Terrific a chilling page turner. First book for me by Carola Levering she weaves an amazing story,.Characters that come alive a story that had me gasping.Run grab this book.#netgalley #st.martinspress.

Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read this book for an honest review.

This is a story about retribution and deceit between Skye, Burke and Heather. It’s a well crafted plot told by these three main characters. Each character is well developed but each character have their own burdens to contend with. I enjoyed this story however I thought it was overly long at the end . I recommend this book with 4 stars.

Three POVs, a struggling couple in mid-forties who has insufferable financial problems and a nearly thirty years old young woman who can be a great solution to fix everything goes wrong in their lives :

Heather, longing to perfectly balanced, wealthy life since the beginning of their marriage and her husband Burke is the reason they lost everything with his tremendous mistake and now he thinks they have a chance to way out. He’s going to seduce trust fund baby: Skye who is getting closer to be 30, suffering from OCD, cannot build a real relationship because of her mental illness.

The plan is simple: Burke will marry with the girl without prenup and when they get divorce, he’ll also get his share of money which will help him to compensate the financial loss and provide a better life for his family. That’s what written on Burke’s diary. But the plans can change or the narrators can be inaccurate so be wise and careful when you decide who is telling the truth, who is keeping big secrets for conducting his/ her dangerous plan to serve his/ her hidden agenda.

This book is so smart, addictive and entertaining with too many jaw dropping, WTF moments and shocking twists. Especially two biggest twists are perfectly crafted. Thanks to my spider senses I found out one of them from the beginning but the other one caught me off guard. I still nod my head in disbelief and tell myself how I didn’t see it coming.

I’m not gonna give more spoilers but I have to admit: this book is brilliant and all those flawed characters’ narration parts may be too long but you cannot stop reading and you want to learn more about their dark secrets and how their minds work. You dislike those characters but you start to understand what they’ve been through clearly and begin to question yourself what you would do if you were exactly at the same situation.

The romance parts are a little exaggerated and I just rolled my eyes when I read some parts but it also help me to empathize with the characters.

Overall: If some pages have been discarded, shortened, this would have been more fast paced and intriguing read. So I’m cutting one star and giving four mind bending, entertaining, whirlwind, exciting stars!

I’m looking forward to read the other works of the author.

Special thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for sharing this unputdownable ARC with me in exchange my honest thoughts.

Wow, Carola Lovering has truly knocked it out of the park with Too Good to Be True! I devoured Carola’s first novel (Tell Me Lies) so I was going into Too Good to Be True with high expectations—those expectations were met and exceeded!!!! I enjoyed how the storyline had many layers that were brilliantly unveiled one layer at a time! I was 100% on the hook the entire way through and the well placed twists and turns made this book unputdownable! Too Good to Be True is a 5 star read that I think would make a fantastic book club selection! Carola Lovering has officially become an automatic 1-click for me and I am so excited to see what she comes out with next!

Delicious fun!

This exceptionally well-crafted thriller takes the "unreliable narrator" theme to new heights. I was completely tricked by some of the very clever twists and turns in the beginning of this book.

This story is probably best to go into blind, but I will tell you it is told in part by a man, Burke, who may or may not be too good to be true. It also features two women, Skye and Heather, who have significant obstacles in their pasts. Reading these narrators allows you to pick your favorite, and then maybe have the rug pulled out from under you.

While I loved the tone and the characters, what I am really most impressed with in this book is the mystery and the construction of the plot. In the very beginning of the book I was rolling my eyes and yelling at the book (internally, MOSTLY) about what I thought were plot holes. Somehow as if by magic (and using several very clever twists and devices), the plot totally filled those holes and everything came together. I was extremely impressed with how it was all executed. My one complaint, which is a serious nitpick of an otherwise awesome book, is that at some point at the very end I kept waiting for another shoe to drop or another twist that never came. Maybe I am the victim of too many overly twisty thrillers that I have gobbled up this year. But this book was pretty much perfectly plotted, deliciously told, entertaining AF, and just very fun and addictive reading. The ending was also great, even though it was different from what I expected. This is my first book by Carola Lovering, but it is so good (almost "Too Good To Be True") that I will purchase her next book plot unseen. It is a very, very well-written, smart, well-plotted thriller. More than that though, it is just deliciously fun, and a great quarantine escape.

