I think this might be one of the most disturbing problems a parent might experience. Your child's friend dying in your care, while having fun with your child. What could you have done differently, was it your fault? Book was sensitively written while addressing an issue that might happen to you one day.

I flew through this book, with a well-thought-out plot and really believable characters. would definitely recommend it!

Great thriller that kept me turning the pages. Great story, great writing and characters. Really enjoyable and would read this author again.

Great book. Highly recommend and will most defiantly read more by this author and suggest to others!

I would like to thank Bookouture and the netgalley website for allowing me to read this book.

We find Isa and Katie who are best friends, Isa's parents leave her at Katie's parents' house for a summer except that it will turn out badly, Isa will drown at seventeen and that will have an impact on her parents and Katie's parents. Both families will get over their grief except Isa's mother will soon think that Katie's parents know more about her daughter's death than they let on.

A book that I read in one sitting because I was so hooked on the story that was so moving in some parts, gripping, captivating, addictive, full of suspense and twists and turns with very engaging characters.

This book is fantastic. Literally unable to put it down and the twists and turns just keep coming. Some you spot and think you have figured out the hidden story and then you realise that there is more to come!

The characters are so nuanced. There is nothing black or white about any of these characters. They all have so many layers. I went from loving to hating them and back again.

The story is told through a Mother (Louise) and daughter (Katie) first person narrative and we really delve into what make these women tick. The voices were very distinctive and each change of character was very noticeable and individual.

Katie's thoughts as a 17 year old were very relatable and brought back many teenage memories and Louise as the Mum...again was very relatable. She was a much harder character to like...but all the more real for it.

Isa was hateful and wonderful in equal measure...and personality was very intriguing.

The characters are extremely well drawn and I could almost smell that sea air in Montauk... the descriptions are very alive and vibrant.

The story unfolds at a leisurely pace but is all the better for it. I really savoured every word and thought it was brilliant.

Thanks to the author, publisher and Netgalley for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I found this book to be quite sad. It's almost a character study of human nature and how it is people's desire to keep certain things secret. We quickly learn however, that no mater how well-intended our secrets are, they can also bring about devastating consequences. This book is told in two voices: Katie's, a 17 year old girl, and Louise--her mother. As the reader, we too are kept in the dark about many secrets the characters have, but as they are slowly revealed to us, we realize why certain things have happened the way they did. Not going to lie, the final reveal kind of broke my heart.

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I loved how this book was written, and how it was all set. The different points of view brought it together really well. The points of view from teenager to adult.

It showed a normal life of teenagers and the tragedy that can happen but the things you find out, well they shocked me a little if I'm honest!

Really enjoyed this book 😊

The story starts with Isa’s death and the rest if the books is the backstory of events leading up to her tragic death , told from her best friend Katie and Katie’s mother Louise’s points of view.
Iasa went on holiday with Katie’s family to Montauk after her mother asked Louise if she could take her daughter on holiday with them while she tries to repair her marriage after an affair. Katie’s mother isn’t too find of Isa due yo her drinking and drug habits and she feels the two girls have secrets but she reluctantly agrees.

This was an excellent debut from Jennifer Harvey and it kept me hooked the whole way through and I was dying to see what happened to Isa and I can’t wait to read “All The Lies We Told” next !!!!

Thank you to NetGalley, Bookouture and Jennifer Harvey for the ARC of Someone Else’s Daughter my review is honest and unbiased.

The story is told from the perspective of Katie Lindeman and Louise Lindeman and it starts with a dead body...

The Lindemans are away in Montauk for the summer but this time Katie's best friend Isa comes along too but she doesn't come out of it alive.

The story started out really strong - I was so intrigued. I was really taken in by the dynamic between Katie and Isa and for the first 40% I was thoroughly invested... but then it just fell flat.

I found it very slow paced and repetitive. I felt no emotion towards the characters and one character, Alex felt wasted in the story. He could have had a pretty exciting story arc but it was like he just floundered off towards the end when he was no longer needed for the story?! I also found myself racing through to the last 10% just wanting to finish it.

This book gets a 2.5 star rating for me.

Thanks to NetGalley for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

In my world of never ending thriller reads, because it is one of my favorite genres, it is hard to find something that glues me in immediately. This story just fell short for me. I didn't get into it enough to enjoy it, sadly. I got bored throughout as well.

I did enjoy this however it was a bit slow and it felt as though I was just plodding along with it most of the time. It was definitely worth a read as its a good story line but you may have to stick with it in places! Am pleased I finished it though.

Thank you Bookouture and Netgalley

First time reading this author.

This book was off my beaten path and frankly a bit tough for me. I would be open to trying this author again.

This one is a big NO for me. The book seems almost to be backwards. Murder happens in the first few line and it was fast paced. I started thinking this one is going to be good! Then the book dead stopped and moved at a slugs pace of boredom for the rest of the book.

I see that many people agree with me that this book was sort of slow and did not grab me the way I want a book to. I have never read this author before but the description intrigued me. I wanted to like the book but I felt it fell short.

Thank you NetGalley and publisher for the opportunity to read and review this ARC. This book started out fantastic. It slowed down quite a bit and felt a little too slow in some places, but was willing to continue. The characters were good and believable without being annoying as well. Overall I'd be willing to read another book by this author as this was her debut novel I believe.

