Thank you Netgalley and Kerry Wilkinson for the ARC of After the Sleepover.

After reading The night of the Sleepover ( highly recommended ) I was curious to read After the sleepover.. You could read this as I stand alone but id definitely recommend reading The night of the sleepover first.

The main character in both books are from Leah's POV, a late 30s mom of Zac who's 15 yrs old. At her sons age, she experienced a sleepover with her friends, 3 of them vanished that night without a trace. And its happened again.
Leah gets asked to go and see one of the mums of one of the teens, Dylan. who go missing, Jennifer reached out to Leah due to being old school friends so Leah knows what Jennifer is going through. Going forward they strike some sort of bond and try and fathom out why teenagers keep going missing.

This books was a little slow to start but gave into some momentum , There's a fair few twisty turns and some clever foreshadowing which I really enjoyed. The new characters introduced into this book were great, well rounded and 3D, I do however feel they could have been built a little more to make them more fleshy .

A solid 4 stars and will be picking more of Kerry Wilkinsons books up in the future.

Superb!!!!

After the Sleepover by Kerry Wilkinson and Narrated by Olivia Darnely is the second book in the Sleepover series and I have really enjoyed this series. It was another gripping psychological suspense book and very hard to put down once I started to listen/read it. Kerry has a way of writing that I love, all his books have been a 5 star read and this book was no different.

Dylan’s wide eyed mother bites her nails in desperation. “All three kids. just wanted to sleep outside, their little adventure to camp in a field next to their family homes, what harm could that do?
The next morning, she went to check on them, she walks up to the tents and she smiles to herself, as she see's on the outside of the tents, dew glistening in the sun and looks like diamonds. But when she opens the zip to their tents they are empty.

"They’re gone!!!!”

Where are they, did they all go and visit other friends and didn't tell Dylan's mum? or did they go back into the house because they were cold!

A mothers worst nightmare.....

WoW, but twenty-five years ago...........Teenage Leah had a sleepover with her three best friends. However by morning, the other girls were missing.

Where are they? Have they played a trick on Leah?

This small town has been searching for answers ever since and they were never found! Now it’s happened all over again…......

The overgrown farmland is searched. With three distraught families wait and are desperate for news of their sons.
Leah, who is now a mother herself, feels her heart is going to break as terrible memories flood back…......of when she was a teenager......and it happened to her friends!

Leah thought she knew what happened at the sleepover years ago but now another three children are missing.

What if she was wrong?

And how far will Leah have to go, to finally discover the truth, before it’s too late?

But, the clock is ticking..........and breathe

This book was excellent and can be read as a standalone as well.

I highly recommend After the Sleep over. Another 5 star read/audiobook.

Big Thank you to Netgalley to Bookouture for my ARC in exchange for an honest unbiased review.

After The Sleepover is the second book in this mini series, I haven’t read the first one and I don’t think it impacted reading the second as a stand-alone in any way.
25 years ago Leah had a sleepover with her friends, all of them were missing in the morning but only Leah was found, no one ever knew what happened to her friends. Now on the anniversary 3 boys have gone missing, only their tents are left behind in a field owned by one of the boys families.
This was a twisty read that I enjoyed from start to finish, there were lots of ways this could have gone and I enjoyed the overall ending. The tension definitely builds the more you delve in making this hard to put down.
I would like to thank Netgalley and Bookouture for this ARC I received in exchange for an honest review.

I wish I had known this was book 2 of a series as I’d have started with book 1, however on that note this book can be read as a stand alone and after reading after the sleepover and enjoying it so much I will certainly be going back and reading the night of the sleepover which is book 1.

25 years ago Leah had a sleepover with 3 of her friends. When Leah woke in the morning her 3 friends had gone and still to this day their dissaperance remains a mystery.

Fast forward 25 years and the same thing has happened again. Dylan and his friends had a sleepover and they wanted to sleep in the garden, when Jennifer went to check on her son and his friends the following morning all 3 boys had gone without a trace.

