Dead to Her is a novel set in the Southern glory of Savannah Georgia, rich with privilege, dark rooted mystery and incestuous relationships.

When Marcie Maddox, a second wife meets William Radford's young bride Keisha, she is consumed with jealousy. After all, Keisha is the younger version of herself as a second wife. But as Keisha's guards start to drop, a fast passionate relationship unfolds between them.

Old friendships and loyalty start to rear their ugly heads and William falls prey to murder. Many have the motive to want this wealthy man dead and Marcie and Jason Maddox along with Keisha are tangled in the game outside of their control.

Dead to Her begins with some good character development. Initially, I was drawn into the drama of Marcie, a second wife with a past that would be frowned upon in the inner circle. After all, she sought out the affair to marry for wealth. Unformtualy, she became a desperate unlikeable character mid-way through the plot. Keisha's shattered life in London was turned into the cliche fairy tale life. It was likely that she would marry for money but her distaste for her husband made it punishment. Keisha's character was perhaps the most real element of this novel and I enjoyed her unraveling.

However, this novel rides on a few characters and provides a plot that seems simplistic and marred with voodoo witchery. I did finish the novel and never the less felt entertained

Overall, a very entertaining first half of the novel. Thank you, NetGalley, HarperCollins Publishers and William Morrow for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Personally not for me. I couldn’t get past the dramatic rich old people.
I wish the author lots of luck and success with this book even though it wasn’t my type of book.

Marcie Maddox has worked hard to become part of the privileged set of high society in Savannah, Georgia.  After the initial shock the city's old money had over her affair with Jason, the pair married and Marcie has since enjoyed the country club and now the ultimate status symbol of a grand Southern home.

Marcie's heading into her mid-30's, the youngest in their inner circle ...until the new Mrs. William Radford IV arrives.  
William, Jason's boss, has taken a trip abroad after the loss of his wife of many years.  He arrives home from London months earlier than expected with the sexy 20-something Keisha who is ready to step into her place as the vivacious second wife.

Marcie's jealousy of Keisha's youth is soon overshadowed by the spark she sees between Keisha and Jason.

Oh, this book.  It's a tale of old money set in the perfect Southern city with plenty of secrets and betrayals.  Every single character is shallow and completely unlikeable but each time I thought I had them figured out, they surprised me with a twist.  Thanks to each character's secrets, their motivations are never known to the reader until the author is ready to dish. 

Dead to Her is like a soap opera with lots of wealthy, insecure people and some murder and voodoo thrown in for good measure.  Ridiculous at times, I was still entertained enough to wade through the domestic drama that dragged on to find out what kind of over the top final twist would be delivered.  It was wicked but also a bit underwhelming.

I'm on the fence here.  It was compulsively readable with all the twists but I needed more from certain aspects of the story (I don't want to spoil it by explaining what, exactly) for the ending to shake me up.

Thanks to William Morrow and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC in exchange for my honest review.  Dead to Her is scheduled for release on February 11, 2020.

Thank you to NetGalley and HarperCollins for providing an ARC in exhcange for an honest reveiw.

Dead to Her is full of secrets and deception among "friends". This novel is set among the elite in Savannah, Georgia. Marcie is the second wife trying to fit in among her husbands friends and wives
who grew up together. She had an affair with Jason and he left his wife and married her.
Yikes! What an uncomfortable start to a new life. Will she ever fit in? She isn't like the others. She's been married to Jason for 6 years when the novels starts and she is the youngest of the wives until her husbands friend and busines partner William brings home his new wife Keisha, who is 40 years younger than his first wife, less than a year after his wifes death. I say brings home because he was out of the country for a while which is how they meet. Keisha is younger than Marcie, carefree and beautiful. Marcie becomes jealous of Keisha and fears her husband is cheating on her. This part was very predictable to me. I knew which way it would go and wasn't surprised at all. Marcie being jealous of Keisha is not what the book is about but I don't want to spoil it. There is mystery and a lot of questions. The friend group is full of history and secrets. The characters are all developed so beautifully.
This is a very fun read and I enjoyed the ride. There is some black magic and I lost a little bit of interest. I kept getting all of the characters mixed up and was having a hard time with the their names. The novel started to move slowly somewhere in the middle for me. However, things picked right back up and I love the way it ended. It wasn't much of a suprise. I guessed all most all of what I think I should have been wowed by but I really liked the book. I have never read a novel by Sara Pinboruh but I will be starting Behind her Eyes next.

An insane psychological thriller that is reminiscent of Desperate Housewives meets a voodoo murder mystery.

This is set among a group of Savannah Georgia’s more wealthy couples with a back and forth narrative between a set of second wives to current business partners. Marcie Maddox is a well established second wife to Jason with a desperate want to climb to the top of the social ladder, she’s the youngest of the wives and has been building a steady respectable rapport over the years. In enters Keshia, the even younger new second wife to widower William she’s wild, sexy and eye-catching even to Jason second in line to take over Williams business once he retires. Lies, deception, sex, unearthing the past, there is so much to this extremely intensely twisting novel that always keeps you guessing. Sarah Pinborough is brilliant. This will be one of the most talked about thrillers of 2020 I can already see it. Go ahead and add this to your to be read stack it releases February this coming year and will make some serious waves.

Set among the exclusive upper echelon of Savannah society this is the story of 2 seconds wives and what they are willing to do to be a part of the group, or at least leave their own lives of struggles and poverty behind. It is a story that leaves you wondering if you can trust anyone and what is really the truth.

This was a quick and easy read, but not necessarily an excellent one. The beginning started off with promise, but the characters became more and more unlikable and the content shifted to unnecessary sex scenes (especially with the old guy — blech!). Add in voodoo and you’ve got one helluva strange plot. Not my cup of tea.

