First I would like to thank St. Martin's Press/Minotaur Books for a widget to read this book through NetGalley.

I'm not much of an action packed book, they make better movies, but this had me intrigued, so I went for it and I couldn't put it down.! Started it one evening and finished it the next afternoon! I just couldn't put it down!!!

Multiple POV's and timelines, but I found them easy to follow.

The Savior House, a group home for parentless teens (do we not call those orphanages anymore?) is not the greatest place. Kids are treated badly, and many are disappearing. Knowing Mr. Brood is involved in the disappearances, Ben, Nico, Donnie, Jenna, and Artemis take matters into their own hands! An investigation of the place happens and kids get sent to other places. 25 years later Nico, Donnie, and Jenna are realizing somebody is out to kill them. The only connection they each come up with is The Savior House back and they each individually go back there. Once there, answers are answered to questions they have been wondering all this time, along with answers as to why they are led here.

There is a lot of action, twists and turns, and an ending I wasn't expecting.

What Have We Done by Alex Finlay - The tale is put together like a giant jigsaw puzzle. Each chapter containing bits of the story from the various characters points of view and jumps around in place and time. Until finally, the pieces begin to fit together to illustrate how a murder brought several people together and to what lengths they will go to solve another. Find yourself a nice comfy seat because you won't be getting up for a while. You’ll have to strap yourself in for this baby, it’s a wild ride, a twisted tale of mystery and murder. The characters are so real and the plot line so compelling. You will not be disappointed.

This book had me hooked from the very beginning. Alex Finlay is a masterful storyteller and I loved this book just as much as his last one. This is about the consequences of something that happened when the main characters were kids. It is told by going back and forth between charcters and between past and present. I flew through it. Highly recommend.

Thank you kindly to NetGalley and Minotaur Books for the gifted eARC!

First off, what a plot! 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙃𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙒𝙚 𝘿𝙤𝙣𝙚 is a riveting, action-packed thriller you won’t want to put down. Read if you like:

★Multiple POVs & timelines
★Fast-paced action
★Contract killer themes

This was my first from Mr. Finlay and I’m officially a fan. Can’t wait to read more!

𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙃𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙒𝙚 𝘿𝙤𝙣𝙚 is out March 7, 2023!

𝗡𝗢𝗧𝗘𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗛𝗬 𝗤𝗨𝗢𝗧𝗘𝗦:

“Wealth and power can hide monsters in plain sight.”

I actually really enjoyed this one!

I was a little bummed because sometimes multiple points of view can be a bad thing. I find that I enjoy one view more than the others and I dread reading a lot of the book. That happened here...for a while. It follows 3 individuals - Jenna, Donnie, and Nico. Jenna's part was WAY better than the others. I skimmed a bit through Donnie's (his side chapters weren't all bad) and I totally skipped a chapter or two of Nico's. When they all came together though, that's when it got REALLY good.

I loved the action in this book and the mystery. The twins...holy smokes are they twisted and it made for really great story telling!

I definitely recommend this one when it comes out next March!

Thanks Netgalley and St. Martins Press for an ARC. All opinions are mine and mine alone. :)

This was like a female James Bond type of novel for me rather than a psychological thriller. The telling of the story from multiple points of view made it a bit difficult to follow the plot. The novel was fast-paced and full of action and there were good, tense scenes. However, to me, the fast paced action took precedence over the development of the characters and their stories. I think that there was also a bit too much going on in the novel with too many characters, making it hard to engage with them.

Thanks to Minotaur Books for this widget. All opinions are my own.

I loved both “The Night Shift” and “Every Last Fear,” but this book is not like those two and I kept rechecking to make sure I was reading the same author.

This was just so different. I struggled with the characters and the plot. It felt like there were too many pieces that were trying to be forced together to make a story. The mystery was interesting and I liked trying to figure it out, but I had no clue on what was going on.

I can’t wait to read his next book, but I really hope it is like the first two instead of this one.

Thanks NetGalley and publisher for the digital copy in exchange for my honest review!

Group of teens in a group home all get together to but a bullet in a bad man. This cements their friendship. 25 years later the group of friends are either getting murdered or blackmailed. This was an edge of your seat thriller that kept me up late at night, racing to finish this masterpiece. Just love this author. Come on, murder twins. Assassins. Revenge. Missing girls. This was a great ride.

Thanks to St Martins Press, Minotaur books, and NetGalley for the arc of this book.

Really solid plot but most of the characters weren’t like able and I just didn’t connect with them. I was really surprised by the ending and was on the edge of my seat until the very last chapter!

Oh my goodness was this good! 🥰 I loved 💕 everything about it…the characters, the storylines, and the twists & turns all the way up to the end! This book is AWESOME! 🤩 it’s one of the best books of this year! Thank you, Alex Finlay, for writing this great story, and thank you, NetGalley, for letting me read it! If you like a great story with tons of twists & turns, then What Have We Done is for you. Enjoy! 😊

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Thank you to @Netgalley and the publisher for the #AdvanceReviewCopy

Releases March 2023

Unfortunately, this one was not for me.
I have enjoyed other books by the author, but this one fell short in the thriller category. It read like an action-packed plot but one that was a bit scattered and unorganized. It had no thriller or suspense element and the characters didn't make me feel much for them. This was a multiple Pov and multiple timeline book, which I love, but in this case each character could have been a separate book and the timelines could have been better defined with separation.

