Name: You Are Not Alone
Rating: 3.511278195488722 (133 reviews)
ISBN: 9781529010770

Sarah Pekkanen

Greer Hendricks

A deeply psychological thriller from Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, the bestselling authors of The Wife Between Us and An Anonymous Girl.

You Are Not Alone

Amanda Autumn Berrey

One of Newsweek's Most Anticipated Books of 2020 One of SheReads Most Anticipated Books of 2020 One of PopSugar's Most Anticipated Books of 2020 One of HelloGiggles’ Most Anticipated Books of 2020 One of Marie Claire’s Best Fiction by Women in 2020 One of Woman’s Day’s Best Fiction Books Coming Out in 2020 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. 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.

A Novel

I don’t even know where to begin writing this review. I‘ll start with the positive: It’s readable. That’s it. This book felt like it wanted to be clever with a good plot twist. All of the women were introduced as having a single specialty— something the contributed to this group of highly accomplished women delivering justice from the shadows... unfortunately, it seems like the women share two brain cells amongst themselves, one is hard at work “plotting” and the other one’s busy gawking at how much they love the Moore sisters.

Nothing in this book makes sense. Amanda threw herself out on the tracks because Valerie came for her? The story makes her out to be dangerous, I have no idea how she’s dangerous when the most they’ve done so far, prior to James, was make a man shit and puke and convict a woman on drug charges. 

Maybe let’s also talk about how the Moore sisters can’t think up a decent plot to save their lives and practically succeeded so far thanks to pretty privilege and charisma?

The plot twists had no sense of foreshadowing it’s like the authors just wanted to say „Didn’t see that coming, did you?“ when there was nothing to see coming. No indication of a third sister aside from „Ricci wasn’t her maiden surname“ and hoe apparently Trey is a nickname for James.

Nothing even makes sense near the end. It’s like the author was setting up this cool group of girls with their diverse skill sets and did nothing with it aside from putting cameras and hacking phones. 

I can keep going on, but I‘d just be ranting. My disappointment in this title is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

Ian de Villava

I don’t even know where to begin writing this review. I‘ll start with the positive: It’s readable. That’s it. This book felt like it wanted to be clever with a good plot twist. All of the women were introduced as having a single specialty— something the contributed to this group of highly accomplished women delivering justice from the shadows... unfortunately, it seems like the women share two brain cells amongst themselves, one is hard at work “plotting” and the other one’s busy gawking at how much they love the Moore sisters.

Nothing in this book makes sense. Amanda threw herself out on the tracks because Valerie came for her? The story makes her out to be dangerous, I have no idea how she’s dangerous when the most they’ve done so far, prior to James, was make a man shit and puke and convict a woman on drug charges. 

Maybe let’s also talk about how the Moore sisters can’t think up a decent plot to save their lives and practically succeeded so far thanks to pretty privilege and charisma?

The plot twists had no sense of foreshadowing it’s like the authors just wanted to say „Didn’t see that coming, did you?“ when there was nothing to see coming. No indication of a third sister aside from „Ricci wasn’t her maiden surname“ and hoe apparently Trey is a nickname for James.

Nothing even makes sense near the end. It’s like the author was setting up this cool group of girls with their diverse skill sets and did nothing with it aside from putting cameras and hacking phones. 

I can keep going on, but I‘d just be ranting. My disappointment in this title is immeasurable and my day is ruined.



Melissa Palmer

Like the authors other books, this one will keep readers hooked with lots of twists and turns. Shay sees a woman jump on the subway tracks to her death. She becomes friends with the dead woman's friends. But will that be her fatal downfall? I highly recommend.

sophia n

pretty basic thriller, not in a bad way (3 stars is a good rating!!) but i just wish it had done more. i kept waiting for something to happen specifically with shae in a few different ways but it never went there, and she was way too stupid for way too long. her actions in particular felt incredibly incongruous with her thought process, and i can't figure out if that was intentional or not lol. the ending i saw coming by the first time the characters were all introduced, which is fine i don't mind "calling" an ending, but it didn't have any feeling of release after it all went down and happened. without going into spoilers, i just wish it had made a few slightly different decisions. that being said, it was a pretty good set up and story and the characters were all interesting and distinct which i appreciate. overall falling into a kind of mixed-bag average thriller read for me.

