I absolutely loved this book. It had everything!
Secrets, lies, deceptions , murder, mystery!
Hollywood in 2014 four young stars are picked to star in a new TV series that fans love!
Ivy has picked for the star, and beats out seasoned actress , Lauren for the role.
Lauren and Ivy become best friends, which is a new concept as Ivy has never had friends and for Ivy this is truly a rags to riches to rags story !
Lauren , Ivy, Caleb and Jesse become the friends and family they all need, however, this is not without its secret, lies and deceptions!

Fast-forward 10 years, Ivy is working as a grocery clerk, when she gets an email about a top secret reunion show, she needs the money and she would like two mend fences with her costars. When she arrives at the scene all she finds is Lauren ‘s dead body.
It is time for all those secrets, lies, mysteries, past life’s, to become uncovered.

Wow - Bailey really knocked it out of the park with this one. If I hadn't had to 'real life' this past week, I would have finished this in one sitting: it was that addictive! As a teenager in the 90s in the height of the "I Hate Brenda" 90210 craze, this gave me a wonderful, nostalgic blast from the past feel. I did guess the "villain" pretty early on, but it didn't take away how fantastic the storytelling was. So happy to start the new year off with a 5 star read!

Hello, Juliet is a twisty and bingeable read with an endearing main character named Ivy Westcott, dubbed #poisonivy, after a brief stint of fame in a Hollywood sitcom. Told in dual timelines, the plotting is masterful as it unravels the mystery behind the murder in the present of Ivy's former best friend and costar. The secondary characters, including Ivy's castmates from the sitcom and her mother, are distinctive and play a vital role in tying everything together. Fans of Hollywood mysteries and psychological thrillers will love this book.

Hello, Juliet is a twisty thriller mixing the past with the present, friends and lovers, fame and infamy. I loved the dual timelines and the intimate look behind the scenes on the making of a hit television series. The drama, relationships, gossip, and overall cutthroat nature of the industry was on full display and well executed.

Generally, I liked Ivy's character - she felt relatable and I was rooting for her. There were times I questioned her decisions and also got frustrated by her always feeling like the victim when she finally had achieved the success he had been trying to achieve. But overall, she felt like a normal girl who wanted to make her mom proud and was just too naïve to understand all that could come with being in the spotlight.

It was hard to know who to trust in this novel. Everyone was an actor so I was never certain who was genuine and who was playing a role or manipulating a situation. The red herrings totally threw me and I will admit, I was completely surprised by the outcome of the novel. Many things weren't even on my radar and I loved how completed surprised I ended up being.

Samantha Bailey has been a fan favorite at THE PULSE and there is no doubt that Hello, Juliet will exceed expectations for thriller fans!

Out April 29, 2025, this should be on your most anticipated for 2025!

📖 ARC Review

PUB Date : April 28th 2025

My Rating : ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️ 3 Underwhelming Stars

🍿 This is your typical popcorn thriller of who done it .

For fans of Pretty Little Liars & Gossip Girl , and I adored these TV series , …but I didn’t adore this .

I know my opinion is unpopular on this book , but I started reading this book the end of December and struggled to finish it,not only that I guessed the plot at the very beginning which I try not to typically do, but was very obvious from the get go and maybe the was the author’s intentions?

Read this if you like ;
🎥 Dual Timelines
🎥 Hollywood Drama
🎥 Mystery
🎥 Unlikeable Characters
🎥 Popcorn Thrillers

Ivy has been sent an email to do a reunion of Hello Juliet , 10 years after her acting career fell through the cracks and was nobody .

The money would really help out her and her mom , so it was an instant yes to do take this opportunity and make a come back !

The curvy red head makes her way to the studio only to find it deserted and the first one there .

Where is everyone??

What is that hanging in her dressing room closet ??

If Ivy isn’t careful she could find herself not only out of a career but , buried 6 feet under 👀

Don’t let my review stop you from reading this one if it sounds like your jam !

QOTD- If you could have lunch with one author who would be ?