Understanding what Jennifer is going through she is befriended by Leah who helps her through this difficult time, however Leah is keeping a secret. She thinks she knows exactly what happened to her friends 25 years ago, however now that history is repeating itself Leah cannot be 100% sure. One thing she does know though is that she wants answers and that she is going to find them no matter what it takes.

I was hooked on after the sleep over right from the first page. It was fast paced, twisty and addictive. Everything you want in a good thriller. I found this book very easy to read and very easy to follow. I will be on the lookout for more books by Kerry Wilkinson.

Thank you to NetGalley, the author and the publisher for an advance copy of this book in exchange for this review.

ON THE EDGE OF MY SEAT! And YES all caps are needed!
I loved the first book - but this one. Wowzah. Another level.
A local boy and his friends have sleepover. No one can find them the next day. Dylan's mother insists Leah come support her - though they are not friends. Leah gets pulled into the drama.
Dylan returns - claiming the same man who took Leah's friends and killed them all those years ago has returned.
But Leah knows the truth about her friends. But does she?
Riveting. Chilling. Gasp out loud.

I really enjoyed the first book in their series and just finished it last week so it was fresh on my mind when I saw this ARC available. I was really excited to start this and thought it had a lot of promise. However the audio ARC i received is not complete so I cannot give an honest detailed review. It cut off about 22 chapters in and ended abruptly with no explanation. Thank you to NetGalley for this (almost) opportunity to read this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

3.5⭐️

25 years ago 3 girls are at a sleepover and go missing. They are never seen again. On the night of a documentary about that awful night, the same things happens. 3 boys go missing while camping outside one of their houses.

I was surprised at how little was mentioned from book 1. I would recommend reading that one to get a better background going into book 2.

Like book 1, I was shocked at the big twist and ending. I didn’t see it coming but the reasoning behind what happens makes sense.

**4.5-stars**

After the Sleepover is the sequel in Kerry Wilkinson's <i>Sleepover</i> series. I finished the first book, I think it was yesterday, it's all been a bit of a blur, and immediately started this one, flying through and finishing it tonight. I'm slightly obsessed with this series right now and have spent the entire afternoon wondering if we are going to be getting more. I am keeping my fingers crossed.

This story follows Leah Pearce, who is a bit infamous in her small hometown. Twenty-five years ago, she attended a sleepover with three of her best friends. They did the stuff teen girls typically do at a sleepover, went to sleep, all was well, but in the morning only Leah remained.

The other three girls had disappeared. As the survivor, the town had mixed reactions to Leah. Some believed she had to have information that she wasn't sharing. How could she have slept through three girls disappearing?! Others felt she was an unfortunate girl, who just got lucky that night. Certainly she was deserving of sympathy.

All these years later a documentary has been made about the incident, bringing Leah back into the limelight. She never wanted any of that and will be happy when people move on to someone else's tragedy. Then three boys go missing during a sleepover where they were tenting out in a field by one of their homes. The mother of one of the missing boys, Jennifer, asks the police to get Leah for her, to stay with her during the subsequent search. She tells them that she and Leah are friends.

Leah is surprised. She knows Jennifer, it's a small town, and they're the same age, but she wouldn't say they were friends. Nor have they ever been. Nevertheless, she feels compelled to go and be with Jennifer in her time of need. She figures Jennifer reached out to her because who else knows more about missing teenagers than her?

The subsequent investigation makes Leah question a lot of things, even her own past. As she is tied together now with Jennifer, Leah finds herself smack in the middle of it all over again. Will the truth be revealed and is there a connection to Leah's own troubled past?

I found these two books so incredibly addictive. Wilkinson's writing is fluid and engaging. I felt like I've really gotten to know Leah over the course of this series. As mentioned before, I am seriously hoping this isn't the end of her story.

