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3.64 AVERAGE
3.64 AVERAGE
Amy , a diver by profession leads a happy comfortable life with her professor husband , her fifteen year old step daughter and an infant son. In her spare time she runs a book club with her best friend Charlotte but the peace is disturbed one evening when the new mysterious neighbor Roux joins in. Lots of wine and a game of Never have I ever reveals secrets that might have been better left unsaid resulting in a disruption in Amy’s life that might prove deadly.
Never Have I Ever is my first book by Joshilyn Jackson and will definitely not be my last.It has great characters and is an excellent domestic psychological thriller with lots of secrets and twists and turns to discover that kept misleading me .A well written emotional roller-coaster ride that does not let up which I would highly recommend to all my psychological thriller lovers.
I would like to thank Edelweiss+ and the publishers for providing an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest and fair review.
This and more reviews at https://chloesbooksblog.wordpress.com/
Never Have I Ever is my first book by Joshilyn Jackson and will definitely not be my last.It has great characters and is an excellent domestic psychological thriller with lots of secrets and twists and turns to discover that kept misleading me .A well written emotional roller-coaster ride that does not let up which I would highly recommend to all my psychological thriller lovers.
I would like to thank Edelweiss+ and the publishers for providing an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest and fair review.
This and more reviews at https://chloesbooksblog.wordpress.com/
Pretty good!!! I freaking loved the ending!! Such a good read! Slow in parts but over all really great! Not only did this lady use people to keep her lifestyle but she had a relationship with an under under age kid! That most definitely deserved that bullet to the chest!! Man! Those last few pages when it all came together I think I was holding my breath! I was a little taken aback about Lolly being dead but she really wasn't! Like how dear you say that!!!! Glad that part wasn't true at all.
4/5/5. Twist after twist after twist. Almost perfect but it was a bit too slow in the beginning.
I was reminded why I rarely read thrillers - they tend to be filled with more foul language and adult situations than I care to read. I find it a bit hypocritical that the author mentions a Baptist church in her acknowledgments, wears a cross necklace in one of her head shots, and yet wrote such an ungodly book.
It took me over 6 months to get through this book. It would go in spurts of being really interesting and engaging and then get long-winded and repetitively monotonous. So I kept putting it down, reading something else, and coming back to it. Repeat, ad nauseum.
I guess, if I had cared about the main character more, I might have cared more about her mental musings. But there was something about her that just rubbed me the wrong way. I was not prepared for the reveal at the end and thoroughly disgusted. It was fairly entertaining along the way but just not my thing. Finally forced myself to finish and I'm glad it's off by reading list now.
I guess, if I had cared about the main character more, I might have cared more about her mental musings. But there was something about her that just rubbed me the wrong way. I was not prepared for the reveal at the end and thoroughly disgusted. It was fairly entertaining along the way but just not my thing. Finally forced myself to finish and I'm glad it's off by reading list now.
A tense, suspenseful suburban thriller that is engrossing and super twisty! Great on audio, read by the author. Read my full review and listen to a sample of the audiobook:
https://bookbybook.blogspot.com/2019/11/fiction-review-never-have-i-ever.html
https://bookbybook.blogspot.com/2019/11/fiction-review-never-have-i-ever.html
Definitely had me guessing. Was halfway through and thought all the secrets were revealed but nope they kept coming till the very end. Fun quick read because I couldn’t stop reading it.
fast-paced
I think if the fat phobia/eating disorder content was better handled or more relevant to the main plot this would have had a higher rating from me, as it is it felt played for shock value / to up the trauma factor which feels exploitative to me. The ending felt a little out of left field, I wish we had been given more clues so that we could have had a chance to work Roux out. I liked the diving aspect and I found it easy to read and it kept my attention, so the previous faults are not fatal flaws for me.
Way too much fatphobia! I just couldn’t get past that. It also read like a YA thriller which I’m not a fan of. Overall, just kind of boring with not a lot going for it to keep me listening and a lot against it that made me just not that i ye rested in finishing.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Fatphobia, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail