Beautifully written, dark and unsettling, the author chooses words as a painter will use strokes to make a masterpiece.
Love how you can get immersed in the narrative, with a mix of emotions that takes you trough the stages of grieving: the lose of the person you love. Despair, anger, frustration, losing touch with reality. ...
A haunting psychological thriller.

Thank you to NetGalley and HARLEQUIN for an advanced read in exchange for this review.

Poppy's husband was murdered and his death remains unsolved.  Following his death, Poppy's memories have been unclear.  Something about a red dress?  A nightclub?  She's trying to put the puzzles together to figure out what happened while struggling with sleeping pills and disassociation.  

This book isn't bad, but there were parts of the story that felt too disjointed and messy.  I found myself saying "Huh?" and "Yeah, right!" a couple of times.  I think the author wants you to not think of Poppy as reliable, which is fairly easy to do.  I felt neutral about her overall.  Again, the book is all over the place, which I think is intentional so that you feel just like Poppy.  Not bad overall.

An excellent mystery/psychological thriller book that I read in a day and a half because I didn't want to stop reading it. Poppy is feeling lost after the brutal "random" murder of her husband a year ago. Right after the funeral she had some "lost days' that she has trouble remembering as she struggles to make it through daily life and work still grieving for what could have been. Her assistant at work, friend Layla and her mother and mother-in-law are all trying to help her process her feelings. Detective Greyson is still trying to solve the seemingly random murder of her husband Jack. The pace of this book is excellent and the back and forth between past and present works well as does the parts where Poppy is trying to figure out if she is suddenly remembering things or hallucinating-is someone with a hooded jacket on following and stalking her? What happened to her in those few days after the funeral that she doesn't remember and her friends couldn't find her? Was Jack's murder really a random thing or was he involved in something right before his death? You will find yourself riveted to this book to uncover the mysteries of Jack and Poppy .

I'm a fan of this authors books. I look forward to reading them as soon as they are published. The story line in this was confusing when you couldn't tell if it was something happening in the present, a hallucination, or a dream. I'm glad I stuck with it to find out how it all came together in the end.

I received a free copy from NetGalley.

Poppy Lang’s life is a blur of dreams and real life after her husband Jack was brutally murdered. Who killed Jack? Why would anyone want to? This book grabbed me from the beginning and I would have finished it sooner if I’d had more time! You’ll enjoy this ride!

Excellent book although a bit disjointed at times and difficult to follow, which is the reason I didnt give it five stars. Gripping ending and well written

Poppy's husband, Jake, was killed while on an early morning run. They seemed to have a good marriage and a successful business, but the police are still not sure if this was a random mugging or if Jake was targeted. Poppy had a breakdown shortly after his death and does not remember anything that happened for several days.

This started out great, but by about half-way I started to lose some interest. Part of this was because there were flashbacks between present day and the time of Poppy's missing memories and I wasn't always sure what was current and what was past. Poppy also had lots of issues where she thought things were happening, but they were dreams. I am sure this sounded like a good plot. but somehow the way all of this was combined made it more confusing than enjoyable.

The ending had a few points, mainly dealing with a police detective's appearance and actions that didn't ring true.

With all of that criticism, I did actually like the book. It just seemed to try to include too many things without smoothly blending them.

This book kept me guessing until the very end, and then it left me underwhelmed. Some parts had me so confused and I’d have to re-read several paragraphs. I wasn’t very happy with the ending and the big reveal. It seemed like it was pointing one way and went the other, but maybe I just interpreted that wrong. I also hated Layla and thought she was an annoying best friend and person.

Lisa Unger has done it again! I love the way she draws you in with the details, the characters, and keeps you guessing. This was a great read and when your finished you’re left thinking about the characters and reexamining the clues you missed along the way. She also weaved in The Hollows and Jones Cooper for her past readers! Ahhh.....now I’m anxiously awaiting the next book.

At first I was going to give this book maybe 2 stars. The first half of the book was a big mess where you didn't know what was a hallucination, a dream or real life that I almost stopped reading..I am glad I finished this book because it did all come together in the end... Not one of this author's best books but not the worst I have ever read.

This suspense thriller grabbed me right from the start. I read it in one day. The author did a great job of jumping us from current time, to the past and through reality and dream. The flow made it so I felt like I could understand the confusion and trauma Poppy was going through. I highly recommend this one!

I did not finish this book. It was just not for me personally. I won’t do a full review as I didn’t finish the whole book.