I ended up enjoying this even more than the first book. It had a different level of intensity to it. I think mainly because in The Night of the Sleepover the missing girls are in the past perspective. What has happened to them is already done, there's no changing it. Yet in this story, the boys that have gone missing, it's a race against the clock to try to figure out what happened. They can still be saved. I felt like all of the different elements of the story were blended perfectly together.

You still get aspects of Leah's life outside of the latest case of missing teens. She has stuff going on in her personal life, a hidden relationship, her Dad getting released from prison and getting married, that are equally compelling and I liked going through that with her.

I also found her relationship with Jennifer gripping. Jennifer was an great character. I was hesitant with her from the start. She seemed so, I don't know, almost in awe of Leah. Like she wanted to be close to her for the wrong reasons, or like she was trying to manipulate something. It built up a very interesting dynamic and I love how Wilkinson wrote that budding friendship. It was enthralling and had me flying through the pages.

This had a great conclusion. It could go either way. I could be satisfied with this being the end, or I can also see many avenues where Wilkinson could continue to take this story. If there are more books coming in the Sleepover series, you better believe I will be first in line to get a copy.

Thank you so much to the publisher, Bookouture and Bookouture Audio, for providing me with copies to read and review. I'm so happy that I've found a new Thriller author to add to my auto-buy list!!

“Gone. They’re gone.”

No parent wants to hear those words after dropping their child off for a sleepover. After the Sleepover is an addictive, jaw dropping page turner! It's the follow up on Wilkinson's gripping and shocking book The Night of the Sleepover. I highly recommend reading The Night of the Sleepover prior to reading this book. It provides Leah's backstory and is a fantastic book!

Is it happening all over again? Twenty-five years ago, Leah was the only survivor of a sleepover where her three best friends went missing. She is now a parent, and her son attends school with the three teenage boys who go missing on a camping sleepover.

Kerry Wilkinson knows how to create tension and twist filled books. I could feel the fear, shock, and pain of the parents as they learned that their sons were missing. As the investigation begins, Leah doesn't want to be involved but the Investigators want to know if there is a connection between what happened the night of Leah's sleepover to the boy’s disappearance. One of her former classmates is the mother who hosted the camping sleepover on her farm, and she leans on Leah for support while waiting for answers.

This book had me feeling all kinds of emotions and I enjoyed coming up with my own suspect list while reading. Wilkinson kept me on my toes, while I was turning the pages and on the edge of my seat wanting more. I loved the tension, finger pointing, and twists in this book. The reveal was shocking and so well done. Once I picked my jaw up, I marveled at how well thought out this book was. After the Sleepover moves at a very nice pace and I appreciated that there was no down time in this book.

Well written, well thought out, tense and full of twists!

I was very happy to read After the Sleepover! I read The Sleepover not long ago and I was very interested in seeing how the author would make a sequel.

I think you probably do need to read The Sleepover first to really understand everything going on in After the Sleepover.

I thought Kerry described everyone and the farm very well. I could definitely picture the scenes as I was reading really well with his descriptions. There was an eerie feeling that I got every time Leah was around Jennifer and the farm, which I'm assuming was what he was going for, so well done.

As I was reading, I did have a feeling I knew where it was going but it still kept me interested. I never felt like it would end up on my DNR.

It was a really good sequel and I'm looking forward to what's next.

Twenty-five years ago: teenage Leah had a sleepover with her three best friends. By morning, the other girls were missing. This small town has been searching for answers ever since. Now it’s happened again…

I don't think The Night of the Sleepover really needed a sequel, but I'm not mad that it got one. This was pretty good. Not quite as good as the first, but I enjoyed it.

First, I want to thank Kerry Wilkinson, Bookouture, and NetGalley for providing me with this book so I may bring you this review.

WOW!!! I thought Kerry Wilkinson’s The Sleepover was good but dang his sequel After The Sleepover was jaw droppingly good! Who would have thought in a million years that a similar incident would happen again! A family’s worst nightmare comes true!! So many Deja vu moments in this must read book!

