Is this… the best thriller… I’ve ever read?! When I tell you this GRIPPED me (especially from 40% on), I could not put my Kindle down!! It has been ages since a book had me wrapped around its finger like this and even though I have no idea what exactly just happened I know I loveddddddd it!

SO twisty. SO fun. SO wild. It delivered and then some. You will question everything as you’re reading this and I think that’s kinda the point. Unreliable narrator at its finest, I was re-reading sentences and going back to chapters trying to understand what in God’s green earth is going on here 🤯😧

There’s nothing slow burn-ish about this one. It moves unapologetically fast, with twists and new developments on nearly every page. I didn’t want it to end, and every time I tapped my Kindle to go to the next page I hoped and hoped it would keep going until I finally hit the Acknowledgements page (and I read that section too because I seriously did not want it to end) 😅

Loved the mixed media aspect since it moves between the narrator, the podcast recording, the docu series, news reports and text messages which only adds to the “unputdownability” of it all.

Add this to your TBR, pre-order it and block out your calendar for the weekend following the release of this book. SO very good!! 👏🏼

My favorite read thus for for 2023. I finished it in a single day.

This dark and disturbing psychological thrill ride will leave you guessing until the very end, intricately layered with deeply flawed characters, fractured relationships and wildly unexpected plot twists. This was my first time reading anything from Lisa Jewell...and certainly won't be my last!

WAUW! Lisa Jewell did it again! What a wonderful juicy twisty story. Everything in this book was done beyond right. The premise of the story is original and set-up to draw you in from the first moment. The characters in the book are interesting from the start and I wanted to get to know them ASAP. The story grabs you immediately and you know something bad will happen, and I could not wait to find out what it was! I loved the way Lisa build up this story by inserting little bit ands pieces of the Netflix documentary, feeding us the truth slowly making it so twisty! Absolutely loved this story!

4.5 ⭐
Fans of thrillers will love this book! It's twisted and completely out there and leaves you guessing more and more, and wondering who is telling the truth the entire time.

This is my favorite book from Lisa Jewell and while sometimes I find the endings lacking, I really liked the whole book and thought the writing was great.

Josie is out celebrating her 45th birthday with her husband when another woman, Alix, walks in with birthday balloons and a large group of friends. They are birthday twins and they briefly meet in the bathroom and say hello, Josie pointing out that they are birthday twins. Born on the same day, in the same hospital even!

Josie looks Alix up and finds out she is a well known podcaster and begins to listen to her podcasts a bit obsessively. She is ready for a change in her life and she tracks down Alix and asks if she might do a podcast on her, a woman on the brink of big change. Alix doesn't normally do podcasts like that but something pulls her towards this project.

As the book unravels and Josie talks more and more about her life, Alix is drawn in and can't help her curiosity. She invites Josie into her life and reveals personal things about herself as well. When Josie reveals dark truths about her past, Alix knows she is onto something, and like a train wreck, she can't stop, even though she knows nothing good is going to come from this.

When Josie suddenly disappears, Alix's world comes crashing down and she is left to pick through the pieces of truth and fiction.

Thanks to netgalley for an eARC to review.

I would give this book 3 stars… I normally love Lisa Jewell books but this was not her best. There were some components that I think were not necessary. The main character is a podcaster so there are podcast transcripts throughout the book which didn’t bother me… but there were also Netflix transcripts throughout because the podcast eventually becomes a Netflix documentary. The Netflix part bothered me. I felt it wasn’t necessary.

Synopsis: Alix is a famous podcaster who has a show about influential women. She meets her “birthday twin” Josie when she is out to dinner with friends for her birthday celebration. Josie notices Alix and immediately wants to become her friend. When Josie finds out she is a podcaster, Josie begs Alix to produce a show about her and Alix accepts. Was it a good idea to allow Josie into her life ? We later find out Josie has a lot of family issues but is she telling the truth or is none of it true ?

It seems like serendipity when Josie and Alix meet at a pub as they’re both celebrating their fortieth birthdays. Not only are they birthday twins, but Alix is a podcaster looking for a new subject and Josie is willing to share the story of her life as she looks to make changes. What started as a happy coincidence quickly spirals into a nightmare for Alix that ends in tragedy with Josie on the run.

