I started this book two days before the end of the month. I honestly didn’t think it would finish it in 48 hours but I was hooked! It does start off a bit confusing as all these characters are thrown at you while also jumping across different time lines but it does come together after a few chapters.

It’s a super fast paced story and will keep you on the edge of your seat. I couldn’t put it down! The twist was a bit of a shocker but I think the author missed a connection between the killer and Boo Radley.

⚠️spoiler alert ⚠️

Both characters were the odd quiet type who were constantly being picked on for being different. So yes, the proof is not only with Boo Radley but is also Boo Radley.

Overall, I thought it was a great read and j was entertained the entire time.

This book was a crazy ride! We have many POVs and there is a lot going on! This is definitely a book that I would read with a physical copy or ebook versus the audiobook especially to start - I listened to the audiobook for most of it and it was a bit confusing at first because of the multiple POVs and the different timelines, especially because I didn't find there was a ton to clue the reader into the fact something was a flashback. That being said, the book has short chapters, which just add to the already fast pace and there is plenty of action but not much character development. Having read Finlay's books before, this one does read a little different - I found there was less tension this time around- and I feel like you need to suspend disbelief to enjoy it. All in all, still a fun read, especially if you want something a little more wild and fast!

A huge thanks to NetGalley and St Martin's Press for the ARC for review. All opinions are my own.

Content warnings: Gun Violence, Violence, Addiction, Bullying, Child Death, Murder, Rape, Trafficking, Child abuse.

Alex Finlay brings you tons of suspense in this book. From the very beginning you will immediately get hooked.
A group of teens hold a bond over a secret they all share after an explosive night at the group home they all got dumped at.
Years later after they've moved on and become pretty successful , they each narrowly escape attempts on their lives.
When trying to unravel the who and the why, a heart breaking and shocking truth is revealed.
This book had me on pins and needles. I loved the past and present aspects, and I loved how you get a good deep dive into each of these characters.
The storyline had action all the way through, and I appreciate that it never let up. This was my first Alex Finlay book, and I do believe I'll be a fan from this point on.

Alex Finley really knows how to write a good, fast-paced crime thriller! 4.5 stars rounded up!

Jenna, Nico, and Donnie were best friends when they lived as foster siblings in a group house, the Savior House, for orphaned teens. But when teenage girls started going missing, the group home was forced to shut down, and they were split up. 25 years later, the three are reunited after the death of their friend and foster sibling Ben, and now someone is trying to kill them as well.

I really couldn't put this down! The action-packed thriller starts off with a bang, and as the chapters shifted between each character's perspective and from past to present, it was fun trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together. I suspected everyone, and while I correctly predicted some twists and turns, it was satisfying to read how everything played out.

Big thank you to netgalley, Alex Finley, and the publishers for offering me an arc to read an exchange for an honest review.

I was instantly hooked by this book. The author does a great job of grabbing you and pulling you in. The story is told in the present but there is a lot of weaving the past in. I liked how the characters reminisced on the past to help give more information to keep the plot going. It's not a fast paced book but smoothly unravels. Even though I found the pace to be a little slow there is a lot of action to keep you reading.

My biggest complaint has to do with the characters. It's obvious from the start how the characters are connected but there's still a lot of intrigue and mystery around their lives and past. There are a lot of characters in the book and at times it's difficult to keep track of everyone. I was drawn to some characters more than others, such as Jenna and Donnie.

The characters are stereotypical (Nico the gambling addict, Jenna the ex-assassin, Donnie the drunk old rock star). I enjoyed the characters at first but the stereotypes got redundant. I was hoping the characters would have more growth. You'd think a man that almost dies being drunk and falling off a ship would stop drinking. Jenna was the most well rounded character.

There aren't too many big plot twists until the end of the book. I was a little confused by the plot twist (definitely didn't see it coming) and would have like it to be cleared up a little more. I still have some questions at the end of the book.

Overall I enjoyed the book. The action and pacing kept me reading even when I started to find the characters annoying.

This one was not my favorites of Alex Finlay's. The Night Shift is an all time favorite but this one just didn't do it for me. I didn't connect to any of the characters and often felt a.little bored. I thought the premise was over the top and unbelievable. That being said...I will always read Finlay's books!

