Huge huge fan of Kate Alice Marshall.
I am obsessed with KAMs paranormal books and now with these thrillers!

This was so twisty and had terrible characters. I loved it.
Emma and her husband Nathan find out they need a place to live and are now pregnant. So they return to Emma’s old house. The ones her parents were murdered in. She hasn’t been honest about what happened that night but things will have to come out and she revisits the past to figure out what really went down.

Ugh the characters were all terrible and I loved them for it. This kept me engaged the entire time and when it came to the last 25% it felt like a fire hydrant of plot twists and revelations.

Also Karissa Vacker is the narrator. Fantastic job as always.

Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan audio for an advanced listening copy.

I thought it was twisty, and the ending was wild but overall I don't think this book really added anything to my life. I didn't need this story and these messy liars lol I think I was more irritated with the secrets than enthralled by them. I found Emma pretty insufferable, her devotion to shitdick Nathan was really pissing me off yet I'm somehow sad her baby won't have a dad. The fact that Emma said she wanted to kiss Gabriel at the end of the book like girl no. Don't. I thought JJ was a classic fuck up and didn't have a ton of dimension to her character and Daphne was the most interesting I wish she had been the mc!!! I think most of my disgust was that their parents were awful and I didn't care that they were murdered. All that to say I'm giving it 4 stars. I did enjoy it. But I just really enjoy KAM's paranormal shit a lot more.

3.5⭐️

Thank you to NetGalley and Flatiron Books for the ARC copy of this one!

I absolutely devoured What Lies In The Woods, so I was expecting a huge push from this book also, but unfortunately it fell flat for me.

I will say that there is an underrated character that gave this a big plus for me, but I would’ve loved more of that persons story and background and role in everything.

I did really like how there were so many secrets in this story for sure! It kept me going back and forth on what I thought happened and who I thought the real villain was for sure.

I think had this one moved along a little quicker I would’ve really enjoyed it more. There just seemed to be a lull in the 3/4 mark of the book that slowed it down unfortunately.

I normally don’t like books where a crazy event happens and then some odd years later they all join together again to hash it all out. BUT this was done so well! The narration was good too on the audiobook version. The characters were easy to follow and it really kept my attention with everything happening. Kate Alice Marshall knows how to write a twisty thriller. I have enjoyed her other books as well.

Kept me engaged the entire time! Fun christmas thriller! Thank you @netgalley and to the publisher for allowing me to read this ebook!

4.5 stars!

Emma has just found out she’s pregnant, only to learn her husband lost his job and they’re losing the house they worked so hard for. The only solution she can think of is to temporarily move to her family’s abandoned house while figuring out a new plan. It was the place her parents were murdered when Emma and her sisters were teenagers, and their killer was never found - although everyone in town seems to think Emma did it. Moving home requires her to talk to her two estranged sisters, wrestle with memories of the past, and stay alive despite looming secrets and new threats.

This was my first book by Kate Alice Marshall and I loved it! It was just on the verge of having too many characters for me to keep track of, but in the end everyone did have their part. I loved all the twists and turns (there were MANY), and I loved that you really weren’t sure what happened to the parents until the very end. I thought everyone was guilty at some point!

There is some child abuse in the form of hitting when reliving past memories, so know that if it’s a trigger. Add this to your January TBR or BOTM box if you like a twisty sister thriller! It comes out Jan. 23.

Thank you to NetGalley and Flatiron Books for the digital ARC!

