Chloe is a psychopath, manipulative, lacks guilt and only thinks about herself plus her obsession with killing Will. She receives a college scholarship in exchange for being part of a psychological study. When two people are murdered where the study takes place, she wonders if the students participating in the study are the murderer's target and if so is the murderer also a psychopath? Along with trying to keep herself safe and finding out the identity of the murderer, Chloe is also planning her revenge on Will. In addition to Chloe's point of view, the reader meets two other college psychopaths, Charles and Andre.

Vera Kurian will have you guessing. Terror, mystery, twists and turns are all on board with this thrilling thrill ride of a thriller. Grab a beverage, put on something comfy and prepare for intrigue.

Never Saw Me Coming is a pulse pounding thrill ride. Vera Kurian carefully crafts each psychopath to be fun and different and completely compelling. I would happily recommend this book not only to readers who love thrillers but also to fans of horror.

Chloe Sevre is going to an elite DC college as part of a psychology program and scholarship. The program is for students diagnosed as psychopaths. While Chloe is a good student, she has more intentions than studying. She is going to kill Will Bachman. It turns out not as easy as planned when someone starts killing members of her psychology group.

I love all books that take place in DC AND I love all college/boarding school books, add in a group of psychopathic students, and you have Never Saw Me Coming. You will not be able to put this one down! I loved Chloe’s character so much. I never expected that I’d be rooting for a group of psychopaths, but that’s just how this book turns out. The entire story is scheming, scheming, clever scheming, and more scheming. LOVE IT. I also liked that we know the characters are psychopaths, so we have literally no idea what’s going to happen. Just because they say they are doing one thing... you just don’t know!

“The day it happened, I didn’t go to the police, or my clueless mom. I stayed home and decided that, one day, I would kill Will Bachman.”

Never Saw Me Coming comes out 9/7.

I love when a book gives me something different.

I have read numerous books on psychopaths. It makes for a fun story. But I sometimes feel like I could write these books myself. But not with this book.

A group of known psychopaths attend a college on a full scholarship - they just need to agree to be monitored through their time at the college. What could possibly go wrong?

People start to die. Are any of the psychopaths responsible? A group of them get together to "solve" the mystery - but of course they cannot trust each other because they are such skilled liars. It's a total cat and mouse and even as the reader, you don't know who to trust. This part of the books was super fun!

I also loved that it included some interesting facts, such as a percentage of the population that are actually psychopaths, and there are degrees of psychopathy, etc. It made me interested enough to look some of this up for real. It's fascinating actually (and a little scary).

What I didn't love was the last 25% of the book. It started to feel a little outlandish. However, would I read this book again? Absolutely! It's a quick, fun, interesting read.

I want to thank the author, the publisher and #netgalley for the ARC which did not impact my review at all.

Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian is a superb read which will keep you engrossed and turning pages at a rapid rate until the very last one.

I never thought I’d find myself rooting for a psychopath, but <i>Never Saw Me Coming</i> had me doing just that. This fast paced novel, with an intriguing storyline - 7 diagnosed psychopaths get a free ride to a college if they commit to being studied by the psych department - had me from page one. The novel has many twists, red herrings and gives you three different perspectives, which I also found I interesting. This was a fantastic debut and I highly recommended. Looks like Kiribati also left the door open for a sequel, which I would absolutely love.

A compulsive psychological thriller that kept me guessing to the end. I loved it and will be recommending it for library purchase.

This is a roller coaster of a novel that kept me guessing until the very end. Not one of the character is likeable, which is entirely the point. A group of psychopaths is in a secret program at college, lead by a professor who not only wants to study their behavior but hopes to rehabilitate them and teach them how to function and coexist. His belief is that their cold and detached lack of empathy does not have to lead to violent future behavior. He is even more determined since one of his past participants ended up committing heinous acts while under his care decades before.

Chloe is one of his participants, and she applied to the program for one specific reason: there is another student at the college, one that she seeks to end. Her mission is complicated though when the students in the program start getting picked off one by one. She doesn't know who all the other people in the program are though, and this makes her a suspect and a target. And she still has that unfinished business to take care.