I highly suggest if you have not already read The Sleepover that you do so before reading After The Sleepover. Kerry does refresh us a little bit of what happened in the last book. However, to get the full story and for After The Sleepover to make more sense I would read the first one! You will be so glad you did as both books are amazing!

My feelings were mixed on the whole movie premiere aspect! One one hand it was an interesting story to tell and to be on the big screen was huge. It was a great segway into the story. However, on the other hand it would be painful for Leah to watch!

After The Sleepover was fast paced, addicting, intense at times, and jam packed with wicked twists and turns. One that I never in a million years saw coming. Infact, I was cracking up laughing at the reasoning behind this one scene! It was just so epic!!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This book was a wild ride and had me on the edge of my seat. I was surprised at how it measured up to the first book because at first I did not think it would be as gripping. This was full of twists and turns and I really enjoyed the book.

After reading the first book I couldn't wait to read the second and wasn't disappointed. Another page turner with great characters and totally believable, with a great twist at the end. Kerry Wilkinson never disappoints.
Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for the ARC.

Thanks to Net Galley and Bookouture for an ARC of this book for my honest review.
I didn’t realize this was a second book but for me it worked as a standalone.
This book kept me interested and turning the pages. I really enjoyed it. Twists and turns left me hanging.
I hope there will be another one

I really enjoyed this story. It kept me on my toes and found it hard to put down. I highly recommend this book. Brilliant.

After the Sleepover is the follow up book to The Night of the Sleepover and I would recommend you read them in order so as to fully understand them. This one is full of twists and turns that kept me reading long past my bedtime. Fantastic read!

Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for my ARC.

For this book to make complete sense you really should read The Sleepover first. If you haven't and possibly intend to then I'd stop reading now as this review might inadvertently include spoilers.
So... If you recall from book one, Leah was the sole survivor of a sleepover during which her three friends vanished. Despite everyone's best intentions the mystery has never been solved... Officially! But there are two people left who do know the truth but they are not telling... So... it comes as no shock when you hear that the mystery is still talked about some 25 years later. Even more so with the premier of the film that was being researched in book one.
And then three teenagers go missing again. Boys this time, during a camping trip...
And so begins another twisty turny ride stuffed full of secrets, lies, dysfunctional behaviour, red herrings, obfuscation and everything else you'd need for a book of this genre. Of course, knowing what we all know from book one puts us a step ahead of the game, but not far ahead enough to work out what is happening. Unless you guess... which I did and was kinda right! But that's cos I'm a smartypants who lives, eats and breathes this genre book...
As with all his books, this one also contains some great observational humour throughout which had me giggling and rolling my eyes along the way. It also contains some great characters too. What it doesn't contain however is any superfluous waffle or padding so it really does get in with itself very well indeed.
All in all, a cracking followup and, with the way it ended, maybe not the last in the series... I'd definitely be up for more... My thanks go to the Publisher and Netgalley for the chance to read this book.

After the Sleepover by Kerry Wilkinson was a very intriguing story.
This story just drew me in from the first page and I was lost. From the very beginning this was a gripping and unputdownable story. I found this to be very well written story with a great plot. Fantastic characters that draw you in and a story woven so well you are invested from page one! The plot and the characters are written well and believable.
Wilkinson kept me completely engrossed and hanging on every word.
Another engaging and intriguing read from Kerry.

Thank You NetGalley and Bookouture for your generosity and gifting me a copy of this amazing eARC!

Something sinister and slithery snakes through this novel.
On the 25th anniversary of three girls disappearing after a sleepover, three boys go missing too.
Right from the beginning I had a ton of questions, I didn’t believe anyone’s story.
I thought Leah was detached and sort of a lurker.
As the strands of the story finally came together I still wasn’t satisfied with the answers but there are some sickos out there!