I was given an advanced reader copy through Netgalley for this book and was immediately interested in the premise. I saved it particularly for a plane ride because I knew it would be a page turner. Unfortunately, this one didn't pan out for me. (Technically, I have 5% left to read, but I can't bring myself to return to it).
Emma finds out that she's pregnant right when her husband informs her that he's been laid off from his job. They have no other choice but to move into the abandoned mansion that Emma and her sisters each own 1/3 of, the home where her parents were brutally murdered when she and her sisters were teenagers. She hasn't spoken to her sisters since, has avoided her hometown and the suspicion that has followed her like a cloud, but now, she is forced to face old demons.
The pacing of this one was weird from the start for me. It seemed that we rushed into the storyline really quickly before I had any connection to the characters. Come to find out this is because many of the characters, if not all, lacked nuance. A lot of times I felt as though I was reading from a character's perspective and all of a sudden the author would remember an attribute that the character was supposed to have. For example, they rarely play into her being pregnant during this book. I truly have no idea why they even made her pregnant for the story. At random times, they'd throw in 'and all of this, while pregnant!!".
The plot set up was obvious the whole way through, and I wasn't surprised by anything that happened. Each character felt like a caricature-- corny with little depth. The parents are set up to be these abusive assholes in the way that I think I thought abusive parents act when I was eight. They're evil with no depth, hate their kids, want control, and have no other aspects to their personality. But that doesn't feel human, and that's not how stories of abuse in 99% of situations go. Emma and her sisters hate their parents so much, and that's typically not how cases of abuse happen either. There are a lot of mixed feelings, desire to please parents, pain in not being loved enough-- none of that was really present in this book aside from a few one-off comments.
Another thing that drove me crazy was the dialogue. If you have estranged sisters, meeting again after a long time is going to feel awkward, tense, painful, hesitant: I feel like the author jumped into dialogue that was not fit for how that conversation would actually go with real people. It felt so ingenuine and phony.
And Nathan sucked. I get that the point was for Nathan to suck, but he hardly had any likeable characteristics that made me understand why we were there in the first place. There was no back story on how they met, how they fell in love, or her feelings about him. So by the time the big reveal happens in the book about him in particular, I truly didn't give a shit.
I felt like Kate Alice Marshall had a lot of potential for this book, but it wasn't well constructed in my opinion. It felt like she was making details up as she went along.

Kate Alice Marshall has done it again!

Three sisters and their parent’s murder. I was invested the entire time. Even though my suspicions from the beginning were correct, I loved the ride.

Marshall knows how to craft a story that is interesting and compelling with solid and flawed characters. It’s such a joy to read.

I do hope that she incorporates her more supernatural and spooky vibes into her adult fiction that I love so much from her Young Adult work, but that wasn’t what this book was trying to do, but a good note for other readers of Kate Alice Marshall to go into this expecting a story without the supernatural elements.

Overall, I loved this book and can’t wait for her next release.

Thank you Netgalley and Macmillan for gifting me an advanced E-copy in exchange for my honest review. I have now purchased a copy for my shelves and am so happy I got to read it pre-release.

I enjoyed Marshall’s previous book What Lies in the Woods and didn’t realize this book was by her at first. She does have a style – I liked the last book (it was my BOTM for one of the months this year) but I liked this one even better. I think this one had a more twisted plot and played on the relationship between estranged sisters very well.

This book takes place both past and present and jumps between the sister’s point of view. It’s hard to like any of the sisters, but I do find myself rooting for Emma to have a happy ending after everything she has been through and how she has forced herself to not be happy to make up for her past. As the book goes on, I dislike her husband more and more…

I did not want to put this book down once I got going. The book ends with the twists all tied up (sort of), and it’s a satisfying ending.

Would I recommend it? Yes! It’s definitely not a cozy mystery like I’ve been into reading lately. There are some graphic scenes explained but the twists and the building of the suspense throughout the book was great.

Kate Alice Marshall is a new autobuy author for me! I liked this one even more than her debut, What Lies in The Woods. The twists were twisting and I was a little shocked by the final reveal! This one was unique in that I really enjoyed the FMC and felt for her.

𝗡𝗼 𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝗞𝗻𝗼𝘄 by Kate Alice Marshall
Release Date: January 23, 2024

𝗠𝘆 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆
I loved this book! From the very beginning I was hooked. Emma and her husband move back to her childhood home and also the place where they were murdered. Everyone in town thinks she was the one who did it. Was it her? One of her sisters? Or someone else entirely? Kate Alice Marshall does such a great job writing multiple POVs and different timelines. Each chapter leaves you with a little bit more, and when you think you've got it all figured out- you're wrong. I loved the twists and the ending. Highly recommend.

Thank you to NetGalley, Kate Alice Marshall and Flat Iron Books for an ARC!

This was so good! It wasn't as good as What Lies In the Woods because for me it kind of lost steam in the middle, but this is still such a great thriller and I'm happy that we got another good one from KAM. I will be reading pretty much anything this author comes out with in the future!

I am absolutely obsessed with this book! I love thrillers especially those thrillers that can keep you guessing. And this was definitely one of them. Every time I thought I knew what was going to happen, I was shocked with another surprise twist!

The way that these twists were delivered was so unexpected and so well done. I love when an author can continuously leave you guessing and on the edge of your seat. That is the hallmark of an excellent thriller in my opinion.

10 out of 10 recommend this book for anyone who loves a good, unpredictable thriller. Thank you so much to Flatiron Books for an advanced copy of this book. I am absolutely honored to have been able to read and review it.

