Holy Cow! Hold onto your hat for a thrilling ride! I have enjoyed Jennifer Jayne's books...she is a master at twists and turns that keep you guessing. In this book you meet Chelsea, who is both a victim and a survivor of a horrendous crime. But is everything really like it appears? Detective Lang formed a bond with Chelsea when the crime occurred...and years later he is back to find out who is threatening Chelsea again...and why? I received an ARC of this book and have written an honest review based on my opinions after reading this book.

I Recommend This Book
Disturbed by Jennifer Jaynes is another great dark thriller !
Chelsea and her roommate and a few friends have a birthday celebration on halloween night and the unthinkable happens. Everyone is murdered but chelsea who was left for dead. After five years still no one was ever prosacuted. AS Chelsea tries hard to live a somewhat normal life her anxiety and panic disorders take over her life as she has no reccolection of that night. Lots of surprises are in this book with twist and turns I did not expect.

This was definitely an edge of your seat read that had me at hello. I sped through this amnesia filled, WTF happened and oh, no, not again thrill ride.

I did get a little bogged down part way in when the author took a different course, however, it was all tied up in the end and it did make sense.

A thrilling, chilling, way up past your bedtime read that I just could not put down!

Thanks to Thomas & Mercer and Net Galley for providing me with a free e-galley in exchange for an honest, unbiased review.

This novel is well written and the characterization of both characters comes alive on the pages.I had heard great things about this book and even with high expectations going into it, this surpassed ALL of them. This is an author everyone should get to know.

I really liked this book from the start - it was fast paced and kept me reading til the end. Unfortunately I saw the ending coming from quite early on but from reading the other reviews, I think I probably just got lucky! A good holiday or train read I think. One that doesn't require to much concentration but entertains to the end.

Disturbed by Jennifer jaynes.
On Halloween night five years ago, Chelsea Dutton’s college roommates were viciously stabbed to death, and Chelsea was critically injured. She was found hiding in her apartment’s bathtub, barely clinging to life.
An absolutely fantastic read with great characters. This was very cleverly written. Would never have seen that coming. 5*.

What a captivating read!

I simply could not put this book down! The novel just flowed so well, I kept turning page after page after page. Disturbed is reminiscent of Fight Club or even Primal Fear, it simply leaves you guessing. You're so caught up in the story and desperately trying to understand what happened to Chelsea and her roomates on that Halloween night.

I loved the dynamic between Chelsea and Elizabeth. The story of two best friends, Elizabeth, being the older of the two, the protector and nurturer, while Chelsea is the milder, more timid and insecure. Elizabeth was always there for Chelsea, picking her up when she was down, helping her through her blackouts since that horrific Halloween night.

The secondary characters were just as troubled and well developed. Robert Lang, the detective who discovered Chelsea that Halloween night and saved her life became the cliche washed up retired detective. He'd suffered a terrible car accident that forced him to retire, and along with it, a part of him was left behind at the force. Then there's Boyd, the roommate of Ethan who got lucky and escaped the tragic night back in college when he had to leave the party early to attend work. Boyd had always secretly longed for Chelsea, and after years of pining for her, he finally decided it was time to intervene and make his presence known again. He swoops in and wins the heart of Chelsea, making her feel alive again. Only he's harboring some pretty dark secrets, and once Chelsea discovers those secrets she's crushed. The moment he spoke the words "There's nowhere else in the world I'd rather be?" I just knew there was something Boyd was hiding. So guess who has to clean up Chelsea's broken heart after Boyd has crushed it, you've guessed it, Elizabeth.

There's so many ways this story could have gone, I slowly started to put the pieces together. At about 60% into the book I was certain where it was headed, and I was correct. Though I must admit, briefly I started to change my mind. I thought maybe the story was headed in a different direction, but soon realized that's what Jennifer Jaynes wants the reader to think. Well played Jennifer, well played. Even though I had predicted where it was headed, I was not at all disappointed with how it played out. This is a great psychological thriller!

