Whatever you think you know about what is going on...you don't! I expect this to be this summers must read. Fast paced, great characters, interesting plots.
The audio version was so well done!
Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for the ARC.

Not my fave. I liked the story and it kept me entertained but I didn't like the amount of characters, which made it difficult to follow, especially on audio. Also too many twists. Overall decent but not a top read. 3.5 stars

If Something Happens to Me by Alex Finlay I listened to the audiobook, and I enjoyed the different narrators. Having more than one narrator added to the cinematic, dramatic aspect of the book. Each narrator did a great job telling the story and distinguishing when they were portraying different characters. I am a huge fan of audiobooks, but I don't always think to request them on NetGalley, so I am glad that I saw a post on Alex Finlay's Bookstagram about the audiobook being available on NetGalley.

All the traveling around the world was fun. (Well, some places more so than others. Obviously, virtual travel to Leavenworth, Kansas wasn't as exciting as to Montepulciano and Paris 😆.)

If Something Happens to Me is an exhilarating, fast-paced thriller told from several different POV. We travel all around the U.S. and Europe trying to solve a presumed (no body was initially found) murder, with new information that's become available. This new information provides more questions than answers, and comes with renewed danger.

I highly recommend this book to fans of thrillers who enjoy multiple POV and locations, which for me, added to the excitement. The cipher element also added an intriguing layer to the mystery.

Thank you to Macmillan Audio for providing an Advance Reader Copy through NetGalley. All opinions are my own.

4.5/5 stars! Thank you, NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the audiobook of If Something Happens to Me by Alex Finlay narrated by Helen Laser; John Pirhalla; Paul Dateh.

Wow! What a plot twist. This is my first book by this author and he did not disappoint! I will have to check out his other books if they were like this! The narrators did a fantastic job and it was really perfect for this story. I love multiple narrators because it just feels more real and easier to follow on what is happening. It made it easier for me to follow while I ran errands and cleaned the house.

Very well done and I am definitely a new fan!

If Something Happens To Me was such an unexpected thriller to me. I went in blind because I’ve enjoyed all of the books I’ve read by Alex Finlay, and I am so glad I did. There are so many thrillers out there and it is hard to write one that is original and exciting, but Alex did!

Five years ago was Ryan’s worst day of his life. His high school girl friend Ali and her car disappeared without a trace. He was the last one with her and he can’t remember what happened. Ryan was never officially convicted but the town decided his guilt. He still remembers very little and blames himself. However, Ali’s car is found with two random dead men, leading everyone to way more questions than answers.
The adventure in this book was perfect and there was so much detail, it felt like a movie in my head. I hope this book gets turned into a movie one day!
I highly recommend this book for any one who loves an action packed thriller in a small town with more secrets than people.
Alex kept each character storyline perfectly organized and paced this entire book perfectly.
The ending of this book was exactly want I wanted!

I received the audio book from NetGalley. The narration was done by a team on three people, all of which, were fantastic and brought a lot to this story! It helped to keep all of these characters straight throughout the book.

Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for an arc of If Something Happens To Me by Alex Findlay!

My rating: 4.5 stars

Ryan Richardson’s girlfriend, Ali, was kidnapped during their senior year of high school. As he was the last person to see Ali, all eyes were on him as a possible suspect.

Fast forward five years and Ryan has never been able to shake what happened that night. While on a trip with to Italy with his law school cohorts, he receives a mysterious note. This sets the wheels in motion to finally figure out what really happened to Ali. The story is told from multiple perspectives and across various locations.

Wow, what a wild and fun read! I loved the multi-cast narration and the fast pace of this thriller. It was an easy listen that kept me engaged and eager to solve the mystery of Ali’s disappearance. This was my first book by the author and it certainly will not be the last!

Thank you to MacMillan Audio as well as Netgalley for each sending an ALC of this title in exchange for my honest review.

I’m giving this book a 2.5 star rating. First off, I’m thankful that I got an opportunity to read this ARC! Some things I did enjoy about this book were the way it all connected at the end of the story. I also liked that there were different voices for the characters & that enhanced my experience. Some things I didn’t enjoy were that I felt like the story was jumping from place to place & I felt like there were new characters always being added to the story, it felt kind of difficult to follow. Even though I rated this book a 2.5 star, I still plan on reading more books from this author! I definitely suggest you read it yourself and decide if you like it or not.

This thriller was told through multiple story lines that connected on a surprising way a bit later in the book. I liked the twist of it, but felt like the end was a bit too easy.
Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan audio for the ARC

I have read multiple books by Alex Finlay and have enjoyed all of them. This was an obvious choice to read.

The multi-cast narration was excellent and definitely enhanced my reading experience. I listened at 2x. I also read along with a digital copy as well.

