This was my first audiobook advanced copy through NetGalley. There were 3 different points of view and 3 different narrators: His, Hers, and a mystery killer. I was smug because I thought I knew whodunit from the beginning, but I was wrong. I really enjoyed this one - it’s more on par with Sometimes I Lie than her previous novel. The mystery killer had a distorted voice, so I didn’t really care for that narrator, but it was infrequent enough to not be an issue. Both of the other narrators were great! Thank you to NetGalley for allowing me to review this audiobook— and for finally having that option!

Thank you @netgalley and @macmillan.audio for this free audiobook.
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71 • HIS AND HERS by Alice Feeney
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Are you looking for a riveting audiobook performed by fantastic narrators that will make you never want to stop listening? Look no further! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 It’s rare that a thriller keeps you guessing until the very end, but that was absolutely the case here. The author makes you think every character could potentially be the killer. Now that I know how it ends, I want to go back and listen again to pick up on clues I might’ve missed. If you enjoyed Samantha Downing’s My Lovely Wife or Alex Michaelides’ The Silent Patient, then I think you will love this latest from Alice Feeney.

4.5 stars!

What is there not to love about this book? For the very beginning I was drawn in by the creepy vibes and the mystery of who exactly the narrators were! I loved the vibes through this book and how we realize that everything fits together; expected or not, the execution was wonderful! I finished this book in under 24 hours and I would highly recommend this for anyone looking for a great, quick pace thriller!


Thank you for so much for my ARC of these book! It's definitely going to be on my list of favorites from this year.

I liked but not loved the last Feeney book I read, but I'm pleased to say I really really enjoyed this one! It excels in keeping you on the edge of your seat and questioning everything. Where this book really shines is in the pacing. It isn't too fast that it feels rushed, but there is constant forward progress to keep you questioning and on your toes. I can't say I had the ending figured out, but I did know something was off.

The audiobook was fantastic. The creepy killer voice along with the two cast narration was wonderful. I think it really added to the experience and the narrators did a great job.

5 out of 5 stars

Thank you to Netgalley and Macmillan Audio for allowing me to listen to this in exchange for an honest review.

Audio has become my favorite medium and I listen to tons of audio books and I have heard a lot of narrators, some bad some god but these narrators were fantastic! Richard Armitage and Stephanie Racine did a really good job of introducing you to the characters and of making you care about them. I also want to say the this audio book was packaged really well. You hear the POV of Anna, Jack and the killer and the killer's voice is masked the whole time. Super awesome!

After losing her job as a news reader and getting pushed back into the correspondence field again she returns to the home town she escaped from at 16 to cover the murder of an old school friend/enemy. Jack left London a few years ago and is now the head of police in the town of Blackdown only to find that the murder victim is someone whom he has been having a secret relationship.

This is a taut, well written and rather twisted thriller that is a must read this Summer!

tw: rape, animal mutilation, graphic violence

THIS!!!!THIS BOOK RIGHT HERE...is easily my favorite of the year thus far. If this isn’t on your TBR list yet you need to add it right now! If you do not pick this book up you are missing out.

I didnt read His/hers but instead listened to the audiobook version and HOLY SHIT. This isnt my first Feeney novel but it was my first audiobook and I have no regrets. Not only did Feeney write a phenonominal novel, the narrators brought it so clearly to life.

There are two sides to every story: yours and mine, ours and theirs, His & Hers. Which means someone is always lying. Flawless misdirection and unreliable narrators come together to form a darkly twisted, chilling, fast-paced novel.

The back and forth kept me guessing and putting pieces together right until the bitter end. Not only do we hear the story from HIS and HER persepective there is a third person, The Murderer. The alternating between ALL three perspectives had me doubting everyone, and just whenI thought I figured it out...BAM..another plot twist.

I recieved a digital copy of this book from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

What a wild ride! Told from multiple untrustworthy perspectives, in and then & now mixed timeline, this thrilling story will have you on the edge of your seat, trying to sort out what the heck is going on! Although there was a lot going on, I loved every page of it. Alice Feeney did it again!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for giving me a much appreciated audiobook download, in exchange for an honest review.

So, this authors books always have some totally unbelievable and unrealistic endings, twist. They continue to entertain me one after another though. This book was no different. I thought I had it all figured out, of course I didn’t, I never do. I would recommend this book for a fun ride, but if you’re the type of person who likes stories to be realistic, then this book is not for you.

