I had seen this book talked about all over Twitter so I was excited to be approved for this ARC.
And I can completely see the reasons for all the chatter! What a story. A look at being female in a misogynistic world and how the emphasis is always on us to stay safe….rather than on the men who commit crimes. Thank you to Netgalley and the author/publishers for this ARC.
Read this book you will NOT be disappointed!

I LOVED this book. It was so fast paced and I just wanted to know what was going to happen next. I liked how we learnt more about Em throughout the book and why she's in London, etc. Rose was my favourite character; she was funny.

All women can relate to this book regarding our safety compared to men and how the 'rules' are different to us. There were frustrating moments in this book because of this. And the tweets we see throughout the book was a fantastic way to see what women have to put up with.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.

Em escaped to London after her father died and is now trying to get back to Spain for her little sister's wedding but all the cards are stacked against her. There is a blistering heatwave in London causing all public transportation to shut down and there is a serial killer on the loose. Each turn has a roadblock for Em and things just go from bad to worse. Will she be able to go home to her family that she feels that she has continually let down?

I tore through this book--I couldn't put it down. I stopped reading thrillers for awhile because they were too predictable but this book was not. There were surprises around every turn and it kept me captivated until the last page. I also am a big fan that Em is bi but it's not part of the plotline. As someone that identifies as pansexual, we need more rep like that in books. I highly recommend this book and can't wait to read the author's next work.

Brutally honest, and powerful, this unexpected novel blew my mind and will never be forgotten. Five star ratings do not do this book justice.
Told from Em’s point of view, it depicts her journey to the airport during a sweltering heatwave, strikes and manhunt for a serial killer. Gritty and raw, it doesn’t shy away from the realities of being female in a society rife with misogyny. Thrown into her day at the start, the tension only increased as it hurtled toward the unexpected but feisty conclusion. It was impossible to put down and kept reading way into the night.
This book will hit many nerves, especially in the wake of recent high profile murders and scandals in the police force and trigger much conversation.

What a story. I absolutely loved the main character. Her bluntness and truthfulness had me laughing at the sheer reality of it all. A brilliant coming of age story with a dark look at a real life nightmare xx

A very good book and highly recommended, I really enjoyed it and looking forward to future books from the author

The narrator is having a bad day.
She never normally complains and keeps a low profile.
Finally on the day she is due to fly home to Spain for her sister's wedding, she has had enough.
On the hottest day with temperatures nearing 40, she loses her job because of the abusive behaviour from a director in the firm where she works.
Train and buses drivers are on strike due to the heat, so she has to haul her luggage 8 miles to London city airport to catch her flight.
This in a city where a serial murderer is on the lose, having killed three women already, similar in looks to her, and women are gathering for a vigil in Trafalgar square to protest..
She suffers chaunvinistic abuse on the way and a series of events, leading to tragic consequences as she takes matters into her own hands.
Could hardly put the book down. Very thought provoking especially regarding some men's treatment of women. i

I wasn’t expecting to be quite so blown away by this book. Em is having a bad day. She’s heading back to Spain for her sister’s wedding preparing for a weekend of lying about her glamorous London life. She’s just been fired from her job and kicked out of her flat when a sequence of events turn her trip to the airport into a nightmare. Someone dubbed “the London strangler” is on the loose and women are being murdered around the city. I thought this was brilliantly twisty and I was gripped- the easiest 5 stars I’ve given this year!

Where to even start with this one?! It's not often you find yourself with a tear in your eye after reading a thriller but here we are lol. This is an amazingly well written and timely thriller about the terrifying realities of being a woman in todays world.

It's so fast paced and you are just dragged along for the ride. It really is so much more than just a thriller! I don't even know how to accurately articulate that. Basically it's about a serial killer targeting women in London and the author creates such a heightened state of tension and fear that grows throughout the story. Its just so relatable and realistic, the dismissive attitudes, the turning a blind eye, the keeping quiet, the fear and paranoia that is felt, even in broad daylight because you hear footsteps or when men "banter" and tell you to smile more and just how quickly they can switch to violence if you aren't nice enough by their standards. This is such an accurate study of thr current climate and the tension and tempers are amplified by the insane heat wave because let's be honest, we Brits don't cope well with and extreme weather!

My jaw was on the floor with some of the twists that were thrown in, especially a few things that closed out the book.

You got the main characters story along with a 2nd narrative from her twitter feed which again, is scarily accurate to the time we live in! And the fact that some times it helps and sometimes it hinders. I can't get over just how captivating this story was, possibly because its just so relatable and real. Which makes it even more terrifying.

The characters are well written and humanised. I know all of these characters in my real life, from the smarmy boss to the homeless lad on the street. This feel like having your pal sit and tell you about a complete nightmare of a day she's had and you can't help but care because all the situations are relateable and have happened to us. Even ending up leaking through your pad is something we've all faced and the hassle of having to try and clean up in public loos if you can't get home

And as someone who is Scottish and mixed race with a very unusual name, the attitudes to the main characters real name and going for the easy option of just letting people rename her was all too relatable. Of being assumed to be an immigrant because of how she looked, being asked if she understood English, the white guys who claim to be ethnic and say they can relate your struggle because their great great great grandad was from Italy/Greece etc (i dated one of those..... it was interesting)....... the many microagressions were soooo realistic but none if these things were really highlighted or made a big deal of which I liked. The author doesn't preach about the unjust nature of being a woman or racism or whatever, its all just laid out in this fast paced story for survival, and these are just incidental things that happen to her to cause her to eventually rise up and reclaim her power

This book will easily be one of my top reads of the year! It's powerful, it's honest, it's scary, it's brave and I'm so thankful to the author for bringing it to life.

It's hard not to think of Sarah Everard when reading this book and the vigils held in her name. At the time of reading this (feb 23) firemen have just been caught taking and sharing pics of car crash victims with their underwear exposed. And commenting of course! Aswell as the abuse that the female firefighters have had to experience when all they want to do is do their job sooooooo yeah, this is an amazing thriller but it's also a snapshot of current life for women and the fact that you just never can tell which men are just a holes and which will.escalate to murder

I follow the author on twitter, so I remember when this book was just a concept. Safe to say, I've been excited for it for a while. And, overall, I think it delivered.

The atmosphere is great, I felt the frustration and heat. Was the misogyny on the nose? Yes but it was meant to be and it was uncomfortable. The second half definitely went in a direction I didn't expect and perhaps was slightly disappointing, but then I had an idea of what would happen in my head, which was my own fault. Em is an interesting MC, I didn't like her that much at the beginning but she did grow into herself. Love a woman who has nothing left to lose so just lets loose.

This is a well-written, solid book.

Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for the arc in exchange for an honest review.