Ooooh, loved the slow unwinding creepiness of this thriller! Well done!

Thank you Netgalley for the e-review edition of this book in exchange for an honest review! Will read more by this author!

I love books where the main character is an unreliable stalker! I have read quite a few of these types of books and the author will either slay it or wreck it. This one? Karen Hamilton SLAYED it. Not since I read YOU by Caroline Kepnes has a book like this become an addiction of mine.

3.5 Stars.

This is a crazy story! It’s hard to believe that there are actual people in the world like Juliette. It is hard to write a lot without giving anything away, it’s best to go into this one blind, and let it unravel in front of you.

Thank you to The publisher, the author, and Netgalley for the ARC!

Thanks for the early review copy!

I recommend this novel to fans of thrillers. It was well-written and interesting novel.

The blurb of the book promised exactly what it gave, but without the style and substance. Maybe the editor who wrote the blurb should have been given a chance to write the book, because Hamilton didn't deliver.

Readers have to be able to empathize or invest emotionally in at least one of the book's characters. In this instance, I thought they could all go rot.

Thanks to NetGalley and Harlequin-Graydon House Books for a preview copy of this book in return for an honest review. The book had potential. When I read the synopsis I was intrigued by the story of an ex-girlfriend who was determined to win back the love of a man she felt she deserved. I was disappointed and wanted to give up reading it but struggled to its ending.

The story is told in the first person by Juliette, the psycho ex-girlfriend whose stalking and plotting became boring to me. It lacked suspense. I felt it needed other narrators with their points of view which would give the reader a break from the rambling narrative as Juliette becomes more deranged and desperate. The last part of the book becomes over dramatic and implausible.

I felt the flashbacks did not contribute to the plot and failed to evoke any feeling of sympathy in me for her dreadful behaviour towards acquaintances and especially towards Nate who ended their relationship six months earlier.Juliette seemed completely without conscience. Unfortunate events in her past might have led to depression or other emotional problems, but not to the psychopathic personality she seemed to possess.

Her extreme stalking behaviour included not only following people. She made copies of their keys and would sneak into apartments, planting an app to monitor computer activity, reading their Facebook postings,etc. She even got a job on the same airline where Nate was a pilot.

Because she remained so in love with Nate she was determined to have a life with him through any means necessary. This obsessive love was not reciprocated and she was increasingly making his life miserable. His feelings had no impact on her. Her intrusion into his family events in the later part of the book were farfetched and chaotic.

Does Juliette win the life with Nate that she felt she deserved? Does the abrupt open ended/non-ending give the reader the fate they think she deserved?

Joe Goldberg (see "You" written by Caroline Kepnes) has just about met his match--. Juliette aka Elizabeth aka Lily can be sweet, she is a good cook, but she was raised by an alcoholic and lost her little brother at a young age so she is also damaged, spiteful, and most importantly she CANNOT and WILL NOT get over her break up with her ex-boyfriend and soul mate Nate. EEK!!!! this is a train wreck that I could not stop reading about.. I highly recommend to people who like the unlikeable crazy characters that authors somehow make up in their imagination. Karen Hamilton has hit a home run out of the ball park with her first time up at bat. Excellent writing and character development-being in Juliette's head made me nauseous a lot of the time:)

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a chance to read and review and give an honest opinion on this book. (less)

Most thrillers cast the man as the villain and the woman as the victim. In this story, however, the woman, Juliette refuses to believe that her relationship with her boyfriend is over, and she’ll do anything to get him back. A fast paced thriller with a wicked twist