This was a very good thriller and the narration was very well done. I have liked all the Alice Feeney titles I have read and this one didn't disappoint. Told from different perspectives moved it along well. Reommended.

Wow, what a RIDE. This book had me guessing until the very last minute. This is my first book by Alice Feeney, and it was a doozy! The dynamics in this book were absolutely insane, and have reaffirmed my fear of having a daughter, but goodness, what these characters go through is outrageous. I would have loved more back story on each of the girls in the circle, because some of their motivations just escape me. I love the general premise of this novel, and i really enjoyed the back and forth narration between the main characters. This book did have a bit more sex/sexual abuse/domestic abuse/animal abuse than I read, and i might offer that as a content warning for future readers. Alice Feeney's writing style is great and very cohesive even while switching through the various narrators and points of view, it just felt like every bad and taboo thing that could occur to teenage girls was jammed in the book, and other information like the motivations and backstories of the various characters were left out.

Thank you so much for allowing me to read and review this title early!

I enjoyed many things about this audiobook. I loved the narration of the book. I liked the characters and the way the book was constructed. The writing was great but I didn't particularly like the storyline. It felt like just a mediocre thriller in my opinion but I've seen many people loving it so I still suggest giving it a try!

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for providing access to the audiobook in exchange for an honest review.

This marks my first-ever audiobook ARC! And I am both excited and thankful that I got to listen to Feeney's third novel, as I previously listened to her first two books.

The sound quality and the app's function are both a little clunky. The book took a very long time to download and the app suddenly quit a few times, too. Listening at home made it not such a big deal, but listening in the car presented more of a problem. The tinny sound quality also was a bit distracting - and persisted no matter what speakers or headphones that I used. For the POV through the voice modulator, this especially took some getting used to and somewhat reduced the creepiness that I think was intended. But, I got used to it, and the performers themselves did a wonderful job of bring "his" story of Hack, who works as a detective on a string of murders that become increasingly personal to him, and "hers" of Anna, a new presenter who is suddenly demoted to return as a correspondent covering the killings.

The story moves quickly, with plenty of twisting turns, secrets buried and lies all around - making it hard to tell just what is the truth after all. It keeps the listener guessing until the final twist, which I think some will find more shocking than others. I did correctly guess at a few of the plot points, but others were certainly bigger shocks. I appreciated the way Feeney weaves in the pasts of the characters - and the ending, though surprising, never crossed the line into feeling like being purposefully manipulative which can really spoil a book for me. Really, I enjoyed this one a lot and I am definitely looking forward to seeing what Feeney will write next. She's a talented author and does a great job of casting doubt on all of the characters. It is quite well done!

Fantastic book! The author did such a great job casting suspicion on everyone, I was floored by the ending.
Told in multiple POV we hear from Anna Andrews, a journalist working her dream job wit the BBC news, who catches the murder case in Blackdown Woods. We hear from DCI Jack Harper tasked to solving this case, The third we hear from is the murderer who gives their perception and point of view throughout the story. There are multiple entanglements with the characters and (if there are any) hard clues as to the identity of the killer. Well written. Great character development. All around great book.

Super fantastic. I didn't see the twist coming and the end was just so delectable. I listened to the ending like 3 times because it was THAT twisted and THAT good! I didn't care for the "protagonist" voice on the audiobook but once the book was complete I understood the need for the voice to be that way it was. Love Alice Feeney and His and Hers did not disappoint.

Well, this is full of so many twists and turns I feel like my brain is totally tied in knots. This is a great book. I thoroughly enjoyed it despite despising the majority of the characters. If you like surprises you should read or listen to this book. The audiobook is narrated really well with a male voice telling his tale with a female voice for her's.

There are two sides to every story, so someone is always lying. When a woman’s body is found in the woods of a quaint English village p, reporter Anna is sent to cover the story. She doesn’t really want to, as this is where she grew up and never wanted to return. On top of that, her ex husband, Jack, is in charge of the case. And it turns out that Anna went to school with the murdered woman and may even be a suspect.
The narrators are great and use their voices to really bring the story to life. The best is the voice of the killer, it’s so creepy sounding. You wouldn’t get that if you were just reading the story. You can’t stop listening to it to find out who and why the women are being killed. Definite “page turner”.
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I was a bit skeptical going in to this one because I wasn't a fan of the author's previous works but I decided to give this one a try anyway. And I'm glad I did. The story had me hooked. At the heart of the story you have a murder and several characters keeping secrets. The two main characters both have motives and are being framed...or are they?