What I loved:
-dual POV
-the format of the story with podcast/interview/documentary excerpts
-I was questioning EVERYTHING by the end of the book! Josie was a really well done unreliable narrator
-so twisty and creepy

Lisa Jewell does it again! This was a wild ride of a read that had me truly questioning what was true. I loved this unique, twisty thriller.

Thank you to NetGalley and Simon and Schuster for the advanced reading copy.

The Queen of Suspense does it again!

When successful podcaster Alix meets her birthday twin, mousy Josie, in a restaurant bathroom, she thinks it's a strange coincidence. But actually it's a carefully choreographed plan thought up by the quiet seamstress. Bored with her life, Josie dreams of something bigger and better than what she has done with her first forty-five years, and she knows that by befriending Alix she can do just that.

The friendship is one-sided, though, and as Josie enmeshes herself into Alix's life, nothing is as it seems. And before long, Alix is in too deep to get out from under Josie's obsession with her. When a series of scary events occurs, Josie's true form emerges and it's nothing like Alix's first impression.

Outstanding! A true thriller with an incredible ending. There’s lots of tension, some great twists, together with some very dark and complex characters. If you are a Lisa Jewell fan, you'll want to pick this one up ASAP!

None of This is True is Lisa Jewell's best book! These characters were deceptive and downright shocking. Would recommend this 10/10.

Quick, creepy, twisty domestic thriller. This new novel was everything I love about Lisa Jewell’s writing.

Alix Summers and Josie Fair met at a pub where they were both celebrating their 45th birthday. Yes, they are birthday twins. Weird right? Well, it gets weirder… They bump into each other a few days later. Josie starts obsessing over Alix, and binge-listens to Alix’s podcast (yes, she’s a semi-successful podcaster). Josie wants to tell Alix her life story and convinces Alix to do a segment on her. Like all of Lisa Jewell’s books, the story takes a dark turn.

This book had everything I love about Lisa Jewell’s novels: dual timelines, multiple perspectives and a few murders. I enjoyed the podcast and Netflix series chapters foreshadowing something terrible that will happen later on. Josie is a very unreliable character and the twist could have been guessed early on. That being said, the twist wasn’t as shocking as it was meant to be..

Regardless, will always be a Lisa Jewell fan! Thanks so much to Netgalley and Atria Book for an e-galley of this book.

A psychological thriller that takes you on a wild ride, and you don't even know it! With a title stating that None of This Is True, the reader has to wonder what they're walking into. I picked up this book with no knowledge of what it was about, aside from it being written by trusted author, Lisa Jewell. As I read the book, I continually checked the title to read the exact wording to perhaps catch on to what was going on!

I REALLY liked this book! It is not Jewell's typical formula book, you know where she has past and present with multiple POV's? Often a male thrown in there. I liked what she did. It was engaging, fast paced and interesting!

We have two POV's of Alix and Josie, who randomly meet while they are both celebrating their 45th birthdays at the same restaurant and realize they were born same day, year and hospital. A friendship is born as Alix and Josie work together to make a podcast with Alix interviewing Josie about her life. As Josie's past is slowly revealed, Alix realizes there's a lot more to the story than originally thought. And this is where it gets interesting! Alix becomes all consumed by Josie and her life and the twists start coming!

I gobbled this book up while on my cruise, finding every little minute to read it; ignoring my children, thinking about it while I was snorkeling, reading it on my kindle while IN the pool with kids swimming, reading it while waiting for the evening show to start, and reading it as late into the night that I could keep my eyes open. Signs of a great book!

If you like Lisa Jewell books, you're in for a treat, because it's so different from her usual plot writing, yet the story itself is solid and keeps the reader hooked!

Thank you to NetGalley and Atria Books for the advance e-book.

✨RATING: 4⭐️

✨REVIEW: Thank you to @atriabooks and @netgalley for this advanced eCopy! Alix and Josie are celebrating their 45th birthdays separately only to learn that not only do they share a birthday, but we’re born at the same hospital. Alix is a podcaster, Josie has a story - the rest is… for you to decide what’s true!
I knew I had a page turner coming when I saw a Lisa Jewell available on NetGalley, and sure enough, it was! It gave ample time to build background, suspect gaps in stories, and begin doubting everything. Additionally, the creep factor totally had me going and made me squirming as I read. I’m not usually a kindle reader, but man did this make me!! This is an easy one to get caught up in your reading and lose track of all sense of time and reality. Be sure to buckle up for this ride!
The only reason I knocked it down a star was personal preference with the creep factor, but if you really like the squirmy kind, I’m sure this’ll be a top star read for you!!

