Member Reviews
Thank you to NetGalley and Random House Publishing - Ballantine/Bantam for the ARC!
“It was all confidential. Right up to the moment when it wasn’t.”
Really enjoyed this book. It was like Gossip Girl, but with grown ups. Love when bad things happen to bad people, lol. Definitely a page turner.
I really enjoyed this one and flew through it. I kept thinking about it and had a hard time putting it down. A fun and enjoyable read. Thank you netgalley and Random House for the copy.
Really enjoyed this book! I love reading about bad things happening to rich people. Looking forward to more by this author
You can never trust the internet even when it claims to be anonymous. No One Needs to Know follows the residents of the Upper East Side and the things they will do to protect their family's reputation. The residents thought their posts on UrbanMyth, a neighborhood forum, were all confidential until the day the site got hacked. You can never trust the internet with your deepest & darkest secrets.
This was a fun read but could be slow at times. I feel like it could be a good lifetime style movie in the end. Read on for the twists and turns.
Gossip Girl but for grown folks. A blind item website pops up and all the parents at the rich people school in NYC are using it. The only issue is that the website info gets hacked and secrets get out. Really enjoyed this one ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The premise of this gripping page-turner hooked me from the very start! Lindsay Cameron is such a talented fresh voice in this genre! Loved this book!
No One Needs to Know gives major Gossip Girl vibes. The story focuses on three upper class women who would do anything to protect their privileged lives and their children's futures. They share all their dirty little secrets on an anonymous social media platform. But chaos ensues when their secrets aren't so anonymous anymore. This was the kind of book that you look up from your book and notice you've been reading for an hour even though it only felt like 15 minutes. Highly recommend this fast paced domestic thriller.
Thank you NetGalley for the ARC!
The premise of this gripping page-turner hooked me from the very start! Lindsay Cameron is such a talented fresh voice in this genre! Loved this book!
Lindsay Cameron’s books are on auto-buy for me. No One Needs to Know is the perfect antidote for those craving pure entertainment that is sinfully satisfying.
This novel is drenched in themes of money, class, manipulation, privilege, while integrating murder mystery and suspense. Fans of Desperate Housewives and Liane Moriarty’s Big Little Lies will indulge in this addictive story of affluent women with messy lives hiding behind a veil of anonymity before their unfiltered thoughts are exposed to all in their neighborhood. With its keen observations of three protagonists, No One Needs to Know is a story made to be devoured quickly and then discussed in book club ASAP.
I loved this book! I will definitely recommend it. Thanks so much to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.
If you want a great beach read that brings secrets, rich people drama, and motherhood into the mix, look no further than No One Needs to Know by Lindsay Cameron! I thought this was a completely bingeable read and I could have easily finished it in one day, which in my mind makes it a fabulous book to bring to the beach! The story is told through the viewpoints of Heather, Norah, and Poppy as well as a bit of mixed media, and I really enjoyed this structure. Not all women are at the same wealth level, but they are in generally the same social standing with their children vying for spots at the same schools. UrbanMyth is like a mix of Nextdoor rolled into Ashley Madison, and I love that Cameron included where she got the idea for the story. Now all I need to know is what anonymous discussion board for parents she knows about. 👀
I really enjoyed listening to the audiobook which is narrated by Brittany Pressley & Rebecca Lowman, and I couldn't have asked for two better ladies to voice these characters. I still think it would have been a bit better with a full cast, but overall, it was a great listening experience that added more to the story for me. Definitely recommend this route if you enjoy audio, although I did notice sometimes, we would get to the end of a chapter and it felt like the narration was ending on a question instead of a period. No way else for me to describe it, so you will have to listen to see for yourself. No One Needs to Know had a very strong start and it managed to hold its momentum the entire way through. There is a little bit of mystery going on, but I would recommend this to readers who love domestic dramas and rich people behaving badly over thriller readers and suspense lovers.
I enjoyed No One Needs to Know by Lindsay Cameron. I am always excited to read books about rich people with problems. The three main characters all had such different personalities, and I found it interesting to read about their lives and drama. If you are a sucker for wealthy people problems definitely check this book out. Thank you to Net Galley and the publisher for the advanced copy of this book. All opinions are my own.
I’m sure that most women who live on the UES would be appalled at this generalization of them and their lives. It was certainly an introduction to the reader to the world of the rich and the power struggle to stay there.
