I want to start off by saying that I received this audiobook. In return for my honest thoughts and my review.
I have to say this is the first time that I have listened to anything from this author. Definitely won’t be the last book. I enjoyed all the characters and POV’s. I really enjoy audiobook with multiple POV. Doesn’t confuse me while I am listening.
I didn’t what to know to much about this audiobook. To be honest it was the cover that had me. Wanting to listen and I never read/listen to anything from this author. The narrators do amazing job keeping me want to continue to listen.
Yes I did take my time reading but I don’t like rush audiobooks. And this one kept me on my toes. Who I thought who was behind wanting to kill our characters was not.
POV
Jenna I have to say she is my favorite character.
I highly recommend this book. This book is already out. Came out March 7, 2023
About Book:
Jenna, Donnie , Nico are main characters who grew up in the same foster home 25 years ago. But when they noticed girls are missing. They were confident they knew who was taking the girls. But now after 25 years later someone wants them dead. And they are not sure why someone is trying to kill them.
I highly recommend this book. Thank you to the author and Netgalley for allowing me the opportunity to listen to such amazing audiobook. My review will be up everywhere.

Excellent performances by multiple narrators including the always amazing Brittany Pressley (as Jenna) and Jon Lindstrom (as Nico). James Patrick Cronin narrated the Donnie sections and he made Donnie endearing, despite himself. Thoroughly entertaining and sometimes harrowing, even when the story and characters were a bit over the top. Tons of twists kept it moving, but did strain believability in places. But if you're content to just take a wild ride, this is a great one for that. I didn't like this one as much as Finlay's THE NIGHT SHIFT, but would read him again.

What Have We Done is the second book I’ve read from Alex Finlay. This thriller dives into troubled pasts, secrets, friendship, and revenge. Three former friends, who were once residents of a group home for parentless teens, are reunited after 25 years due to someone trying to kill them. Despite their accomplished but troubled lives, they must confront their shared past and revisit the trauma they endured in order to survive and uncover the secret behind the attempts on their lives. I enjoyed the multiple perspectives in this book! Jenna’s viewpoint stood out to me the most, but I also appreciated the humor and insights from Donnie and Nico’s perspectives. This is one of those thrillers that I found to be wildly entertaining and completely different from Alex Finlay’s last book, The Night Shift. However, I’d recommend going in know that the book may not be entirely realistic. The twists kept me guessing until around 70% of the way through the book and even then, the journey to discover who the culprit kept me second-guessing myself and I couldn’t guess any of the smaller mysteries to the subplot which made it an enjoyable read. The ending, particularly the epilogue, felt a bit too neatly resolved, but it didn’t detract from my overall enjoyment of the book. This was a solid four stars for me. I’d recommend picking this up if you’re looking for an action-packed and entertaining thriller!

Very Interesting book. I loved the audio book. I already read the e ARC and liked it a lot. I am so grateful to have gotten the chance to listen to the audio arc as well.

Action packed from page one and you're able to read this fairly fast. It is told from alternating timelines and three main characters: Jenna, Donnie and Nico. You'll also get some chapters from the conrtact killers POV occassionally.
You'll have to lose yourself in believability in this novel. It does go a bit over the top. But we watch movies of this same caliber and don't bat an eye.
I enjoyed Jenna the most and then Donnie. You feel a bit of a soft spot for him because he's the one who lost his brother from another and the only one who you truly believed had a connection with one of the group. The connection between this group of friends never really felt like anything to me when reading from the past chapters. And so it makes sense they don't reunite until quite close to the end of the book.
I liked the early on twist that Jenna is contracted to kill someone she ends up knowing. It would have been nice of the FBI agent had more of a story in this. I quite liked what we saw of him.
So overall a pretty decent read that I'd consider rereading in the future.

This is the first Alex Finlay book I’ve read and I picked it up because others have raved about them. Because of this, I will try one of the others ones; this one was not my cup of tea. There was so much going on here that I was confused for the first part of the book. Once I figured out what was going on, it because this mish mash of several POVs that center around Savior House. I found so much of this unrealistic and it was, despite all the action, kinda boring. I wanted to love this but couldn’t.

