This one is fantastic! My favorite of summer 2023 so far. When an anonymous discussion board is hacked, some of Manhattan’s Elite have their secrets outed. They had confessed their deepest secrets under the guise of anonymity. Affairs, money troubles, blackmail…..everything is suddenly disclosed. And someone winds up dead! This one reminded me of “Big Little Lies” if the setting was Park Avenue. I loved it. 5 stars!

In one Upper East neighborhood neigbors are sharing their secrets ona site called Urban Myth anoymously. This is where they share they heir out their dirty laundry while in persona keeping up the facade that all is perfect. The site is hacked and all bets are off.
Told through three POV by women involved in the scandal as follows:

Heather will go to any depths to get their children in the best schools. She is determined to get her daughter, Violet, into an Ivy League School. Violet is an excellent student and she excels in sports.

Norah is career driven and works 60 hours a week to ensure her daughter can go to a prestigious school. She does not get to spend as much time as she would like with her daughter, Caroline.
Caroline is popular but struggles with grades and is competive in sports.

Poppy is the queen bee who is hiding a dirty secret. She runs her home like a tight ship to accomodate her husband. Her son, Henry, struggles with grades and she gets tutors for him.
Poppy has a party for the neighborhood parents and an altercation happens. Secrets are revealed and in a turn of events someone winds up dead.

All three women are interragated by the police.

Read this if you enjoy
Fast paced thriller
Short chapters
Plot twists
Big Little Lies and Gossip Girl
Parents behaving badly

I absolutely devoured Lindsay Cameron's Just One Look, so I could not wait to get my hands on this one. And I liked it. I really did. Just not as much as Just One Look.

It was all confidential. Right up to the moment when it wasn’t. When an anonymous neighborhood forum gets hacked, the darkest secrets of New York’s wealthiest residents come to light—including some worth killing for.

No One Needs to Know is more of a "rich people problems" book. All the bickering and affairs and lying...you know. It was all pretty standard for stories like these. But I really liked the characters and how the different perspectives were all woven together into one story. However, I would have enjoyed some chapters from the kids' point of view as well.

I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.

A super interesting thriller with an awesome premise. I really enjoyed this and it actually felt pretty realistic to me which made it creepier!

The Crofton middle school community located in the Upper East Side of Manhattan entails the kind of parents you might expect in that zip code. Entitled, wealthy, and connected. Social standing is key if you want your kids admitted to the coveted Anderson private high school. But some of the parents have secrets that, if uncovered, would ruin their reputations and ensure the rejection of their child's application. So when a hacktivist group reveals users' identities of an anonymous online forum, all hell breaks loose. No One Needs to Know by Lindsay Cameron is a suspense-filled story that follows three moms struggling to keep their secrets intact. And when a parent goes missing, they will do anything to keep their lives unscathed. But with such high stakes, everything and everyone is fair game.

Heather is an overbearing helicopter mom who has done everything in her power to ensure her daughter Violet's success. She volunteered for parent committees, squeezed her way into social circles, and donated thousands of dollars to give Violet a promising future. But then a photo of Violet partaking in a prohibited activity at a school dance is posted online. Suddenly, all of Heather's hard work might not matter if the administration at Anderson catches wind of it. Consequently, Heather goes on a manhunt to find proof that the photo was posted with malicious intent by someone who wants Violet's spot. But when she stumbles upon another parent's secret, she wonders if there is another route she can take to ensure her daughter's acceptance.

Poppy is the Queen Bee of the Crofton community. Even though her son doesn't have the grades to forge his own path to educational and career success, she and her husband have the funds and connections to ensure that he gets there. She's also highly respected in her social circle with other Crofton moms. But under the surface, she is lonely and unfulfilled in her marriage. When a handsome and charming man enters her life, she can't help but find herself under his spell. But then this man shows his true colors, and she must comply with his wishes or risk losing everything.

The third and final POV we get in No One Needs to Know is Norah. She is a career-focused, successful working mom who couldn't care less about being accepted by the other Crofton parents. As a result, she's not privy to the community gossip – let alone her daughter's actions throughout the novel. Her naivety comes to light when another parent accuses her daughter of conspiring against a fellow student. When the confrontation happens at a cocktail party for Crofton parents, it's only a matter of time before she realizes how much she doesn't know.