There's only one thing that keeps eating at me... what happened to Chelsea's scrapbook? In chapter 4 her scrapbook goes missing, but I don't recall reading what happened to it?

I want to thank NetGalley, Thomas & Mercer, and Jennifer Jaynes for allowing me the chance to read this novel in exchange for my review.

A very fast thriller with some nice and clever plot twists. Unfortunately, right from the beginning I had a hunch about the solution to this gruesome murder case and its aftermath, mostly due to the not too subtle title and cover image which almost screamed at me to keep a very close suspicious eye on my assumed suspect...

However, the author cleverly managed to keep the tension high and even provide some unexpected surprises on the way, which nicely made up for the anticipated ending. A fast read that will keep you guessing - if not for who, at least for the why and how.

Awesome book! Awesome story! Awesome writing! Awesome characters!
Yes, I loved this book! Five years ago, Halloween 2010, Chelsea Dutton was attacked in her apartment. Her two college roommates were not so lucky. Ethan who was at their apartment that night is now where to be found. Did his wealthy parents send him out of the country? Boyd left the party early and has a solid alibi.
It is now 2015, Chelsea is 23 years old and living in Boston with her cat, Harry. She moved to Boston after being released from the hospital where she was obtaining psychiatric treatment for the trauma related to the killings. A nurse, Elizabeth, whom she befriended at the hospital, had recently moved to Boston. Being an orphan and having no other ties to any particular city, she decided to move to Boston also.
After five years, Chelsea is pretty much a recluse, she has a job that allows her to work from home, Elizabeth visits often. She goes out for daily runs and enjoys weekly outside market trips with Elizabeth, She does not recall much from the night of the killings and she also has minimal memories of her life in foster homes prior to going to college. Then one day she runs into Boyd at the market. They begin talking and then decide to date. That is when the notes start showing up. But who is leaving the notes? It is believed Ethan was the killer, so is he now in Boston? Is it just a coincidence that they started showing up just as Boyd came back into her life?
I stayed up way past my bedtime as I could not put this book down. I picked it right up again at my first chance. Halfway through I thought I knew who the killer was. Then I doubted myself, then I thought it was someone else. This book grabbed me from the beginning and never stopped entertaining. It is not very long read. Under 300 pages, but what is packed into those pages is more suspense and drama than I have read in some 300+ page books. If you like suspense, mysteries, non-stop WOW, read this book! I am giving this a very solid 4-star review. I would give it 4.5, but yeah that is not an option.

Thank you Netgalley for the opportunity to preview Disturbed by Jennifer Jaynes. Five college students are murdered 5 years ago, and Chelsea survives this horrific ordeal. Chelsea is haunted by this event.and the killer has not been found. Chelsea thinks she is being watched and wants to kill her and she can't shake the feeling that this is her reality. When she starts getting messages, she knows that she is not crazy - this is real.
Good book, good ending, quick read.

Actual rating: 3.5 stars

Disturbed is a quick and easy read. Very suspenseful with twists and a shocking ending. However, I did not like the way the story ended.

Thank you to Netgalley and Thomas & Mercer for the opportunity to read a copy of Jennifer Jaynes' "Disturbed" in exchange for an honest review.

Love this author, I read everything she writes! Short, creepy & fast paced- I couldn't put this one down. It had me guessing, incorrectly, until the very end. Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for this ARC.

4.5 -This was truly a spectacular scary read. I thought that this author did such a great job using words to describe and add suspense to the story. Do you really ever know someone? When Chelsea finds herself in the middle of some hell that no one should have survived she becomes someone else in her mind. She hides within herself trying to be safe and hidden from the boogeyman. But something that was once hidden may be free. Thank you NetGalley for allowing me to read this and write a honest review.

Excellently written with never a dull moment, fans of mysteries and thrillers alike will love this book!

Wow! I did not see that twist at all!! I knew it couldn’t be the obvious choice but wow. Quick, super fast read with a charged storyline that kept me flipping pages past my bedtime. Loved the character of the cop and even had a soft spot for Boyd. What a fun, intense read with a great plot twist!