Cheri McElroy

I don’t read books this fast, but I had a day off and this sucked me in. A lonely woman sees another woman commit suicide, but then has a fortunate turn of luck, becoming friends with some rich and powerful women. Things are going her way now, or aren’t they?

I really enjoyed the main character, Shay, and her desire for relationships. It was easy to see how she was drawn into this friendship circle, and I loved the twists and turns that it took. Definitely a fun afternoon read.

Lauren Tabor

**4.5 stars** Yes! This was so good! I was on the edge my seat throughout this book. It was so easy to read as it was super fast paced, and had so much packed into the pages. I was not disappointed in the ending which is so exciting because that’s where a lot of thrillers are ruined for me. Once I got to the end I didn’t want to like it as much as I did because a lot of it was over the top and kind of unbelievable…but I was captivated the whole time and couldn’t put it down. So I decided that I did like it a lot. I’m trying to shy away from half stars, but I truly feel that this was right in the middle of a 4 and 5 star…so 4.5 stars it is! What I think was supposed to be one of the biggest plot twists of the book, I kind of already knew and assumed we were supposed to have figured out way earlier in the book….so that was a little disappointing because it was set up to be really shocking and once I read it, I just kind of went….’oh…didn’t we already kind of know this??’ I think it was still a pretty well done twist though and if you don’t figure it out before I think it will be a big game changer. This was such an exciting read and I would definitely recommend it!!

Thank you to Netgalley and St. Martin’s Press for letting me read an advanced e-copy of this book in exchange for my honest opinions!!

***SPOILERS***BELOW***




So mostly I guess these are the reasons I didn’t give it a full 5 stars…

For a while it was hard to keep all the different women straight in my head. And honestly I don’t think I ever knew the difference between Jane and Cassandra, I just kind of saw them as one person in my head. Also, why did I think there were like 6 women in their little friend/cult group?? I would've sworn there were more than just the 3 sisters and Daphne. I don't know, there was a lot going on. Towards the end where Shay was doing all that research about James and how he was connected to the sisters felt really drawn out and I got a little bored. I think that section could’ve been cut down a bit..but that’s just me. I think Valerie trying to push Shay onto the subway tracks was really uncharacteristic for her. Valerie seemed very calculating with everything she did and maybe she just became unhinged because of everything that was happening and made a rash decision to do this but it was really dumb. I mean there were people on the train platform and she was just gonna try to murder someone….right there in the open?? After all the work they had gone through to cover up the murder I find it hard to believe she’d ruin it all now…unless like I said before was to show how Valerie was falling apart and willing to go to drastic measures no matter the consequences. 

I did really like Shay’s growth throughout the book. I mean for most of it she seemed really naive and way too trusting of everyone she just meets. Clearly she was having a breakdown, so it’s understandable for her to act the way she does. But when she finally figures out there’s a lot more going on she starts to put the pieces together logically and I love at the end when she goes straight to the police instead of believing another lie, I wanted to jump up and scream ‘YES!’ I was so scared she would fall into another lie, but it was so nice to see her change from the beginning. It was seriously stressing me out that she was writing EVERYTHING down in her notebooks during all her research. I thought for sure that would come back to bite her in the butt, but thank goodness it didn’t! I liked the little twist at the end with her murdering Valerie…and playing it off as self defense. I always think it’s the best when a thriller ends with the main character also being a little twisted, I think it’s clever and adds a lot to the book. It would’ve ruined it for me if everything was tied up nicely where Valerie just got arrested and Shay went on her way being totally innocent of everything. Love that. I mean it’s messed up, but it’s good.

I didnt like this. It seemed to drag on and on. And the twist wasn't that good either. I was supposed to be surprised that Veronica was the leader but she acted like a lone wolf the whole time anyways so it wasn't really a shock

Jessica Guht

I'm going to need a few days to wrap my head around this book! I didn't see that twist coming at all, but it made perfect sense. Some of my favorite authors and I can't wait for their next book!

