This one was a wild ride! I loved and was captivated by the setting of Yosemite. I read this one in one sitting, it kept me engaged and eager to see what was ahead. Didn't see that twist coming, it was a good one.

Catherine McKenzie seems to always fly just under the radar for me. For some reason, I will just notice she has a new book, pick it up when I don't have something else to read and always love it. I need to change that and put her on my must-read-now list. This was a great story! Totally crazy and implausible? Absolutely! A total blast to read? Absolutely! Feels like I went hiking in the mountains in Yosemite and helped rescue people? Also absolutely! Cassie is running and hiding from something. She goes back to her younger-days job with Search and Rescue mostly to hide and people start going missing. The ending was bonkers and nowhere near what I was expecting. Just when I was thinking this was so ridiculously far-fetched, the author wrapped everything up pretty neatly. Very cool! I look forward to more and please read her other books too!

Thank you NetGalley, Catherine McKenzie, and Simon & Schuster for allowing me to read an ARC of Have You Seen her due to be published June 27 2023.

Wow this book was phenomenal from the very beginning. The characters were described fantastically and the back and forth between times and people grabbed me in. I couldn’t put this down till I finished it. Gosh and the ending threw me completely , I had no idea that’d happen .

A story of three young women named Cassie, Jada, and Petal who have connected over being abused in an online forum. The 3 women have become a pact who end up inflicting their revenge on their abusers.

All I gotta say this is a must read!!! I promise you, you will not regret it.

Thanks @netgalley for read number 41 of 2023. This was a very fast-paced read with a dual timeline. I thought that I had the twist figured out, but there were many twists at the end that surprised me. I love that! I might’ve liked this book even more, if I had a better understanding of camping and Yosemite, but even with a lack of schema in this area, this was a great suspenseful read. A ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ read in my books. If like @catherinemckenzieauthor’s other books, you’ll like this one.

3.5 stars rounded up*


This is my first book by Catherine McKenzie, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I read it all in one afternoon, and would absolutely pick up another book from her.

I loved the opening, it really does read very Sleeping with the Enemy. I loved the insight into the SAR, and the setting in Yosemite. The story moved along at a nice pace, and I wasn't bothered by the 'Then' & 'Now' time lines like I expected to be. Catherine has a great writing style, and the plot was fun. My problem was about 3/4 of the way in, things felt like they were dragging and I found myself a bit bored. The twist was well done, and while I was a bit surprised regarding certain aspects some were a biiiit unbelievable. The twist felt rather rushed to me, and it's for those reasons I knocked off a star. *The .5 is for letting Smokey live 🐻❤️

I definitely recommend you giving Have You Seen Her a read.

Thank you to NetGalley and Atria Books for the e-ARC I received for an honest review.

It took me awhile to be able to read this. After I got into it, I loved it! I could not stop reading it once I had time to sit down and just read. The style of the book was good, there was some errors but not a whole bunch. I loved it! I definitely will read another book of hers!

Ahhh this was such a fabulous adventure!! It’s based in the Yosemite National park. It has one of the best twists I’ve ever read in a book. I highly suggest reading it if you like a thriller. This is definitely a great weekend read.

Thank you to NetGalley for letting me experience this book before it comes out. I’ll be suggesting this book to everyone on my instagram page @artsymamalife 🤍

A brilliant, suspenseful thriller that takes place in Yosemite National Park; a place as breathtakingly beautiful as it is dangerous.

McKenzie delivers a powerful narrative of survival, packed with dark secrets, hidden agendas, and twists that will have your head spinning from the very first chapter.

It comes packed with multiple POV’s and dual-timelines, complete with a Dixie Chicks, “Goodbye Earl” plot twist that will have your mouth on the floor!

Grab this one asap once it releases in June!
Very well done!

I've enjoyed all of this authors reads so far and this is a perfect summer vacation read. From the first chapter, I couldn’t wait to see how Cassie’s story would unfold. The story kept me wanting more and it was hard to put the book down at times and those are the stories i live for. The twists in this one you will not see coming! Definitely worth it.

I really wanted to like this book! It sounded intruiging and full of mystery and suspense. Unfortunately, it fell flat.

Catherine McKenzie's style of writing is really good, but I was very disappointed with how we kept being told things instead of shown them. Like the many SAR rescues that Cassie goes on. I would have liked to read about those rescues! The rockclimbing elements would have been interesting, and seeing how Cassie and Ben worked together to save hikers. Instead we just get a mention that Cassie went on a rescue mission and how tough it was and that she got scratched and is now bleeding, and then we're back at the SAR site with characters just sitting around and talking.

It was mostly just filler until the very last few pages when the action really started. But the ending was stuffed full of information and happened so quickly that it kind of threw me off since the rest of the book was so slow.

However, I did really enjoy the dual timeline. Jumping from the past to the present kept me invested in the book because I wanted to know all the details.

I couldn’t put this book down! It has a twist in it that had me gasping out loud. I have already recommended it to several friends.

Thank you NetGalley and Atria Books for the advanced copy of Have You Seen Her by Catherine McKenzie (look for this one in late June 2023!). I was hooked from the first page - I love camping, National Parks (this one focuses on Yosemite), and mysteries. I was so interested to learn what it meant to be part of a SAR (Search and Rescue) Team and the training, communication, and protocols that are utilized.

