Thanks to netgalley for an advanced reader copy. I was so excited to see this author on netgalley! I loved Too Good To Be True. I felt this was more of a contemporary genre rather than a psychological suspense as the description made it out to be. . I did want to continue seeing what would happen, and wasn’t in love with the ending of how it turned out with Sabrina. . Overall, writing was really good, so I would keep reading books from this author.

I loved Too Good To Be True, which was my first book by Lovering, and while Can’t Look Away carried her amazing writing, with deeply developed characters and anxieties of their own that I could relate to, I didn’t click with this book. I set it aside for a while to see if that would entice me back, but something was missing, and I can’t put my finger on it, which is disappointing, because I really enjoy the author. I will still continue to auto read books from the author, despite this.

Considering I stayed up until 3am to finish this book in one sitting tells you how much I enjoyed it! The story was engaging and likable- seeing the story play out through the different perspectives of the characters was enough to keep me reading. Some parts were predictable but I didn’t mind it too much! Thanks for the opportunity to read this ARC!

THIS BOOK WAS SO GOOD! It’s a story about young Molly Diamond, an aspiring writer & Jake Denner, an aspiring singer. One evening, while Jake is up on stage & Molly is in the crowd, they lock eyes and can’t look away. They quickly fall in love- end of story? Nope, not really. Like all love stories, no one is without their flaws. Molly is working hard at her book & Jake is working hard at their new album & touring schedule.

Fast forward nearly a decade later & Molly is married (not to Jake) & has a young daughter. She lives in the suburbs & is trying to fit in with the suburban housewives, when she meets a woman that she clicks with instantly. She finds out that woman is married to Jake Denner! Which forces Molly to confront her unresolved past as secrets and lies start to unfold amongst the four of them.

I absolutely fell in love this with this book. The multiple POVs between current Molly and previous Molly kept me hooked! The book is easy to read & touches on real-life struggles.

This book is out June 2022! Def add to your TBR 😍

Thank you NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for an honest review!

This was the first book I have read from Carola Lovering and I really enjoyed it. I found myself wanting to continue to read and find out what happened between Molly and Jake. I recommend this book for a unique hybrid between a triller and love story.

Thanks to Netgalley and St. Martin’s Press for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Molly is happily married to Hunter and they have a 6 year old daughter but in a strange turn of events, her ex boyfriend from some years back, Jake, re-surfaces in her life and turns things upside down.

I am sorry to say that after really enjoying Too Good To Be True, this author’s previous novel, this one was ok at best. The problem is I really don’t see how this could be billed a mystery/thriller at all and that is what I was expecting. Her previous book wasn’t necessarily a mystery, but there was a lot of suspense and some reveals that I was truly shocked by. It had lots of twists and turns and I really couldn’t put it down. My only complaint was that it got a little sappy at the end. This book honestly was a romance or women’s fiction. There were some nefarious actions perpetrated but they were predictable and they did not make this a mystery. I really hate when books are wrongly classified because I get something I didn’t expect and give it a poor to mediocre review when I could have just skipped it. I will definitely read the reviews on her next book to check the true genre before diving in.

This was basically a romance novel with some suspense added in. This suspense, together with multiple timelines and POVs, lifted the story out of the ordinary and made it a really fun book. My copy of this book was provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. My thanks to the the author, the publisher, and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review it.

Overall, this was a fun thriller that kept me entertained! Haven’t read anything by this author, and I really enjoyed her writing style.

Can’t look away , is a great book about those loves of your twenties. Those are the loves which you never get over. These loves shape the way you will handle every relationship of your life. We are hurt and we hurt when in those young relationships. I know that I will never get over my twenty love

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Overall rating - 4.5/5 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 1/2
{trigger warnings- miscarriage}
"Can't Look Away" is a beautiful and sentimental journey through first love and the hold it has on us throughout life, and staying true to the title - I just couldn't look away from this book!
I found all of the characters (yes, even Sabrina) endearing and I empathized with every perspective they each provided. I think most of us have found ourselves in at least a few of these mindsets throughout our lives. The only thing I had a slight issue with was the first, third-person switches but wasn't too bothered by it overall.
I just loved the general sentiment of this book. While the bonds of first love may reach across time and grab hold of our hearts, we only need to be brave enough to take off the rose-colored glasses of nostalgia and appreciate these new phases of life just as they are. "Can't Look Away" is a beautiful reminder of the duality of growing up; being thankful for youth and first loves, the memories and growth made during that time, and also accepting that sometimes we outgrow these people and need to let them go in order to be our best selves.