Hannah

Another amazing psychological thriller from Hendricks and Pekkanen. I was hooked from the first few pages and enjoyed piecing together the clues the authors left along the way. While sometimes the storyline seemed convenient, I thought the twist at the end was completely unexpected but so so satisfying!

Tanja Hoffmann

Jill Swan

Everything I want in a thriller! I couldn’t put it down.

Carla Borralho

Kayla Smith

Thank you to the publisher for providing me a with a copy of this novel for review! 

This was such a middle of the road thriller for me and I'm so disappointed. I really love a major twist in any thriller. Something I don't see coming that will completely blow my mind. If you've read Lock Every Door by Riley Sager, I'll just say I love that book so much solely because of the ending. But for other people, that ending is the reason they hated it. Which is why I'm always hesitant to look at any reviews for thrillers that I want to read because they're so subjective. All that to say, take my opinion with a grain of salt. Honestly, I'd recommend you don't read this review and you go into any thriller with absolutely no expectations. That way every twist and turn is a complete surprise.

If you're still here because you either A, read the book and want to see what I think or B, want to have an idea as to what to expect going in, hello! Welcome to my review. This book completely had me hooked for about the first 50%. After that, it just started to drag. I think my issue was, I already knew what was happening. I think it's fairly obvious throughout most of the novel, maybe after 25% in, what's going on and how this is all leading up to screwing over our main character. What's a thriller without completely screwing over the main character, right?

Unfortunately, like I mentioned before, I just don't like knowing what to expect in a thrillers. There was a minor twist towards the end that came as a surprise to me but it wasn't enough to leave me feeling mind blown at all. In fact, after I read the twist I almost felt disappointed. Like that was it? It didn't impact the way the story arc was going much if at all, and I honestly wish it hadn't been added in there so my reading experience would've been cut down by a few chapters.

If you're someone who likes knowing where the story is going in a thriller, I'd recommend you pick this one up! It was still definitely thrilling but I just didn't care enough to want to go back and see how it ended. I didn't like our main character enough either to care what happened to her after I figured out all the trouble she'd gotten herself into. I almost DNF'ed this one a few times because I just...couldn't care less. I only picked it back up again because I hoped there would be some big reveal or something that would make the story interesting again. That just wasn't the case.

I ultimately decided to give this a three star because it definitely wasn't bad. It was written well, I mostly enjoyed over half the story, and I'm glad I saw it through to the end, even if I was left underwhelmed. This just wasn't my type of thriller but I know there are others out there who have absolutely loved it. This isn't a bad book by any means but it just wasn't a book for me. I think this may be a good book to start with if you're new to thrillers and just want to dip your toes into the genre.

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Tayler Park

2.5 
I went the audiobook route for this one but I wanted the book to be over so badly that I had to increase it to 2x speed because the main character Shay is just to naive for me. It was driving me nuts how naive she is.

Nash

Let me start saying that I listened to the audiobook and it was a rollercoaster of whatthefuckeries and ohmygoodnesses. The main character has the worst luck in the world. Imagine being socially awkward (me), having no friends (me, at least where I live), and that the only time you decide to try and reach out to a group of women to befriend, they’re plotting to frame you for the murder of their dead best friend that happens to look a lot like you if you just only wear contacts and have a new hairstyle…( well shit, I hope that doesn’t happen to me)!!! 

I was constantly yelling at the main character DON’T GO, GO BACK TO YOUR HOUSE!! DON’T TRUST THEM!! But did she listened to me??? Hell no!! They never do!!! Its like when in an action movie there’s a gun fight and the bad guys are dead but the good guys don’t pick up their guns fully knowing that they’re almost out of ammo. Jeez!! 


Well, the understatement of the year would be saying that this woman is made out of questionable choices and bad decisions, are they the same? I don’t care! The bad guys got what they deserved, she finally got a backbone of her own and the plot twist had me pulling my hair out. Overall I can say that ADD THIS ONE TO YOUR TBR!! I enjoyed it and just writing this gave me stress all over again.

You Are Not Alone

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