I received this as an Advanced Reader Copy. I am a big Mary Kubica fan, but this was a slow burn, with a pretty anti-climatic climax. It was fun reading a story with teachers in a high school though.

I haven’t read a book by Mary Kubica that I didn’t thoroughly enjoy and this book is no exception. Kubica is one of my favorite writers and I always enjoy a good psychological thriller. Like most of her books, it switches the point of view between Christian and Nina who are both married to other people. Nina’s husband goes missing. The only issue I had was that none of the characters were unlikeable and selfish. They were all pretty one dimensional. Nina and Lily teach at the same school, one day Nina’s surgeon goes missing.- he doesn’t return go home from work and then doesn’t show up for his next shift. At en same time, Lily drops a huge bomb on her husband, Christian, that Jake tried to attack her in the woods and she hit him with a rock. The book starts off slow moving and is not one of Kubica’s best books, but I still enjoyed reading it and it was a quick read. I was surprised by the variety of others reviews. It appears that readers either loved or hated the book with minimal neutral reviews.

Mary Kubica is one of my top authors that I will automatically pick up her book off the shelf. This one I didn't enjoy as much as Local Woman Missing but i still devoured it in less than a day!

Kubicas storytelling is nothing short of thrilling. Twists and turns I would never have been able to see coming!

My first Mary Kubica book was Local Wonan Missing and it was one of my top books of last year. So I was very happy to get Just the Nicest Couple. I had high hopes for this book and it wasn’t quite up there with LWM but it was a great thriller, I had a good time reading it!

Mary Kubica never lets me down! This twisty dark thriller is another ultimate page turner. I highly recommend!

There were plot holes and grammar mistakes. The false foreshadowings were so obvious that I wanted to yell at the author to just trust their readers' intelligence at one point.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! No spoilers. Beyond amazing I enjoyed this book so very much. The characters and storyline were fantastic. The ending I did not see coming Could not put down nor did I want to. Truly Amazing and appreciated the whole story. This is going to be a must read for many many readers. Maybe even a book club pick. Our library purchased and our patrons have been checking out and and enjoying the book. I see it is a popular book club choice as well we hope to have more oppurtinies to support authors like them

Was this one a bit predictable? Did I know that Lily was lying about... something?
Sure.
Did I enjoy it anyway.
Yep.
It started off a bit slow, but got going and while I knew that there were secrets and that Lily's version of events definitely wasn't completely honest I was intrigued enough to want to know how it all unfolded.
Fun read.

Oh man! The authors last book was one of my all time favorite thrillers, but man this one was so boring! What happened between the two releases?? Hopefully the next one is better!

I’m gonna be honest, after I finished reading this I couldn’t really remember the plot. It kind of just gets filed away with every other mystery thriller. And don’t get me wrong I liked it, but I can’t remember why.

This just didn't hit the same way Kubica's others have. It felt drawn out and a bit predictable. I did really love Nina's character and enjoyed her POV. I understand Christian's chapters were necessary but he annoyed me to no end.

I will definitely keep reading all her new books because Local Woman Missing is a fave, but this one wasn't it for me.

Thank you again to NetGalley for another ARC by Mary Kubica! She is one of my favorite authors and I do not think that will ever change. I love reading her books! This one had me wanting more and guessing! I look forward to her next one! I have already recommended this one to my fellow readers!

Just the Nicest Couple wasn't my favorite of Mary Kubica's books. It felt slow-going and failed to keep my interest. I'm eager to read whatever she's working on next!

Just the Nicest Couple is another domestic thriller written by Mary Kubica. In the book, we follow members of two married couples whose lives are interconnected both openly and in secret. After the husband in one couple disappears, both couples are left trying to unravel the surrounding mysteries. I found this to be an enjoyable thriller, even though I thought the twist was somewhat predictable. Overall, I would recommend this to fans of Kubica.

While this wasn't the most thrilling book I've ever read, it had enough twists to keep me coming back for more - I needed to know what happened. The characters weren’t the most dynamic, and I wished for a bit more excitement on the pages. This kept me engaged enough to meet my current readi g needs without feeling like I was floundering in a complicated plot, but it also fell a little flat. I am strangely entertained AND disappointed.

Thank you to Park Row Books, the publisher, and NetGalley for the opportunity to preview this book in return for an honest opinion.

The story is about two couples. Their relationship is really a work one as the two women work together as teachers. One of the husbands goes missing.. I anticipated this would be an engrossing mystery however both the plot and the writing style detracted from that. Try as I did, I could not like or even find the characters relatable.

Jake and Nina Hayes are having marital problems. Her mother is ill and she is spending a lot of time with her and Jack is feeling left out. They argue about it and he huffs off to work. When he doesn't return home, she just thinks he is staying at a hotel or with a friend to "punish" her. Maybe their marriage is on the way to breaking up. After several days and a phone call from the hospital where he is a neurosurgeon, she files a missing person report. The police don't take it seriously, until other things start to happen. Meanwhile we also meet Lily Scott and her husband Christian. Lily has recently found out she is expecting. She was out for a walk in a nearby park when she is accosted by Jake. What is going on? She hits Jake in the head with a rock and leaves him unconscious in the park. Did she kill him? She tells Christian and they check to see if they can find his body. He's not there, where is he? Christian will do whatever he can to help Nina stay out of jail.

Mary Kubica books are hit or miss for me and this one was on the hit side. I know it has had mixed reviews, and yes it wasn't perfect, but I enjoyed the story. So, we have a lot of secrets, lies and unreliable narrators to sort through in this book. I was pretty sure I knew what had happened to Jake, but it took quite awhile to actually find out. I was partially correct, so I patted myself on the back for that, but otherwise, I was out in left field. I really didn't like any of the characters except for Nina. The story is narrated from the POVs of Nina and Christian. It gave the story some urgency, but I was not a fan of the short, abrupt sentences. Think Captain Kirk in the original Star Trek series. This was a psychological thriller, so while there wasn't a lot of action, it did keep me listening to see what had really happened to Jake. There were some distracting storylines that added to my confusion and I thought could have been left out, but were great red herrings. Overall, this was an intriguing thriller/mystery that I enjoyed.

Just the Nicest Couple by Mary Kubica follows the lives of two couples, Nina and Jake and Christian and Lily. Jake goes missing after an argument with Nina and after a few days of cooling off, Nina is desperately trying to find him. Lily is worked up because she realizes she might very well be the last person to see Jake before his disappearance.

This book was probably my least favorite by Ms. Kubica. The plot was a little slow, the characters were unlikeable, and the writing style was unusual. This book was written in short, choppy sentences and was also super repetitive. I found Christian to be a little too obsessed with Lily. I found Lily to be a little too whiny. I found Nina to be a little too bland. The story could have been good, but sounded like a few other books I've read recently (and they were done better).

I loved The Good Girl, but her novels have gone down after that debut and this might be my last novel by Mary Kubica.

Thank you to the publishers and NetGalley for an advanced copy of this book in exchange for my honest thoughts.

Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for an advanced reader ecopy. I had previously read local woman missing and enjoyed it. Mary Kubica missed the mark on this one. It was just ok. Nothing really exciting about it, there’s one scene where it got exciting but was just a daydream. I’ll definitely give Mary Kubica another shot but this one just didn’t live up to the hype.