Lisa Unger at the top of her game! Wow! Once again, a Unger book i read in one sitting. Poppy is a brilliantly written protagonist that I pulled for on every page. An ending that I did NOT see coming.

I was given an advanced copy of this title in exchange for an honest review. This book was so very well written. It captivated me the entire time!

In Lisa Unger's latest novel <i>Under My Skin</i> our main character, Poppy's husband was brutally murdered a year ago, and she is trying to finally bring the killer to justice. This is complicated by the fact that for Poppy, the line between dreams and waking, reality and fantasy, are blurring and in some cases disappearing completely. She is an unreliable narrator, to say the least.

Though Unger is usually an exceptional storyteller, something about this novel fell flat. The story seemed a little too easy, and it was pretty clear, not too far into the novel, who the real murderer would be which left me a bit disappointed in the end.

That being said, it was still nice quick page-turning read, and at no time was I bored. I would recommend this book to folks who like their thrillers with a side of "is-this-real-or-a-dream?" type narrative.

totally mixed feelings.

I tore into this book and was sailing right along...Then it just seemed to go on for a bit too long.

Poppy is trying to recover from the brutal murder of her husband Jack. After his funeral, she disappeared for a couple of days and she has no recollection of those days. Since then she has become addicted to various meds, mostly sleeping pills. She has vivid dreams that she writes in a book when she wakes so she knows what was a dream and what is real. Her best friend Layla and her husband Mac have been by her side trying to help her through this time. She feels like she is being followed by a man in a hood. No one else knows if this is real or not. She tries dating, Layla signed her up but she's not ready. She meets Noah who helps her get off the pills and start to remember the lost days.
There is a lot of supernatural goings on which sort of lost me. She talks to jack, her former neighbor trying to figure out what is going on. She has a cop on her side trying to help her along.

When the book ended it was just wham, this is what is happening and now it's over. Maybe I was too dense (could be) to pick up on the clues but the ending surprised me. I didn't see it.

I love Lisa Unger's books, but this one disappointed me. I just didn't like the main character. I found her whiney and this just wasn't a favorite for me

I don’t recall reading much of Lisa Unger’s work, but I am somewhat of a sucker for the plucky heroine in danger genre, so I was happy to get a copy of Under My Skin from Harlequin-Hanover Square Press and NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.

I did read this book pretty much in one day, so I was able to keep on track in terms of the plot line, but I wonder if I had been reading a bit at a time over a span of several days (or more) if I might have gotten lost in the story.

The plucky heroine is Poppy, whose beloved husband Jack was murdered while on an early morning run, which Poppy elected to sleep through. The event was so traumatic for her that she had a breakdown and doesn’t remember anything about a stretch of time. She only knows she was found by her uber-wealthy friend Layla and was hospitalized.

The story includes both the reality of Poppy’s life (about a year after the breakdown as she tries to regain the missing time) and her dreams/memories/imagination. Poppy is desperate to get it together: when she looks in the mirror she sees “…a tired, wrung-out version of the person she used to be.”

Poppy and Jack were both photographers who had successfully traveled the world before they settled down and started an agency (also successful), but it’s a bit unclear whether they both were completely happy. And Poppy knows that “Everyone wants you to think their relationship is perfect. But nothing’s perfect, no matter what they post on Facebook.” And Poppy’s view of the world is that of a photographer: “Our faces, our body language, the changing light of a room, every second is different than the one before or after The photographer chooses one among the infinite. It’s both a lie, a trick of light, and an irrefutable truth.”

I loved the writing and the use of language. I am not good at solving the mystery in a book – generally, I get an “aha!” at the end rather than figuring it out, so it isn’t a surprise that I didn’t figure this one out—also, there were several red herrings and plot twists which were good. Personally, I viewed Poppy’s uncertainty about the reliability of her memories/hallucinations as a normal result of the tons of pills she was washing down with alcohol, and thought she was an addict who needed to get straight if she really wanted to get it together.

I had some mixed feelings about the end, but can’t see how another resolution might have worked. I liked it, and it entertained me and made me feel and think, which all adds up to four stars.

A truly fantastic standalone book by Lisa Unger. I just love her writing style and this one didn't disappoint. It was so intriguing not knowing weather Poppy's thoughts were memories or dreams. I will definitely be recommending this one! Great read. Thanks for the advanced copy.

I did not care for this book. I have read other books by this author, but this one was just too depressing.