I thought that the synopsis of this book sounded great and was really looking forward to reading it. Sadly, it did not live up to my expectations as the first 70% or so read as an erotic novel rather than any sort of thriller, and not until the last third did the thriller start. I admit, by then I did not have much enthusiasm for the book, but I continued to give the book a chance and although this part was much better than the beginning, it did not do enough to win me over.
Polly is a very disturbed young woman (we find out the reasons for this throughout the course of the book) but this makes her an unlikeable character (and finding out the reasons for her troubles did not make her any more likeable). As Polly is the main protagonist, it is impossible to avoid her.
In my view the book would have been better to be categorised as an erotic novel and spiced up a bit more, as at the moment it falls much too short to be called a thriller.
Thanks to NetGalley for an advanced Kindle copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Thanks Netgalley for a copy to read and review whilst giving my honest opinion.

Polly has drinks late one night with her boyfriends sister, and after taking the train home a stranger gives her a rocking orgasm on a crowded train. Polly is a anorexic woman with a boring boyfriend in a relationship rut. This taste of excitement makes her addicted to finding that man on the train. She later finds a website and link to tubing, which is basically all kinds of hooking up on a train.

My first taste of this book was honestly boring. You can clearly see Polly is unwell, given the fact she is always puking. This is clearly a girl that needs mental help. She lost all interest in everything but what few moments of adrenaline could give her on a train. Lost interest in her job, eating, and the man she had at home. I've not a clue what to think about Oliver and his sisters relationship. It just seemed strange to me since this was Olivers Circle of friends, how did she miss ever meeting them. The ending was also very short, given the lengthy circling in the novel the ending being so short really doesn't make sense. It was a great idea though, the blurb and cover definitely caught my eye. I'm making this a fence book, three stars for entertainment. Even though once I knew this book had puking anorexic and a cheater in it, I still read it through despite it offending me. So warning to anyone thinking that cheating is hard limit.

Thanks Netgalley for allowing me this book. I will post to Amazon and Goodreads after the book comes out.


This book reminded me of Killing Me Softly by Nicci French.

I'm sorry to say this book was absolutely ridiculous. It felt like a complete mess of a plot - and the last 40% was almost an afterthought - as though the author suddenly realized that this book was meant to be a mystery and not simply an erotic romance.

Polly, our protagonist, ends up on the tube after an evening of cocktails with a colleague. While on the tube, a handsome stranger ends up fondling her, while surrounded by a full carriage of passengers. Polly is instantly obsessed with what had happened to her and decides to find out how to make it happen again.

Drawn into the world of "tubing" - where strangers arrange to meet up via twitter, and engage in sexual activities on busy, public tube lines (part of the excitement involves possibly being watched by strangers), Polly not only has encounters with strangers, she also keeps meeting up with "him" - the handsome stranger who initiated her to this world.

Becoming more and more obsessed with her past-time, Polly's relationship with her boyfriend comes under stress, her work suffers and then she witnesses a horrible accident. One that involves her handsome stranger.

And that's when this book goes from being slightly silly to absolutely ridiculous. This book would have been fine as an erotic novel (think Fifty Shades of Grey - only with public sexual intercourse as the focus) - but then a "mystery" was thrown in. In order to connect to two story-lines we get silly connections that pop out of nowhere.

I don't think I was expecting much, other than a little escapism of a read, but this book was a struggle to get through simply because it tried to become more than it needed to be.

Thank you Netgalley and RedDoor Publishing for an advanced copy in return for an honest review.

Not recommended read.

Ominous, risqué, and exceptionally gritty!

Tubing is a spine-chilling, erotic, psychological thriller that highlights just how quickly life can spin out of control when you're driven by sexual desire, engage in destructive behaviour, and play dangerous games.

The prose is sultry and dark. The characters are manipulative, consumed, deceitful, and reckless. And the plot is a fast-paced, incredibly twisty tale that unravels a world filled with power, control, betrayal, obsession, malice, hatred, infidelity, mental illness, seduction, violence, and murder.

