Thank you  NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for this Audiobook for an honest review.


This was such a great listen. I loved the narrators in this book. I felt that the different POVs by these narrators really made this book better as an audiobook. I feel that this was more of a domestic suspense and I guess for some maybe predictable. But still nonetheless, I had enjoyed this.

I really enjoyed this one. I went in blind, expecting a thriller and was pleasantly surprised with a romantic suspense novel!

You know I love me some romance, throw in some darkness or suspense and I’m sold.

This was a quick read, that had me biting my nails at times, with twists and turns I wasn’t quite expecting. The characters seemed real and flawed, which I always enjoy. The villainess; is that the term for a female villain? Definitely gave Joe from You vibes in female form.

Stella was cute as pie and a feisty little thing!


Molly was torn between two lovely but so different men Jake and Hunter. I also got a little bit of Daisy Jones and The Six vibes from Jake which I really enjoyed !

Would you choose the stable, handsome business man who adores you or the sexy rockstar, who was so in love with you, you were his muse but he consumed you, and it wasn’t always for the best?

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I went back and forth between reading and listening because I let this story consume me and the narration was fantastic too!

Thank you @stmartinspress for an ARC for my honest review.

Molly’s life in Connecticut is nice, but she doesn’t feel like she fits in with the locals. She has a wonderful family with her husband, Hunter, and their young daughter. Sabrina moves to town and quickly befriends Molly. It seems like they have so much in common. Molly’s musician ex-boyfriend, Jake, plays a pivotal role in the past of both women. As these three characters’ lives coalesce in the seaside town of Flynn Cove, snapshots of their history provide clues to how they got there and just how different they are now.

I felt like parts of the story were over-explained. Why do we have to hear about the same event from the perspectives of two or three different characters? Every time I thought I had a prediction or figured something out, it was given away in the next chapter. I held out for a surprise, hoping there would be a twist or big reveal, and Lovering didn’t disappoint. The last chunk of the story saved the novel for me.

The audiobook narration was engaging. I like how the three main characters each had their own narrator. Jake was the character I connected with the least, but I’m not sure if that was due to the narrator or just how his character was written. I think it may mostly be the latter.

Overall, even though they have similar formats, Can’t Look Away was better than Lovering’s last novel, Too Good to be True. However, this book still fell a bit flat for me. I was hoping for more suspense, more twists. But if you are looking for something with a lot of relationship drama, then you may have found your next read. 3 stars.

Thank you to NetGalley, Macmillan Audio, and Carola Lovering for an advance listening copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. I wasn't quite sure what to expect when I started listening to this one but I was thinking I was getting myself into an intense thriller. It definitely wasn't a thriller in my opinion but almost a love story with elements of suspense and some twists like you would find in your "normal thriller". I enjoyed the plot of this story and following through the past and the current with the different characters. The author did a great job telling the characters stories, while the narrator helped me bring the characters to life. Ultimately, I wanted a little more thrill from this one but this would be a great start for someone who wants to read more suspenseful novels! This one is available on 6/14/22!

3.5 stars- rounded up to 4 for GR!

The multiple narrators really made this story come alive, each portraying their characters perfectly. I would definitely recommend this for anyone who enjoys reading about suspenseful and intense relationship.

I went into this believing it was a thriller but it’s really more of a domestic suspense. I think it’s important to go into this expecting a slow burn suspense and not a fast paced thriller. Doing that will definitely help the enjoyment of this very one.

All the characters were really well developed and there’s a love story in the midst of this that really had me feeling so much for the characters. It was such a testament to relationships that I had in it 20s. Oh the drama! 😂

Thank you Netgalley and Macmillan Audio for this alc in exchange for an honest review!

Ever wonder what happened to the one that got away? Molly and Jake met while his band was touring. They have an instant connection and things happen that tear them apart.
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Years later Molly is married to Hunter with a little girl and they are trying to have another child. They are dealing with fertility treatments which has been difficult. Molly and Hunter live in a wealthy suburb and she does not feel connected to the wives.
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One day Molly meets Sabrina who she connects with and Molly feels she has met a wonderful friend. Sabrina invites Molly and her husband over to their home. When Sabrina introduces her husband, Molly is shocked. Sabrina is married to Jake.
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Is this coincidence or planned? Do old feelings surface? The different point of views and narrative going from past to present make it interesting. I was invested in the main characters and could not wait to hear where they were headed.
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I loved this authors novel Too Good to Be True and hoped this one would be just as good! Thank you @netgalley, @macmillanaudio and author Carola Lovering for this advanced audio.

This is a quick, fun, easy listen - but it’s a drama, not a thriller. I really enjoyed the dual timelines and multiple point of views. The characters and the narrators were great, and I really like this author.

Can't Look Away, by Carola Lovering is being marketed as a thriller. I absolutely disagree with that genre for this book. Can't Look Away seemed much more like a family drama/women's fiction novel to me. So, if I ignore the marketing, I will say I really enjoyed this book for what I thought it was.

Molly fell hard for Jake in her early twenties while she was trying to be an author and he was a rising music star. It was apparently love at first site for both of them and they made a go of the relationship in NYC. Cut to the future and Molly is married to someone other than Jake, Hunter. Hunter and Molly are raising a precocious little girl together outside the city in an affluent suburb where Hunter grew up.

The novel unfolds non-sequentially, jumping back and forth between when Molly and Jake were together and current day where Molly is a part-time yoga teacher seemingly having given up writing for some reason. A new woman attends Molly's yoga class, Sabrina. Sabrina has reasons for hunting Molly down and the reader finds out fairly early on what those reasons are.

I am giving this book 4 stars because I found it to be incredibly relatable and believable how relationships were described and how they played out. The only weak point in the book was Sabrina. It seems like Sabrina was a device used to make the book seem like more of a thriller than a straight up romance/women's fiction novel, but her motives were completely bizarre unless she was full-on crazy, which she was not ever portrayed to be. Jake and Hunter were pretty standard male leads, with Jake being portrayed absolutely realistic given his age and career. Hunter was a tad too unrealistically perfect, but not enough to complain about.

I read one reviewer compare this novel to a Colleen Hoover novel and that is 100% accurate. This one had a lot of her 'Can True Love overcome personal demons?"-vibe. Can't Look away is a quick, thought-provoking novel that keeps the reader wondering how it will all turn out for Molly all the way to the end.

In Can’t Look Away Molly meets Jake an up-and-coming lead singer. They are both in there mid twenties, still young and the cusp of finding who they are.
Molly and Jake have an insta-love that is intense and passionate. Although, it’s a difficult period of time as Jake’s band starts to get recognized. Jake finds himself immersed in his world of music while Moly tries her hand at writing.
As time wears on Molly feels the foundation of there love crumbling. She spends time with a new friend. Eventually, time carves different paths for the both of the.
Five years later, the past collides with the present and Molly and Jake are once again faced with unresolved feelings of love.
Can’t Look Away is constructed of multiple points of view alternating between the past and the present. Carola Lovering is a new to me author. Caitlin Moss recommended this book and based on her positive review I took a chance on this book. I requested both the ebook and audiobook on Netgalley.
Can’t Look Away explores first love with deception, secrets, and lies. Can’t Look Away is dubbed a thriller, yet I found it was focused mainly on the relationships between Molly, Hunter, Sabrina, and Jake. The drama meter was high and tad bit over-the-top in certain areas. The story came alive around the seventy percent mark. Early in the story I thought this was going to be a rockstar romance. Jake was a musician and his career played an intricate part of the story, but it wasn’t just about his music career. The story focused on family and friendship.

Narrators:
Caitlin Davies
Zachary Webber
Karissa Vacker
Three narrators perform Can’t Look Away. I’m only familiar with the voice of Zachary Webber. The two female narrators were pleasant to listen to although I couldn’t tell you which performed which characters.

I’m pleased to have the opportunity to listen to these amazing narrators perform this book for me. I’m growing more spoiled wanting to invest in both the audiobook and ebook. Having narrators read the story to me adds an extra layer to the story that I cherish.
I listened using the Netgalley app at 2X speed. This is an unabridged audiobook allowing readers the opportunity to follow along with the ebook.
These narrators enhanced my listening experience. Eventhough I imagined a different type of read I still found the story to be fulfilling.

I think fans of It Ends With Us would probably like this book. Don't let the cover or title fool you - it's in no way a thriller. I do think Lovering tried to give it a thrillery element with Sabrina's plot line but apart from the first chapter from Sabrina's pov that did give me the creeps, I didn't feel she was much of a threat.
I did like the ending and how Molly decided to progress with her life, but I do wish that Sabrina got what was coming to her.
Overall this was a quick and entertaining read.

I was looking forward to this but sadly I couldn’t. Listen to it. Guess Ill have to wait and see when it comes out.

CAN’T LOOK AWAY by Carola Lovering

If you like your thrillers dipped in romance, I have a book for you.

We’re first introduced to Molly. Molly used to be a writer but currently makes her living as a yoga instructor. One day Sabrina walks into her studio and the two become friends.

As the book progresses we learn there is more to Sabrina than it seems and the two women have much more in common than Molly could ever imagine.

I liked this one. It was extremely easy to read and ingest in big chunks. There were lots of twists and turns. And it kept my attention throughout.

In my opinion, it is heavy on the romance side and light on the thriller.

This would make a fantastic book for newbies to the thriller genre or fans of the romance genre looking to dip their toes in thriller waters.


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Thanks to Netgalley and Macmillan Audio St Martins Press for this advanced copy!

I loved Too Good to Be True when I read it last year, so naturally I snagged Carola Lovering’s newest novel when it was “read now” on NetGalley and requested the audiobook version as well. I read the first half and listened to the audiobook for the second half.

Molly is a wannabe writer and yogi who ends up in a whirlwind romance with an up-and-coming musician, Jake, lead singer of Danner Lane, after locking eyes in a New York City bar one fateful night. Eventually, Molly is faced with the decision of a lifetime - she must decide between the rockstar’s erratic lifestyle or the comfort and stability of a close friend who confesses his love for her and is ready to start a family. Years later, her decision comes back to haunt her and her family in the form of a jealous, stalker ex-girlfriend, Sabrina, who sets the stage for an unanticipated reunion between all involved parties in an attempt to dig up the past and the secrets buried there. What will Molly do when faced with her past decisions and when her secrets start to air out? Would she make the same choice all over again?

This story is told between Molly, Jake, and Sabrina’s perspectives, both “then” (2013ish) and “now” (2022).

Carola does domestic/romantic suspense with stalker ex tropes the best!! I thought I had the whole plot figured out but the twists just kept coming! Brb, going to add “Tell Me Lies” - Carola’s first novel - to my tbr! She is an auto-read author for me now, for sure.

I enjoyed the narrators a lot. They were very entertaining, which was mostly why I switched to audio for the entire second half of the book. I sometimes struggle with audiobooks where there are multiple POVs, especially ones that shift between males and females, but the quality and sufficient quantity of narrators in this one was great.

Thank you to NetGalley, St. Martin’s Press, Macmillan Audio, and the author for an e-galley and advance listener’s copy of this novel in exchange for my honest review!

Many thanks to NetGalley, St Martin's Press and Macmillan Audio for gifting me both a digital and audio ARC of the latest book by Carola Lovering, beautifully narrated by Caitlin Davies; Karissa Vacker; Zachary Webber. 4 stars!

In 2013, Molly is young, living in Brooklyn, working as a barista and trying to write. When she goes to a show and locks eyes with the lead singer of the band, Molly and Jake begin. He writes a song about her that becomes popular and the band's greatest hit. In present day, Molly is married to Hunter, they have a young daughter and are living in Hunter's hometown in Connecticut. Molly feels adrift from her life and the women in town. She works as a yoga instructor and is desperately trying to get pregnant again. When she meets Sabrina at the fertility clinic, she finally feels like she met a kindred soul. But does Sabrina feel the same?

This is being promoted as a mystery/thriller which may leave readers a bit confused. To me, it's a really good domestic drama, heavy on the characters, which is a good thing in my book as well. I really felt a pull towards the characters and their thoughts and feelings were easily relatable. It's a story of first love, obsession and growing up. I ended up mostly listening to the audio book because of the great job the narrators did, and I was always finding a minute to listen. Another good read by Carola Lovering!

Great book! I am going to read anything else this author writes-the story held my attention immediately and kept my interest all the way to the end. The main characters were flawed but relatable and you cared what happened to them as the story unfolded. The plot-while implausible-slowly unfurled like a flower in a slow burn….and I couldn’t wait to finish this book to get to the culmination of the story. While there were parts I saw coming….there were some surprises as well.

Thank you Net Galley for this ARC-I was excited to listen to this audiobook and I recommend it highly!

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I loved Lovering's first book, TELL ME LIES, and enjoyed her second book, TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE. Lovering is certainly an author whose new releases I want to read and so when CAN'T LOOK AWAY became available as an ARC, I jumped at the chance to read it early.

This book explores obsessive love, love at first sight, true love, enduring love, and many other types of love. It's not a "thriller" in my opinion, but rather has a mystery element to it. Still, most of this book is focused on human relationships, the concept of obsessive love, and the belief that someone is your soulmate even when that notion is unrequited. Lovering's books have all been labeled as thrillers, but I think they're more fittingly domestic suspense or domestic dramas. I say this because I think people who go into her books expecting a true thriller will be disappointed. Lovering garners pretty split reviews on her books, but I enjoy her work. She posits interesting premises and explores the human experience through the lens of flawed characters who are trying to figure things out.

