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The electrifying #1 New York Times bestselling authors of THE WIFE BETWEEN US and AN ANONYMOUS GIRL return with a brand new novel of psychological suspense, YOU ARE NOT ALONE.
Shay Miller wants to find love, but it eludes her. She wants to be fulfilled, but her job is a dead end. She wants to belong, but her life is increasingly lonely.
Until Shay meets the Moore sisters. Cassandra and Jane live a life of glamorous perfection, and always get what they desire. When they invite Shay into their circle, everything seems to get better.
Shay would die for them to like her.
She may have to.
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I love a book with women behaving badly. This is a thriller about a woman who wants so desperately to belong that she ignores some big red flags until it’s too late. And it’s about a group of women who like their revenge on the bloody side. Great pacing. I had a little trouble keeping up with the many different characters, but half way through, I had them down.
Wow. HOW do they do it? This is absolutely, riveting, terrifying, clever and completely original. Mesmerizing. I–truly!–was sad when my plane landed because I had to stop reading. I don’t want to give away even one snippet of this terrific plot– so do not miss this!
This is going to be a very short review because there are so many twists and turns in this book and I don’t want to give away any spoilers. My advice is to clear your calendar and read this book — you will be caught up in it from the first chapter to the end and you’ll enjoy every minute of the roller coaster ride!
Shay is just a regular person trying to make it in New York City. She has a dead-end temp job, no romance and few friends. She lives in an apartment with a male friend but his girlfriend has just moved in and three’s a crowd! She is in the subway terminal and sees a woman jump before an oncoming train. For some reason, she becomes obsessed with the suicide and wants to learn more about the woman. The more she learns, the more curious she becomes until she is totally wrapped up in a life unlike her own. How she got there and if she ever gets out — those are the questions that will keep you turning the pages long past your bedtime!
Like this duo’s first two books (The Wife Between Us–which is an all-time favorite and cemented my status as a fan!–and An Anonymous Girl), You Are Not Alone delivers page-turning suspense for readers as the twists and turns unfold.
There are lots of different characters to keep up with in this book, but it all comes together beautifully as the story progresses and delivers the satisfying “a-ha” moments that makes these books by Hendricks and Pekkanen so enjoyable to read.
Twisty and unexpected from start to finish. A real page turner!
Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen make a truly unstoppable team. This is their third co-written thriller, and the duo has yet to disappoint. Their most recent release, You Are Not Alone, follows in the steps of their first two books (all standalones), The Wife Between Us and An Anonymous Girl, with chilling female protagonists and tense psychological drama. While I don’t think You Are Not Alone quite stands up to its predecessors, I still couldn’t put it down and find it haunting me days later.
You Are Not Alone follows smart loner Shay as she navigates single life in New York City. On her way to work one morning, she witness a woman, Amanda, commit suicide via subway train and is haunted by the kinship she feels with the woman. In an effort to deal with her grief and the trauma of the event, she goes to a memorial service for the woman, a choice that ends up changing her life forever.
At the memorial service, Shay learns that Amanda was part of friend group of 7–8 seemingly normal women. At the head of this group are Cassandra and Jane, two beautiful, rich sisters who use their friends to carry out occasionally nefarious tasks.
Cassandra and Jane are the type of women everyone wants to be friends with, and I identified with Shay’s wanting to impress the two and get close to them. Shay, who lives in a situation of unrequited love and has no real close friends, becomes an easy mark for the sisters, and my mouth was hanging open in shock on more than a few occasions as they twisted Shay’s actions to fit the narrative they’d created. Shay doesn’t give in easily, though, and her character’s data-driven action analysis and evasion are impressive on their own.
No spoilers, but Hendricks and Pekkanen can really write some ~twisted~ characters. I recommend this one to those who love a good thriller, especially the long-game, mind-bending, did-she-really-just-do-that type. A round of applause for the evil genius that is Hendricks and Pekkanen. These ladies could definitely kill you and get away with it.
Such an active, unpredictable read! Shay Miller is tenacious once she catches on that something just isn’t right with her new friends, Cassandra and Jane Moore. Shay is the perfect “victim”, looking for love, lonely, living an unremarkable life as the third-wheel in her own apartment. Shay witnesses a suicide, and she quickly becomes obsessed with learning why this poor woman felt there was no alternative but to commit suicide. Cassandra and Jane enter her life, and the coincidences start piling up. This is an amazing read, and the conclusion was most satisfying!
