I loved "Tell me Lies" and "Can't Look Away" is another winner from Lovering. The romance, suspense, and intense emotions make this a must read.

Great, love me some crazy stalker women. This one kept me hooked from the start. A little bit of the ending was meh for me but overall I enjoyed this!

This Author can do no wrong. This book is beyond incredible and totally unputdownable! Just go in blind and you will read for hours. It's that great.

A captivating dive into the addictive, obsessive love of twenty somethings and the permanent tattoo it can leave on your heart. Part romance, part suspense, with a dash of mystery I couldn't stop turning the pages. Highly recommend.

Another A+ read from this fantastic author! Hard to put down and thrilling until the very end, you absolutely must read this book.

Told in two voices, Molly and Sabrina.

We begin in 2013. Molly is 23 and finishing up her MFA and dreaming of being a writer while she waits tables and has fun with her friends. One night they talk her into coming to a bar with live music. An up-and-coming band starring lead singer Jake Danner.

Molly and Jake lock eyes and before you know it they are living together and she is in love. The man wrote a song for her. Their only real hit. But Jake has a girlfriend he hasn’t let go of yet. As in she doesn’t know they are broken up. But she is a vengeful one!

Now it’s 2022 and Molly and her husband, Hunter and their daughter Stella are living in Flynn Cove, Connecticut. Molly feels unfulfilled at her Yoga job and just doesn’t jive with the country club set. Until a woman comes into her studio and she thinks she finally has made a friend.

But Sabrina is playing the long game. She hasn’t let go of her belief that Molly ruined her chance with Jake. Imagine her surprise when she and Hunter show up to dinner and Sabrina’s hubby is Jake! Shock all around.

This isn’t what I would call a suspenseful read. Sabrina told us all along what she was doing. More like a domestic drama. High School behavior at best. Everything gets wrapped up nicely but I still want to know why one of them isn’t in jail!

NetGalley/ June 14th,2022 by St. Martin’s Press

I had really high hopes for this book, and it just didn't deliver for me. I requested this book after finishing Too Good To Be True, which gripped me from the start. Can't Look Away, however, was a slog for me to get through, and like others, I felt that the blurb was misleading. I did finish it though, so I gave it two stars for that reason.

The author is good at character-driven storytelling and weaved this web of deceit, obsession, and revenge very well. I do agree with other reviewers that it’s less thriller and more romantic suspense. Thanks so much to St. Martin’s Press for the advanced copy!

I just finished Can't Look Away by Carola Lovering, and it was great! . Talk about can't look away---can't put it down! Definitely a quick read! Molly, the main character, lives with the idea of what would her life be like if she had been with the love of her life when she was younger. Based on the idea of the one who got away, it made me reminisce of a past love who got away to connect with the characters deeper than usual. It's hard not to think about what could have been. Molly and Jake face this issue head on as their past comes back to their present lives. All loose ends were tied up, which really helps make this a must read! I think many readers will be able to relate to this story line and maybe go back and connect with their past. Well done!

I received an ARC of this title from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. I’m not sure what this book wanted to be. Part love story, part thriller, part women’s fiction…It was like a genre mashup. The plot and shorter chapters kept the pages flying, but I think overall I was expecting a slightly different take on the story based on the description. In general, it was good enough, but most likely not a story I’ll remember by the end of the year.

Lovering catapulted to the top of my favorite authors list with last year's Too Good To Be True, and secured the standing with Can't Look Away. Another 5 ++ star, fantastic and captivating read with twists I could never imagine. But she led me there and oh the angst and heartbreak, and treachery. I worried but I was very satisfied with the ending. I highly recommend!

Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC of Carola Lovering's Can't Look Away. I was immediately drawn to the alternating backdrops of Brooklyn and Manhattan, leaving me nostalgic for my own post-college adventures in the city. I was also captivated by the alternating perspectives of Molly, a young aspiring writer whose boyfriend Jake is an up and coming singer and Sabrina, his ex-girlfriend who makes it her mission to know every detail of Molly's life.

Where do we draw the line between love and obsession? Molly.has moved on after her break.up with Jake and lives in a small Connecticut suburb with her husband and their young daughter. But when Sabrina becomes her neighbor and.befriends Molly while hiding who she really is, everything in Molly's life spirals out of control.

You may have to pick.your jaw up off of the floor more than once as you delve deeper into the not-so-perfect lives of these unforgettable characters. Get ready to read this in one sitting.

