”People lie about everything...”

In After All I’ve Done, Mina Hardy expertly weaves together all the trappings of an intriguing domestic thriller - an unhappy marriage, a not-so-secret affair, multiple narrators (and someone’s unreliable!), dark family secrets, a past that won’t stay buried, and a conclusion you’ll never see coming!

”The accident didn’t kill me, but I have no idea how I’m going to survive it.”

Diana is recovering from an accident that left her body badly broken and her mind fragile. Huge stretches of her memories are missing - she doesn’t know what happened or why. Recurring, haunting dreams make her wonder if there was more than just an accident. Was she being threatened? Or was someone else being threatened by her? What she does know is that her husband is secretly having an affair with her former best friend, Valerie... and Val claims that Diana orchestrated the entire thing.

”Stop pretending you can’t remember.”

Packed with drama, intrigue, and suspense, After All I’ve Done pulled me in fast and kept me hooked until the very last chapter! The sudden appearance of a narrator-level character in the middle of the book, with no previous mentions of him until that point, was unexpected, and felt a little disjointed at first, but ultimately the story reconnected itself and everything came together in a satisfying way, with a final twist that I never could have predicted.

”I’m a liar. I’ve always been a liar, and it’s likely I always will be.”

Throughout the book, Hardy raises interesting questions about what to do and who to trust when you can’t trust the people closest to you, or yourself, or even your own recollection of events. If you're a fan of thrillers, this one is worth the read!

”It’s so easy to fall down this rabbit hole...”

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A huge thank-you to Mina Hardy, Dreamscape Media, and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review!

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Absolutely loved this story! Looking forward to reading more books by this author! Highly recommend!

After Diana gets in a bad car accident and has surgery she gets amnesia induced by anesthesia, she struggles with her memory and remembers some things like her husbands affair with her friend. When she starts having horrible nightmares she suspects that they are more than just a dream. This book was pretty good, it didn't pull me in as much as I'd have liked at the beginning but it started to pick up around the middle. Also the narration is GREAT, I really enjoyed the cast and the tone they gave the book. I did enjoy it and recommend it to fans of phycological suspense books. 3.5 stars

This book was fantastic and had me hooked from the very beginning. It was full of dastardly deception - exactly what you want from a thriller. While listening to the book, I had the feeling that Diana was being gaslighted and so it really kept me thinking and trying to piece it all together. All of the characters inthe book were suspects - the husband, the mother-in-law, the ex-best friend and even the hired investigator. Well, and then I got to the ending and the story went left. I definitely wasn't expecting that type of unhinged madness. I love a book that I cannot figure out and this one was so well done!

Bravo to Mina Hardy! This was a fast paced thriller, that had me enthralled from beginning to end...and what an ending it was! I listened to the audio version and the narration was fantastic.

Dark, twisty and an unreliable narrator sign me up! After All I've Done by Mina Hardy was such a fun listen. Hardy crafts a story I would almost believe and thought I could guess the ending to, but she kept adding twists and I was actually surprised at the end. I love thrillers, but hate knowing how they'll end after the first chapter. This wasn't a problem with After All I've Done.

What would you do if you woke up with two broken collarbones and no memory of several months? Diana has this experience and as she starts to put her life together, she begins to realize things may not be what they seem. If only she could stay awake or keep from feeling fuzzy long enough to figure out what happened to her.

The challenge with audiobooks is ALWAYS the narrator, not the story itself. If the narrator is great, the story seems great. If the narrator sucks, well ... the whole thing sucks. In this case, the narrator was bad. She was so formal and haughty ... why can't these audiobook narrators just read like normal human beings? No one speaks the way this was narrated! No one!

Next, we come to the issue that drives me INSANE! Female authors writing about women who are UNRELIABLE NARRATORS ... and who are unreliable because they drink. PLEASE. STOP. Women are not all drunks. Women do not act stupid and miss basic cues because they are drunk and emotional wrecks. Please stop writing them that way. And publishers, please stop encouraging these types of stories.

Despite the obvious character problems, the outcome was SO obvious. As an avid thriller reader, I pretty much figured out the story in the first chapter. :(

This was a generous round up to 3 stars.

This review was also published on Goodreads.

Through most of the book I thought this was going to be an average 3 star read. Enjoyable but not particularly surprising. But the reveals and twists at the end really bumped it up. Even though there were hints and suspicions I had. I could have never guessed the underlying motives.

The best way to subscribe this book is a domestic thrilling soap opera. You have Diana recovering from an accident with amnesia of the last few months. One thing she knows is that her husband is cheating on her with her ex-best friend. But wasnt that her idea and what happened to their plan. And she knows she should hate her overbearing mother in law but has no idea why.

Unfortunately, I had to DNF this at 41%. The plot was intriguing and taking some interesting turns but it also felt like it was taking a long time to unfold, however, this wasn't my reason for DNFing,

I read the audiobook version of this and the narration made the experience unbearable. The two female narrators' voices were grating, tinny, nasally and somewhat robotic and this hindered the listening experience terribly. So much so that I, obviously, could not finish the story.

Read. This. Book.

The End, that’s my review!

Okay maybe not, but still if you were a fan of Verity or Girl on a Train, than After All I’ve Done is for you!

I read this book back in the summer, when I needed a solid thriller to get out of a reading slump, and boy did it work! I’ve been anxiously waiting to share this book with the world and I can finally do just that!