Thanks to NetGalley, St. Martin's Press and Carola Lovering for the ARC of this book. This review is my own. This book gets an almost perfect 4..75 stars from me! (Because nobody in the book is quite perfect, and they all have their own flaws that make them interesting, this seems to fit.) Great book that is a cut above the rest of the summer thriller crop.

A book about relationships, heartache, revenge and mental health. Although I finished this book-it was challenging to do so. Long, without a lot of content. The reader gets to experience all characters’ point of view and that was a plus. I found the “mystery” an easy one to solve.

I couldn't finish this book. The writing was trite, the characters one-dimensional, and the plot line was, at the same time, overly convoluted and too simplistic.

First let me say that I was a huge fan of Carola Lovering's debut novel <b> Tell Me Lies </b> to this day I cannot get over Lovering's ability to write about toxic relationships and heartbreak.

The theme of heart break and toxic relationships continues in Lovering's sophomore novel <b> Too Good To Be True </b>. In it we meet 29 year old Skye who suffers from OCD and was never able to find love, just a series of one night stands, that is until one summer day she meets Burke, ten years her senior who doesn't judge her for her compulsive tendencies and wants to spend the rest of his life with her. For the first time Skye is truly happy and she owes it all to Burke who in less than a year proposes. Everyone in Skye's life thinks things are going too fast they all think this is too good to be true.... is it?

Honestly, I enjoyed reading this book- it is the perfect beach read, light with a bit of tension to keep you invested. Granted I saw the twist coming from a mile off and I rolled my eyes a bit. I also felt the ending was unrealistic and the lengths the antagonist went through seemed like a whole lot but... I guess there are sick people out there...

Overall a nice likkle read.

Amazing!! I got just two hours of sleep last night... this book simply wouldn't let me go. The characters were great from start to finish! The storytelling - done though journal entries and regular chapters - was brilliant.

I received this book "To Good to Be True" from NetGalley and all opinions expressed are my own. This book was good from beginning to end. I thought the characters were great and the story was amazing. I didn't want to put this down. Lots of twists and turns. Great book! I will be reading more from this author.

Enjoyable read, good characters, a well thought out plot that kept me engaged throughout. I did not care for the ending.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers for an ARC in exchange for my honest opinion.

This is the first book from Carols Lovering and it probably won’t be the last. Too Good To Be True is a suspense novel told by the view point of Burke, Skye, and Heather. The book had me on the edge of my set wondering what was going on. I found the story and it characters to be very well written. However, I did find the ending to be some what unsatisfying.

Thank you Netgalley, St. Martins press for the ARC.

This was a fast paced read. I enjoyed the multiple POVs and felt this helped the story move forward quickly. I do feel, however, that the ending was lacking.

While I enjoyed reading Carola Lovering’s ‘Too Good To Be True’ in record time, I felt that the ending negated the entire story that was creatively crafted and was truly fun to read and ultimately left me feeling empty and frustrated that the story came together far too easily and pat. Everybody got what they wanted with no repercussions.

Throughout Part One of the novel, I compared the writing, pacing, and build up to be on par with my enjoyment of Gillian Flynn’s ‘Gone Girl,’ Paula Hawkins’ ‘Girl on the Train,’ and B.A. Paris’ ‘Break Down.’ I honestly enjoyed learning the story from three different perspectives and in three different timelines. This part of the novel was fresh and innovative. I cared for each of the characters as they revealed themselves and their flaws. However, as Part Two began, the story exposed a variety of flips and suddenly the book lost its freshness, ingenuity, and originality. I did enjoy the strength of the girls’ friendship circle and the family support Skye has and found that real and hopeful. I found Heather’s isolation contrived and Burke’s complicity far-fetched. As I was finishing the last chapter, I *wished* that there would have been just one more entry…this time from ‘Paul’ and his plans to con Heather. That would have made the ending so much more satisfying.