This is an addictive story about the one that got away. It does have some Lifetime qualities, but it gave me enough interest to stay connected to it until the end. I could not wait to find out what becomes of a past love and if the feelings were still there.
7 years back, Molly and Jake were a beautiful couple envied by many. He was climbing the charts with his band and a hit song written exclusively for her. After trust issues and his rising popularity, many events obstruct their relationship from staying connected. Molly decides to move on without him and gives up her dreams of a writing career and teaches yoga instead.
Molly meets Hunter, the perfect husband. They are struggling to conceive their second child, but she is blessed to have met a perfect father and companion. Living in a wealthy suburb, she finds it hard to connect with friends until Sabrina walks into her life. She enjoys her company. Little does Molly know, Sabrina has a hidden evil agenda to accomplish.
Jake, unknowingly, he is about to waltz back into Molly's life. Is the connection still there? How did this happen and how is it going to play out?
At times, it appeared too easy, and the characters were not catching on.... LOL....but other than that it worked for me. It was a suspenseful story, and definitely a psychotic female character. The last part appeared to be lacking some information, but the ending is guaranteed to work for many.
Thank you NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for this title in exchange for my review.
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This one was just ok for me. Usually this sorta premise is right up my alley, however this one did not measure up. Perhaps my standards are too high, or the writing style was not for me. Not a bad read by any means. It just could have been better.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Thanks to NetGalley for an advance copy. I requested it because it was marketed as a “sexy suspense novel”. It turned out to be a love story with a little suspense.

I did enjoy the book though, with the different timelines and points of view. It was very entertaining and well worth reading. I thought there’s no way the story could end well but it did. I didn’t buy the villain’s change of heart; she got off too easy.

This book is so juicy and quick-paced — something I was really in the mood for. Molly falls in love at 23 with up and coming rock star Jake, who’s song about her becomes the next big hit of 2013. A decade later, Molly is living with her life with husband Hunter and their daughter Stella. A good life, even though Molly feels left out. So when she meets Sabrina, she thinks she hit the friend jackpot. But Sabrina has her own reasons for befriending Molly.

I thoroughly enjoyed this novel. It’s part domestic suspense, part sexy romance — and it totally works. Bravo!

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for providing an advanced copy in exchange for my honest review.

Carola Lovering can really write suspenseful women's fiction that really makes you feel. I loved the characters in Can't Look Away and though you might not agree with their choices, you can understand why Molly, Jake and Sabrina make some of the choices they do. Lovering does a great job capturing the feelings of that all encompassing first love that many people experience in their early twenties. Of course, most people don't have quite as much drama surrounding them as the characters do, but that's what made this such an enthralling read. I was drawn in from the very beginning and read the last half straight through.

Wow, this is my first review in a year! That’s saying something.

This duo is one of my favorites for physiological thrillers, Hendricks and Pekkanen always have great characters and such smart writing. The Golden Couple was no exception.

A little slower than their other books, I still felt engaged the whole time. Especially with Avery and Marissa’s point of view. I also loved the difference between them. Avery, a sharp witted and aggressive therapist and Marissa, a fragile and soft spoken boutique owner. They ended up making fabulous characters.

If you love domestic thrillers with a twist than The Golden Couple will be you’re cup of tea! You won’t know who to trust and you will most definitely be manipulated a time or two but it will so be worth a read!

Plus, try going in blind with this one! I did and it made the twists all the more better, so I tried not to give anything away.

Exactly the kind of thriller I am looking for! Definitely one that you will not want to put down anytime quickly. Exciting and the characters were crazy! In the best way possible for a thriller.

4.5 stars —- I think some of the mixed reviews on this one are coming from a mislabelled genre — would definitely call this more romantic suspense than sexy mystery/thriller but holy wow was it GOOD. Stayed up way past my bedtime because the tension was too unbearable to put it down.

Molly is in her early thirties living a quiet life in suburban Connecticut with her husband & young daughter. A far cry from her former life in Brooklyn a decade earlier as the muse & partner to a rockstar, Jake Danner.

The drama between Jake, Molly, and mystery woman Sabrina runs high as jealousy, lies, and misconceptions paint each of their own versions of what happened when Molly & Jake’s relationship ended years ago. Told through each of their perspectives across multiple timelines, each character begins to take shape as the book progresses and their motivations for their actions, past and present, are made clear. The truth is emotional and messy and the pieces all finally come together in the most dramatic way.