For me this one was kind of hard to follow, but it wasn't too bad overall! I really liked the cover and the title!

Boy, was I disappointed in this one. I feel bad saying that, but none of the characters had any redeeming qualities. I was bored until chapter 18 and then got bored again when characters POV was switched. For such a long book, i feel like nothing happened. I did like Finlay's writing style. maybe this book just wasn't it for me. I will read more from them.

This was my first book by Alex Finlay, and it proved to be a great mystery/thriller. I loved the idea and background of all of the characters, and the story in its entirety. I was never bored! While I predicted the outcome when Donnie was given a message from Ben's assistant *not a spoiler* - I still enjoyed finishing and all of the twists and turns, right up through the end of the Epilogue! I have to say this book is going to help me get back into the genre, I had taken some time off from the Thriller genre, and really enjoyed this dive back in!

The author did a great job giving us a story about an entire group of people, with their backgrounds and a peek in to their current lives, without drawing things out, or making the book feel too long.

I am giving this a solid 4 stars, minus one only because most of the scenarios in the book are so very far fetched... But, still a great read!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an ARC in exchange of an honest review.

Thank you to @netgalley and @minotaur_books for this ARC. My very first ARC and it was so good.

Jenna, Nico and Donnie were residents of a group home for parentless teens decades ago. They have a shared past of abuse and neglect. One became an assassin, one became a rockstar, one became a reality tv producer but they all have one thing in common....a secret from their past. Now they have someone hunting them down and trying to kill them for this secret.

While the multiple story lines and narrators felt hard to keep track of at first, it pieced together nicely in the end. Many twists and turns keep the tension going right until the end.

This story starts off with a bang! It’s engaging and complex. But the plot is a llittle *too* complex. There are many characters to keep track of and as the pacing intensifies, there are too many things going on.

After reading and loving The Night Shift I had high hopes for this one but it was too much and just didn’t work for me.

There’s a cast of narrators for the audiobook but I wouldn’t recommend reading it that way with the excess numbers of characters; it becomes confusing at times.

Reading Every Last Fear, Alex Finlay's debut, I was struck by three things: (1) how developed the characters were; (2) how fast I was compelled to read; and (3) how well the POV changed from character to character. The same three things held true for What Have We Done. Jenna, Donnie, and Nico are human beings first and foremost. They come into the story with emotional baggage that I wouldn't want to share. As a result, Donnie and Nico in particular are deeply flawed adults. Jenna sometimes comes across as too good to be true. But, thanks to Alex Finlay's skillful writing, you understand why each of the three of them are the way they are. You realize that you might be the same way given the circumstances-- heck, you might be worse. Notably, Jenna is not a Mary Sue. In both Every Last Fear and What Have We Done I was impressed by how well Alex Finlay writes female characters. Not every writer can get inside the head of the opposite gender that convincingly. As a woman, I thought Alex Finlay wrote Jenna's "mom" moments really well.

This isn't an audiobook that I set out to glom. I just couldn't press pause! If I missed even a sentence due to distraction (I tend to listen while doing chores), I hit rewind. Chores complete, I would find myself somewhat dazedly making sure there was nothing else to do, so reluctant was I to put the book down.

Helping with the story's addictiveness was the character shifting between our narrators. I think Jenna was the most represented, then Donnie, then Nico, but I'm not sure. When you were with a character, you were enveloped in their part of the story. No sections came across as afterthoughts, like, "oh, I haven't written about X for so many pages; better give them a section." Speaking of, I don't want to give away any spoilers, but there are more than three narrators. The fourth narrator definitely does get the least time, but you understand why. I think it was genius to include these sections. For me, they ended up providing not just some needed backstory but once or twice some very dark comedic relief.

