such a great book! I absolutely loved the character of Shorie and how she never stopped trying to prove something was going on. She was a great character!
Emily Carpenter did a great job moving this story along, making me wonder who/what/why about a character and then changing it up just a little so that I started to wonder if the “bad guy” was another character. There was plenty of suspicion to go around, that’s for sure.
The author has a wonderful way with descriptions. I felt like I was actually visiting the rehab place because the area was described so well and so beautifully.
This is a very well done psychological thriller that I never wanted to end. Pick this up and have fun figuring out who done it and why!
Thank you to Netgalley, the author and publisher for a review copy. My thoughts in this review are my own.
This book grabbed my attention from the very beginning! I really liked that the author alternated between Erin’s perspective and her daughter, Shorie’s (with a smattering of Erin’s deceased husband’s journal entries mixed in). The back-and-forth really kept my attention as mother and daughter were each dealing with their own issues and coping with the loss of their husband and father.
I also really liked how the author set the scene for the tropical island “resort” where Erin was sent to rest and rehabilitate. The island was only one of the MANY things in this book that were not as they seemed on the surface – the island is gorgeous…and pretty much cut off from the rest of the world.
I had many “didn’t see THAT coming” moments while reading this book, which I loved. I highly recommend this book!
This was a fast paced thriller. I found myself trying to figure out who did what and to be surprised at the end is a testament to the author’s skill. I enjoyed this book and would definitely recommend it.
Once again, Emily Carpenter has delivered a page turner! If a suspenseful murder-is-just-around-the-corner story can be considered both scary and fun, then this one certainly is! I enjoyed it thoroughly!
Wow! Just Wow!
*Alert*- Remember to breathe as you read “Until the Day I Die”!
This is an intense, suspenseful, psychological novel that will have you wondering how is this book going to end!
The story is told by Erin and her daughter Shorie.
Erin is a founder at her app company and still reeling from her husband’s sudden, unexpected death.
Shorie is a freshman at college. Shorie believes college is a waste for her and wants to help with the business, and to stay home and help her mom. She misses her dad.
This mother/daughter team is strong, determined and brilliant as they solve who is embezzling money from their company and how!
It is certainly a dangerous and wild ride!
This book had me actually holding my breath at times while I was racing through the pages!
Wow what a book! I started it right before bedtime thinking I would read just a little bit and go to bed. Haha that didn’t happen until I read the very last page! There were so many twists and turns that each time I thought I figured it out, I realized I was completely wrong. Erin’s life is thrown into a tailspin when her husband dies. She throws herself into work. Her relationship with her daughter Shorie suffers because both aren’t dealing well with their grief. Erin is sent away to a rehab to work on herself and get herself back to normal. Erin and Shorie are thrown into a very scary world of secrets and lies and you have to read quickly to find out what happens! I thoroughly enjoyed this book and it kept me on the edge of my seat with all the dangers and lies. I received an advanced readers copy from NetGalley and Lake Union Publishing. All opinions are my own.
Emily Carpenter delivers another gripping novel in “Until the Day I Die”. One of the best aspects of Carpenter’s writing in this narrative is her set up and execution of the plot turner. She widely develops each and every character making the reader blissfully unaware of the true antagonist. The story line is emotionally charged with love, loss, and deceit as we catch a glimpse of the chaos surrounding one woman’s grief and the secrets hidden by those around her. A truly remarkable novel, 5 stars.
Thank you to #NetGalley for this ARC of #UntiltheDayIdie
Whoa what a ride! I have to say when I first started reading this book, it was taking me a bit to get into it. I wasn’t feeling well and knew this can’t be right as this is one of my FAVORITE authors so let me come back to it tomorrow. I am so glad I did as I was totally blown away. I could not turn the pages fast enough during the second half of this book. A lot of thrilling action that kept me on the edge of my seat. Great book, don’t miss this one! Thanks to Netgalley and the Publisher for the ARC
3 of 5 stars
While I enjoyed the premise of this book, it just wasn’t believable.
Four friends develop an app to track budgets, make economic decisions, and pay taxes. The app known as Jax is still in its infancy when Perry, the one who has the idea dies. His wife, Erin, wants to sell, but her partners, Ben and Sabine do not. Erin’s daughter, Shorie, is off to college, but she resents it, wanting to work at Jax to continue her father’s work.
When Erin starts acting strange, the partners and Perry’s parents suggest Erin go to an island to rest. Things start happening there to put Erin in grave danger. Who is trying to hurt her? Meanwhile, Shorie notices issues with the app, and she needs to uncover the source.
The scenes on the island are tense, but not plausible.
Still a fun, twisted read.
Great suspense and kick ass female protagonists. Loved this. I read it in a day.
I was given an advanced copy to read for an honest review.