The story centers around mothers with children in the same school all vying to get their offspring into the elite boarding school that will pole vault their child to the necessary college and thus maintain the family image. They are presented as friends but in reality are in a constant competition that becomes exhausting. Their behavior was on par with teenage girl antics.
The intrigue starts when the ladies joined a website that allows anonymous posts that can never be traced. It gives them a free ticket to bare their soul, make nasty comments about others or even invent stories that result in ruining reputations. This “secure” web site is hacked and all the anonymous posts have a name attached to them: finger pointing ensues and friendships become tenuous.
These ladies have always had the ability to make uncomfortable things go away quietly either with rewards or money to maintain their position in society. Even a murder can be squelched if you know how to go about it.
My first Lindsay Cameron read and it won’t be my last. A story filled with mystery, thrills and a great deal of suspense. I thoroughly enjoyed it!
Picture it: an anonymous online forum where New York’s wealthiest residents cry out their deepest secrets. Also picture this forum being hacked and all those dirty little secrets emerging. On top of all of this information, a man disappears. A man who’s very dirty and likes to blackmail others… In the secrets are the the low lying truths that most don’t want to be vulnerable and share.
Not being familiar with an author doesn’t give you a good feeling going into a book BUT, that changed within the first few pages of this masterfully crafted story. It had ups, it had downs and it had loads of juicy secrets from rich and highly affluent New Yorkers. This was a really great read and I cannot wait to read Lindsay’s other books. Four stars and I definitely recommend it!
2.5 Stars. I was a fan of the author's previous novel but ultimately, this one didn't hold my interest as much as her first. Maybe I'm just burnt out on this particular subgenre but I trudged through this novel and couldn't really connect with the characters. Big fans of this trope will definitely enjoy!
This book was a slow burn and I almost gave up reading it a few times but I am glad I stuck it out. This was definitely a Gossip Girl vibe. It is best read by people who enjoy rich people drama (which I do when I am in the right mood) and has some thriller aspects to it.
I am a fan of Lindsay Cameron so I will definitely read more books from her in the future.
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I loved Lindsay Cameron’s last book so I jumped at the opportunity to read NO ONE NEEDS TO KNOW.
Social standing is everything if you want to get your children into Manhattan’s private schools. If you’re lacking status and wealth, you have to get creative. And those methods aren’t always acceptable. With a limited number of students accepted, even the wealthy need to be clever at times.
Urban Myth is touted as an anonymous social platform. Users don’t set up profiles and they can post their darkest secrets without any chance of being discovered. Many people in this community take advantage of this and post their juicy and scandalous secrets on the site! Then an activist group hacks into the site and exposes the identities….WOWSER!
This happens during the same time the LaCrosse coach goes missing. Amidst a scandal surrounding his marriage, an affair, and more.
The three main characters of the story—Heather, Poppy, and Norah—are all very different. They give diverse perspectives that kept me glued to the pages of this suspenseful thriller! I knew the racy secrets posted on Urban Myth would eventually be exposed. I was itching to see whose lives would explode and how severely!
Sincere thanks to Random House Publishing and Bantam for providing this complimentary ARC through NetGalley. As always, all opinions are my own and left voluntarily.
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What a great premise with awesome follow through. I was entranced by the twisted families. The thriller aspect was the perfect cherry on the top to the drama, antics and pererseness of these Upper East Side women.
This book fell kind of flat for me, thrillers really need to catch me from the beginning and unfortunately this one did not. I would give Lindsay Cameron another go though, she definitely has the potential to give us more! Thank you NetGalley for the ARC.
No One Needs To Know by Lindsay Cameron
My rating:
3/5
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UrbanMyth, an anonymous site where many wealthy New York residents post is where someone can share their dark secrets and no one would know it was them…. That is until the site gets hacked.
This book definitely reminded me of Gossip Girl. Overall it was a good read, but wasn’t my favorite. I found myself only engaged in the conversations and there were many parts of the book that didn’t have much going on, I was trying not to skim. I did figure out the “twist” and maybe it was obvious to me because of a book I just had read previously before this, but I wasn’t shocked at the end.
This one is definitely filled with gossipy rich parents, but I actually think I would have enjoyed more about their kids? I did not find that any of the characters in this one were very likable.
This was a quick read with multiple POVS. I did enjoy the concept of the risks of being on social media / what you post can come back and bite you. The UrbanMyth threads were my favorite part of this book, as they were quite juicy!
Thanks netgalley for the ARC! This one is out now if you want to read it!