No One Knows
Fiction
Simon and Schuster
March 22, 2016
Hardcover
368
Publisher via She Reads
The day Aubrey Hamilton’s husband is declared dead by the state of Tennessee should bring closure so she can move on with her life. But Aubrey doesn’t want to move on; she wants Josh back. It’s been five years since he disappeared, since their blissfully happy marriage—they were happy, weren’t they?—screeched to a halt and Aubrey became the prime suspect in his disappearance. Five years of emptiness, solitude, loneliness, questions. Why didn’t Josh show up at his friend’s bachelor party? Was he murdered? Did he run away? And now, all this time later, who is the mysterious yet strangely familiar figure suddenly haunting her new life?
In No One Knows, the New York Times bestselling coauthor of the Nicholas Drummond series expertly peels back the layers of a complex woman who is hiding dark secrets beneath her unassuming exterior. This masterful thriller for fans of Gillian Flynn, Liane Moriarty, and Paula Hawkins will pull readers into a you’ll-never-guess merry-go-round of danger and deception. Round and round and round it goes, where it stops…no one knows.
My review:
I gave this 4.5 stars. It's a hard book to review because I can't give anything away, but I'm going to do my best to convince you that this is worth the read. First of all, trust me when I say it won't take you long to read. Not because it is a short book, but because it is "unputdownable"!! I can consume an average book in about 3-4 days, and I read this one in a bit more than 24 hours. I could not wait to find out how it was going to play out. This book is being compared to those other G books, which may have prevented me from even reading it (just stop with the comparisons publishers....please?), but thankfully it was picked as one of the She Reads books of spring, so I headed into it with lots of eye rolling at yet another one of "those" books. In all honesty, I thought of the three this may have been my favorite (definitely better than one, but I'm not going to name names). As I mentioned, it's really hard to do much of a review without spoilers, but there are a whole host of characters for you to love or hate. The pace is quick, the narrative goes back and forth in time with various characters, but is not confusing to follow. What is confusing is what happened to Josh? Trust me, keep turning those pages to find out! The only slight downside for me was the ending. I wasn't completely satisfied with it. In a twitter chat with the author we were given the chance to read the original ending, which I liked a bit better, but still had some reservations. I may be in the minority in my opinion, I need to chat with others who have finished it.
I highly recommend this book if you are a fan of psychological thrillers (no comparisons needed). Be warned that if you don't set aside a block of time to read it, you may not get anything else done.
Thanks to the publisher for sending me a copy of this book to review (thank you, thank you!). As always, my opinions are my own.
I'm SO happy to see you loved this one because I pre-ordered the audio but have since seen that others have marked it as just okay. This one is on my next reading round (after next week that is).
I hope you like it Kathy! While I was disappointed in the ending, the rest of it had me on the edge of my seat!
Hmm I am not a fan of thrillers so I chose another although this sounds like a great read, and all the other reviews I have read about it have been most appreciative of it. So I will definitely have to catch up with it. I know some books you can't say much about so as not to give the plot and thrills away. Your enthusiasm came through - that's what counts!
I really was hooked from the beginning, but I do like to read a thriller every once in a while just for a change of pace. Seems like there are an awful lot out there to pick from nowadays.