AOTD- Mine would be Stephen King the author who gave me passion for reading in the 80’s 🫶🏼

Thank you NetGalley ,Thomas & Mercer and Samantha M. Bailey for this gifted ARC. In return for my honest review .

A quick read that passed the time just fine - it read a bit like a Nickolodeon documentary and I didn't mind that at all. Thanks for the free copy from netgalley in exchange for an honest review, book publishes 4/29/25

I loved this book! The twists were amazing and the unreliable narrators made this story a page turner. I had to find out what was happening. The shocking ending was perfect! The buzz going around from #thepulse is real ya’ll! @thrillerbooklovers.thepulse never lets me down with her book choices! Thank you for letting me read and review this one early! I read this in a day, trust me when I say this is binge worthy!

Fame and fortune playing a teen in a hit tv show, Ivy had a great life! She was friends with the biggest stars and making her mom proud. Little thing begin happening that seem like someone is trying to sabotage her. When a cast mate dies, the show is canceled before they shoot the finale. Years later, Ivy receives an email from the director’s assistant to film a reunion, along with $20k venmo’d to her. She only agrees because her mom has health issues and she can pay for treatment this way. When she gets to set, she finds a dark surprise.

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By Samantha M. Bailey
Release Date 04/29/2025

Keeping this review short and sweet since the book doesn’t come out for another 120 days!
#addthistoyourTBR Because this book is GOOD!

The story is told between two timelines: the present day and 2014.
From the beginning, you realize Ivy Wescott is a bit of a wallflower… However, She learns to find her voice while gaining a lead part on the hit new show нello, Jυlιeт. The press gives Ivy hell, all the while glamorizing her costars.
ᴴᴱᴸᴸᴼ, ᴶᵁᴸᴵᴱᵀ is a show about high school students who seem good on the surface but battle demons underneath; the audience never knows who to trust and who to root for.
The fans love the drama between high school students Juliet, Skylar, Hudson, and Logan, but they are all close friends behind the scenes. That is until something happens within the group that forever changes these young actors' lives.
(I give this book 4.5 🌟s—only because I guessed the ending right around 50 pages in —but did not skip to the end; it was worth reading it all the way to find out!!)

4.5 🌟🌟🌟🌟💫

From the book -
Ivy Westcott fled LA as her acting career imploded. In a flash, she lost her first love and chosen family—her Hello, Juliet castmates. But she never discovered who turned her closest friends against her. Now the whole world knows her as #PoisonIvy.
A decade later, Ivy is horrified when a celebrity exposé thrusts the Hello, Juliet cast back into the limelight, dredging up the old scandals she hoped to escape. Desperate for a fresh start and some financial stability for her mother and manager, Ivy agrees to participate in a top-secret reunion episode.

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Hello, Juliet
By: Samantha Bailey

Another wicked novel by Bailey. When a scandal rocks Ivy’s world she leaves Hollywood. She has lost all those closest to her and is known as #poisonivy.

Years later she has the chance to find out what really happened and who betrayed her. Oh what a wicked tail that will keep you guessing long into the night. Will she live to tell her side of the story?

Hello, Juliet is a thrilling novel that grabs you right from the start, told in a past she present narrative with social media snippets thrown in throughout the novel as well. Early on in the book an incident occurs and you are then given snippets from the past about the characters while a present tense investigation into the incident is taking place. Twists and turns leave you suspecting so many of the crime and ultimately the ending was unpredictable and shocking.
I found this to be a fast bingeable read that you’ll find hard to put down, as you are piecing the story together trying to figure out what happened and who was behind it all. With a mind blowing ending!