This book was rather interesting to me since I work in IT. The part of the story around the startup company that created an app was very fascinating. When you add in a clever girl heading off to college not long after her fathers death, and her mother, the company CEO, facing an intervention due to her overwhelming grief, you have a mess that needs to be addressed.
Shorie is her fathers daughter and is determined to watch over the company while at college, since her mom is getting the help she needs.
The story has many twists and turns and you find yourself trying to find out who is causing problems at the company.
I really enjoyed the characters. The strength and determination for both mother and daughter to be there for each other warms your heart.
This book is good. Really, really good. An Emily Carpenter classic. So let’s get the minor negatives out of the way first. As a native Alabamian from the rural are slightly northwest of Birmingham there were a couple of things about the tone of the novel that seemed slightly off. The characters didn’t read like Birmingham people at first, They were a bit too polished, but this changed as I got deeper into the novel. It was actually cool that they broke stereotype while remaining Southern at heart.
I both read and listened to the audiobook, and one thing kept interfering with my reading process. There is a large fast food chain named Jack’s in Alabama, and every time my brain read or heard the name Jax I immediately thought of the restaurant. I had to adjust to the new use of the word and that took more than a few chapters.
Finally, it rankled me that the characters were Auburn people. If you aren’t from Alabama that won’t bother you in the least, but if you are, it might. Hearing glowing descriptions of that cow college were difficult, but minor and I kept reading. And I am glad I did.
Emily Carpenter created a masterpiece of psychological tension and satisfying twists it wasn’t difficult to figure out what was happening, but the way it all unfolded was exciting and thrilling. And the relationship of Erin and Shorie really spoke to me. I also liked that there is and is not a neat, tidy ending.
If this is your first read by this author, don’t make it your last. Every book is a gem, and I look forward to seeing what else her brilliant mind can concoct!
Until the Day I Die is the first book I have ready by Emily Carpenter. It is a thriller that had me turning pages until late at night. I could not turn the pages fast enough.
Erin has lost her husband Perry in an accident and has disengaged from her daughter Shorie and her friends. Erin and Perry own a tech company with their friends. Now that Perry is gone, Erin wants to see the company. The friends convince Erin to take a relaxing vacation on a remote Caribbean island resort. But the resort is not what she expected.
Shorie is grieving the passing of her Dad. She wants to work at the family owned company but Erin wants her to go to college as planned. While attending college Shorie realizes someone is stealing from the company and her mother and herself might be in danger.
The story has a realistic love/hate mother daughter relationship. How well do you really know your friends? Plenty of plot twists and an OMG ending that makes a great thriller A must read! Thank you to Netgalley, Emily Carpenter, and Lake Union Publishers for a copy of this book and this is my honest review.
I loved this book! This author has such a way with setting a story and drawing you in. Concerned over her emotional and mental state in the months after her husband passes away, Erin’s friends and family decide (pretty much for her) that she should go away for a while to heal, on a beautiful tropical island. With her daughter having just moved in to college, she feels even more lost and agrees that the time away may be just what she needs. And that is just the beginning…
It’s hard not to give too much away, but it’s when she leaves that the plot really starts moving forward. Her daughter Shorie is dealing with her own issues at school – she’d rather be working at the company her parents founded with their close friends, a financial app called Jax that took the world by storm. She’s described to be at near genius level with in-depth knowledge and training in coding. At times it was a bit too technical for me to follow, but it’s relevant to the story so be sure to pay attention to these details.
At times, you may feel that the credulity of the story is in doubt, particularly on the island of the resort, but everything is brought together and concluded in such a way that you realize crazy things like these could really happen. And sinister evil hides in the most innocent of faces.
3.5 stars
Emily Carpenter has become one of my favorite new authors, so I was really excited when I saw she was coming out with a new book. Carpenter has become synonymous with words like creepy, gothic, chilling and suspenseful. However, Until the Day I Die was really none of those things. This is not to say that I didn’t enjoy the book, but it was just “lighter” than her other works. Dare I say this was more Women’s Fiction than anything else? I say “yes”.
While the story is engaging and Carpenters writing is spot on, the whole thing just felt… unbelievable? Far-fetched? Typically I do not have any issues suspending belief when it comes to stories regarding time travel, the supernatural and fantasy. However, this story was so current and “actual” that I found myself really having a hard time believing L’elu Trois and everything else that revolved around it.
Please do not mistake this review for a bad one; I read this book in 3 sittings, the pace moved along and the story had me fully engaged. I just don’t think it is on par with Carpenter’s other works.
Thank you to Lake Union Publishing for my copy of this book via NetGalley
I hate not having the price on the books like you started
I had a hard time getting into this story. It was confusing and did not hold my attention at first. Eventually the elements began to make more sense and I was able to follow what was going on. Some of what happened was not believable. I would try reading other books by this author.