These are just my opinions and if these things don't bother you, then this might be for you.

This one started out strong, but quickly lost its momentum. I found The female assassins eye-rolling and unbelievable. Nothing like the Night Shift which was disappointing.

What Have We Done is a fast paced book from Alex Finlay. There were several different characters and view points but Jenna was my favorite; a mom trying to protect her family but also was a skilled assassin.. The others were pretty selfish understandable given their upbringing or lack of it,. I haven't read other books by this author so I wasn't sure what to expect but enjoyed it.
Thanks to NetGalley and St Martin's press for my advanced review copy.

What Have We Done is another fun thriller from Alex Finlay. I loved the dual timelines and the hunt for the reader to figure out what happened to the characters in the past. I don't want to spoil anything, but great ending!

This book personally was not for me. The story was interesting but I could not get into it. At times I did get confused with all the POVs which was frustrating.

This book definitely leans into the crime side of thriller, so be warned. That being said, I couldn't put it down! We follow Jenna, Donnie, and Nico in dual timelines, one from when they resided in a group home and the other in present day as they're being hunted down. So then the question comes to the reader - what have they done? I found Jenna's chapters the most interesting, though I wanted more details on exactly what went down at Savior House. It has twists and turns that I appreciated, though it's a bit of a departure from his previous 2 books. Temper your expectations accordingly and you'll enjoy.

*Thank you to Minotaur Books and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for my honest review*

Once again, number three for Finlay he knocks a home run. Though this time he goes in to a much more thriller mode with a suspense theme intertwined. Very fast page turner. Loved it.

After reading and loving The Night Shift earlier this year, I was really excited for this one! Eye-catching cover, intriguing title, and a promising premise. I'm partial to books about childhood friends revisiting past traumas like King's It and Malfi's Black Mouth. What Have We Done is a fast-paced action thriller about a group of friends from an abusive group home who are being haunted 25 years later by events that happened there. I didn't really love the characters, but thrillers are the one genre where I don't necessarily need a likable character to root for. While it was an easy and bingeable read, I can definitively say I didn't love this one as much as Finlay's previous book. The plot wasn't as complex as I was hoping for, the relationships not as tightly knit as I would've thought (I mean, could Jenna even be considered a friend?), and I didn't love the abruptness when shifting from past to present timelines. I enjoy more of a realistic plot in my thrillers and some of this was just a bit too outlandish for my personal taste. So, don't go in expecting anything similar to The Night Shift but if you love action-packed thrillers then this will be worth picking up. Looking forward to what Finlay comes out with next!

You can’t outrun your past. Twenty-five years ago, five teenagers kill the man who runs Savior House, the group home where they have the misfortune of living and whose name is a misnomer. They believe the man, Mr. Brood, is responsible for the disappearance of multiple female residents of the group home.

The five teenagers have built successful lives for themselves, although Donnie’s addiction to drugs and alcohol has dimmed the luster of his music career and is about to cost him his band, while Nico’s gambling addiction, attitude, and commitment issues have cost him his fiancée and left him unsatisfied despite being the executive producer of the hottest reality TV show, which is about West Virginia coal miners. Jenna has a nice life now, but she had a rather unconventional career to reach this point and cannot be assured that it will not have consequences later. Artemis is a tech billionaire and would seem to be the most successful of the group, but his money cannot make up for what is missing in his life. Ben was arguably the most successful, with a federal judgeship and a loving family.

However, Ben is murdered, and attempts are made on the lives of the other four. Because of the nature of the murder attempts and the aftermath, it takes a while before Nico, Jenna, and Donnie learn about the attempts on the lives of the others and realize the common denominator is events from a quarter century earlier. This will eventually lead them back to the Pennsylvania backwater of Chestertown.

The story alternates between the past (events at Savior House) and the present, with the present chapters alternating between Jenna, Donnie, Nico, and the contract killers. The contract killers are an unusual and sadistic duo, with one killer favoring a rather unconventional weapon for torturing and killing targets. The story has plenty of surprises, including who is responsible for the events of twenty-five years ago coming to light and who hired the contract killers. I liked that Ben, who uncovers the truth first, but does not live to talk about it, leaves literary clues to help the others uncover the truth.

I received a copy of the e-book via NetGalley in exchange for a review.

There were some very cool aspects of Alex Finlay’s latest novel. Great characters (Jenna was my favorite, but Donnie deserves respect) and a pretty solid storyline. I liked the whole troubled childhood/foster home weirdness that was the setting for the characters upbringing.

The whole mystery of who is out to kill the main characters was well done as well as the side characters (the twins were great and scary), but this is where I felt a little shorted story wise. The reasoning for the cover up is understandable, but having a little more substance in the story would have been nice. It’s there, just a little overshadowed by everything else that was going on.

The ending was satisfying though. There was some good stuff happening and a decent enough twist to redeem the storyline a bit. Overall, this was a good novel with a lot of suspense and an overall solid story arch. Some more clarification (or cut out some of the less important details) and it’s 5 stars.