This was such a good, dark, twisty thriller. I didn’t see the twists coming and it kept me guessing. A perfect thriller for summer!

Thank you to NetGalley, Robyn Harding and Grand Central Publishing for the free e-book in exchange for an honest review.

Harding can do no wrong in my eyes. I thoroughly enjoyed this one and the twists, as always, impeccable. I read this quickly because there is just something so incredibly bingeable about Harding work.

What a head spinning thriller!! The Drowning Woman is a topsy turvy kick you in the butt novel. When Lee Gulliver saves a woman from drowning herself in the sea and the woman is everything but thankful. She was trying to escape her abusive marriage and jumping into the ocean was her way out. An unexpected friendship develops between the two woman and the plotting begins.

I loved it. I ignored everything yesterday so I could just read. Lol. Finished in a day. While the novel isn't not going to win any major literary awards and there were some issues with the plot ... but it was a wild ride, and I was all in. I give it 5 stars. If a book can make me stay off my phone for multiple hours straight... then it deserves a 5-star rating. 🙂 So many twists to the story I had to keep reading just to see what would happen. This is my first by Robyn Harding but her entire backlist will be added to by TBR immediately.

Thank you to the netgalley and publisher for providing me with an advanced digital copy to read and review honestly. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Wow! I was hooked right from the beginning as I tried to find the connections and betrayal between Lee, Hazel, Benjamin, and Jesse.
As Lee and Hazel form a unique friendship, they soon discover they are both women who need to start a new life. As they help each other, it quickly seems like one of them are not completely honest.
Highly recommended. I didn’t want to put it down.

*I received an advanced reader’s copy of this book from NetGalley and Grand Central Publishing in exchange for my honest review.

I loved this book by Robyn Harding and definitely am going to check out her backlist. Lee and Hazel's different perspectives made the novel fly by and I couldn't put it down!

Appearances are sometimes just that ... 🌊👩

Special thanks to @rhardingwriter @thrillerbookloverspromotions and @grandcentralpub for this ARC!

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I LOVED this book! 🥰🥰🥰
It is set in present time, reflecting peoples current post covid struggles with jobs and relationships. You get so invested in Lee's storyline and how she can get out of her current situation with the help 🆘️ of Hazel and this guy she's been "seeing."
THEN 💥 TWIST
& 💥 TWIST & 💥 TWIST
And holy crap my mind was like 😳😱 there's no way this will end well at all ......
The pieces start to come together like a puzzle 🧩
& 💥
(Well, I can't spoil the ending.... you'll have to read it for yourself!!!)
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ℙ𝕌𝔹 𝔻𝔸𝕋𝔼 is June 13, 2023

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QOTD ❓️⁉️ would you put your life on the line for a stranger, just to have a guaranteed happily ever after?

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The Drowning Woman is an incredibly fast paced read with short, snappy chapters and edge-or-your-seat suspense. While the plot is well and truly over the top, a few things were introduced that were never addressed again or sorted to completion, Lee loses everything during COVID and ends up penniless and living out of her car. One day, she sees Hazel fling herself into the ocean but instead of gratitude for being saved, Hazel is furious and was trying to escape her abusive relationship. Oddly, they form a strange friendship but nothing is as it seems and you won't see the twists coming!

Special thanks to Grand Central Publishing and NetGalley for this e-arc.*

Thank you to Netgalley for an ARC of this novel. I loved it! Such a perfect beach read, I couldn’t put this one down.
This is the story of Lee, a restaurant owner who lost it all during the pandemic, and Hazel, a wealthy but very unhappy woman. These two form an unlikely friendship when Lee pulls Hazel from the frigid water, saving her from a suicide attempt. We then dive into just what led Hazel to want to take her own life, and the twists and turns of this friendship.

This was a really great, fast-paced thriller and I definitely recommend it.

A homeless woman and an abused wealthy woman cross paths. A very twisted plot in this one with many great surprises. Obviously no one is who you think they are. The wealthy woman convinces the homeless one to help her escape her husband who is into slave/master scenarios- when someone unexpected is murdered it looks like the homeless woman is being set up! A great page turner

Great story with lots of twists and turns. I was second guessing things the whole time! I loved the mystery and trying to figure out if anyone was really telling the truth.

