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July 26, 2023 Wow I was shocked at the ending!!! I thought one thing but something else happened. I thought that Kristen was going to stay alive and Aaron would get killed by Aaron but instead Aaron kills Kristen with his car bc he knew that Emily didn't want Kristen around based on her weird behavior. Truthfully, I did not want Kristen around either based on how she was acting towards Emily. Glad that Emily and Aaron are alive. 5/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

July 24, 2023 Ladies and gentleman, boys and girls, children from all over the world, may I announce that I am on page 252 out of 300 (yes 300 exactly) and I am very conflicted about what kind of person Kristen is. Is she nice? Maybe. Jealous? Super jealous. Manipulative? Maybe. Confident? Yes. A killer? I don't know 100% yet...

July 21, 2023 Here are the books that I either am currently reading OR am going to read. Feel free to read the same book as me and add a comment below!

July 20, 2023 A nice day to eat at a cafe and read right? Sounds good to me...

July 18, 2023 Already began reading this book and have reached page 120. The main characters that are talked about are Kristen and Emily. Aaron is Emily's bf and she is trying to figure out of he is the one. Kristen is a good friend of hers BUT asks her to help AGAIN. From then on, she begins having flashbacks and horrific reminders of when they buried Paolo in Chile. The first time was in Cambodia.

July 15, 2023 Since I apparently read Reckless Girls in 4 days (less than a week) here are my two new reads: We Were Never Here by Andrea Bartz & Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid (wanted to read a fourth book by her bc sooooo good) ♥️🩷💕

July 8, 2023 BOOKS ON MY TBR: We Were Never by Andrea Bartz and Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins. I have seen the latter go around like crazy. I am excited to read Reckless Girls once I am done with 101 Essays that will change the way you think by Brianna Wiest

Toxic female friendship. It was just OK. I didn't care for either of the women, and the ending was a bit ambiguous (or maybe just confusing). Kind of surprised it's a Reese pick.

Kristen trotted to the patio‘s edge and crouched, long arm outstretched.

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl #thrillerbooks
#murdermysteries

TW: sexual abuse/assault, child abuse, grief

This story gripped me right from the start! Initially, I believed I knew the direction that the story was going in. I was definitely off-base. Bartz explores friendship and the meaning of “toxic”.

#relationships #friendship #murder #toxicrelationships #family

After a (not so brief) hiatus, we‘re back with a small stack of freshly bought books. First up is We Were Never Here by Andrea Bartz! Throughout this stack, smaller reviews of recently read books will also be posted. And as always, let it be known if you‘ve read any of these books (opinions are welcome!) or if you‘re #LiterallyReadingAlong

#bookstack
#LiterallyBack
#freshlyboughtbooks

Started this book in Marrakech, switched to audio and then finished in print today. A bit preposterous but held my interest and drew me in. A story about a toxic friendship and the lengths one will go through for the other. Best friends travel to #Chile where they find themselves tossed into a life altering situation….again! #NoFoMo Not a must read but an ok midweek distraction 🤓 #ReadingTheAmericas23

I started this in print while in Morocco but decided to wait for my library audio hold to come through….which it did, today😄 I‘m really enjoying the audio 🎧 Two friends , Kristen & Emily are traveling through #Chilie when they find themselves thrusted into a terrifying situation …one that‘s happened before😲 #ReadingTheAmericas23 #Booked2023 #StartsWithVorW #52Books23 #ABookWithSecrets

A book haul from a book swap event today.

That‘s womanhood, I suppose, both craving and feeling repulsed by attention.

Although I found the two main characters incredibly irritating, the storyline on this carried this book. Decent read, but don't expect to empathize with the characters

Enjoying my current read with the football 🤓☃️⚽🦬

Train reading on my way back from a work trip 😊🚅

This one just didn‘t do it for me. I didn‘t really like the characters from the beginning and the ending felt rushed. It was a quick read though. I just wanted more! #192025 #2021 @Librarybelle

Did you know, the are over 7,000 unsolved murdered every YEAR!? Meaning there are likely around 7,000 new murderers a year walking among us thinking they got away with it... terrifying, right?! I was getting serious Roommate or Single White Female vibes from this one. Without revealing too much, this book asks us, “can you really trust anyone to help you get rid of a dead body?“

This #Mystery thriller that I read earlier this month used #Clues to figure out what really happened when two girls go on vacation together and a man ends up dead.

#OminousOctober @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks #ScarathlonDailyPrompts #TeamSlaughter #Scarathlon @Clwojick

Quick read that was a bit too neat and tidy. There were a few twists but nothing too shocking or that wasn't slightly predictable.

Overall though for a thriller it was good. The suspense starts early and keeps delivering throughout.