Overall, Tubing is a taut, sinister, explicit, shocking tale that kept me absolutely riveted. It's a great debut for McKeagney, and with that kind of imagination, I'm a little scared but extremely excited to read what she comes up with next.

I really wanted to read this because I was hoping for an interesting thriller. Unfortunately I was disappointed. The main character, Polly, is very unlikable. She is happy, more or less, with her handsome and faithful boyfriend but that is all she is. She doesn't seem to have any formal training and is just wiling away her time in a small office where she only pretends to do some work. She and her boyfriend actually live separate lives but she just doesn't seem to care. She tries to avoid serious conversations.
Later in the book we learn that there is more; Polly faced some serious problem in her youth. Sadly this part of her story isn't worked out very well and it ends very abrupt.
I didn't care for the 'erotica' part of this book, mainly because it is not 'erotica' but just some hard porn - which is very boring to read. After the first scene I just skipped over it because it didn't add anything useful to the story.
It is a pity because this book could have been so much more than it is now. Take out the porn, or at least the vivid descriptions, add some more background to Oliver and Polly herself and explain a little bit more about why Polly is such an unsymphatetic character.
I found it only very funny when Polly, sitting in a park after one of her escapades, is commenting on the fact that so many people are sunbathing and showing too much flesh... I can hardly believe this is serious.

Unfortunately, this book did not excite me like some thrillers do, it seemed to be slow and not well developed. I truly expected a very exciting, twisted ride, but it was very slow moving and not well developed. I didn't even finish.

An interesting debut in which I thought the thriller element worked better than the the tubing story. Although the author tried hard to give Polly a character and back story I didn't feel I knew her any better by the end of the book. I would be interested in reading future books by this author however.

Gritty, no frills barred exciting first time novel. Does tubing really exist? don't think i want to know! Dark, seedy, wanton. Think you have the perfect life but then everything goes AWOL, how can a seemingly good girl gone bad get herself out of the mess she has got herself into and the foundations of all she knows and loves not collapse. Definitely a hot summer read five stars for me even though it could do with a little work can't wait to see where her second book takes us hopefully it too will have the shock factor this one has.

I was expecting a gripping story with many twists and turns but a bit disappointed. Don't get me wrong, it was not a bad story but for my taste was a bit slow. This story has great potential to please the right reader but it was not within my liking.

Read this book. It is amazing. My tube journeys will never be the same again! This was totally gripping, from the very first page until the very end. Not gratuitously raunchy, but really gets to the heart of the matter psychologically, and totally unlike anything I have ever read before.

Wow - what a book....and where to start. Tubing is intense to say the least. An uncomfortable read at times, it is full of sex, drama and violence.

After falling into the dark and seedy world to tubing - where people hook up on the London Underground for no strings attached sex (in public no less) - Polly finds herself drawn deeper into the grimy world until she is struggling to find a way out.

Be warned, there is a lot of sex in this book. A LOT. So, if explicit sex scenes make you uncomfortable, then this is not a book for you. Part erotic fiction and part thriller, Tubing moves between the two genres well and has enough of each to keep fans of both interested. However, for Polly, the spiral into tubing is only the latest in a long history of obsessions, and this is where the true heart of McKeagney's story unfolds.

Polly is a disturbed character, set on a course of self-destruct which started long before tubing entered her life. However, in it she finds a new thrill, addition and ultimately a new way to destroy everything she has worked to achieve. Even as her world starts to crumble around her and paranoia sets in, she still can't walk away.

I wouldn't say she's a particularly likable character - in fact I'm not sure anyone in the entire book is - but she is certainly an interesting one. So much so that not only did I want to know how everything came together, but I also wanted to finally see Polly grown a backbone and deal with the situation.