This book will have you on the edge of your seat. It starts out telling us about the lives of Jenna, a stay at home mom with a past. Her teenage stepdaughter and her seem to be at odds constantly. Then there's Donnie, the rock star, who is so dependent on alcohol, he seems to be a disappointment to his band of numerous years. They tell him its time for him to move on if he can't get help for his habit. Last but not least is Nico, a TV producer of a fairly successful show called The Miners. The problem is Nico has a gambling debt that has several scary people coming to collect on this debt. These three haven't seen each other since their childhood, however they all share a secret. Things begin to happen that makes them realize someone is out to kill them. And it all goes back to their days at Savior House. The author focuses on each of them throughout the chapters. They know they are fighting for their lives. But who wants them dead? This book is a page-turner that will keep you reading until the early hours. They thought their secret was buried forever. Who is trying to kill them? This action packed book is impossible to put down. This was my first book by this author. I'll certainly be looking forward to more. Thank you to Net Galley for allowing me to read and review this book.

Alex Finlay writes really good thrillers, but What Have We Done is not at the same level as The Night Shift, although it is still a wild read. Donnie, Nico and Jenna grew up in a horrible group home, ironically named Savior House. All escaped to "better" lives and now 25 years later we find Donnie as an aging rock star, Nico as a reality TV producer, and Jenna as a retired assassin and now happy wife and stepmother. Another of their group-home friends is a tech billionaire. Someone is out to kill these four. Ben, another Savior House survivor and a respected judge, already has been murdered. The motive lies in the past and their time as Savior House. The book is told through multiple POVs and switches time lines to an extent. I enjoyed the Jenna character but couldn't connect with Donnie or Nico and the killers were kind of ridiculous. Still, the book is action packed and quick to get through.

First off, thank you to netgalley, the publisher and the author for an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. These opinions are my own.

Alex Finlay books almost always grip me from the very first pages. What Have We Done however did not. I ultimately ended up DNF at 50%. Because Alex Finlay is a fabulous thriller author, I do plan to pick this book back up in the future to see if I can finish it. It was a bit flat compared to his other books.

This is definitely a popcorn thriller, at times reading more like a screenplay for a movie than novel! Although it was good, I wouldn’t say it was great. I was disappointed with the way the story wrapped up and felt some of twists were a bit underwhelming. All that said, the book was well written, and I really look forward to Finlay’s next novel!
Thank you NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for an ARC of “What Have We Done”.

I'm a fan of Alex Finlay's past works, but his one seemed to miss the mark a bit. The plot seemed to drag on, with all the different perspectives there was so much reading of what we know. I wasn't fully committed to the motivations of anyone. The country boy personal of Donnie:s character was grating. More work could have gone into this imo.

This is a fast paced action packed book that was fun to read! It quickly grabbed my interest and kept me guessing throughout. There were things I predicted but other aspects were unexpected. I would have loved to get to know the characters a bit more as each was really only defined by one characteristic and felt a bit flat. I would absolutely read a book just about Jenna’s background story, she definitely was the most intriguing to me. The ending left me with some questions and a few things didn’t really add up, but I still enjoyed reading it.

This is very OTT and not at all believable, but it’s an entertaining action movie type popcorn thriller that I recommend when you’re in the mood for a fast fun read.

Thanks to Minotaur Books and NetGalley for the gifted DRC.

An assassin, rockstar, TV producer, federal judge, and tech billionaire all have something in common. All of them are trying to be brutally murdered by someone. Why are they being attacked and what secrets will be uncovered along the way?

This book has the intensity and pacing of an action movie. The chapters are so short, making it easy to fly through. The story is told from 5+ perspectives and covers two different timelines. There is so much going on it just makes you want to keep reading and not stop until you know the ending. I will say that I did ultimately guess who was behind it all but there was lots along the way that I did not guess. If I hadn't of guessed who was behind it all, it would have been a 5 star easy. Even the epilogue will have you flying you through the pages. No paragraph is safe from the crazy action and I loved every page of this book!

I felt let down by this book. There just wasn’t enough twists in the story line to keep me interested. Different points of view in different timelines was a very interesting way to tell the story but some times it was a little difficult to keep up.

Of all the thriller releases this year this was in my top three couldn't wait to read .So huge thanks to @minotaur_books and @Netgalley for my #advancedreaderscopy .I did end up listening to the 🎧 book also and the full cast production i couldnt stop listening. !!!