I missed reading The Night Shift when it first came out. I'm going to have to make a point to seek out its audiobook. Brittany Pressley worked as a narrator on it, too. In fact, thanks to What Have We Done, Alex Finlay has been confirmed as one of the authors that I want to read every written word from. I would especially like to thank Macmillan Audio for allowing me to experience this NetGalley audiobook, as I adore audiobooks with multiple narrators, and the What Have We Done cast did not disappoint. Four five-star performances!

This is the book I needed when I needed it.

A tale of victims of circumstance as children are bonded by a secret that they believe they have buried. Alas, we know that sins committed no matter when always come back to haunt you. & boy did it come back to haunt these friends 25 years later.

The book is told by multiple narrators, and at times flips between the past & present. I was really nervous at first due to not usually enjoying the flip-flop of timelines & characters. However, I was pleasantly surprised! Every time a chapter ended on a cliffhanger that left me afraid the narrator would change I was greeted with the continuance of the story. This is most helpful as there have been other stories where the author would leave you in peril with the previous narrator wanting resolution with an entirely new narrator telling their story. I would get lost. That didn’t happen within What Have We Done. You could see the scene even across chapters.

I also had the pleasure of consuming this not only digitally but on audiobooks as well. The performance of the actors was outstanding. The audiobook alone is 4.5/5 stars. I highly highly recommend both versions.

Beyond the mechanics of the story, I enjoyed the wrap-up. As the story progressed I had suspicions of who the antagonist would be and while my initial guess was correct I was thrown by a red herring that had me second-guessing myself & going with another. Very sly Alex Finlay.

Kudos to Alex Finlay for writing two of the most unlikeable, ruthless, and evil villains I’ve ever read. You win at villains.

Overall this was 4 out of 5 stars read for me.

Thank you to NetGalley, St Martin's Press, Macmillan audio for an ARC & Audiobook in exchange for my honest opinion

After finishing What Have We Done, I have now read all three of Alex Finlay's books, and all I can say is that I love his writing! I adore finding an author that works so well for me, and I think at this point I may be emotionally attached to his books!

With this one, I really noticed just how well Finlay's characters are written and researched. We have Jenna, Donnie, and Nico with a shared past in a group home for teenagers called Savior House. These three characters are as unique as they come, and even Savior House becomes a character, looming in their memories. As I read, I got distinct Lisbeth Salander vibes from Jenna, which is probably why she was my favourite of the three. (I will say that I do miss Special Agent Sarah Keller, however, as she is in both of Finlay's other two thrillers).

The book concept as a whole is well done, although I am not a lover of this specific plot. I'm not sure exactly what I didn't enjoy about it, but I think this may come down to a case of comparison - I just preferred the plot of Finlay's Every Last Fear more! (It's really hard not to compare books by the same author!) The story line all makes sense, it flowed really well and it was explained well., so I know this was a me issue, not a book issue!

With four different narrators, the audiobook was easy to follow along with and I really found the different voices adding to the character development!

Finlay's books are executed masterfully and they're just beautiful works of art. I honestly can't wait to see where he goes from here, and I will be eagerly anticipating his next novel!

Thank you NetGalley, St. Martin's Press and Macmillan Audio for the complimentary copies to read, listen to and review.

WHAT HAVE WE DONE
Alex Finlay

Alex Finlay does it again. Walking the line between thriller and action, his books are high rev, low thought. This one is perhaps his most outrageous. There’s a cast of characters that will require you to think big and a plot that will require you to suspend disbelief and that’s all part of the fun in WHAT HAVE WE DONE, OUT NOW!

Jenna, Donnie, and Nico all went to the Savoir House group home as kids and twenty-five years later someone wants them all dead. As adults, they have nothing in common except for a traumatic past, a rocky and troubled present, and the secret that bonds them forever.

I noticed while reading how nondeclarative Finlay’s statements are in his writing. A lot of the sentences leave things up for interpretation and you the reader get to play mini detective, deciphering between what is and what might be.

Part of the fun is piecing together a story from the past and present. The other part of the fun is the characters. They are ridiculous in nature and larger than life. Even bigger than the story itself.