I've been listening to "What Lies In The Woods" by Kate Alice Marshall and was very excited to read another novel by her. This book has another set of intriguing characters with a gruesome mystery at the centre of it.

The story is told in alternating POVs and timelines (past and present), and it kept me hooked from the start. I liked how different each of the sisters were and how they behaved as well as the adults they turned out to be.

The story is as much about these girls/women as it is about the mystery of what happened the night their parents were killed.

There is an annoying character we have to endure for a while (you'll know who they are as soon as you meet them) and I thought the ending was not as great because the narration was off.

But overall, this is a book I enjoyed reading. I will definitely be reading more of the author's books.

3.5/5

Such a great popcorn thriller! This was super fast paced, never a dull moment. I loved the multiple POVs and the different timelines. It was never confusing or hard to keep up with. I had so much fun reading!

No one can know was an interesting book and took you on the different perspectives of the girls. While at some places it was a bit slow o really felt the need to keep going to find out truly what happened. There were some good twists but a few things I feel were thrown into the story that necessarily did not need to be in the story.

Overall it was a good psychological thriller and had good twists.

Thank you to Netgalley for providing me with a digital arc of this book.

This one was a bit of a disappointment for me unfortunately. It started out promising but just lost my interest part of the way through. The beginning and the end were both interesting but I felt the middle part dragged a bit. There wasn't really a big reveal, or at least not one that I thought was a big reveal and shock factor. The addition of the flash drive plot line (no spoilers) felt like unnecessary plot filler, like it was just added for drama but not fleshed out enough to make sense to me, or for me to fully understand it and the significance. And it ended up not really mattering at the end anyways.

I almost DNFed but I will say that something this book does well is create questions that make you want to read more to get answers.
A couple things I enjoyed: I enjoyed the addition of the "then" chapters, and getting to see the sister's lives with their parents and the day the murders happened. It helped the reader to empathize with them and what they went through. I also enjoyed the tension throughout.

I really loved These Fleeting Shadows when I read it, so I'm excited to give this author another go and see if it's just a one off of me not enjoying this one.

This was an interesting murder mystery with a lot of twist and turns. It seemed like the author threw a little too much twists at you to intentionally confuse you and throw you off the trail. However, I still enjoyed it even when at times it felt a little too long and played out. I may read this one again to see if it still makes sense .

I did enjoy the way it was written. The author set the chapters up with different viewpoints from the sisters and with present viewpoints and past viewpoints. I never heard of the author, Kate Alice Marshall, before and will look into more of her books in the future.

Thank you for the advanced copy of the book in exchange for my honest review.

P.S.: For the editors: I found one typo: Location 2900 of 4458, In the first paragraph: "We need to make sure there is nothing that could bolster than suspicion."

✨ No One Can Know ✨⁣
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⁣Genre- Mystery Thriller. ⁣
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⁣Length- 336 pages. ⁣
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⁣Holy twisty! This is a novel about three sisters, two murders and too many secrets to count! Down on their luck, Emma confesses to her husband that she actually owns a house with her two estranged sisters. They can’t sell it, but they can live in the house. Once they arrive at the sprawling mansion, Emma then admits that her parents were murdered and she’s the police’s main suspect! ⁣
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⁣I enjoyed this novel, but did find it a bit confusing. There are so many layers and lies that it was hard to keep the three sisters and their stories straight. The pacing also felt a little slower at the middle, but I was intrigued enough by the mystery to keep reading! Overall, I really enjoyed! Four stars! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Emma, Juliette, and Daphne's parents were murdered.  Know one knows exactly what happened, and the sisters are not being fully honest about what went on that night.  Years later, Emma moves back into her family's house with her husband after being down on her luck.  Emma is now estranged from her sisters, and everyone blames her for her parents' death.   Her moving back opens up old questions the sisters would rather not be brought up again. 

This book was a decent and entertaining read.  We flip between the points of view from all three sisters and between what happened then (when their parents were murdered) to now. I enjoyed digging through their thoughts and memories to figure out what was the truth and who might be hiding something.  I also enjoyed the complicated but tragic relationship the girls had.  I do wish, though, that there was a little more explanation/character development with Daphne. I felt like not everything was resolved with her. 

The beginning of the story was intriguing and held my attention, but the book felt too long. There was a lot of circling around to get to who actually committed the murders that it dragged at points.  This also made the ending confusing and disorienting.  While it is a decent thriller, it's not my favorite.

I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.