It's hard to say much more without giving away too many spoilers, but let's just say that Tubing will turning page after page to find out how things turn out for Polly. It will also leave you looking at people on the underground a little closer and make you wonder, could this really happen in real life?

I was not a fan of this one. It's supposed to be an erotic thriller, but I didn't find it especially erotic--Polly comes off as so troubled and desperate that her sexual encounters don't read as particularly hot. We're dragged along as she makes bad decision after bad decision and behaves cruelly towards her boyfriend, who is an inexplicably forgiving doormat. By the time the thriller aspect really kicked up, I just didn't care anymore.

The first half of the book was an interesting peek into the world of "tubing"--a mysterious network of strangers hooking up on the train in London. This part of the book worked for me. I found this first half interesting and sexy (Save for the first sexual encounter--she pukes and then tongue-kisses a dude? No thanks.)

The development of this character from a lost, stuck, woman with an eating disorder driven by childhood trauma, into a sexual provocateur who in effect finds her power in a (relationship?) with a nameless stranger, was intriguing to follow. The contrast between her quiet stable life with her boyfriend and her nighttime playacting made for some juicy drama.

Then, about halfway through, the book became more of a sexual thriller. I remained along for the ride although I found this stretch to be at times lacking in plausibility. The build up in drama was still interesting and the climactic scene, dramatic.

But that ending though...most of my docked stars are because of the ending. Not the ending scene, per se, but rather the ridiculously tidy conclusion to the story. Not to get spoilery, but if she's discussed this mystery man with the police (twice) and with her work friend once (with all the salacious details), if she's threatened someone in order to get his contact info (someone who hates her), and sent him a rather damning tweet, SHE'S PART OF HIS STORY. She most certainly will be tied to whatever happens to him next.

Overall, this was a quick and compelling read that ultimately disappointed me in the end (it's almost as if the author didn't quite know how to wrap up the story, so it...just...kind of....stopped.) This choppiness made the book less enjoyable overall.

Thanks to the author and NetGalley for granting me the opportunity to read this book in exchange for an honest review.

Wow. Just wow. I don't even know where to start or how to even put together my thoughts about this book. I read it in one sitting. It was a thrilling, fast-paced, can't-put-it-down page turner. Loved it!

DNF so I will not be rating or reviewing. Thank you for the opportunity to read this title.

WOW WOW WOW. This book drew me in like it was a whirlpool. What a riveting read!

What a debut! I loved this book and it kept me gripped right up until the last page. It’s such an original storyline and the perfect psychological thriller. I’ll definitely be reading more books from this author.

The story is quite intense in the start, Polly seems to be the kind of tough and strong woman. Dispite her being so drunk on her third anniversary with her boyfriend Oliver, however I felt horrible for a woman who is alone with friend in a bar, drinking until drunk. And then, now Polly meet some stranger in the tub, I do understand that one and only eye-contact can attrack all kinds of emotion from a woman. And the fact that Polly is drunk, she will definitely need this kind of attraction from a man.
Its really interesting to read, highly recommend if looking for erotic thriller. I will give a 4 star for this book. I voluntarily rea and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

WOW! This book was excellent. I had never heard of "tubing" and am still not sure if it's actually something that happens, but the concept caught my attention from the beginning. Then the rest of the book held my interest just as much. I was absorbed into the story so much. I really enjoyed this one.

This book is all over the place.

A horrid, boring girl called Polly decides that she's not quite satisfied with everything that she has and somehow ends up having a random sexual encounter on a tube train with a stranger.
Polly has a past which is quite troubled (don't they always) and no real friends or certainly no decent support to give her a kick up the arse when she's being an idiot and taking things too far. Oh and she also has an eating disorder which stems from her mum who was jealous of the relationship that Polly had with her father.

I don't think I could describe this book as being enjoyable. I wouldn't choose to read it again and certainly wouldn't recommend it to anyone else. To be honest, I'm quite glad that it's over.