This is a great twisty thriller that will have you guessing until the very end! Reminiscent of the teen shows of yesteryear the dual timeline bounces between current day and a decade ago when Ivy Wescott, a relatively unknown, was cast in the much-anticipated teen drama, Hello, Juliet. The drama isn’t confined only to the show though. The cast brings plenty of drama offscreen as well. Their fierce bond is intertwined with love, friendship, romance, suspicion, hurt and jealousy until it’s broken in the most devastating way.
Now years later, Ivy is still reeling from her fall from grace and in dire need of money, she’s presented with the chance to film a reunion show. Unfortunately, when she arrives on set a murder is discovered, placing Ivy high as a suspect.
The story includes a cast of characters that you will waiver between loving and hating! Bailey masterfully interweaves the dual timelines and use of Hollywood Gossip Columns to unfold the story in such a way that you will feel totally immersed and won’t want to put this one down!

Hello,Juliet is a tv show that hit with a bang! But sadly it was short lived. Ivy is the lead actress, with her best friend Lauren and love of her life Jesse her costars. She hasn’t seen them since the show 10 years ago, and they didn’t keep in touch, so ivy is anxious to show up for a reunion show with them. But when she walks into the set, it’s very dark, and she stumbles upon one of them dead.

This was such a fun read. The storyline kept me guessing, I couldn’t figure out who to trust, and I picked up this book every chance I got! I would have read it a lot faster if it hadn’t been over the Christmas holiday 😝 definitely one to check out when it’s available!

4⭐️

Thanks to NetGalley, Thriller Book Lovers The Pulse, and Thomas & Mercer for my ARC! Pub date 04.29.25

Many thanks to NetGalley and Thomas & Mercer for the early release of Hello, Juliet.

This was a twisty popcorn thriller that I enjoyed. The story follows four former television stars from ten years ago. Alternating between past and present find out what happens between the characters on the show and the actors who play them in real life.

A reunion episode is planned for a show that aired ten years ago bringing former stars back on set a decade later. This was very fast paced and I had difficulty putting it down. I did figure out the twist but it kept me guessing if I was correct until the very end.

This book releases in April 2025 I definitely recommend it for your 2025 tbr!

Have you ever been a fan of any teen drama show? Yeah, then add this one to your TBR.
Then again, if you are anything like me, it will make you feel old. It will remind you that back when you were “just a kid”, it was actually taking place sometime in the last century, but here the action takes place in what I still think of as “oh a year or two ago”, but it’s in fact 2014.
The story will keep you guessing – literally and figuratively. The suspense builds with every page, and a dual timeline – now and back then – adds to this, as you watch the story unfold from both ends, the present and the past.

Thank you to the publisher for a free copy on Netgalley.

This one started off with an absolute bang.

Overall, I enjoyed this thriller/suspense novel. It switched back and forth between present time and the time they filmed the actual show.

I gave this book a 3.5 bc I enjoyed it but didn’t love it. There were so many moving pieces— esp at the end— that I couldn’t find a single character that was a good person. Ivy sure, but she was a bit to clueless for me.

O do recommend bc it has drama, Hollywood gossip vibes and is fast paced. Plus I thought the writing was well done overall.

Ivy starred in a popular television show years ago, now desperate for work she agrees to do a reunion show. When she arrives at the studio she finds her co star dead. What follows is a twisty who done it. Hello, Juliet is an entertaining quick read that goes from past to present to give you the full picture of what has happened. I will say the ending was well thought out but I was able to guess what had happened.

I went into this book having no idea what it was about and this cover gives nothing away! I highly recommend you read it this way too!


All I will say is that this is a dual timeline story that surrounds the cast of a popular teen show, the drama that happens infront and behind the camera anddddddd a death or two *gaspppp*

There were times that I felt the past part was a little slow and repetitive but overall the whole book is a very binge-able popcorn thriller. I enjoyed this from start to finish and no I didn’t figure it out.

I really enjoyed this! I thought it was well crafted with characters that I truly cared about. Thank you NetGalley for the ARC.

Thanks to NetGalley for allowing me to read this book in exchange for my honest opinion.

This was a pretty mediocre thriller about a group of young actors on a soapy teen drama and the trauma they went through. It was pretty cheesy overall but the twist did get me!

Bailey gets better every book! HELLO, JULIET is a clever and propulsive thriller that examines the high price of fame. With a shocking twist and satisfying epilogue, this is one not to be missed.