No One Needs to Know imagines how a wealthy and entitled community of privileged parents would be affected by their deepest and darkest secrets blasted for everyone to see. No amount of money can make their personal posts disappear from the world wide web. With topics like shoplifting, cheating spouses, killing spouses, blackmail, and more, users shared their thoughts knowing all was anonymous. Until it wasn't. And Lindsay Cameron delivers these scenarios expertly. She weaves in clues and foreshadows events that make readers eager to find out what happens next – and who will get their comeuppance.

The three main characters are entirely realistic and entertaining. Even though I very much disliked Heather, at the end of the day I understand her desperation for Violet to get ahead in life. Poppy is easy to dislike as well, but you can't help but feel sorry for her after the mess she gets in. Norah kind of has her head in the sand and isn't morally compromised per say, but her connection to the other characters is integral to the plot. Either way, Cameron delivers a great suspense novel that openly criticizes the lives of the upper-class elite and the injustice of the power of money.

This domestic suspense follows a group of people living in the Upper East Side of NYC where keeping up appearances is paramount. But when the anonymous confession site UrbanMyth is hacked, all secrets are released - including some worth killing for.

I loved the set up and premise for this book, but overall the execution wasn't for me. Domestic suspense are real hit or miss for me and but I think for fans of the genre, this would be a fun read. I do think this book stays true to the premise, but I was just expecting it to go darker than it did. I'd categorize this as mild suspense, at best. All the pieces were there, in theory, but the spark was missing. I didn't believe that there was anything really at stake with these characters so the suspense elements fell flat for me. I spent a lot of the book guessing what twist would happen next only to have almost none of those twisty moments actually happened. There were some fun moments - but mostly this was just a middle of the road domestic suspense for me.

The characters in this are perfect for the setting and premise. They are all a little over the top when it comes to their actions and reactions to some of these situations. To be fair, I've never been anywhere close to being in this world so maybe these characters are 100% accurate. However, reading from the outside - this book felt like the definition of Rich People Problems. We have it all from the parent overly involved in their child's school to ensure they get into the best boarding schools to the bored socialite. The character interactions were by far my favorite part of this story - especially the ones where there's a lot of subtext to the conversation happening. These were exactly the type of interactions I was expecting based on the premise and I thought they were really well done. I would sometimes get the characters a little mixed up at the beginning of the book because the characters didn't have very distinct voices.

I liked the way the UrbanMyth site was used in the plot, but wish it had played an even bigger role. I wanted to see all levels of secrets revealed and wanted to see how the characters react to them. We see a lot of characters using and checking the site before it was hacked and I was expecting even more of that once the hack happened. However, the hacking reveal was a little anti-climatic for me. From the premise, I was expecting major fall out and consequences from these secrets no longer being anonymous but I didn't feel like that was used to the biggest impact it could have been. We do get some blackmail threats, but I didn't feel like the characters were developed enough for me to actually care about the potential fallout of the blackmail.

The ending felt a little haphazard and scattered. I think the pieces all came together alright, but the execution didn't feel tight enough for a domestic suspense. I really like my suspense reads to be super twisty and have all the threads be very interconnected so we get a ton of surprise reveals. The ending to this felt like it wanted to go in that direction, but I didn't think it had nearly enough substance to work with. I don't think we had enough characters or enough character development for there to be enough twists to reveal to the reader.

Overall, I would categorize this as a light domestic suspense. I thought the premise sounded great but just had different expectations that what it provided. This felt low stakes and fun enough to be a vacation read but it just wasn't exactly what I was looking for.

Fun, fast paced and a nice quick read! Thoroughly enjoyed.

Thank you to the author, NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group/Ballantine for the advanced digital copy.

A great, juicy beach read! It definitely lived up to the description and was a fun glimpse into the societal underbelly of pretentious parenting.

