Thank you to NetGalley and Atria Books for the ARC in exchange for this honest review. While I wanted to love this book as I have other books by this author I found this one to be slow moving and difficult to get through. There were so many characters and POVs to keep track of that it was confusing at times who was who. I felt that sometimes the storyline dragged a bit and I wanted it to “get on with it.” I did, however, enjoy the ending and how things wrapped up but was not terribly surprised. Not my favorite Lisa Jewell book but I am looking forward to reading more.

Thank you VERY much to the publisher and to netgalley. Like some recent Lisa Jewell's we are following two main storylines (Nina and Martha). They are both in relationships with a man who seems too perfect. This story is one where the reader knows before the characters and feels a bit like a waiting game for the characters to catch up. I will read anything Lisa Jewell but this one just felt a bit slow and difficult to get into.

Don’t Let Him In. Seriously, just don’t. Lisa Jewell never disappoints. This was a quick read with multiple storylines and great character development. It wasn’t very twisty like the thrillers I typically read. It was more of a psychological drama.

The poor hardworking sweet women who are involved with a creepy, manipulative, charming psychopath. He was so incredibly annoying. This reminded me of a Netflix True Crime show about a male con-artist swindling women out of money. It kept my attention but the ending fell a little flat.

Thank you Lisa Jewell, Atria Books and NetGalley for a free eARC in exchange for an honest review. The opinions are mine alone and not biased in any way.

I really wanted to love this one, but it just didn’t work for me. I made it through 16 chapters and had to make the tough call to DNF. I struggled to connect with the characters (honestly kept mixing them up), and the plot felt like it was dragging—nothing major had happened yet, and I just couldn’t stay invested.

Big thanks to Lisa Jewell, NetGalley, and Atria Books for the early access in exchange for an honest review. Just because this one wasn’t for me doesn’t mean it won’t be for someone else!

Thank you to NetGalley and Atria Books for providing me with an ARC in exchange or my honest review. Nina is trying to move on with her life after her husband has been tragically killed when she gets a lovely condolence card from Nick, an old friend of her late husband. As she gets to know Nick and they share memories of her husband, a relationship begins to develop and not everyone is thrilled with this, especially Nina's daughter Ash. She makes it her job to investigate Nick further as he just seems off and a little to good to be true.

The more Ash digs the more she finds out about Nick and his past and how he really new her father. Will Nina believe her or will she be to blinded by love and a new relationship to care.......Enjoy!!!!

I loved this book! I haven’t read a Lisa jewell book in a year or so but this one sucked me in. Domestic thriller vibes that I couldn’t put down. I loved how all the women’s stories tied together, but too tidy of an ending for me. I wanted what happened next, maybe in book 2?

Oh this was twisty and dark and perfectly interconnected in a way where I was guessing where we were going to land. I was gripped by the story and could not put it down for the last 100 pages. I loved this one!

While this wasn't my favourite Lisa Jewell book, it was overall enjoyable. I've read several thrillers from this author and have come to expect twists and turns that will keep me guessing throughout her novels, but this story was fairly linear and predictable. I enjoyed the characters, but felt they could have been fleshed out more, particularly the female characters. It was overall a pretty straightforward conman story, and while it was a quick and enjoyable read, I have read books that have touched on similar themes before, but with better execution.

Have loved everything from Lisa Jewell and this is no exception. A terrifically written book from multi points of view that left me guessing and piecing things together until the end. Highly recommend for your next summer read!

I truly don't know how to start this review; having just finished it I really liked the last 30% of the book. The problem is I pretty much hated the first half.

There are no redeeming qualities to the main character: Al, Nick, etc. He sweet talks women, gets them to fall in love with him and then takes any money he can and skedaddles when he finds a woman who interests him more. The beginning of the book is hard to follow, there are three different storylines one fo which happened 4 years ago. There are so many characters it takes a while to keep it all straight.

When one of the women and her daughter try to get answers it feels like his comeuppance is coming but that first one is short-lived. Later when another daughter starts investigating, the book gets much better.

Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC.

This book was a wild ride. A multi-POV journey of Nina and Marsha, both involved with men who all seem a little off… something isn’t quite right. They know just what to say at the right time, always have an excuse when confronted, and show clear narcissistic and sociopathic tendencies.

Nina’s daughter Ash isn’t buying what her new boyfriend is selling, and she soon discovers there is much more to the story - setting Nina and Marsha on a course to discover an unexpected connection.

This is a view into the mind of a narcissist and sociopath - how they can weave their way into someone’s life, always saying and doing the right thing while making their victim feel like they’ve done something wrong.

I enjoy the suspense Lisa Jewell consistently creates with her writing style, but this one didn’t quite do it for me. It was very predictable and didn’t provide that edge-of-your-seat suspense I’m used to.

Thank you to NetGalley and Atria Books for the eARC in exchange for an honest review.

There are villains and then there is the dude in this book. I am not a violent person but boy would I have punched this man in the face and felt so good about it. It’s a testament to Lisa Jewell that she can write a character that makes me simultaneously want to throw the book across the room but also so intriguing that I want to keep reading.

