Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for this free ePub in exchange for my honest feedback!

This was the second book I have read by Carola Lovering, the first being Too Good To Be True, which I loved and gave a 4/5 star rating! I was delighted to receive this book from NetGalley and prepared myself to be THRILLED once again. Unfortunately, Can't Look Away did not hit the mark for me.

Can't Look Away tells the story of Molly Diamond, a young twenty-something living in New York City as a struggling writer and grad student. She meets the lead singer of an up-and-coming rock band, Jake Danner, and they fall for each other hard. Jake writes a song about her titled "Molly's song" that absolutely blows up the charts and women everywhere are jealous of this ordinary girl who inspired the song and stole Jake's heart. One of those women happens to be his ex-girlfriend, Sabrina.

Flash forward 10 years, and Molly is living in a preppy, coastal town in Connecticut with her husband Hunter and her precious daughter Stella. She has completely stopped writing and she can't seem to connect with any of the bourgeois moms in her small town. One day at the yoga studio where Molly teaches, a new woman shows up and she and Molly hit it off instantly. They seem to be the perfect fit and Molly is so grateful to finally have someone she can relate to and enjoy being around. The thing Molly doesn't know is that this woman is actually Jake's crazy obsessed stalker ex-girlfriend Sabrina, and she hates Molly with every fiber of her being.

What happened between Jake and Molly? Why did she leave without saying goodbye? When you break up with someone, do you miss that person or just the person you were when you were dating them? Will Sabrina finally get revenge on Molly for living the life that she thought she deserved?

Final thoughts:
I think this one fell flat for me because I was expecting another fast-paced, unputdownable thriller. I read so many thrillers these days that I am really looking for original characters and plot lines that I have never read before. Unfortunately, I was able to foresee all of the plot twists before they happened and I didn't feel a real connection to any of the characters. Can't Look Away honestly felt like reading the script for a Lifetime movie. It never hooked me in and I honestly fell asleep a few times while reading it, so I don't know if I would put it in the thriller genre. I was disappointed with this one, but I still will continue to look for more books from Carola since I did enjoy Too Good To Be True so much last year. Thanks again NetGalley for sharing this book with me!

This book is a bit of a slow burn and feels like you're watching a soap opera. If you like that then you'll enjoy this book. Overall is was okay and something that would be good for summer.

LOVED Carla Lovering's latest: Can't Look Away. The title was fitting - I literally could not look away from this book! Its one of those late-night, can't put down books and I absolutely loved it.

Can't Look Away is an addictive domestic thriller with compelling characters and an intriguing plot. Molly met Jake nearly a decade ago when he was the lead singer of a band playing at a concert Molly attended. He writes a hit song about her that makes his band famous. It's been nearly a decade and Molly lives in Connecticut with a young daughter and her husband Hunter. She feels out of place in the wealthy suburb she lives, so when Sabrina enters her life, she's thrilled. What she doesn't realize is Sabrina has her own reasons for wanting to befriend Molly. And when Jake's song finds it's way on the radio again, Molly's past doesn't seem too far behind. Highly recommended to readers who enjoy domestic dramas. Be sure to check out Can't Look Away today!

Molly fell in love with Jake Danner years ago who is a musician. Fast forward years later Molly is married with a child, but something feels missing from her life. Molly finally makes a friend when Sabrina moves to town but then realizes why Sabrina moved to town.

This is my 2nd Carola Lovering book and I felt they were very different, but I really enjoy her books. This one is not as suspenseful like the first I read, Too Good to Be True, as it's more of a love story but not all mushy, sprinkled with some suspense.

I highly recommend this book as it was a page turner for me and I enjoyed the story. Thank you NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for the eArc.

This is being marketed as a mystery/thriller, and It’s more a domestic drama with maybe the slightest hint of suspense.
That being said, I still enjoyed this for the most part .There are no twists and nothing surprised me and yet I wanted to know what was going to happen next.
Overall, it’s a quick and entertaining DRAMA that doesn’t require too much brain power, but nevertheless hooks with its back and forth timeline and interesting characters.