The Drowning Woman by @ pub date 6/13/23 gripped me right from the start and I personally think it’s worth all the hype and is now one of my faves by her. Writing, pacing, characters, everything totally worked for me. This clever and twisty thriller is sure to keep you on the edge of your seat. My only gripe is towards the end it became a bit rushed and felt chaotic but in no way ruined the overall reading experience. 4.5⭐️

4.5 stars

Thank you to Thriller Book Promotions, Grand Central Publishing and Netgalley for my #gifted copy.

This is my second Robyn Harding book and it won’t be my last! She’s now an auto buy author for me! The Drowning Women is so twisty, it made it so hard to put down. We start off with Lee who is down on her luck living in her car, and she sees a women drowning or so she thinks. This chance meeting between Lee and Hazel forever changes the path of their lives. Is it for the better or worst? You try to figure it all out, what everyone’s motives are but it had me all over the place!

This book was SO GOOD! I read it in ONE DAY! I was hooked from the very beginning.

I loved the short chapters. And the perspective from both women.

The only thing I didn’t love was how the ending dragged on a little. There was a lot of talk about Hazels mom and it was sweet but seemed unnecessary. I wanted the juicy stuff!

Overall, I really liked this book and would recommend!

The drowning woman was my first Robyn Harding book, which did not disappoint. The book was fast-paced, had exciting characters, and had a twisted plot. I found myself bouncing back and forth between distrusting Hazel and Lee at various points in the book, and Harding would scoop in and turn the story so that I didn’t know what to believe. I also thoroughly enjoyed the sadistic evil lawyer character as it has been done before, but not like this! I will gladly recommend The drowning woman to anyone in the mood for a fun, twisted, and quick read!

Lee has found herself homeless after the pandemic destroys her dreams of owning her restaurant. She sleeps on a beach as she plans her next move. Until she rescues a woman from drowning. The woman, Hazel, tells her she’s a slave in her own home, as they become friends.

Another fast paced and exciting thriller for your summer vacation! I couldn’t put this one down. It has two memorable female characters, both in their own miserable circumstances. There’s twists galore and evil men. You love to root for the good gals and hope they make it out.

“What did I think of the homeless before I became one of them? Not much, is the short answer.”

The Drowning Woman comes out 6/13.

Lee, down on her luck and living in her car meets Hazel, a rich woman in an abusive marriage with a sick man. Throw in a convicted felon who is involved with both women and the story takes off. Another fantastic story by this author! 4.5 stars.

I was really not expecting the ending in this book. I thoroughly enjoyed the entire novel. The characters are well-written, the scenery is described beautifully, and the story is pretty believable. I was sort of hoping for a sequel.

This was a lot of fun! I went in completely blind, so I wasn't sure what to expect just based on the cover. I thought this was a really smartly done domestic thriller. It kept my attention the entire time and kept me wondering what was going to happen next. I loved that it was split between the two POV's because the way it all came together with them was so well done. The story was very easy to follow and I was never sure who to root for.

This was a good one! My jaw hit the floor more than once and I had no idea what was going on for a majority of the book!

I loved the formatting. There are two narrators - Lee, a woman who has fallen on hard times and is now living in her car and Hazel, a wealthy woman who is trying to escape her abusive husband. The novel was told in four parts between the two women - each part alternated a narrator. This was a unique format because for some of the parts, the storyline overlapped we just learned the other viewpoints. Normally, I wouldn’t think this would work but Harding executed it flawlessly.

I didn’t trust anyone. It was so hard to know if we had reliable narrators or not, what if anything from their back stories was relevant to the current plot, or how anything fit together. It was so fun!

The chapters were quick which makes putting this book down super hard! Honestly it was too bad I had to adult or I probably could have binged this over a nice weekend!

There aren’t many books that really surprise me but this definitely did. Where it started and where it ended up were not at all what I was expecting!

This is definitely one I’ll be using as a go to recommendation. If it’s not on your list, add it immediately!

Thank you to Grand Central Publishing, Thriller Book Lovers Promotions, and the author for this stellar read.

What a story! It was suspenseful and thrilling, and I couldn’t read it fast enough. I can’t even imagine what it would be like to have to live in my car. Lee went from having it all to having nothing including friends and family. When Hazel came around I thought she was going to change Lee’s life for the better, but everything was not as it seemed in Hardings latest book.

I started second guessing what was really happening until I got to a certain point in the book! I can’t wait for you to read this next hit by Robyn Harding when it comes out. Be sure to make room in your day, because once you start reading it will be hard to stop