Member Reviews
This book was very fast paced, exactly what I look for in a thriller. I can definitely see this book becoming a movie and I hope one day it does! The ending I did not expect at all, which was another huge plus for me.
This is the second Megan Lally book I've read. She knows how to write a story. It's about the death of a teenager under suspicious circumstances. During a teenage party, Claire drowned. Her ex-friend Brooke is rumored to have had something to do with it. Now Brooke is getting harassing phone calls, her car is being vandalized and news papers are being left all over her car. Someone wants her to tell the truth even if they have to make her tell that truth. I was enthralled from the first page. I definitely recommend.
Thank you so much SOURCEBOOKS Fire and NetGalley for this ARC.
No Place Left To Hide is a heart-pounding, mean girls YA thriller that I really enjoyed.
The characters might not be that loveable for me, but I felt on edge to really see how it ended.
Fast paced and kept me interested through out the story.
A great thriller to look out for in the beginning of 2025.
Loved the premise and the action filled plot! The unlikeable characters gave me pause, but that is rather a me problem
This was okay, it wasn't great. I thought it was predictable but I think it's a great book for YA audience!
very thrilling! did not see the plot twist coming at all. the book kept my attention all throughout. the plot was very interesting and the characters were likeable. no complaints! will read more from this author
I didn’t see the plot twist coming and honestly by the end of this book you will be thinking yikes. I couldn’t put it down and ended up staying up to finish this. I think every single character in this book needs a psycho analysis done.
I really enjoyed this book. It was very fast paced. Attention was great. It kept me on the edge of my seat, and the shock value was amazing. The ending had me like what the F?! I don’t know if I was supposed to hate the characters, but some of them I just couldn’t stand and it took away from the book a little bit, but I don’t know if that was the intention by the author to make us hate them or if that was a me thing. Overall a good read and I would definitely recommend! My only critique is that when the turn of events happen, it left me with some questions and I just wasn’t satisfied with the explanations given if that makes sense.
I rarely give 5 stars but this book is deserving.
We follow Brooke as she’s haunted by a life changing accident while trying to move on with her life and live up to the family name.
Claire, Brooke’s ex best friend is determined to one up her with every opportunity she gets. That is until, she runs out of opportunities to do it.
Between a high speed chase, secrets and “friends,” No Place Left to Hide takes you on a wild ride of just how far a Goodwin will go to protect the family name.
Megan Lally is the absolute QUEEN of, “I didn’t see that twist coming.”
Wow, what an intense book! Definitely love the whole revenge thriller sub genre and this was a good one. I admit that early on I had a pretty good idea of who was behind everything. Even guessing that it was a great read to see how it all played out and I did not predict a major part of the twist, so that one hit me! I enjoyed the writing style, very well done. Looking forward to reading more by this author.
Thank you to the author, NetGalley, and Sourcebooks for the advance reader copy. This is my honest review. Publication date Jan 7, 2025. 4.5/5⭐️
I've always wanted to read a thriller that takes place in a car on the open road and this DELIVERED. Brooke Goodwin is a golden child with the perfect life. She starts getting harassed due to her connection with an incident that ended up with one of her classmates dead six months ago.
Snobby mean girls, unlikable characters, cattiness, drama... everything I love about YA thrillers. I wanted to strangle everybody in this story.
Thank you to NetGalley and SourceBooks Fire for the e-arc!
I loved Megan Lally's other book, That's Not My Name, so I was so excited to receive an arc for this one! It started off slow at first, but I was pulled in soon after due to the intensity! It was a little predictable with who was behind it, but I still enjoyed it nonetheless. I do wish there included a couple chapters about how this specific person planned it out rather than what we got. This is a great, easy YA mystery read that got me out of my reading slump!
Alexa, play Look What You Made Me Do by Taylor Swift
I forgot how amazing ya thriller books are!! The way that Megan Lally perfected teenagers, their priorities, dialogue and their justification and rationality for unhinged things was so wildly accurate.
Brooke is from a long long line of Yale alumni, and she does everything in her power to get that acceptance letter and to keep her family reputation. After a house party, a truck is aggressively trailing Brooke and her best friend, they THINK they know what happened that night all those months ago and they will do anything to get her to admit to it.
The book is set in dual timelines to help the reader to slowly put the puzzle pieces together. This is a bingeable easy read that I did not put down (it was 1:30am when I finished). I recommend this to anyone who loves a good YA thriller!
Thank you so much to Sourcebooks and NetGalley for this arc, I’ll be checking out Megan’s other book!
No Place Left to Hide was a great, pacey YA-thriller where all the action pretty much happens in one night, which I think made the book fly by. Brooke is dealing with something from her past that is haunting her, and when someone starts chasing her on an isolated road after a bonfire with her friend, she's afraid that past has finally caught up with her. I recommend this for anyone who likes YA thrillers with two timelines.
Thank you to NetGalley, Megan Lally and Sourcebooks Fire for the free ebook in exchange for an honest review.
This was such a twisty, action packed novel with the most selfish characters and I enjoyed every minute of it. It was a really quick and easy read.
This was very predictable. Like I guessed every single plot twist from the very beginning of the book. It was also very, very similar to another book I have read. I felt like we could have used more background information and the ending felt incomplete to me.
Brooke does everything she can to maintain a good image for herself and her whole family. She knows that any mistake could jeopardize her father's career, especially after he cleaned up the whole mess that happened at the lake house. As soon as Brooke can go to Yale, she put everything else behind her--the threats, the vandalism to her car, the scary messages. But someone doesn't want her to leave town, and they'll do anything to stop her.
No Place Left to Hide is an engaging thriller, but one that I was ultimately disappointed in for students. Literally no one in the story is a good person, and there isn't really a solid redeeming message for teen readers at the end. While I think teens will find the story enjoyable, it's not one that I plan on purchasing.
Overall a 3.75⭐️
Thank you, NG, for an ARC copy. 🤍
I really liked this authors first book and was super excited to read this one. I found it very interesting, very pretty little liars in a way. It was super fast paced which I liked.
Near the 70% mark I figured out the who was involved and what happened. Even though I guessed the twist, I enjoyed this one. It was a quick, easy to read thriller.
Total honesty- I loved That’s Not My Name and went into this book bracing myself for a sophomore slump. But that did not happen- If anything, I devoured this one even more quickly than the last! Then, I handed it to my 13-year-old and he devoured it just as quickly as I did. Well done to the author!
This book is about Brooke, who ventures out to a party for the first time since a tragic incident in her past. Just when it seems that everything is coming together for her, a car starts trailing her on her way home…. Anything else would be a spoiler :-)
This was a great book, I recommend it to anyone!
Brooke Goodwin's life is perfect; she has good grades, good looks, and she's the popular girl at school. When a party at her lake house ends in tragedy, someone tries to uncover the truth. What really happened that night?
I really enjoyed the present day chapters, and the flashback chapters toward the end, but many of the earlier flashbacks withdrew me from the book a bit.
They were just a little slow and uneventful at the start.
Eventually the flashbacks caught up to the major plot point and they got more interesting, but I almost wish the flashback chapters didn't begin until later on once the main plot was already rolling. This story definitely has some questionable plot points from a realistic crime perspective too, but for the sake of it being a fairly quick read and a fun thriller, I'll let them slide. If you like thrillers check this one out!
Thank you NetGalley for the ARC of this book! Release date is January 7, 2025!