An interesting book that kept me engaged. I really enjoyed the story line and felt it was a bit romance, a bit drama, and a bit mystery. Thank you to NeGalley and the Publisher for an ARC.

This was a fantastic thriller! It wasn't a gory novel, but it had the domestic suspense that kept me reading. I found the main character sometimes difficult to relate to, but that definitely reflects more on the stage in my life rather than Lovering's storytelling ability. The characters Lovering constructed created a wonderful domestic thriller that routinely kept me interested!

This is a really good suspense novel set in New York and Connecticut, spanning a decade as flashbacks show the reader how Molly and Jake’s relationship j folded in the past, and leaving you anxious to figure out how they got to the present. Definitely would recommend if you liked the TV show You or other suspenseful dramas. A perfect not-too-dark thriller for summer! Thanks to St. Martin’s Press for the copy via NetGalley!

3.5...I was really bored for nearly the first 1/3 of the book. Then I could not put it down for more than the 2nd 3rd, but the ending was so MEH in my opinion. I really like this author, but only really loved Tell Me Lies. I will probably be excited for whatever she writes though because I know a good bit of it will be very entertaining. Lots of flawed, and possibly psychotic characters, and I was here for all of that bit. lol, Not a thriller. More like a drama or a soap opera.

Thank you to St. Martin's Press and NetGalley for this ARC.

This is an emotional love story with undertones of “A Star is Born”. When non-groupie Molly ends up at a bar concert and catches the eye of lead singer Jake Danner, she thinks nothing of it, considering herself lucky for not falling for his sweet smile. But as time goes by and Jake continues to reach out, Molly decides to see just what it is that makes Jake tick. And of course, they fall madly in love. Hey, it’s a romance, okay?
As Jake’s popularity skyrockets, Molly loses sight of her desire to write a novel. What she has written shadows so closely what she knows, her relationship with Jake. And she doesn't want to dwell on that.
Flash forward a decade, and Molly is happily married to Hunter and they have a precious daughter. Through an IVF clinic, Molly befriends a soul saver. Sabrina has so much in common with Molly, and the two form a deep friendship. But things aren’t quite what they seem with Sabrina. One evening when another friend calls Sabrina by another name, the plot unwinds like a loose spool of fishing line.
I was really interested in how the author was going to settle this love triangle without crushing any of the characters that we’d grown to love. I was very impressed with her choice; it wasn’t too soupy or superficial. I got a little tired of Molly crying a lot, but I tend to forget the crushing impact of young love in these later years of my life. I enjoyed the story and I recommend it.
Sincere thanks to St. Martin’s Press for an ARC in exchange for my honest review. The publishing date was June 14, 2022.

I was excited when I saw this title available. I was set for a thriller that was going to keep me turning pages.

This had some of the hallmarks of a thriller—Sabrina certainly established herself as a villain, one of the multiple perspectives in the story. She’s hellbent on getting close to her husband’s ex-girlfriend.

A bulk of the story comes from Molly’s perspective, in the present day living in an idyllic town with her handsome husband and in the past living with her musician boyfriend as they work through issues of a budding relationship between artists.

I was into the story, but I didn’t understand why Molly’s perspectives were third person POV while Sabrina’s were first person—written to Molly. And that dialogue to Molly wasn’t ever really explained. Why did we get Sabrina’s internal monologue but distance from Molly? Left me a bit confused about who the main character was and/or who the author wanted us to sympathize with.

Overall, this was interesting, and I thought it had some Colleen Hoover vibes! I think it will definitely find an audience.

Thanks to Netgalley and St. Martin’s Press for the e-arc.

You know when you quite possibly pick up a book at the wrong time, and you would have totally enjoyed it when you were in the right mindset? For me, I'm hesitant to give any review initially (wasn't into it), BUT I'm going to try again at the beach in a couple weeks and report back since so many of you loved it!

A fast paced book, that I would not classify as a thriller, but more women's fiction. Either way I enjoyed this read and sped through it.