I am so thankful to Random House Publishing Group/Bantam, Lindsay Cameron, and NetGalley for getting advanced digital and physical copies of his book before publication day. What a seriously twisted and demented tale needing to be told. I am literally living for this book.

If you enjoyed Gossip Girl then this book is for you!! Set in New York City this book highlights what lengths parents will go to for their children. I enjoyed the many different characters and the plot line itself. To see how the other side lives is just fascinating and the privilege that comes with having a family name and wealth was highlighted very well. I also liked that the author reiterates that everything you put online stays there. Again if you liked Gossip Girl you will for sure enjoy this book. I received an advanced copy of this book in exchange for a fair and honest review.

I loved this light heartless, can’t look away book. The thing about this book is that most of the characters are unlikable which typically rubs me the wrong way, but watching their lives implode was so fun. The juicy gossip and secrets made this unputdownable. I really loved it.

I’m not sure how I feel about this book. I wanted to like it and It did not catch my attention!

I would recommend this to other friends of mine.

Thank you to Random House Publishing-Ballantine and NetGalley for the opportunity to read this ARC!

This story about had a few different focuses to tits plot - one being the destruction of an innocent girl’s reputation and how her parents handled the situation (not well) and the secondary one being a hacked website where people from this community shared their darkest secrets. It makes you think twice about posting things online.

Lindsey Cameron spins quite a story, told from several different perspectives. It took me a little while to get into the book but once I did, I didn’t want to put it down!

Thank you NetGalley for a chance to read this book. But ooof where do I begin, because this book was a slog. I feel like the marketing is wrong for this book; the first sentence of the summary doesn’t happen until 70%. It gives vibes of Big Little Lies/middle age Gossip Girl, but honestly was wasn’t well executed. The Instagram “scandal” had me rolling my eyes. The end seemed to come out of left field and I found that I just didn’t care. I wish I had gone with my instincts and DNF’d at 20%

Many thanks to Netgalley and Random House for the e-arc! So I requested this book because I loved Cameron's other work Just One Look (I gave five stars and absolutely loved it). Maybe it was my over hype but I felt that this book fell flat. I was kinda bored during this middle and didn't feel that the end was a worthwhile conclusion. Saying this however, I look forward to reading Cameron's other novels in the future.

I love anyhting involving rich and unhinged characters with dark secrets, and this book scratched that exact itch! I agree with other reviews that this book gives "Big Little Lies" vibes, but I love the addition of social media to the plot. It definitely takes about the first 30% of the book to get really invested in the plot/characters, but once you get going, it was hard to put down!

Eh, I felt like this book dragged on and didn’t deliver on suspense and plot. I found it hard to differentiate the characters which led to trouble following important plot points.

I read No One Needs to Know in less than a day. I at times wanted to shake the characters but I kept reading to know what would happen. It was not my favorite book because I found almost all of the characters unlikeable.

UrbanMyth, the anonymous platform where those in your zip code can share whatever is on their mind. It’s been used to share secrets people would never tell their friends in real life, from secret bank accounts to steamy affairs.

But when someone turns up dead and a “hacktivist” breaks into UrbanMyth, exposing the real identity of those who’ve posted, everyone scrambles. It’s clear the residents of the Upper East Side have secrets, but would they kill to keep them?

The concept of UrbanMyth was a really interesting one. It gave me Gossip Girl meets Desperate Housewives vibes which I loved!

It’s been fairly established by now that multiple POV is my favorite so I was so glad to see it play out here. I also really enjoyed seeing the different formats of posts from UrbanMyth and emails to police sprinkled throughout the chapters.

While I did predict some of the twists, I did not see that ending coming. Which is usually a great thing but with this story I was a little conflicted on how to feel about it. I love that it surprised me but not sure I love the actual ending in itself.

This was my first by the Lindsay but she’s definitely made my list of authors to watch!

This is my second novel by Lindsay Cameron & I can truly say I am a fan. Both books have been quick paced, kept my interest, and the stories felt new and fresh. I am always down for an elite upper crust NYC story and even better when it's a thriller. Thank you to NetGalley and Bantam books for an ARC of No One Needs to Know. I look forward to whatever she puts out next.
4 stars