This is a tale of murder, of vengeance, and cold deception. Everyone is a suspect and everyone is capable of the act. It kept me guessing until the end.

I loved the premise and that it's set on a college campus. Some of Chloe's dark comments made me laugh out loud and this is very readable in general. I liked that there were two subplots going as well - Chloe's agenda and then finding out who was targeting the students in the program. However, it did drag a bit in the middle and I felt like I kept waiting for something to happen and it finally all unraveled pretty quickly towards the end.

Kindly received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

The characters in this book are terrible, but that was the point. You like them, but you don't want to like them. A group of psychopaths are put in a clinical study at university. When one of them is murdered, they have to find out who they can trust, even though they shouldn't trust any one. This was a wild ride of a thriller that I could not put down.

From what seemed like an unlikely premise did a very real and fun and thrilling novel emerge! Did any of all y'all read that new book THE PLOT? It's out May 11. The premise of the book THE PLOT is that there is a nascent novel with a plot so great it is bound to be a bestseller, prize-winner, Oprah's choice allstar. The plot in the book THE PLOT is honestly not as good as the plot in this book NEVER SAW ME COMING (ANOTHER PLOT). I think you'll love it! The plot!

You had me at the blurb: a young co-ed who's been promised free tuition if she takes part in the psychology department's study of seven psychopaths to see if they can be "re-wired" to some degree of normalcy. And her only goal is to kill a former boy who wronged her years ago. What's not to anticipate? Chloe is an odd duck; she's hot (and knows it) but she has her plan in mind and is determined to follow through. But when another random student is found murdered...well, you can see the plot thickening. Who's behind it all? Who's to blame? So many suspects and red herrings! And as for me, well I "never saw it coming" either!

I loved this book and read it in one sitting. It is a unique story focused primarily on Chloe, a diagnosed psychopath who is part of a special study at John Adams University in DC. Chloe schemed to get accepted into the program because she has an ulterior motive to kill a guy named Will who did something terrible to her when they were children. The book is primarily narrated by Chloe in the first person, but there are also some chapters narrated by other members of the program, Charles and Andre, in the 3rd person.

The plot was fast-paced the entire way through. When a student is murdered, both the reader and the characters are trying to figure out who did it as well as whether it's part of a larger plot. The characters can't trust each other (nor can the reader trust them), which just adds to the mystery. I love an unreliable narrator and enjoyed the fact that we really don't know if we can trust Chloe or not; I also loved that the writer had a unique way of getting me to root for Chloe even when she was doing things she shouldn't do.

The mystery was sound and I honestly couldn't figure out who the villain was. I got there about the same time as some of the characters and greatly enjoyed the way it all came together. Also, being familiar with the DC area, I enjoyed the setting, and although John Adams University is fictional, the rest of the descriptions of the area are spot-on.

Would definitely recommend this unique and fast-paced thriller! Thanks to Netgalley for providing me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I’m really transfixing thriller. This book really blew my mind I couldn’t stop reading it and I was dying to know what happened. A really big winner I highly recommend it.

In Never Saw Me Coming we follow Chloe a freshman student who also happens to be a psychopath who is plotting to kill Will Bachman. She and 6 other psychopaths are chosen for an study, they all go to the same college. Everything seems to be going alright until one of them is murdered.

AHHHH doesn’t it sound so good?! I loved reading from the perspective of Chloe, her inner dialogue was so interesting to me. The plot was gripping and was fast-paced. It was razor sharp! I personally enjoyed the 1st half of the book more than the finale. The climax moments weren’t as big as I thought they would be and took away from the “punch” this book has. Maybe this was done to show that Chloe did not think of it (the moment at the end of the book) as something major because she was a psychopath? But since it was something that affected her I thought there would be bigger section dedicated to it.

Overall though, this is a well written thriller with a great cast of characters.

Thank you to NetGalley for an eARC copy of Never Saw Me Coming!