Diana Sparrow is recovering from an accident. An accident that she can’t remember and has caused her to not remember anything leading up to or after the accident. She’s finally recovering but her life is nothing like she remembers. Her best friend is sleeping with her husband. She’s taken up art again. And she can’t help but feel connected to a man she’s never met.

I love a good multiple POV story line and this book delivered. Told between present and flashbacks and between both Val & Diana’s view points, we learn alot about both women’s history. We also have a third narrator, but I won’t spoil who that is.

None of our main characters are exactly likable which really adds to the unreliable narrator vibe. Because of this I never felt like I had a good grip on the story, which is exactly what I look for in a good psychological thriller. My only negative for the story was the ending wrapped up way to quickly for my taste but ultimately didn’t impact my rating on the story, since I was just blown away.

I don’t want to spoil the story so I’ll leave it at that. I loved this story so much ★★★★★ big freaking stars for this book!

I hope you enjoyed my thoughts on After All I’ve Done If you liked this review please let me know either by commenting below or by visiting my instagram @speakingof_books. Huge thank you to Crooked Lane books for my copy!

This was a fun thriller.
I normally feel like I can tell what the twist is going to be in many thrillers because there are so many released and talked about each and every month.
This is actually an few month old, but this was a fun one.
At first I thought I wasn't going to enjoy this book, and I think that was due to the narrator's voice. There are two voices, male and female, but the female one sounded so robotic and a bit echo-y. I pushed through and the plot of the story ended up keeping my interest.

This is a story about Diana, who is in a bad state after a care accident. I will say this does have the "crazy" woman theme in it, but it isn't quite what I expected. Rather than Diana being crazy (she is suffering from memory loss) its actually her mother-in-law who is totally insane.

Diana and her husband were unhappy in their marriage, and she created this elaborate plot with her best friend Val to get her husband to cheat on her--with Val. They didn't expect Val to actually fall in love with him and they really didn't expect Diana to forget the entire scheme after her accident.

Turns out all of this was actually kind of smoke in mirrors because the before and after the car crash, the insane mother-in-law was poisoning Diana's food and keeping her ill in order to take care of her. There are even more event twists at the very end that left me aghast. It was a fun tale, and oh someone does die too, so be prepared for that!
What a crazy thriller and fun paced book to read in the new year!

I received an advanced copy of this audiobook, from the publisher through netgalley, in exchange for an honest review. This book is well written and the characters are described well . The pacing was good. I enjoyed the main character Diana. The author did a great job writing this book. It has all the twists a thriller should. It will keep you on the edge of your seat from the first minute of this audiobook. The narrators did a great job reading this book. This audiobook is in stores now for $24.99 (USD). I would highly recommend this audiobook to anyone and everyone.

After all I have done, is a great book that I would recommend to read. This book is a twister at the end, the kind I like. The characters voices are whiny and grate on the nerves. They are perfect for the characters. But I could not listen for a length of time, too grating. This book would be a great read

Another sublime domestic thriller that kept me glued to the audio and eager to know how it would end. My only disappointment was that I guessed one of the major twists but there was another that I didn't see coming.

If you enjoy psychological thrillers told in the first person, with a sense of unease and foreboding throughout, you may want to check this one out. Told from alternating perspectives - Diana Sparrow, who has amnesia after a car crash and is in an unhappy marriage to Jonathan; Val, Diana's best friend who is having an affair with Jonathan; and Cole, a man who enters the story later and befriends Diana. The plot is cryptic, unsettling and suspenseful. Diana encounters roadblocks and deception as she tries to piece together her life before the accident and figure out what's really going on.

The audio performance was quite good with three different narrators. My only disappointment was that dialogue between characters was at times confusing during Val's narration as the narrator did not change her voice so I was never sure who was saying what.

Over all, the book was worth the read and I recommend the audio version. A gracious thank you to Dreamscape Media and Netgalley for an advanced audio copy in exchange for an honest review.

I did not enjoy the book. As a result, I did not post a review publicly.
The narrator for Diana was very robotic. The rest of the narration was good.
The story was just too ridiculous and disgusting (the 'twist' at the end that I saw coming but hoped I was wrong). Not for me.

This book was an amazing mind bending experience! The Narration is impeccable and draws you right in to the story.

Great book, it has some more pg13 moments but a great thriller nonetheless. Thank you to netgalley for an advanced reading copy. Very much appreciated

I will review this in detail as soon as I finish reading it. I cannot guarantee that I will finish by the time the book is archived

This is a super fast paced thriller that was hard to put down. The secrets and trying to figure out what was going on kept me reading (or really listening, since I had the audiobook). The narrators did a fantastic job with the story and I really enjoyed listening. All of that being said though, I didn't really like or connect with any of the characters and I have read the whole short term memory loss story so many times, and this one didn't add much to that storyline. Overall it wasn't a great book but it wasn't a bad one either.

This book is crazy and I mean that in the very best way! The inventive plot had me guessing the whole time. I took off a star because the mother-in-law character is SO effectively annoying that I had to speed up the playback of the audio anytime the action focused on her, which was a lot. My jaw started hurting from all the teeth-gritting I was doing -- that's how much I hated her. This plot twists and turns and keeps you guessing, and the final reveal was a jaw dropping full-on WTF moment for me. So delightfully, horrifyingly twisted! If you love Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen, check this book out next.
Thank you #DreamscapeMedia for the ARC of this audiobook via #NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.