If you're looking for a quick read that isn't too gory or descriptive this one works. Just don't expect it to deliver anything new for a thriller.

#TeamSlaughter #Scarathlon #Scarathlon @Clwojick

The ending was a little too neat and tidy for me, but it‘s about the journey, not the destination. And the journey of reading this book is so. Freaking. Fun.

I really don't even know how to feel about this book. This was my follow-up choice right after reading Verity, maybe that was the mistake. Verity was so crazy, unpredictable, and twisted that I was expecting that again. We Were Never Here was a little too predictable for me and the story line drug a bit for me. The characters were incredibly unlikable and a little annoying.

It wasn't awful, just not what I wanted/needed.
#reesesbookclub #summer

This is right on the line between the pick and so-so for me. It definitely pulls you in quickly, but I wish there were more answers by the end. This psychological thriller is about two best friends on vacation. It reminded me a lot of Who Is Maud Dixon? In both books there is travel, two women, and unreliable narrator, and a slow burn plot.

This was better than I even expected it to be. Some parts were a bit slow but I really liked how this was a thriller focused on a female friendship. The writing was really believable in the dialogue and the thought processes of the main character. I felt like the ending was a bit abrupt and rushed, but it kept my interest and I liked the way the author had it all come together at the last moment.

Read in a day. Fast paced and some nice twists and turns.

Slow start, not much happened, I thought I saw the plot twist but when it came it wasn‘t as elaborate as I had build up in my head 😂 so I dno, it wasn‘t horrible and I‘m glad I finished it but overall, the story was underwhelming

#lies!! #bookmoods @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

Twisty and very much a roller coaster… super fast paced and kept me intrigued all the way to the end!

I worked Gaithersburg Book Festival today! I got to see Andrea Bartz speak about We Were Never Here! I was excited to hear her speak because I‘d actually read the book and really enjoyed it!

💠 we were never here 💠it is a physical book 💠I have only read the first chapter but so far so good 💠absolutely not 😳

#thoughtfulthursday @MoonWitch94

Thanks for the tag @JenReadsAlot @KateReadsYA … I tag anyone who wants to play but hasn‘t!

This was an entertaining listen, with all the twists and turns. Weak women frustrate me though, and I found myself irritated, more often then not. If you‘re looking for a strong female protagonist — this isn‘t for you. There‘s also a repetitive quirk where the lead character exclaims “Stop. Stop. Stop!” You get tired of hearing it every chapter or so (or at least I did.) This is a good book, but stops short of being a great one.

Ending was unexpected...just took a little too long to get there.

Listened to this one. Thought it was good, kept me guessing.

5️⃣ Starting covid isolation today so will be on the sofa lots 📚 I began reading this last year but got distracted, about 100 pages in now and intrigued to see how this unfolds! #wewereneverhere #andreabartz

Whizzed through this in 2 days - sinister in places and totally captivating!

Fast paced and mind boggling. 4⭐️
#ThingInCommom #ThingisEmily

#ThingsinCommon Both books were Reese‘s Book Club picks! 💖

It has been a #BookMailDay BOTM arrived and then I recieved this Blind Date with a Book.

Up Next!!

4 word titles for #ThingsinCommon

I‘ve been in a book slump and have DNF‘d so many, but this one made it better. Enough twists and turns to keep me interested.

There was so much potential here but the opportunities to explore darkness and set up interesting unreliable narrator twists was ignored in favor of tropes and needless repetition (“Stop! Stop! Stop!”). It gets a so so just because I flew through it wanting to know the end, hoping I‘d be surprised. I wasn‘t.

I would have bailed, but it's for book club.

Very slow start, lots of boring sections, terrible dialog, kind of got interesting near the end, but the ending was garbage.

What you expect is what it is 🤷🏽‍♀️

The 1st and last 50 pages of the book are well written and very engaging. Atmospheric and wild. However, the pacing in the middle was pretty rough. I felt for a thriller that this moved very slowly.I couldn‘t wait to get to the end of it because I wanted to know how it ended but it took Emily so long to discover the truth about Kristen. But perhaps what Emily discovered isn‘t even the truth. With this book and it‘s unreliable narrator.. who knows?

Just about a pick. Just when you think you‘ve figured it, another few twists. Interesting enough to have to read to the end.

#quicklunchtimeread
I think the ending of this book has been obvious nearly all the way through, but still need to know how we get there!

I had no idea what to expect from this book. I picked it from the library solely because it was on a recommended book list. I‘m so glad I did! This book is a mystery/thriller that keeps you guessing until the last page. The main character finds herself involved in a series of crimes, a boundary-less best friend and a hard time finding fact from fiction. Great read!