I couldn't put this down! An excellent easy read. Really well written. I'll be sure to check Jennifer's other books. I shouldn't have waited this long to read one of her books!

The premise of this book read like an episode of Dateline. And I fuckin' love me some Dateline, so I’m not overstating it when I said I was excited to start this one.
Basically, I have the TV viewing habits of a 55+ woman.
“Oh, a wife found bludgeoned to death in her tidy, suburban home? Sign me the fuck up!”
Because of my admitted penchant for this type of story, I was fully invested in enjoying this as much as possible.

To that end, I deliberately avoided even perusing a plot description. I sometimes do this when reading thrillers, hoping that skipping this normal part of the book selection process will make the plot more surprising and the experience, overall, more satisfying.

So I entered the book, blind, wondering:

Would the story be ripped from the headlines (Oh wait, that's Law & Order, not Dateline)

Would they figure out who done it?

Would it be the husband? (Because it's always the fucking husband)

Well, I figured out pretty quick that it wouldn’t be the husband, as there wasn’t one in this book (so, if I were tasked with solving this crime, they would all be screwed. My detective work skills begin and end with “It’s probably the husband.”)

The book focused not on a married woman, but instead on a young, beautiful, college co-ed (who, let’s face it, is also popular Dateline fodder).

The book-opening prologue details the discovery of a rather horrific crime scene. Alerted of a potential problem by a neighbor who heard screaming, police enter the apartment on the morning of November 1st to find two college co-eds brutally stabbed to death and a third who, despite receiving the same vicious treatment, clings to life in the bathtub.

Then the plot fast forwards…

Five years in the future, Chelsea, the one survivor of this massacre, is still struggling with both the mental and the physical scars of this attack. Building anything close to a “normal” life is complicated by the fact that the prime suspect in the crime hasn’t been spotted since the night of the slaying.

As October arrives and the anniversary of the crime approaches, Chelsea begins receiving menacing messages that seem to suggest that the killer wants to finish what he started.

By her side is her best (and basically, only) friend, Elizabeth, a nurse and friend of five years who helped Chelsea recover from the trauma of that night. As the plot progresses and the threats continue, Chelsea struggles to handle the resurrection of the fear she thought she had escaped while retaining the tenuous grasp she has on her sanity.

So, the thing with this book is, it had a lot of promise.

The premise served as a really strong foundation.

From the start, I was naturally invested in the characters and perplexed as to how it would all play out.

Did it realize this potential?

Yeah, not so much.

When compared to other thrillers, this one was pretty much middle of the road.

While the plot did keep my interest – and I didn’t fully figure it all out until pretty close to the end – but it lacked the continuity to feel real.

For example, we are to believe that Chelsea is a scarred, but obviously strong, woman who somehow managed to handle the emotional turmoil that would naturally follow such a hideously life-changing event. Then, enter a love interest, and she’s a gah-gah teenager, melting into a pool of love and upending her life for this guy.

Also, she consciously made the decision not to drink, as she blames alcohol consumption, at least in part, for the patchiness of her memory on the night in question. But all it takes is this new Mr. Right-Now to offer her a glass of wine and suddenly she’s a wine-before-noon kinda gal?

And let me pause and say, I have no problem with wine-before-noon kinda gals. I kinda am a wine-before-noon kinda gal. But I’ve always been that way. I didn’t just suddenly develop an intense thirst for alcohol following a tryst. #JustSayin

It just doesn’t make sense.

I mean, she could easily say, “Listen, last time I drank I got cut the fuck up and I’d really like not to repeat that.”

But no.

She doesn’t.

And why doesn’t she?

‘Cause she’s so nervous about this date.

Bitch, please.

I’m sure a lot of stuff has happened to her since her near-death experience that was much more difficult to handle than a case of the butterflies, but this is the event… this date is the thing… that makes her pick up a bottle?

Mkay.

There is one other point that I really need to note.

Readers of this book were promised a twist.

I love a twist almost as much as I love both wine before noon and Dateline, so I was pretty amped and anxious to see if I would be shocked by this plot turn.

