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This is the first novel Ive read by this author amp Im so glad the blurb caught my eye, The ending will shock you, . .
I love the authors use of Instagram to help shape the story, . . is an Instagram/ Twitter/ Facebook/ Snap Chat etc life really real or do we use to depict amp define our perfect moments into perfect lives A knockout!
Heather and Nicole are best friends who like to share their ups and downs with each other.
James is Heather's husband and Dean is Nicole's ex,
Heather is an Interior Decorator who's is he'll bent to make a name for herself at all costs, even if it means ignoring her husband,
Read this book to find out all the malicious stuff that Heather has to put up with that actually make her feel as though she is losing her mind! A word of caution, Ruth Harrow throughs a mean left hook you'll never see coming!
This domestic psychological thriller was engaging and the narrator made it a pleasant listen.
I was intrigued by the prologue and had to know more!
I didnt particularly become attached to any of the charactersespecially Heather, I didnt understand some of her actions and at times I questioned if she was an unreliable narrator, I was happy to see a thoughtful conclusion to Heathers ordeal in Youre All Mine, While this story wasnt exactly the “gripping pageturner” I expected, I did want to see who was behind it all and was surprised by the reveal!
I enjoyed Amanda Parrott as the narrator.
Her interpretation of the different voices, I thought, were excellent,
I received this audiobook as part of my participation in a blog tour with Audiobookworm Promotions, The tour is being sponsored by Ruth Harrow, The gifting of this audiobook did not affect my opinion of it, I received a free audio version of this book for review, All opinions are my own,
You're All Mine really takes time to get started, But stick with it. Ruth Harrow creates a taut thriller where the main character wrestles with the idea she may not be perfectly sane when a variety of bad events happen to her on all fronts.
The twists and turns and even surprised me in the end,
The vocal performance was great, I really like the main character's voice it suited her perfectly,.stars
You're All Mine is touted as a psychological thriller, but I would add the word domestic to that, So, a domestic psychological thriller, It definitely has some mess with your mind moments, but it is also very much a domestic thriller, The story relies heavily on the unreliable narrator, and with as many secrets as Heather has, shes about as unreliable as it gets,
And that brings me to Heather, Now, Im just gonna say it, Heather nearly drove me to distraction, This woman had all this crazy happening to her, yet she just keeps right on going, and she made some terrible decisions, Shes so caught up in perception, in what people see and think of her, that she reacts rather strangely, Im sure that was intentional on the authors part, If it wasnt, she couldnt have done it better if she tried, The abovementioned unreliable narrator has been done a lot, so Im probably a bit overcritical of it, but it works for this story and this character,
We do get a good selection of characters to be the villain, plus theres Heather, herself, and every single one of them couldve very easily been that villain.
Now, heres where Ill tell you that I did have it figured out pretty early, That said, I still second guessed myself a few times, so Ruth Harrow did a solid job of dangling carrots that led in the wrong directionsomething any good psychological thriller should do.
The narrator, Amanda Parrott, was new to me, and Ill admit that I wasnt quite sure about her style for this book, but she grew on me.
She has a sweetsounding voice that worked perfectly for a big part of the dialogue, I especially liked it when someone was being sarcastic or contrary because Parrott did it exactly as Id expect from those characters,
The story does jump back and forth in the timeline, and sometimes those jumps can be a bit jarring, but I finally noticed little differences in past and present, and it all started to fall into place.
I will say that the ending for this one wasnt what I thought it would be, especially with
knowing the identity of the villain, I expected part of the reason for it all, but the rest of it was not at all where I expected it to go, Oddly, that wasnt a dealbreaker for me, I will say that when you find out who the villain is, you can look back at some of the conversations, and it clicks,
Unreliable narrator, predictable villain, timeline jumpsyes, this one has all of those, but what it comes down to whether I kept listening all the way through, I did, and Im not sure if it was Heathers bad decisions or the narration or the story itself, Or maybe it was a bit of everything, Whatever it was, I wanted to see if Heather would finally make some good choices, I wanted to see how it would all play out, so its certainly worth the listen, These characters are the kind that get under your skin, and even when you want to shake the daylights out of them, you still want to see where things go for them.
Id say this one would appeal to anyone who enjoys domestic thrillers,
I received this audiobook as part of my participation in a blog tour with Audiobookworm Promotions, The tour is being sponsored by Ruth Harrow, The gifting of this audiobook did not affect my opinion of it at all, This review is completely my own opinion and I have not been influenced by anyone in the writing of it,
I found this book super intriguing and, at times, kind of creepy,
I loved the prologue that opened the book and thought it was such a great way to hook a reader in and make them need to find out how the prologue relates to the rest of the story.
There were moments where I felt like the pacing of the book was a little bit slow and this was both good and bad, In some ways it was good in that it helped build suspense and added to the creepy vibe of the story, At other times though, I was waiting for things to happen and getting a bit borred that they werent happening fast enough,
I had never heard of Amanda Parrott as a narrator before starting this audiobook,
At first, I wasnt really sure whether Id enjoy her narration but now I honestly cant imagine anyone else narrating this book and will check out more of Amandas work in the future.
This rarely happens, but got toand couldn't finish, The book was just dragging, and the characters are pretty annoying, Unfortunately, I realized I didn't care what happened to them, I spent most of the book feeling confused, I couldn't tell if scenes were in the present or flashbacks, But most of my confusion stemmed from the blurb being slightly misleading, I didn't really feel the tension that a suspense novel usually envokes, If you like the domestic thrillers of B, A. Paris then I recommend trying this book, Read my full review at sitelinkGirl Who Reads, Good But Errors
This was a great book but I almost stopped reading about a quarter of the way through, The author used the wrong name, The characters name is Heather but at one point she is referred to as Harriet, The next book advertised has a character named Harriet so I guess thats why there was a mix up, I just cant stand when books are not edited thoroughly though, Several grammatical errors and extra spaces as well, I dont typically give booksbut I would have given it to this book if it werent for the errors, This was a well written story, I enjoyed the mental hijinks, When her blog leads to a big job opprotunity, Heather comes up against her school bully,who she believes is trying to sabotage her life, Amanda Parrott was a terrific narrator, I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review, This author never disappoints.
Believable characters Check!
Suspenseful buildup Check!
Multiple protagonists Check!
In the beginning, I didn't like Heather one iota, I felt her to be very selfish and domineering, It was her way, or no way, By the end, I kinda felt sorry for her, Heather really needed to get her priorities right, but she didn't deserve to have her sanity threatened and her career ruined, I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review,
Heather is a successful woman who seems to have everything, She suddenly starts noticing small unexplainable events that seem to indicate somebody is stalking her and wants her either dead or destroyed,
I found characters other than Heather were underdeveloped, which would not allow the reader to make any assumptions about who might want her dead, The story makes sense until we get to what feels like a rushed ending of the "some time later" type that is made happy with no explanation as to why or how they got there.
We also never find out why other characters like her husband were behaving the way they did,
The story was quite intriguing and kept me hanging until the stalker is unveiled,
If you're plot driven and enjoy not knowing who the culprit is, this book may be for you, How to Begin
Let me preface my review by admitting that, after chapter nine, I skimmed through the book, I did want to see how it ended hence the rating ofstars, The skimming was still painful, The villain was predictable, the relationship between the socalled best friends was not believable and there was entirely too much inner dialogue from the main character, The writing was choppy and there were too many plot twists, In addition, the ending was abrupt and not enough explanation was provided, A real disappointment. Once I noticed that characters kept saying each others names in conversation over and over and over again, even when it was just two people talking, it was pretty much all I could focus on.
Did anyone edit this Doesnt seem like it,
This is such a dumb story, The protagonist has so many weird things happening but does nothing about them at all, The person it turns out to be has the lamest reason ever for doing it, Its just really amateurish and badly written, and I regret the time I wasted reading it, Heathers entire life is her job, As an interior designer, shes trying her hardest to be the best she can be, Everything in her house has to be a particular way, Every aspect of her life is scripted, The drawback In reality, her life is falling apart, What starts as a few things out of place turns into a downward spiral of sabotage and betrayal,
As a workaholic, I found myself relating to Heather on a personal level, She was crafted in a way that made her feel very real, and that was what drew me to keep listening to the story, I really wanted her to succeed, to prevail, The suspense was another aspect of the story that I thought was particularly well done, Every time I thought I had the story figured out, the author would throw in another wrench, and Id be left just as clueless as before,
If youre looking for a thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat, I recommend this one, I will definitely be looking for more books by this author in the future,
This book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review,
I really enjoyed this book, I found myself feeling sorry for Heather and all the bad things that were happening to her, I could completely understand that her actions were driven by her need to grow her career, I never felt she was egodriven, but focused, I figured out who the evil one was almost immediately, but will admit I flipped once or twice when the author threw a curveball in, Excellent read! I love a great psychological thriller and this one is perfect! The plot is intriguing and full of suspense, I kept reevaluating my thoughts of where the author was going next with these wonderfully described characters.
A real pageturner, I didnt want to put the book down for anything, it gripped me from the beginning and never let me go till I had read the final word!
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