✨PROS: Dual POV (third person) semi-short chapters

🚨WARNING: Potential triggers include stalking/obsessive behaviors (If you liked “You” you would probably like this!) major age gaps in relationships

𝙈𝙮 𝙍𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜: 5 ⭐️
𝙂𝙤𝙤𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙨 𝙍𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜: 4.6🌟

The Verdict: Wow 🤯 Pretty sure Lisa Jewell just wrote her best book ever! One of the best true-crime-podcast themed novels I’ve read.. executed to PERFECTION!

The story follows 2 women who share the same birthday - Alix (a popular London podcaster) and Josie (a meek woman unhappy with her life). The two pair up to create a podcast segment together, and dark secrets begin to unravel about Josie’s life as she starts to infiltrate Alix’s life as well.

WHO I’D CAST
- Reese Witherspoon as Alix
- Anna Kendrick as Josie

A HUGE thank you to @atriabooks to allowing me to read this advanced copy. Do yourself a favor and preorder it - releases on August 8, 2023!!

This book was sooo good. I didn’t want it to end. I always love Lisa Jewell books and I think this was her best. The storyline flowed so good and she didn’t miss any parts. I love true crime and how it was tied into the storyline like it was a Netflix documentary.

OMGGGG what did I just read??? This will be the book everyone will be talking about this year. It was so twisty and unreliable and unpredictable. Wow! I had anxiety every time we had a Josie chapter. That woman was so unhinged but was she??? That ending!

This book was addicting!! Just like a bag of potato chips! Started it and found it hard to put down. Had me 2nd guessing the whole way through. Loved the duel perspectives and the twists and turns. Really liked that it was set in a Podcast and then moved into a Netflix series - pretty timely for today! Lisa Jewell understands her readers and writes for them! Looking forward to her next book already!

I’ve read a lot of Lisa Jewell’s thrillers and enjoyed them all so I was really excited to be able to read her newest book early!

This book was really creepy, the atmosphere of the novel made me feel so uncomfortable and I loved that! I had no idea where the story was going and after finishing the book I still don’t know what to think or how to feel!

I loved the podcast aspect of this and I found this really fast paced. I’ve read a lot of thrillers but this one was really unique!

When I saw a Lise Jewell book available in NetGalley I was extremely excited. I have read several of her books and enjoyed them. The early reviews stated this book is her "best yet," adding to the allure. I didn't think I'd get approved for such a saught after book, and was thrilled when I was approved.

This book is amazing! I was quickly drawn in by the characters and trying to determine what was true and what would be revealed as false. True to Jewell's style, the storyline is slowly built and I doubt anyone would be able to foresee all of the twists and turns that the plot takes along the way. I found myself constantly surprised by the route the story took and the unreliability of all characters involved.
I really enjoyed this book.

I received a complimentary copy of "None of This Is True" in exchange for an honest review.

Lisa Jewell has such a solid track record of well structured thrillers, but I would go so far as to say this is her best yet. There are so many twists and shifts in the narrative that will keep readers guessing until the last pages.

4.5 Stars, Rounded Up

This book hooked me from the first chapter and I could not put it down. I don’t think I’ve devoured a book this quickly and with such fervor in a long, long time.

The novel follows podcaster Alix Summer. On her 45th birthday a woman named Josie approaches her in a pub bathroom saying, “hi, I’m your birthday twin!” This introductory sentence will eventually become the title of Alix’s true crime podcast with herself at the center of the story.

This is my first book by Lisa Jewell but it won’t be my last. I loved her conversational writing style and it quickly wrapped me up in the story. I thought I knew where things were going from 40% on, but I continued to be shocked right to the very end.

Many thanks to Simon & Schuster, NetGalley, and Lisa Jewell for an Advanced Reader Copy of “None of This is True”. Publication date: August 8, 2023.