This is my third of her books and all three have had such unlikable villain characters but I always appreciate that the story really focuses on the people that are within the path of destruction. It would be really easy to look at the women in this book and think “how could they be so stupid to stick by this guy as long as they did?” The sad reality is there are plenty of real people in these kinds of relationships. People who are so desperate to cling on to the good times and ride it out until it circles bad around that they are willing to overlook things. Ultimately I was happy with how everything came together and how this book wrapped up and will eagerly await the next story Lisa Jewell gives us.

Lisa Jewell has a way of writing thrillers that spool out in front of you like a slow, steady stream of yarn. That unwinding is both calm and eerie as tension builds and deception, murder, or any other pivotal aspect of the novel is revealed. It's such an interesting format and structure to an otherwise cookie-cutter genre. Her writing reminds me of authors like Richard Osman, who write in a character rich world. But this book intensified my appreciation for her structure even more with the added first person narration of Nick.
As the book drew on, there were more and more characters, backstories, and intricacies involved that had been already peppered throughout by other perspectives. This wasn't the kind of novel for you to see twist and turns and guess "whodunnit" but to sit with the slowly building tension until the end. I really appreciated having that journey, feeling the angst and fury for and at characters, until we arrived to the last few chapters. It was an enjoyable process, but the ending was even more satisfying as it resolved the story. I grew pretty attached to Ash and would have kept reading chapters and chapters about her if I could.

Thank you for the advanced copy of Don’t Let Him In. I love a book with multiple timelines and/or POVs. This book had a lot of characters and it took me a minute to sort them all out. These women really need to not let him in, but we wouldn’t have a book if they just had some common sense. The short chapters help keep readers at the edge of their seats while they furiously turn the page for what’s next. No real twists, but good suspense throughout the book. Thank you again for the arc of Don’t Let Him In!

Thank you to Atria Books for my copy of DON'T LET HIM IN.

I went into this book blind because I know that Lisa Jewell only writes bangers. She's an auto buy author for me and she's keeping her place on that list, for sure. I recommend going in blind, I recommend all of her books, I recommend letting this newest one sweep you away in the escape. It's fast paced, it's shocking and it's sure to bring you out of any reading slump.

While this wasn’t my favorite Lisa Jewell book, it was still a solid read. I really enjoyed the conman storyline, but he was honestly so insufferable it was frustrating to watch everyone fall for him.

There wasn’t a big twist like I usually love in thrillers, but the pacing kept me interested. I liked how Nina, Martha, and Ash’s stories came together. It’s more of a psychological drama than a twisty thriller. I’ll continue reading anything that Lisa Jewell writes!

Thank you NetGalley & Atria Books for the e-arc in exchange for my honest review.

I would describe this book not as a thriller but more about a con artist. There's no crazy twists, just 400 pages about a crazy, narcissistic, sociopath. It was a bit hard to grasp all of the characters at the beginning but once I figured out how it all connected I was hooked.

This book has a creepy main character! For a lot of the book we are in his head. This makes it so that there isn't a lot of mystery - more like more unfolding. Because you get to know the main character pretty well, even the surprises aren't shocking because you think "of course he did that!" This made the book drag just a bit near the middle. However the end is really great! I don't want to be spoiler-y so I will just leave it at that and say the end is very satisfying. I give the book 3.5 stars (rounded up).

Thank you to Netgalley and Atria Book for an advance copy of this book for review.

Wanna read a book full of lies, deceit and just straight up crazy twists. Then this one's for you. A total recommend for sure

Thanks atria and netgalley. All thoughts and opinions expressed are solely my own and isn't influenced by anyone else

Lisa Jewell delivers another compulsively readable mind-mess, with just a touch too much gift wrap on the ending.

I've read my fair share of books in the psychological thriller genre, so I was excited to read this one. I tore through Don’t Let Him In like a nosy neighbor with binoculars and a bottle of wine. Jewell once again proves she’s a master of tension, dread, and peeling back seemingly normal lives to expose the dark underbelly of what lies beneath.

If you liked the claustrophobic paranoia of The House Across the Lake or the twisty storytelling in Verity, this one will absolutely scratch that itch. And if you found yourself transfixed by the unreliable reality of All the Colors of the Dark, you’ll be right at home here, where the past isn’t just haunting, it’s hunting.

Jewell’s latest reads a bit like a spiritual cousin to None of This Is True: layered timelines, questionable narrators, and the creeping suspicion that the worst thing isn’t what you don’t know…it’s what you buried. There’s even a dash of Jackal-style exploration of memory and what we’re willing to forget in order to move on.

Where it falters slightly is the ending. After all that delicious unraveling, the resolution felt just a little too tidy. I kept waiting for a final gut-punch, a lingering thread. But instead, we got a bow. A stylish one, sure. But a bow nonetheless.

Still this is Lisa Jewell doing what she does best: keeping us guessing, second-guessing, and devouring chapters late into the night.

Huge thanks to NetGalley and Atria Books for the advance copy. Jewell fans—and anyone who loves a twisty psychological thriller with real bite—won’t want to miss this one. Just…don’t trust anyone.