The premise is great.. five kids are witness to something terrible , and the foster home they lived in was closed down , they are split up..and on life goes .
One becomes a rock star
One becomes a Judge
One becomes a TV producer One becomes a millionare tech mogul
And my fave character Jenna becomes a "La Femme Nikita " a badass assassin, but she got out of the game or so she thought. Then one by one they are being hunted.
The problem for me ..the hunters really didnt do a great job of finishing them off..and the things they survived from were a little implausible. The FBI agent didnt have backup? Was he only a local agent or Quantico?
If our assassin brought it back to the head of the covert organization that used her skills , why couldnt they help her get the info who was targeting her and her childhood friends? The hunters were psychopath twins who lived to kill and watch the Bachelor they actually were funny characters., i would hqve liked more of a serial killer vibe from them . There were bread crumb clues that brought them all back together but the ending ? I expected more from our assassin ..she could have been so badass I was disappointed. I was happy the rock star created a new record , and the scene with him seeing Ben in the mirror was a true nod to the series Cold Case which i loved.
Overall..it was a pageturner and I will still read the next book from this

I don’t feel like what actually happens in this book matches up to the synopsis at all. Sometimes that’s okay because it adds a little mystery, but in this case we get a completely different book than what one might expect.

There were way too many characters and little side plots to keep straight to the point that some of the reveals didn’t even shock me cause I had no clue who the characters were talking about.

I did enjoy that this started off fast paced and stayed that way all the way through the epilogue.

Not my favourite Alex Finlay novel but still a good read. Though it was confusing at times to try and keep all of the characters straight.

Thank you to NetGalley and Minotaur Books for the free download of this book. I went into this REALLY wanting to love it but I just didn't. I didn't really connect with any of the characters, thought the plot was pretty farfetched, and just really didn't appreciate the "action movie" style of this book. I hope Alex Finlay's future books are closer to the style of his previous books.

𝚁𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐: 3.5⭐️
𝙶𝚎𝚗𝚛𝚎: Mystery/Thriller 📚

𝙼𝚢 𝚃𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚜:
Not my favorite Alex Finlay novel. Gave me “IT” by Stephen King vibes

𝚁𝚎𝚊𝚍 𝚒𝚏 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎:
Fast paced thrillers
Interesting plots
Lots of twists and turns
Multiple POVs
Short chapters

𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝙸 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎𝚍:
The creepy twins
A bar called Drink

𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝙸 𝚍𝚒𝚍𝚗’𝚝 𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚛:
Way over the top
Didn’t really connect with any of the characters
Wasn’t super suspenseful
Wanted more character development
Repetitive at times

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Title: What Have We Done
Author: Alex Finlay
Rating: 4/5 Stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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I am OBSESSED when I read books that are set in areas that I know, of but this... this book right here had me rewinding and flipping back through pages to make sure I heard/read correctly when the characters were heading to Delaware County, PA. Okay what's up DELCOOOOOOO. In case you are unaware - Delaware County (AKA Delco) is where I grew up - so of course I was extra hype to see/hear that. It was such a nice little surprise. We are a little suburb right outside of Philly - with hands down the weirdest accent and weirdest personalities haha; its one unique ass place. HUGE plus for me.. Anyways, back to the book.
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Alex Finlay is easily becoming an auto buy author for me, after finishing this one. What Have We Done is set up where right from the beginning you are aware that the characters commit a murder and very early on you see that they are being hunted by who only knows. This one is told in multiple points of view and honestly, I loved each character(s); they each had their own issues and quirks and I always wanted to know what was going to happen next with them. The best part, as this story unravels, you begin to learn more about the characters and what they have been through. The end twist is chefs kiss , I didn't see that coming at all and I absolutely love where Finlay went with this. 
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I listened and read this one and I am super happy to report that it is a full cast (Brittany Pressley; James Patrick Cronin; Jon Lindstrom; Maggie Thompson) , and it was executed perfectly! Each narrator brought their character to life and made this story that much more enjoyable! If you're looking for a new audiobook or a fast paced action paced thriller - go ahead and check this one out! What Have We Done releases today March 7th and I am definitely recommending everyone check this one out!
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Huge thank you to @netgalley, @macmillinaudio, @stmartinspress @minataurbooks and @alexfinlay for the advanced eARC and ALC in exchange for my honest review. 
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