Unfortunately, while there was a twist, I felt like it was largely spoiled for me.

*Spoiler Alert*

Both the title and the cover of this book were, essentially, spoilers.

Ultimately, our protagonist ends up being even more messed up in the head than we previously assumed.

I pretty much deduced this from the title and the cover long before it was revealed in the book.

So, when this fact ended up playing a critical role in the “twist” I was nowhere near as taken aback as I would have liked to have been.

*End Spoiler*

Despite these concerns, the overall strength of the plot did redeem this book.

I would recommend this novel to thriller fans who want an easy, fast read.

If you’re looking for depth, however, you won’t find it here.

3 out of 5 cocktails.

Synopsis: Chelsea lives her life in Boston by hanging out with her cat and binge watching television. She lives this way because her life got turned upside down nearly 5 years ago when two of her classmates were brutally murdered and she was left to die from severe stab wounds. Luckily Detective Lang finds her in the bathtub barely alive and she gets help in enough time.

In present day, Chelsea still battles nightmares and the trauma of that horrible night. She battles memory lost of the tragedy and from her childhood because of the trauma. Chelsea moved to Boston to move away from the tragedy and to follow her friend Elizabeth. Elizabeth is always there for Chelsea when she needs her and helps her through her trauma issues.

When Chelsea and Elizabeth go out to the weekend farmer’s market, Chelsea runs into a person that she knew at the time of the tragedy. Suddenly, Chelsea starts recieving disturbing messages and suspicious encounters. Has the murderer returned after 5 years to finish the job? Will Chelsea be able to protect herself and face her trauma? Read Disturbed by Jennifer Jaynes to find out!

Review: This is going to be a really tough review for me because I am very conflicted about this book. I really enjoyed the storyline and how much twists and turns the author put in this story. This a very suspenseful thriller and can see why it’s so highly rated. The problem was I figured out everything from the beginning. I know so many other reviewers were completely thrown off guard and completly can see why everyone kept guessing. I don’t want to give any spoilers away but I can say I’ve been in a circumstance so was able to know where things were going. I was able to recognize early clues right off the back. I think this book will do really well and definitely recommend it. The reason I’m giving it 3.5 stars is because I knew everything that was going to happen so it lessened my experience but it was still very enjoyable. 95% of people I’m sure would not be able to keep up with all the twists and turns and this would be a very satisfying mystery. I also didn’t really enjoy how they made the effects of main character’s trauma look. The reason this review is so hard is because if it wasn’t a trigger for me this would have been 5+ stars. I can’t say the trigger without it being a spoiler but I think many would love picking up this psychological thriller and will love the twists and turns! Jennifer Jaynes does a really great job of putting a story together. Sorry if this review was a little confusing but overall this is a good book. Top grade thriller!

Holy crap! That ending!

I loved this book....a total page turner!

Can't really say much without spoilers, but there were so many different scenarios going through my head, I just had to get to the end. My reaction at the end? "OMG, WTF!"

So yeah, go into this one blind if you can. The blurb gives you enough to get the gist of it.

My first book by this author and I will definitely be checking out the others.

Good, but just like the rest of them...

I'm not sure why I bother reading these types of books anymore - thrillers or whatever - I never really like them. They never 'wow' me.
They all seem to be the same.
With all the thriller/suspense/horror writers out there these days trying to come up with something totally original and unforgettable, it's pretty hard to truly stand out from the crowd. In my opinion, you have to be pretty exceptional if you're going to accomplish that.

This being said, it's not like I have anything personal against this book, and I have no major complaint with any one part of it, but I still finished it thinking, "Meh."
Maybe I'm becoming too picky? I don't know. All I know is this book didn't do it for me.

Positive things about Disturbed:
1. The pace was pretty good; fast enough to keep my attention but slow enough for me to know what was happening.
2. The main character, Chelsea, was very likeable. (So was Detective Lang.)
3. It wrapped up nicely with no loose ends.

That's about all I can say.
Very so-so.



*A copy was provided by NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.*