3-4 stars. This book really started out with a bang, but then it sort of fizzled for me. I had a hard time picking back up and finishing, although I did enjoy and get a few shocks throughout. It was written really well, but just a bit slow paced for me. I love very fast paced, so likely more or a me thing than a book thing! Overall, I think it does have the much sought thrills, chills, twists & turns, and shocks us genre addicts crave! Recommend to those who like the slower paced, more emotional, and pretty writing thrillers!

'Someone Else's Daughter' by Jennifer Harvey started off with so much promise. The prologue starts with a death that seems suspicious and so very sad. How can a family live it down when a teenager dies under their watch over four weeks of a summer at their beach home? Surely they can't. And Isa Egberts! Isa was such a conflicted and confusing personality, playing up to her 17-year-old hormones.

'Someone Else's Daughter' is told from two POVs (points of view): that of Isa's friend, Katie Lindeman, and her mother, Louise. They're on their way to their annual summer vacation in Montauk in Long Island, when Isa is sprung on them. So far, so privileged. The way both Katie and Louise tell it, Isa is trouble; self-centred, selfish, taking and never giving in return. She's all-consuming, like a cartoon from my childhood of a mouth that eats everything in its path/ on the screen. There are no shades of grey in Isa, other than her laughter (read sarcasm) or her happy-go-lucky nature (read lack of compassion or gravitas). Her beauty is described as a trait, but as we all know beauty is only skin-deep.

The storytelling gets in the way in this summer escape gone wrong. Every thought is explained in detail, sometimes over and over in subsequent chapters, every deed foreshadowed, every character over-explained. The reader didn't need Louise to foreshadow the unfolding events in the Lindemans's lives. It spoiled the turn of events post summer (no spoiler). The chronic coincidence between Isa and another character (again, no spoilers) I saw coming a mile away, but hoped against hope that it wouldn't happen. Too bad, it did, in a city the size of NYC, with a population of 8.7 million. Defies belief.

In the middle of all the heat, sand, warm ocean swims in Montauk, we got this unexpected cold – at the funeral, in the midnight swim – on the same day that it was sweltering; it felt like the author was getting her seasons mixed up.

Then there are the expressions: like "is all" or "was all" (instead of 'that's all'), and "was sat", that don't sound Americanisms or even current English spoken in the English diaspora. "Left sat in the hallway, the three of us ". Don't we say, 'left sitting'? Or we'd say, 'I stood', instead of "I was stood" as in the book? It felt like it was supposed to be a historical setting but without the context. The editor should have picked out that we don't laugh words, we speak them. "Ok, second honeymoon," he laughed. Plus, would any teenager have 0000 as their passcode. Would a 17-year-old girl, with all the secrets in the world? Not in my experience. It seemed a convenient plot device.

Then there's the plot. There was surely something secretive and suspicious hinted at about Isa's parents' second honeymoon away, yet by the end the reason felt a bit flat. Then, for Isa's mother, Sarah Egberts, to want revenge is a bit much, when she was absent throughout her daughter's teenage years, and through most of the summer. It is understandable that as Isa got under a lot of people's skins in a bad way, someone could have wanted her dead. Isa tormented nearly everyone in her orbit. But the ending…? Really? We could set up a spoiler comments section, but after reading 300+ pages, the ending felt like a copout.

'Someone Else's Daughter' took a lot of time to get going. It took me longer than usual to finish this book, although usually I can't wait to keep reading. Maybe it was because of the over-explanations and foreshadowing; and that the characters weren't likable or relatable. I love psychological suspense. The plot events in 'Someone Else's Daughter' were fairly predictable. I kept anticipating a twist, a surprise I hadn't considered. However, the genre wasn’t psychological suspense, but more of a family drama.

Three stars for pretty good writing that kept me reading till the end. I look forward to reading more of Jennifer Harvey's novels.

My thanks to Bookouture, NetGalley and Jennifer Harvey for the advance copy of 'Someone Else's Daughter' by Jennifer Harvey in return for an honest review.

"By the end of the summer, Isa will be dead. And I will have to face her mother. I don’t know if I will be able to find the words. How can I begin to explain that she never really knew her daughter at all?". The synopsis sounded intruiging.....

This book is told from two points of view the mother and her daughter who is best friends with Isa. Is a joins their family for their annual summer holiday. It's clear from the start that Louise doesn't want Isa to go with them but having been asked by Isa's parents, who are trying to save their marriage, she feels obliged. Katie is apprehensive about the trip as something has clearly happened between the two girls.

I was intrigued by the synopsis. Unfortunately I didn't really enjoy the book, it took me quite a while to finally finish it just because there was always something I wanted to do more, normally it's quite the opposite! In trying to examine what made me feel this way suppose I wasn't invested in the book - I didn't like the characters at all and it was quite a slow burn. I like psychological suspense and to me this was more along the lines of Jodi Picoult. My feelings are solely based on my own preferences not because of the book. I think lots of people will really enjoy the story. This is the author Jennifer Harvey's debut novel and her writing was good, well developed characters and an emotional, Heartbreaking plot.

Thank you so much Netgalley, Bookouture and the author for kindly giving me the opportunity to read this advance copy of Someone Else's Daughter.

This is a new author for me which I enjoyed reading. I enjoyed how the characters brought the story to life and kept me engaged throughout the story. The twists and turns kept me turning pages fast. The story was easily connectable and I found it easy to read. It is a great story for a Sunday afternoon read and I highly recommend it.