Shay’s life is not going so well. She lives with her friend, Sean, whom she has a crush on, but his girlfriend seems to be over at the apartment all the time and is slowly working on getting Shay to move out. Her job is not going anywhere. She really has no friends to hang out with and complain to. While that would be terrible for anyone, seeing a suicide happen right before her eyes really tips her life into a complete depressive state.
Shay has always been fascinated by statistics and if she wouldn’t have taken 22 seconds to put her hair up in a ponytail, she would have caught the train and missed the suicide. But, alas, her life is straight out of a Shakespearean tragedy. That is, until she meets the Moore sisters.
She suddenly has beautiful friends who are well connected in the city, and even though they met in a weird situation, and Shay starts out their relationship with a lie, she thinks her life is going to get better. And it does. Until it doesn’t. Until she’s running for her life, hiding out in dank motel rooms, and praying her knowledge of stats can finally help her out in life.
You are Not Alone was a roller coaster ride of emotions with one lie leading to another. And even though the situation should seem ridiculous, you just know something like this could happen. This is the type of book that you want to do a buddy read so you have someone to discuss it with, going back and forth with; Can you believe that happened, and then this, and then when the sisters did that, and then Shay found that???
As with any thriller book review you don’t want to give anything away because you want all the wonderful twists and turns you encountered to be new for the reader. You need to read You are Not Alone. And I need to go read their other two books, The Wife Between Us and An Anonymous Girl.
And my final take away, Women are Evil… but in such a deliciously, devious way!
Have you ever read a book and immediately want to read it again? That is how I felt when I swiped the last page of You Are Not Alone. Action packed and full of twists and turns the novel not only was completely unpredictable, I need to read it again to understand how I didn’t see everything coming. I completely loved this book!
I enjoyed listening to this selection. I thought both narrators were good and I would definitely listen to other books they read. The story is one of those where I disliked most of the characters but am riveted to the story. Shay was looking for love. Aren’t we all? She wants friends that she can have fun with, a job with some meaning for her. She wants a life she sees others living but somehow she can’t find the secret to living it. Then one day she is witness to a horrible event. She becomes friends with Cassandra and Jane. They live the life she wants. Suddenly she finds herself living a new life but is it what she wanted? The story had me listening way into the night. I had a hard time trying to decide who I believed. What were the motives? Why would people do these things? I was fascinated. I loved listening to it! I would recommend it to my friends.
This is a thrilling thriller about “friendships” gone wrong. The old adage is true…keep your friends close, and your enemies even closer! Author, Greer Hendricks, does not disappoint!
This is a great thriller with a page turning plot and lots of suspense and twists. Well paced
and well written. I really enjoyed this book.
“You Are Not Alone” begins as a first person present tense narrative by Shay Miller. She is a market analyst in New York City, and diligently records data on everything in her journal. She shares what she does and what she sees, and what she sees is startling and traumatizing, a statistical anomaly that changes her life forever.
The story continues in alternating voices in alternating chapters, conveniently labeled for readers. This is Miller’s journey, but it is guided by those she meets. Miller reaches out to strangers to seek answers and finds a circle of new friends, or perhaps what she finds is a perilous association of dangerous people who scour the internet, looking for her routines, contacts, and background, desperate to find every microscopic detail of the “real” Shay Miller.
The narrative jumps back and forth in time from the present, to a few weeks ago, and even many years in the past. The past reaches out to direct and explain the present, and echoes of past happenings set in motion actions in that continue in the present. These events and have consequences that must be handled. That past also provides answers to complex questions and explains multifaceted relationships.
“You Are Not Alone” is fast paced and gripping; written in short chapters with almost cliff-hanging endings. The characters live in a dark complex world. They are good and evil at the same time and keep readers guessing about where their alliances really lie. I received a review copy of “You Are Not Alone” from Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen, and St. Martin’s Press. It is a complex plot full of surprises on every page. This is a compelling book and perfect book “binge reading.”
I’ve read and enjoyed other books by these two authors and was very excited to get this one. It pulled me right in and didn’t let go. From start to dramatic finish this one held me captive for sure.
You Are Not Alone is a great title. A great book. I loved it.