I loved the multiple narration, especially the killer. I listened to the audiobook and each narrator was excellent. The killer's voice was altered so I really was surprised by the big reveal. I never saw that coming! This was a quick read and a great thriller, and I will definitely look out for this author's next book.

<b> A fun mystery with some overdramatic reveals - 3.5 stars </b>

When Anna is suddenly demoted after her co-worker returns from maternity leave things are made worse when she has to report on the murder of her childhood friend.

People say mystery/thriller books are a contest between author and reader and this was one contest I super enjoyed. The way Feeney leaves little hints, or in some cases red herrings, in the killer’s perspective was just soo good for allowing the reader to come up with fun theories. I normally don’t like drawn out endings but the conclusion on His and Hers had me switching culprits every other chapter.

Unfortunately, I think this a case of dual timelines not working for me. I didn’t especially hate the timeline, but I did hate the reveals that occurred during it. It would be silly of me to say that its unrealistic for so much bad stuff to happen to one person, but it was just too much for me. My reactions to these reveals should not be to roll my eyes or to laugh but they are just sooo soapy and melodramatic. It would have been better to show some more personality from some of her childhood friends because they were kind of underdeveloped.

Another thing that bothered me were these weird attempts to seem smart or profound or something like, someone will say “We treat people like books blah blah blah” or “Everyone is like a lightbulb”. Feeney is so clever at the mystery elements the book doesn't need anything extra..

All in all, I think if you can get over the silly little reveals in the past timeline this is a fun engaging mystery.

Im going to give this 5 stars as i assume it will be amazing but with netgalley shelf having some technical difficulties i dont want this to not get a review i will be pinning this read again. I will keep attempting.

There are three sides to every story – hers, his & the truth. This thriller is told from each of those perspectives: Anna, a TV news reporter; Jack, a policeman and “the killer”. Each person had a different voice so it was easy to follow & chapters pretty much alternated “her” and “him”, with the occasional interruption by “the killer”. The voice of the murderer is slightly distorted and rather creepy.
Jack, Anna’s ex-husband, is called in to investigate a murder in the quiet village of Blackdown in Surrey. When he arrives at the scene, he is somewhat shocked as he knows the dead woman – in fact he was with her last night for an illicit liaison. Anna arrives on the scene to cover the story for the news, and she too has a history with the dead woman – they were at school together. Anna soon finds herself dealing with not only reporting the murder, but with her elderly mother who seemed to be showing signs of dementia & many of the childhood memories that she had been trying to run away from when she moved to London.
On the edge of the story we also have another cast of characters, some of whom also have something to tie them to the victim: Cat - the TV presenter who Anna resents (Anna stepped in at very short notice to cover her absence & had been a TV presenter for some time when she was moved back to her previous job when Cat returned from an extended maternity leave); Priya – the keen young police colleague of Jack’s who may have a bit of a crush on him; Richard - the photographer that is covering the story with Anna, and who had a previous conviction; Zoe - Jack’s sister and another old school friend of both Anna & the dead woman …
There were enough twists and turns to hold my interest throughout. There was a patch in the middle that I felt dragged, but it was important for the development of the storyline and at every turn, there are more clues that cast suspicions on all of the characters – just when you think that you know what’s going on, or whodunit, something else happens …
Why are the dead woman’s shoes in Jack’s car? Why did Anna find an old photograph & a friendship bracelet in her childhood bedroom? Where had Jack’s sister been at 6am? Who let Anna into the school office? How come Priya was always there just before you expected her to arrive?

The plot is clever and whilst I foresaw some of the twists, there was much that I didn’t expect. All elements of the story fit together like pieces of a jigsaw – there was little that was unnecessary, and each scene/revelation/action/conversation felt essential to the whole.
The audiobook format works very well for this story – the suspense is able to build at a controlled pace. I am a fast reader and this book actually slowed me down – it felt like I was constantly being held on the edge of what happened next. I liked the voice of Anna – she was the right age & had a slightly aloof tone which was perfect for a BBC newsreader! The voice of Jack worked well too, he was down to earth and struggled to get the right words out at times. The voice of the murderer was cleverly done. Initially it sounded male, later I felt that it could be male or female and the use of the distortion made it all the more creepy.

Disclosure: I received a copy of this audiobook free from the publisher via NetGalley. Whilst thanks go to the publisher & author for the opportunity to read it, all opinions are my own.