The audio is great. I appreciate audiobooks that have multiple narrators when the novel is told from multiple perspectives. The three narrators were great on this audio and made it an unstoppable listen. I got a LOT of chores done because I didn't want to stop listening.

I received this ARC audiobook from Netgalley & the publisher. This is my honest review.

Once I got the email that I was approved to read this book, I re-read the summary and was like, wait what? I chose this, it sounds like a romance novel. What did I get myself into?

I don't typically enjoy romance novels. But my initial worries were subsided as I started listening to the book and was soon hooked, listening to the book every chance I got!. Yes there was romance (it did get a little to sappy at the end for my taste) but it was more about the complexity of obsession. I recommend this to anyone who loves thrillers.

I loved Can’t Look Away by Carola Lovering! It was such an interesting, compelling novel. I was immensely intrigued by the plot. I would call it a domestic drama with an intrinsic element of suspense, more than a thriller, but it was fascinating, surprisingly sweet, and thought-provoking.

Can’t Look Away is the story of obsessive love, and the lengths people will go to to secure it. It’s also a story about the difference between true love and love by choice; a love that grows slowly over time and through friendship. It’s the story of Molly, aspiring writer, and Jake, up-and-coming rockstar and their rather tormented, on-again/off-again enduring, overwhelming love, and the girl who was determined to have him for herself. It’s slightly creepy and disturbing, but also utterly engrossing.

This was a remarkably moving story with quite a bit of depth and insightfulness, despite the more chilling nature of the story. In my opinion, the author got the ending just right and I was wholly satisfied with the conclusion. I definitely recommend this story and look forward to reading more by this author.

Can’t Look Away is narrated by Caitlin Davies, Karissa Vacker, and Zachary Webber. I do appreciate when multiple narrators are involved in an audiobook because each main character gets their own unique, authentic voice. These three were really clear, nuanced, perfectly suited voices for the characters they read for and they really brought the story to life.

<b>2013</b>

Molly Diamond has a dream of becoming a writer while working as a Barista. One night she goes to a concert and locks eyes with the handsome and charismatic lead singer, Jake Danner. It's love at first sight! It’s all consuming! It burns bright! They intend to spend their lives together! Jack writes at song about Molly and it becomes the biggest hit of his (and his band’s) career.

<b>Almost a decade later</b>

Molly is happily married to Hunter and has a five-year-old daughter, Stella. They have moved from the city to Flynn Cove, Connecticut. Molly is working as a Yoga instructor and is content with her life. Then one day her song comes on the radio, “Molly’s Song” and it is quite the blast from the past. As she listens to Jack being interviewed, she can't help but take a walk down memory lane.

Sabrina is new to the neighborhood and she and Molly become fast friends after meeting at the Yoga Studio where Molly teaches. Molly is happy, she hasn't made too many friends as an adult and she and Sabrina get along so well. They both live near each other and share similar struggles. Little does Molly know; Sabrina has secrets....

Sabrina has moved to Flynn Cove, Connecticut with an agenda. As her agenda beings to unfold so does the plot of this book. The more we learn, the more dramatic this book becomes!

Told in 2013 and nearly a decade later, this book looks at dreams, romance, choices, consequences, and second chances. I enjoyed the books and its drama. It read like a nighttime soap opera to me. There is drama galore. There are questionable actions and decisions made by characters. This will make it or break it for some readers, IMO. I found myself thinking about the decisions and actions made in this book upon finishing it. Some were morally and ethically wrong and one character did something in front of others, that I was shocked did not face any legal consequences or chargers.

I also enjoyed how it showed growth and dreams. Everyone has them. How life changes and how you look at things when you are young and then some time later, looking back, with age, experience, and wisdom, you can look at things differently.

This is a polarizing book that readers will either enjoy or find fault with. I enjoyed it. I had both the audiobook and e-book version. I enjoyed listening to the audio and the narrators. Their narration really worked for me, and I wonder if I only read the book instead of reading and listening to it, would I have enjoyed it as much? For me, I believe the narrators elevated the book for me.

Readers are privy to everything going on in this book. There are some twists, but readers will see them coming. There is nothing to figure out. This is a sit-back-and-enjoy-the-ride type of book For me this was dramatic, fun, entertaining and I had a hard time putting this down.

3.5 stars

Thank you to St. Martin's Press and Macmillan Audio and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own.

Block off your calendar! You will not be able to put it down.

Love the characters and narrators.