This book unfolds in dual timelines (Then and Now) and as a reader, I had to get used to the flip in times, but once you can differentiate between the two, you are swept up in mystery after mystery. The story starts out with a bomb - Cassie in a helicopter with a body and then a jump to the past with Cassie escaping her life. What unfolds is unexpected, surprising, and enough to keep the thriller reader very happy!

What is also unique about book is that mixed in with the traditional narrative focusing on the protagonist, there are instagram posts, diary entries, true crime podcast excerpts, and news story bits scattered throughout the story to capture the perspectives of Pearl (a young, timid woman in a lesbian relationship with a much older woman) and Jada (a young black woman in a relationship with a domineering white man who is a social media influencer). I never saw what was coming and by the end, I couldn't go to bed without knowing how everything wrapped up.

There is plenty of mystery from the past and the present to keep the story interesting. A lot of shady suspects that you can have questions about. It is a slow burn but it started picking up pace pretty quickly. I finished most of the book in a day because I had to find out what happened. I think most twists you can either see coming so it is a letdown. Or they are so completely unrealistic or out of left field they feel hollow. This twist was surprising but still satisfying which is hard for an author to accomplish. After you get to the twist you can look back at the story and it all makes sense. I received this ARC from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. That being said I plan to buy this book when it comes out June 27th!

Sheesh, that was quite the plot twist. A story following Cassie, Jada and petal through each perspective. Just when you think where it’s heading it takes a sharp left and you are gasping for breath. The landscape of the park and the premise of hiking, climbing and rescuing stranded or hurt people kept me fully engaged. Are the most recent missing hikers a coincidence or is there more going on? A solid 4 star you’ll surely enjoy.

Thank you Netgalley for this arc

I received this book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Such a unique story, written from three perspectives:

Cassie who's running away from her husband, and left her big city life behind, returned to Yosemite, where she spend her youth years, to become a Search and Rescue ranger.

Petal's diary, which details a young woman 's documentation of living together with her much older lover in a trailer at Yosemite.

Jada's instagram, which contains posts about a young lover's cross- country outdoor adventure when they stopped by Yosemite.

One mountain, three women crossed path and then two goes missing.

I couldn't put down this book till I got to the very end. Bravo.

I might be burned out on the true crime genre. The premise of this novel seems a bit too closely drawn on the Gabby Petito case, with a side of revenge. I was initially drawn to the setting and subject - a young woman, presumably on the run from an abusive partner, getting a fresh start while working on Search & Rescue at Yosemite National Park. That part of the novel definitely delivered. However, the twist was very tidy and required me to completely suspend all disbelief.

Thanks to NetGalley & the publisher for the ARC!

This book's plot was interesting, and as a National Park lover, I loved the idea of this book. I definitely didn't see all the twists, but I really was confused on who the author wanted you to root for, and I really didn't "get" or enjoy the different ways of narration (the diary and the social media posts). Also the Jada character is very annoying.

Thank you to the Publisher, Netgalley, and the author for the ARC.

Thank you #Netgalley for the advanced copy!

Wow! This one surprised me! I thought we were following Cassie, who snuck away and left her abusive husband. But as the story progresses, instagram posts and journal entries from others are introduced. We then learn more and more secrets amongst the three woman and Cassie's history with Yosemite. I enjoyed the then vs now segways and tying them all together up until the very end.

Have You Seen Her is hands-down one of the brilliant, must-read thrillers of the year! I was immediately drawn into the story and next thing I knew I was already 60% of the way through. I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough.

This book has so many layers - you’re jumping back and forth in time, provided enough of a glimpse of the future to make you think you know what’s happening based on the narrative from the past, while still knowing you’re not getting the full picture. The choice to present Cassie as the main first person POV, Petal through first person diary/writing sample entires, and Jada through her Instagram posts was so creative! I really loved how the different narrative presentations helped characterize the personalities for each of our three protagonists.

The similarities with current events is also what drew me into the story and gave it that almost bingeable quality. There’s nothing quite like reading fiction that mirrors or is inspired by real world examples. If you followed along with Gabby Petito’s disappearance a couple years ago, then reading this book will definitely evoke feelings of deja vu. Jada and Jim’s cross- country trip, documented on Instagram, is very similar to the one Petito embarked on during the summer of 2021, with passerby raising concerns about her physical well-being after witnessing acts of domestic violence.

In addition to raising awareness about domestic violence, Petito’s disappearance led to a nationwide conversation about who receives media attention and well-funded search/rescue operations, and highlighted the many Black and Indigenous women still missing from similar areas today. This book raises similar concerns. How much rescue effort is put in for a black girl versus a white girl? For a woman versus a man? For a Cis person versus a transgender person? How much are we worth to society? How does social media play a role in garnering nationwide sympathy and attention? I really appreciate the author highlighting and exploring these important issues in a way that still allows you to escape and immerse yourself completely within someone else’s story.

Have You Seen Her has one epic twist that I did not see coming! The only thing I’ll say is that I appreciate the author giving agency to her characters to retake control of their lives. If you’re a fan of engaging thrillers that use stories and characters to highlight issues, like domestic violence, then I highly recommend picking up this book!

Thank you to NetGalley and Atria Books for the e-arc in exchange for an honest review.

I enjoyed the setting of this one, as well as some of the twists, but I found the ending a bit abrupt and unbelievable. I’d still recommend especially if you’ve been to Yosemite!