If your past were to come back to haunt you after trying so hard to keep it buried, how would you react? When Molly's past drops into her lap, she has to put her memories and feelings in the past and focus on her family and future. As everyone's secrets are revealed and motivations uncovered, Molly questions if she made the right decisions regarding her life.

Making you look back at the decisions you have made in your life, Can't Look Away shows that no matter what decisions you have made, they were the right decisions for you at that time.

I want to thank Netgalley, and St. Martin's Press for an ARC of this book in exchange for a review.

Cute quick and absorbed read, pretty predictable and lighthearted.
This book was a easy read with some emotional material at times (infertility, miscarriage) and overall a good story line.
I enjoyed Molly and Hunter and rooted for them! Jake was a typical character and Sabrina was a great bad character!
There were no twists or turns, and nothing out of the ordinary but this is a good easy beach read in my opinion.

I enjoyed this book, but it wasn’t what I thought it would be. I thought I was getting a thriller, and I kept waiting for a big twist. I was disappointed when I didn’t get one. Still a good book, but definitely needs to be marketed differently.

2,5 ⭐️

Nothing annoys me more that when a book is marketed as something it is not. Did the person who decided to market “Can’t look away” as a mystery/thriller really read the book? Let me tell you this is not a mystery/thriller at all, not even a domestic suspense. It is a domestic drama with some soap opera vibes that stretched quite a lot for a such a thin plot.

2013: When Molly meets Jake Danner, lead singer of a up-and-coming band, she can’t look away, falling madly in love with each other.

2022: Now, Molly is living with his husband Hunter and her daughter in Flynn Cove, a wealthy suburb. She feels out of place until Sabrina, a newcomer, arrives to town and finally she feels like she can click with someone but, are Sabrina’s reasons to move to Flynn Cove and befriend her as honest as Molly believes?

At first I enjoyed this. The past and present back and forth implied some juicy secret would be coming out sooner or later but, what was my surprise when they never came. What you see is what you get and there was not a single twist that made me say…”oh, things are getting interesting! Can’t wait to see how this unfolds”.

It was basically the story of a jilted woman that, once again, misplaces her anger on the new woman (whom is not to blame), instead of focusing that anger on the one person that had a commitment with her. I must say I found this whole thing pretty frustrating. Also, the story seemed to drag quite a bit, repeating the same patterns again and again.

I was hoping for at least a firework ending but it was merely a firecracker one. Yes, there was a revelation, but it was done in a pretty lackluster way, and some actions were left unpunished, and I’m not really sure how believable that was.

The writing was good and the narrators in the audiobook version managed to hold my interest with their performances even though the general story was a bit lacking. I loved Ms. Lovering’s Too Good To Be True so, despite Can’t Look Away made my eyes stray more than I would have liked, I’ll still give her next book a chance.

Thanks to NetGalley and St Martin’s Press for providing an eARC in exchange for an honest review.

This is not a thriller, I repeat this is not a Thriller. If you go into this suspecting Thriller/Suspense you will be wrong. This is a Drama. It is a good Drama, even a great on but it is a Drama.
This was fast paced and easy to read. This is a great summer read.

This was an incredibly relatable book in so many ways. Most of us have had our dreams fall short, lived a little of "what might have been'. What Carola Lovering did here was twist that into something dark and mysterious, a real page turner that will have you on the edge of your seat

This romantic suspense really worked for me! I know some people felt mislead going in thinking it was a thriller, so I’m glad my expectations were different based on other reviews. I was sucked into the drama and mystery of these complicated characters and was all in the whole time. I always love multiple points of view and timelines and this one was well done in that aspect. Though there were definitely some unlikeable characters (Sabrina was crazy!) and some predictability, I still found this to be a page-turner where I needed to know what was going to happen. I guessed the twist but wasn’t let down by that. — There are definitely some triggers here for infertility and miscarriage, so be aware of that. — Overall, I recommend picking this one up if domestic suspense is your thing!