Wow! Part romance, part suspense, all encompassing awesome story! I didn't want to put this one down and when I had to, I couldn't stop thinking about it! Wondering which way the story would twist and what would be revealed throughout the story and with a few surprises thrown in. Molly and Jake's story is one I won't forget any time soon. Highly recommend!

Overall I enjoyed this book very much. After having read the authors last book (and completely blown away by it) I could not wait to read this one, I really liked the beginning and thought the various POV’s worked very well, love the writing style and the pace. I was annoyed however with the constant name abbreviations (Neens for Nina? Stell, Hunt, Moll, Sees etc) Ugh! Also don’t think this book should be billed as a mystery/thriller as it left me wondering “this is all?” by the end.

I received this book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This is my third book by Carola Lovering, and I had high expectations for this book because of how much I loved the previous two. It was still very enjoyable, but I did find it fizzle and deflate towards the end.

The book caught my attention right away, alternating between 2005 and 2022 (the present ), starting with Molly and Jake's meetcute, straight out of a romcom, then the next chapter- she's now trying for a baby with her husband (not Jake) and living a completely different life- what happened between the two?

Then enters a stalkerish third person- who seems obsessed with Molly and from her past, who injected herself into the present. Who is she and what's her connection? I thought this angle was brilliant, turning a romantic YA book to a thriller.

The author mislead me with a few times deliberately in the story, choosing intentionally misleading words and leaving the same type of clues.

Molly was a bit MarySue, everyone talks about how special she is, Jake practically worships her, Hunter was infatuated with her with a glimpse as well, I didn't see what the book kept on describing "You know Molly's different."

My final thoughts are the conflict resolution in this book is very idealistic, everyone in this book forgives really easily and doesn't seem to hold a grudge at all, well, except for you-know-who.

I couldn’t stop thinking about this book and had to finish it as quickly as I could. It get a little hard to categorize. Was it romance? Mystery? Family drama? It felt like a little of all of them. Overall, the story is about Molly and Jake, their love story and what happens after it doesn’t work out. The personal growth of the characters was phenomenal! I really enjoyed reading this!

Thank you to NetGalley and St Martin's Press!

A psychological thriller about your past catching up with you.
I thought it was just ok. It was predictable and there was part of the story that made me gasp because it was so unrealistic and cruel. I appreciated the back and forth and the flashbacks.

I’ve loved her last couple of books and this was no different. I like the multiple perspectives, the time jumping and the story line. Her books keep you guessing with believable twists.

This book appealed to me via the synopsis as I had a friend who in her teen years was the girlfriend of the lead guitarist for Blondie. Unfortunately, (or maybe fortunately) she was immature and unable to come to terms with their eventual breakup, much like Sabrina in this novel. I disliked the amount of cattiness exhibited by the female characters but to be fair they were young. I did like the shifting between points-of-view and past and present timelines and thought it worked well. First time reading this author and would certainly read another book by her.

A captivating psychological thriller about lost love and a love that becomes dangerously obsessive . The character's emotions run deep and you will start caring about what happens to some and love to hate others. There was a love triangle between Molly, Jake and Sabrina that starts innocently enough until an obsession turns ugly. I enjoyed the back story of each character and how they became who they were in the present. I also enjoyed the tension that built up between Molly and Sabrina until the explosive ending. This was a great read not to be missed.

This was a really engaging read, centered primarily on Molly, who had a whirlwind romance with the lead singer of a famous band and is now settled into the suburbs with her husband and young child. Then you get Sabrina, now married to Molly's once love and determined to take Molly down and secure him for herself.

This is a story of love in all of its faces- true love, first love, obsession, and boundaries. The author provided a great look into the heads of each character so you could really empathize with their plight, even when you didn't agree with their decisions. I did struggle with Sabrina most of all- I don't even understand why she would want to bring Molly and Jake back together with as insecure as she felt.

The book was fast paced the entire way through, and jumped back and forth from 2013 until 2022- it kept me engaged the entire time, as you saw things happening in real time and in the aftermath. Small nit, but I don't know why the author set the timeline in 2022 (though I know that is when the book is released), as it feels risky to write a book in the future without knowing if any major event might happen that would feel weird to leave out. I think it could have been set in 2012 and 2021 and been the same story.

Overall, I enjoyed reading this story (as I have with Lovering's other books) and felt connected to these characters and to the story itself . It was a love story without being a romance, with a good dose of psychological thriller, and I was satisfied with how it all turned out. Thanks to Netgalley for providing me this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

So thrilled to be able to get an early read of this from one of my favorite authors. I loved this book so much. A true love story mixed with psychological suspense. Think of a mix of Colleen Hoover romance and the YOU series.