The narrators, Brittany Pressley, James Patrick Cronin, Jon Lindstrom, and Maggie Thompson did a fantastic job with this book, and I highly recommend the audiobook. They brought each character to life in an animated way and made my reading experience highly enjoyable.

I don’t know that I would have been as captivated reading on screen or with a physical copy.

I gave WHAT HAVE WE DONE four stars and I recommend it to readers looking to get wrapped up in a fictional story. Aren’t we all?

Thanks to Netgalley, St. Martin's Press, Minotaur Books, and Macmillan Audio for the advanced copies!

WHAT HAVE WE DONE…⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

"Wealth can hide bad guys in plain sight."

From the first page What Have We Done by thriller author Alex Finlay starts with a bang, 5 gun shot bangs to be exact, and this fast pace thriller is off like horses at the racetrack.

As with most thriller reviews it's hard to give details without giving away the crazy twists and turns and connections that make this a fun often anxiety prone thriller.

At times it's a simple story. Five people are being targeted by an assassin or two; an aging rock star battling addiction, a reality TV producer with a gambling problem, a stay at home step mom, a judge and a tech millionaire. Within a few chapters one will be dead. Why? How are they connected? What did they do?

A full cast of narrators, @britney Pressley Jon Lindstrom (of General Hospital fame), James Patrick Cronin Maggie Thompson make this audiobook like a tense popcorn eating movie. Going between the book and the audiobook I appreciated how the writer took pulse pounding moments, like the Mom (Jenna) trying to out drive a killer, and write them so clear and precise that it felt like watching it happen instead of experiencing it through a novel.

My favorite character was Jenna who probably has the biggest and best badass secret and who gives this story a jaw dropping ending that made my palpitations have palpitations.

Some things were easy to figure out and the back story was a bit stereotypical but what this author does so well is tweak the mundane to make it a bit different, turn it sideways and give it a whole new look.

If you enjoy thrillers, Alex Finlay books, and wild crazy rides what are you waiting for? Don't make me ask what have you done if you not reading/listening to to What Have We Done?!

I received a free copy of this book/audiobook from the publishers via #netgalley for a fair and honest review. All opinions are my own.

What Have We Done by Alex Finlay is a fantastic audiobook told by mostly by three narrators (including Brittany Presley, one of my absolute faves), though there are a few chapters told by another narrator (the character's POV in that one is wild, and perfectly captured by the narrator). The story is definitely a wild wild, and listening to the audiobook really made it a nail-biting experience. Highly recommend!

What I liked:
✨Bingeable: Suspense and action from the first chapter - very plot-driven
✨Dual Timelines - both timelines offered a mystery. I enjoyed the present-day mystery more than the past.
✨Great audio production: the full cast of narrators made it easy to follow the multi-POVs.

What more I wanted…
✨Character development: a small backstory introduced us to all the players in this mystery, but I longed for more detail, especially Jenna. In fact, please give me a whole book on Jenna’s back story!

Read this if....
✨love Alex Finlay's previous books
✨love female assassins or love a washed-up 80s rocker - both brilliantly represented by the narrators!
✨easy vacation read - short chapters, multiple POVs, lots of action

Although Finalys' last two books were wins for me, sadly this book was not. 

My biggest issue with this was that I was confused about what was going on. There were 4 storylines going on at the same time and it was hard to keep it all straight. The narrator changing from male to female did help a little bit but over all, I was lost. 

Normally when I am reading something this convoluted, I would go back and reread but I really didn't have any interest in the storylines. The only one that was intriguing was Jenna's story.

This was a miss for me but I would definitely read more by this author, as I have loved his first two books.

Thank You to the author, the publisher, and the NetGalley for this audiobbok ARC.

This is my first time reading Alex Finlay. The description of the book was so interesting and I loved the cover. The narrator was good and I would select them if they did another book. I wanted to love this book, but there were so many characters to initially keep track of and not a lot of character development. The story started from present day and left out the back story and was very confusing. The story did add in past details along the way and eventually everything comes together in the end, but it was still confusing. I would try another Alex Finlay.