Thank you to NetGalley, HarperCollins and William Morrow for this advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

This was a bit too soap-perish for me...little mystery...lots of drama. Some of it silly. The book started out good but dropped off in interest almost like someone else took over writing. The middle of the book dragged and then in the end the book sort of redeemed itself. I would probably not recommend this to anyone but I can see how it might appeal to another kind of reader. Thank you NetGalley for the advanced readers copy for review.

Once again Sarah Pinborough knocks it out of the park. I absolutely loved how strange this book was. If I hadn't already read Behind Her Eyes and Cross Her Heart and loved them I probably wouldn't have picked this one up but she has me as a devoted fan now!

The beginning of this book caught my attention and I was anxious to see where the author was going with this story. As it progressed I became less involved and cared less and less for the characters. The voodoo references were off putting and I began losing interest. There were enough twists and turns that propelled the story along so I held on and finished the book. All in all, I just don’t have intense feelings for the story one way or another. #DeadtoHer #netgalley

Marcie is Jason’s second wife and Keisha is William’s second wife. Both married into high-powered wealth, both have questionable pasts and all have secrets..

When stunningly beautiful Keisha unexpectedly turns up as William’s new bride, temper’s start to flare in Marie and Jason’s relationship, and the bad juju’s start to flare all around.

A mysteriously steamy thriller that toddles with both a domestic thriller vibe and a southern voodoo vibe. This book is not at all what I had expected, and I will admit, there are bits and pieces in it where she lost me for a few minutes because of it teetering away from the domestic thriller sense, but I was still unable to put it down! I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and I thank #NetGalley, HarperCollins, and Sarah Pinborough for the opportunity! #DeadToHer

This really was one of those jaw dropping reads that all of you thriller lovers will want to read in 2020.

I stared at the pages like this 😳 and then a little of this 🤭 and some of this 😱 too. This book has scandal, jealousy, and plenty of drama to be a guilty pleasure read. It takes place among members of wealthy Southern high society where the superficial pearl clutching wives worry about being displaced by a younger attractive and more interesting new wife on the scene. The story has a lot of adult scenes and and sexual moments so definitely don’t read it if you’re not open minded to that and all that it entails.

Overall, this was a high quality chick-lit read. It’s dark, disconcerting and even has some voodoo mixed in to spice things up. The main characters are all unlikable and it was interesting and chilling to read from these sketchy AF perspectives. It wasn’t what I was anticipating. This story is unique and goes out in a blaze of haunting glory.
3.5 stars out of 5 and rounded up to 4 for this review.

WOW!!!!!!!!!!! Just like her last book Sarah Pinborough's newest book comes w/twists, curveballs, and some definite wtf's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This book had me not wanting to put it down and if I had to thinking bout when I could pick it up again. We have Marcie, a hot youngish woman who married into high society. Enters Keisha, a younger hot woman who also marries into the society club, whom Marcie began to suspect is after her husband. Well Marcie is not putting up w/that crap and is not giving up her husband, and their lavish lifestyle for anything in the world. Thank you soooo much to Netgalley and William Morrow for my honest review

2.5 stars. I thought Behind Her Eyes was fantastic, and I liked Cross Her Heart, but this one just didn't do it for me. I actually really enjoyed the first half or so, but after that it started to feel like such a slog and I didn't care about these people at all. If you like reading about rich people problems you might enjoy this one, but I often enjoy books along that line and couldn't get into it here. By the end I just didn't care what happened to any of these characters.

DNF at 20%. None of the characters were likable, relatable or interesting. A very flat storyline and became a chore to read. I am not typically one to fall asleep while reading, but after 3-5 pages my eyelids would drop. I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review. Special thanks to NetGalley and the publisher, but I hope my next NetGalley read is more entertaining.

This book was intense. It was full of mystery and intrigue. I enjoyed the twists and turns. They kept me guessing!

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for allowing me to read an ARC of Dead to Her.

Dead to Hear left me guessing what was coming at every turn. I flew through this book wanting to know what was next. Pinborough left me thinking about the characters even when I wasn't reading. This is my second book by Sarah Pinborough and I can't wait to read more!

Dead To Her explores revenge and its long reaching tentacles...Marcie is married to Jason; she’s a second wife who doesn’t quite fit in with the Savannah society ladies, but even she is a better fit than William Radford’s new, MUCH younger wife Keisha. As Keisha bewitches the men and earns the contempt of the women, Marcie’s paranoia multiplies as she’s convinced that her husband will betray her with Keisha. There’s more at play here, however; Marcie’s own dark past isn’t quite buried, and it makes her a suspect when people are targeted, money is missing, affairs are suspected, and secrets long past are brought back to life.
Savannah is clearly meant to set a gothic yet proper setting for this novel about society gone wrong. However, Pinborough would’ve been advised to research deeper into the complexity that is Savannah; her perspective is cliche and uninteresting. Voodoo, old murders, mistresses...none of it gains focus as the plot is overly crowded and unclear. The pacing is languorous, which works partially, but suspense never quite reaches the needed fever pitch to make this a win.

Having read and liked Behind Her Eyes, I was pretty sure I would enjoy this, but I really didn't. Right from the beginning I found in rather bland and off-putting, I could tell I didn't want to get to know these characters, the plot and setting were not adding much either. I pushed through and the payoff wasn't really there.

No doubt about it. The girl knows how to spin a yarn! Sarah Pinborough’s new book Dead To Her may not have quite the mind blowing conclusion of her novel Behind Her Eyes however there are twists and turns aplenty to satisfy a thriller reader. The plot sometimes requires a blurring of one’s logical sense but that is worthwhile for this enjoyable book.