Overall, this was a fun, quick weekend read, perfect for the beach. But don’t expect too much or anything surprising.

Full Disclosure: I was given a free PDF Advanced Reader’s Copy of ‘Too Good To Be True’ via Net Galley in exchange for an honest review of this book.

I received a copy of TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE on NetGalley in exchange for my honest review. Thank you to the author and publisher for this opportunity.

FIVE stars and here’s why:

CAROLA LOVERING kept me reading all day – I couldn’t put it down! It was very intense and the fast pace writing kept me turning page after page and before I knew it, I blew all my to-do list and finished the book! The three points of view was completely well written so that you really got a good sense of each character, and the author really has character development done in spades. If you love suspense stories that will keep you riveted the entire time, excellent writing, and characters that won’t leave you alone, , then this book is for you. I read it in one sitting just to find what happened next. Highly recommend!

I really, REALLY enjoyed this book. I ate it up in just a few sittings. I loved the backstory of Heather and Burke, especially how Heather's life tied back to Skye. The characters, whether you loved them or hated them, we SO well developed. I really felt compassion towards Heather, even though she purposely set out to make someone hurt the way she had been hurt in the past. I fell in love with Skye, and understood how Burke did as well.... I don't want to give anything away, but I absolutely adored this rollercoaster of a book. I will be recommending this one, as it is hands down one of the best books I have read in a long, long time.

Having loved Carola Lovering’s debut, Tell Me Lies, I was over the top excited to receive a copy of Too Good to Be True. Admittedly, I am huuuuge fan of toxic relationships (probably shouldn’t boast that so much) - at least in books, that is! Upon diving into THTBT, I immediately learned there was some sort of triangle and the relationships were all as toxic as they come. Color me hooked! While this one is definitely different from Tell Me Lies, it has the same binge-worthy quality where you can’t stop turning the pages and your jaw will drop. I ultimately enjoyed this one a great deal and continue to look forward to reading what Lovering writes in the future!

#Too Good To Be True #Net Galley

"Too Good To Be True" but is it? When a young, rich, beautiful lady with a slight mental disorder finds her true love, she can't believe it. Caught up in a whirlwind romance Skye Starling is on top of the world until she returns from her perfect honeymoon. Then the bottom of her world falls out. She is devastated.

This book is a perfect de3scription of character development. First, you meet Skye; then Burk, her older yet perfect boyfriend/husband; then Heather, Burke's wife and Skye's long lost babysitter, who still holds a grudge against Skye's family.

However, everyone gets what they want (not deserve) in the end. I enjoyed this book, but would have preferred a different ending.

Skye cannot help keeping looking at her left hand. After a whirlwind relationship, a proposal was the last thing that she expected. She suffers from OCD and has much self-doubt, especially after the tragic death of her mother. But she is smart, beautiful, and well off.

The man at the center of her life is Burke Micheals. He is an older man but handsome, loving, and intellectual. Something Skye had never experience before. But there are truths that are being withheld. And he has something planned for Skye.

Too Good to Be True is a story told from present to past and in alternating voices of Skye, Burke, and Heather. As the story unfolds we meet Skye in the present as she meets Burke at a resort in Montauk. We learn about Burke's point of view through journal entries, something he learned at couple’s counseling years ago. And then introduce Heather, Burkes first love whom we meet in the past. The narration travels back and forth through multiple perspectives seamlessly and at about the halfway point, we are privy to Heather’s most intimate thoughts. This is a twist that hooks the reader with the past, present, and future all crashing together.

The best aspect of the novel is the rich character development. The back and forth build layers providing the context of each character's behavior. Journal entries jump back and forth and provide great suspense while creating a dramatic storyline. And who is being reliable? it’s definitely a great ride with a crash ending.


Thank you, NetGalley, St. Martin’s Press, and Carola Lovering for the arc in exchange for my honest review.

Overall, an interesting, dark and yet, hopeful novel about choices. Skye is a sweet character who searches for love, but her OCD is an obstacle. Burke, too, is searching but doesn't quite know for what until he meets Skye. These two do find each other, but dark forces are also at play. This author does a great job with dialogue, character interactions keep the plot moving forward.