I found this book to be very slow to start with not a great deal happening and it struggled to keep my interest. The synopsis said it was a psychological thriller but it did not read like that to me at all. Sorry it wasn't for me.

I was fascinated by this book, it is so addictive. I loved it from the premise to the execution of the story. The characters are strong and very well constructed. I highly recommend it!

a lot of fluff in the middle that it didn’t need. kept me interested most of the time but was still kind of confusing at the end and wish it hadn’t ended so suddenly.

Someone Like You had a great summary and I was really excited to read it. I love a thriller with a British edge, but unfortunately this one just didn’t hook me and I had to DNF at 20%.

Thank you to NetGalley and to the publisher for this ARC in exchange for an honest review..

It actually is putdownable.
Jemima is an unremarkable actress living on a houseboat in the Thames. She auditions for an unusual stage play and odd things happen. I didn't really care enough to see what Jemima's dirty secrets are so after the first quarter of the book, I have abandoned it.

Thank you for the opportunity to listen to this audiobook. I feel like this book is in the wrong genre because I did not feel like it was the typical psychological thriller that I usually read. It may have just been better as a women’s fiction. Overall, the story was good.

This was a dark and atmospheric psychological thriller. I found it to be a slower paced story that was incredibly intriguing and peaked my curiosity. The audiobook narrator delivered a superb performance. Her voice was the perfect fit for the character.

The plot involves a young struggling actress desperately searching for her big break. She is alone in the world, having escaped her alcoholic mother and abandoned by her father. She is used to making her own way in the world. After randomly getting invited to audition for a two actor play being put on by a famous director and successfully getting the supporting role, she is ecstatic. However, the director is elusive and strange, and as time goes on, she's not really sure what she got herself into.

I will emphasize that the pacing is very slow and there is no clear direction in which it appears to be going. However, this is part of its charm. I was impatiently wanting to know where the plot was leading. I was completely drawn into the crazy.

As the MC became more unhinged, the suspense grew. I literally couldn't stop listening. The reveals at the very end were explosively satisfying!

A gracious thank you to #NetGalley for an audiobook in exchange for an honest review.
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Overall, this was a good audiobook. This is described as a thriller but I didn’t feel it was that exciting. I did like the narrator and enjoyed the overall story but I wouldn’t say it was a thriller. I also felt the pace of this was a little slow but still engaging enough for me to finish it. I would say check this one out if you want an easy read and if the synopsis sounds good to you.

I feel like this book might have been mislabeled a little bit. I felt like it was giving more drama/ fiction vibes rather than suspense thriller. However, I still did really enjoy the audiobook over all. The narrator was fantastic and at times made me dislike the main character which I think was the intention with Jemima due to her rough upbringing and struggling acting career. It was often “whoa is me” but it made me invest more in the story.

This novel is definitely a slow burn so just a warning before diving in and please check trigger warnings!

Thank you NetGalley and Storm Publishing for this ARC audiobook in exchange for more review!

"Someone Like You" by Becky Alexander is an engaging read with well-developed characters and a compelling storyline. While the plot kept me turning pages, I found some aspects of the pacing to be a bit slow, and certain plot twists felt predictable. Overall, it's a solid choice for fans of the thriller genre.

This book was interesting, and I did appreciate the audiobook. It talks about a girl named Gemma and her drive to be an actress in place. The story talks about her getting this play and unfortunately not being able to continue due to the main lead passing away. It goes through the dark side of this industry, and what potentially happened, and a piece of Gemma, losing herself.

I was not a fan of this one. The character interactions felt cringy more often than not and didn’t read like a thriller until the very end. On the positive side if you enjoy a lot of buildup before a crescendo this is 100% the book for you.

If you like Devil likes Prada, you will like this too, because that's the exact vibe I got with this book while reading and enjoying this book.
Who doesn't want to be at their top of the game, who doesn't? Be an artist, singer, dancer, photographer, painter, shoe maker any field everyone try to be their best and give their best. But, is giving their best helps them to reach the top of their ladder? Well, that debate is a never ending story.