Shay witnesses a suicide that will change her life forever. She goes from being a shy young woman who is working for a temp agency to making some friends who she leans on for support throughout this story. She’s torn apart after what she saw and gets deeply involved in the dead woman’s life. She even starts to look like her…
But eventually things turn south for Shay. She has no one to turn to. No one she can trust and she’s alone and running for her life in New York. Riding the subway and trying to figure out who she can turn to and who may want to harm her is wearing her down fast. Lack of sleep and food make her life even harder. What can she trust. Who can she trust. Is there anywhere she can go to feel safe again. She’s being framed for a murder she did not commit. She has no idea why or who the person is she’s supposedly killed. Even her roommate has turned on her it seems. He was her best friend at one time. Shay has only one choice, to find out for herself who is trying to get her. She can’t seem to trust the detective who thinks she may have had something to do with a murder. She can’t even trust herself.
All Shay wanted was a life a love and a home. A good job and friends. She meets the Moore sisters and thinks she has found the friends at least. But are they truly her friends or do they need her for something way more sinister. Are they to good to be true or is their group up to no good. What are they hiding and who are they really. That is the big question Shay needs to be asking.
This book will pull you in and have you wanting more. It will keep you turning the pages and wondering who can be trusted from the beginning. Is Shay really who she claims to be or is she playing games. Are Cassandra and Jane for real or are they up to more than it appears. This book holds a few surprises for the reader. It had me for sure. I didn’t see it coming and that is unusual for me. I did not figure out who was who.
The characters, although dark and untrustworthy, are likable. The setting is great and I felt like I was actually riding that subway day and night with Shay. I felt her fatigue and her fear. I felt her loss when she had no one to turn to. I cried in many places and even laughed in a couple. This is a very good book that I honestly enjoyed from the very beginning. I hated for it to end.
Thank you to #NetGalley, #St Martin’s Press for the ARC in exchange for my true and honest review.
A huge 5 stars from me and a very high recommendation..
This book was literally impossible to put down (perfect when social distancing). The books lead, Shay, witnesses a suicide of a nurse (Amanda) in the NY subway. Having difficulty moving past it, she attends Amanda’s memorial, where she encounters the mysterious Moore sisters. At first the budding friendship seems like a dream come true — a makeover, new apartment, newfound confidence. But as things unfold, Shay becomes convinced that things are not what they seem. The books has a number of twists and turns (think Gone Girl) which bring us to the conclusion. While the actual ending is somewhat predictable, it did not spoil the book for me, and I almost wish I was still reading it. Best book I’ve read in a while.
I loved this psychological thriller! Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen are a winning team. You Are Not Alone begins when Shay Miller witnesses a suicide in the subway, and this event turns her world upside down. Her anxiety over witnessing the suicide turns into somewhat of an obsession over the woman who died.
Shay is a data analyst, and everything she learns about Amanda, the suicide victim, she relates to a statistic. As she delves more into Amanda’s life, she becomes more and more like Amanda. She becomes friends with Amanda’s friends, Cassandra and Jane. She starts to change her clothes and her hairstyle.
But, something is not right. Are Cassandra and Jane really Shay’s friends, or is there a reason they have latched onto her? What purpose does Shay serve for them?
This intricate tale leads to a tense chase for Shay’s life. The end has a surprising twist .
I can’t wait for the next book by this pair – always exciting!!
Thanks to NetGalley and Edelweiss.
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This is another thrilling winner by Hendricks and Pekkanen. The main character, Shay, represents something in all of us – an eagerness for friends, acceptance, and community. But when she discovers that her new friend group has secrets…and a motive beyond her companionship…it’s anyone’s guess how it will end. Five stars!
Great storY line! I loved that it wasn’t the same ole thing, unique! ‘
Just when you think your life is going nowhere, you meet 2 people that can turn your life around. This is what happened to Shay Miller who had a job that seemed to have run its course and a roommate who was moving on with a new girlfriend. Then Shay has a terrifying experience and just when she is at her lowest, she meets Cassandra and Jane. They are elegant, confident and have everything that Shay would love to have, so she is thrilled when they invite her into their circle and show her how wonderful her life can be. But does this come at a terrible price.
This psychological thriller kept me reading late into the night. The characters jump.out and grab you and you never know what is going to happen next.
I was provided an ARC for an honest review. A great psychological thriller that will make you second guess any new friendships. There were devious minds at work within this story. By the middle of this book, I couldn’t put it down and had to find out what was going on. This is definitely filled with mystery and murder. It took me a little bit to find out how all of the backstories played into the main story, but they definitely made a difference. Shay was a very unsuspecting victim, but played right into the hands of the others. However, she was able to use her analytic mind to finally figure out what plan was being played out. That ending was one I didn’t see playing out exactly that way, but it fit the bill. A good plot line from this writing duo.