An academic thriller with psychopath narrators : okay I’m taking my assumption back because one of them is faking! And a killer is hunting down those psychopaths as raging protests of D. C. are increasing! And one of the psychopaths making plans to avenge her rape! What? You still have second thoughts! Come on! This is one of the juiciest storylines which made me go blind about this book!
Give it a chance! It gets more interesting at each chapter! You don’t want to stop reading it!

Chloe Sevre can be so severe to serve for the righteous justice what she’s done to her when she was only 12! At a party, a despicable human waste raped her and made his friend shoot a video! Yes, this human waste has name. He’s Will Bachman. Chloe chased down him and attended the same college. She planned it all. She knows his fraternity brothers. She knows where he lives. She traces each step he takes like a vulture, dripping salvias to hunt her prey!

The reason to get acceptance from the college is her approval for a special study focused on psychopaths like her: the students who suffer from lack of emotions, empathy, required them to wear smart watches track their motions and mood swings.

As soon as she attends to her seances, filling the surveys at the lab, she may stay out of trouble and she can follow the steps of her long time predator. But she’s forced to cancel her grandiose murder plans as she finds out somebody out there to kill the students attending that study. She finds out there are only seven test subjects. Two of them are only dead.

Her path crosses with pretentious, narcissistic, a wealthy politician’s son Terrible Charles and poor Andre who suffer from loss of his sister, faking his way to be accepted to the study because his family cannot afford the costs of such a prestigious college education.

Charlie thinks Chloe can be murderer. Chloe thinks Charles is dangerous manipulator. Both of them warn Andre against each other. Is the killer one of them or two other students who are involved in this special program?

Who will they trust as they cannot trust each other?

Overall; the book is a little too long because it’s focused on two mains topics: Chloe’s vengeance plan and the killer hunting the program’s students. Because of that, pacing gets a little repetitive and slowing down.

As psychopaths: both Charles and Chloe were terribly annoying but it’s normal because of their psychological natures, it’s so hard to empathize with them.

Especially Charles’ selfish motives of using his girlfriend for his facade to look normal and his flirting tendencies with Chloe irritate us but also his complex reactions indicate some symptoms he can actually feel something ( still caring for people even though he loves attention and being in the spotlight) made us question if he can be cured.

Andre is the only character who may truly care for but it’s so natural thing to love him. He’s faking his tendencies from the beginning and he finds himself on the radar of serial student killer and forced to cooperate with two psychopaths who keep lying and manipulating him.

The book is a little slow burn but the concept of serial killer lurking around the campus, academic claustrophobia still kept my attention intact.

Even though I have problems about pace and characters, it was still interesting and unique reading which made me round up 3.5 stars to 4 psycho killer qu’est ce que c’est fa fa fa fa fa fa far better stars!

Special thanks to NetGalley and Harlequin Trade Publishing for sharing this digital reviewer copy with me in exchange my honest opinions .

Seven psychopaths are given full scholarships to a university for a unusual clinical study. The study, led by a renowned psychologist, requires them to wear smart watches that track their moods and movements. One night a member of the study is brutally murdered and the hunters become the hunted in a millennial game of cat and mouse. I was eager to read this book after reading about the author in Publisher's Weekly. Chloe, a freshman and one of the participants, was truly frightening with her steadfast determination to carry out her own sinister plans. Andre, a misdiagnosed study member, seemed like an innocent in over his head. Charles, the rich psychopath, walks the thin line between appearing "normal" and fighting his attraction to his true nature and Chloe. This gripping, twisted tale kept me engrossed from start to the explosive finish.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for a opportunity to review this book. First I loved this book. It had a plot that was unique and interesting and the ending could not have been better. 5 Stars Highly recommended.

This book has a very interesting premise - a group of college aged psychopaths in DC. The main character is Chloe who is devious, manipulative, and out to hurt a fellow student who did something terrible to her in the past. Other characters (in the third person) are just as interesting. As a reader, you know they are all very unreliable narrators - they are psychopaths after all.
There was a lot going on this book, which I think detracted from the initial pursuit Chloe had. The ending was not a total surprise, but was clever.