Likes:
Riveting
Edge of my seat thriller
Multi-cast narration
Short chapters

I was excited to read If Something Happens to Me by Alex Finlay since I enjoyed his other two books What Have We Done and The Night Shift. I was also excited to listen to this audiobook since one of the multi-cast narrators is Helen Laser and I really enjoy her narration. The other two narrators John Pirhalla and Paul Dateh were good too. I was engaged to listen to this book but I found there was a bit too much going on. Each point of view was in a different location and we’d be going back and forth with aliases and past and present. As the secrets of the main character Ryan’s past are revealed including what really happened to his girlfriend that disappeared it just felt anti-climactic to me. I felt some of the writing was cliche and several characters were flat. I liked the quick pace and would be open to reading more by this author.

I normally don’t read thrillers but this was a lot of fun and I might have to pick up more! I was invested throughout and was gasping at some of the twists and turns. The characters are all well developed and I thought the ending was very apt.

Add this to your TBR immediately!! I did the audio version and it was just so easy to breeze through. Multiple POV’s with multiple narrators, need I say more?

This has what feels like 3 entirely different character stories going that don’t really start to intermingle until the last 2-3 hours and I loved it! I truly had no ideas who was behind Allison’s disappearance and was completely floored when the twists began to untangle! When Poppy lasers in and makes sense of things with her big run on sentence my brain said 🤯 Lol this was a really fun listen and I look forward to more from this author.

Fun and fast-moving popcorn thriller with multiple POVs. I enjoyed this so much on audio. The full cast narration was excellent! While this didn't have me on the edge of my seat, it was a solid suspense novel that I will recommend! I think that readers who enjoyed The Night Shift will love this one.

Holy Batman people, there were so many twists and turns in this one that I could have used a map and I loved every bit of it.

With multiple timelines, multiple points of view, and multiple storylines this could have gotten confusing, thankfully we had a cast of narrators that gave each character a unique voice and mad this such an immersive experience.

While listening to this one more than once I found myself saying wait what... it kept me guessing until the end and was so much fun to listen to. I'm still realling from that last revelation, I seriously didn't see most of the twists coming.

If you're looking for a story filled with mystery and intrigue, murder, theft, and coverups all while trying to avoid the mob, this one is for you, in short it's fantastic and I loved every second I put into it.
Thank you to Macmillan Audio for providing a copy of this audiobook, I have voluntarily listened to it and all thoughts and opinions are my own.

Finlay is a master at a twist as I did not see one of the biggest ones in this book coming. If Something Happens to Me is the story of a five year old missing person case and how it breaks open again when the missing girls, Ali's, car is found at the bottom of a lake with not her, but someone else in it. I enjoyed this story for the most part, though the narrator for Ryan threw me off track and I wasn't really convinced by the ending. Thank you to Macmillan Audio, St. Martin's Press, and NetGalley for the early listen in exchange for my honest opinion.

3.5 stars rounded up. I highly anticipated this book and it didn't quite live up to all that I was hoping. It was still really good, very suspenseful and an ending that I really didn't see coming which was great. The time lines were a little confusing which is probably why the ending was a little harder to predict.

I received an ARC from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

I was approved to be an ARC reader for this book and I was over the moon excited as I’d heard a lot of great things about this book. It’s such an amazing story going back and forward time wise. Sometimes it got all mixed up but it was still a great story which was well told with all the kind of things about a book that I like. It was a super fun read filled with unexpected twists and turns and suspense. Romantics parts and heartbreak sometimes. I recommend it though

Thank you NetGalley and Macmillan audio for this audio ARC.

It took me a bit to wrap my thoughts up on this one. I thought I had it figured out early on, but dismissed my theory because one tiny detail was missing for it to fit. In the end, I was freaking right.

The narrators, Helen Laser; John Pirhalla; Paul Dateh, were great in bringing the story to life. I really enjoyed this one.

Great book. IF I were to give some constructive criticism, I would like a little more time spent on the ending - more time with the FBI agent, delving more into her choices as to why she turned, and more time with Allison - that she will fall in love and move on in happiness.

I like the Schrödinger's cat of timeline Finlay creates: is it one timeline or are there multiple? Are we talking about same people over the years or are these all different people? He makes your mind work overtime. But if you read his other books before, you know what's coming your way!

Ryan's girlfriend was abducted right before him. A guy came and snatched her. No one knew who that person might be or what he wanted. Ali was not hated; she should not have any enemies. On the other hand, this mob boss had a lot of people who would want him or his son dead. Yet, his son ended his own life. He was bullied in his new school. He didn't have right support system to help even though therapy was made available to him. Somehow these stories got tangled and Ryan found himself in the middle of this mess that marked him murderer when he was clearly not.

I liked the surprise culprit at the end. I'm not going to lie I expected that person to do something scandalizing, and bit out of order. This person had nothing to lose, no one else to fight with and no fear of gaining more enemies. I would prefer to have more time in the end to connect all the dots instead of dropping bombs on us, readers, and go.