The main-character is a budding ballerina dancer who tries to find her footing in the industry, she got a small role here and there and then she hit a jackpot, did she? She gets this amazing role in a play in a well reputed and established company. The role has two leads one is our main-character and other person is a famous television actress with the supporting family background. so, the play is led by an budding artist and well renowned personalities and the buzz for the play is overwhelming for everyone to handle. The famous television actress has never remembered or learnt more lines at once, that made her feel more neurotic during the play and she fails miserably during the live play and commits a suicide and this disaster hits the budding artist and she tries to climb up her career ladder harder. But, the unexpected popularity hits her career image so hard that she could never even pick herself from her lowest point of life because of the hidden agenda - REVENGE!

The way the unexpected popularity has been described made me only think of Meryl in Devil wears Prada. Loved the story moved and the climax was an unexpected twist. Liked where the story has been placed, Europe, US, the social and parties where absolutely upto the mark.

the cover and title really caught my eye but i started losing interest very fast in the book cause it was taking a lot of time to explain stuff, the content, why what is happening im sorry may be it wasn't for me ;(

This was fun! It took me a second to get invested but I liked the different relationships and that each character, even the smaller parts, felt very distinct. Near the end I was thinking there felt like a lot of loose ends and not much time to tie them all up but it was done pretty well and I didn’t fully see the twist coming!

This one had me mildly confused because I knew the book was a thriller, but it didn't give me the thriller vibes until much later when the books twists started unravelling and not in a great way. I kept waiting for it to be psycholocally thrilling. The ending shows glimpses of that but overall blaaaah.

Thank you to netgalley, dreamscape media and storm publishing for an ARC in exchange for my honest review. I LOVED this dramatic psychological thriller! I listened to the audiobook version and the narrator was superb. The TWIST at the end was not expected at all and had me FLOORED! The only thing I did not like was that I feel like the conclusion didn’t tidy things up. I wish the author had told us what happened to Jemima. It left me wanting...

Jemima is a starving new actor, graduate at a prestigious performing arts program, RADA. She gets her big break when she is called for a private, mysterious audition for the exclusive, well known Sheridan Productions and is selected as co-star with a famous movie actress. Jemima becomes increasingly worried during rehearsals that her co-star will ruin the play, therefore, her big opportunity due to her bad acting, forgetting lines and her drug habits.

I loved Jemima and found her to be very likable. She is the black sheep among the many rich and privileged players, just trying to make it big.

Many secrets, a couple of mysterious deaths, backstabbing betrayal and a great big TWIST! Any thriller reader will enjoy this dark engrossing read!

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I initially was really drawn into this book and thought the characters were all interesting and pretty captivating, but I found that as the book went on I started to really lose interest in all of them and what was happening. I found the middle of the book to move pretty slowly and really just bored me. I did think the pace picked up towards the end and attempted to save this book, but it wasn't a total success for me. I will say I was totally surprised by the ending and did not see that explanation coming, which definitely added to my liking of the book. However, it was not enough to save it completely. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

An intricate tale of hope and desperation which intertwines the lives of the lead character creating a sense of drama in all aspects of the term. Wonderfully written and leaves one wanting more

Thank you to NetGalley and Dreamscape Select, Storm Publishing for an audio arc in exchange for an honest review.

Jemima has just had one of the strangest auditions of her career for a famous play producer who is doing a small production. She has not gotten any acting work since leaving RADA over a year ago and when she lands the role she knows it will be her big break. The two person play will be preformed with Olivia, a television star making her stage debut and all eyes are on her. Jemima is so excited to make her former school friends jealous that she overlooks the oddities, and deaths, that are circling the play and its strange producer. Will this gig be her big break or will her ill-fated luck continue.

Having worked in the theatre and being surrounded by want-to-be starlets dying for their big break this novel really appealed to me. Jemima, the narrator, captures the struggles, insecurities and the highs and lows of the theatre world, where its more about who you know and what they can get from you. That being said the story is slow paced with very little action or drama. I found Jemima to be a narcissist and a user herself and an unreliable narrator. There are a lot of questions posed early on that never get answered in a concise way and ultimately left me with more questions of my own... why was this casting couch not an issue?? The "twist" at the end is too forced and weird, I get the desire for revenge but not the "look alike" story line. I just wanted more from this and was ultimately lack luster.
I had the audio version read by Josie Charles who has good pace and was okay to listen to, although I hated her male New York accent.