First off thank you NetGalley and Atria Books for the ARC opportunity, I am so grateful to be able to read and review this one early.
Lisa Jewell is one of my favorite authors and Don’t Let Him In did not disappoint. The multiple view points, short chapters, twists and turns, made for an easy ready! I did not want to put it down.
The ending was perfect and what I was hoping for! You won my love again with your engaging characters? And thrilling writing style! I give this a 10/10

The foreword from publishing was accurate. This book was amazing and absolutely engrossing. I could not put this down!
Main character Nina, recently looses her husband and her 25 year old daughter, Ash, doesn’t quite trust the man her mom has started dating a year later. Ash starts to investigate into her mom’s new muse and finds a shocking reality. Told through many perspectives, readers will start to connect different lives of women, who made their worst mistake - they let him in.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5/5

Great read! Ending was predictable, but it was still a great book! So glad i got this as an ARC. Read it in two days. Highly recommend!

Wow! Lisa Jewell just gets better and better with each book. She’s written another perfect thriller! What makes this book terrifying is everything that happens in the book can actually happen in real life. Lisa clearly did her homework here and terrifyingly portrays a narcissistic character in this story. I had to pick up my jaw from the floor a few times! I know the year just started but I can confidently predict that this will be the best thriller of the year! Lisa snapped with this one! I also enjoyed the epilogue at the end of the book and I appreciated the short chapters. Thank you for my ARC copy!!

coming at you with a SERIOUS HOT TAKE … I normally love Lisa Jewell’s books and always prioritize them …. but oh boy, #DontLetHimIn was NOT for me - this didn’t even feel like a thriller to me and by the time we got to the reveal, I hated everyone so much I honestly didn’t care. I’m usually not one to dedicate a post to a book I didn’t like, but this author is so popular that I’m confident there will still be a massive audience for this book.

Think #dirtyjohn , but more unlikeable (is that possible?)

This doesn’t release until June, so I’m sure many more reviews will roll in by then to help you decide.

Interesting plot, but long-winded and dragged at parts. Ending was enjoyable, but ultimately predictable.

I was so excited to pick up Don’t Let Him In by Lisa Jewell! I tore through it in less than 24 hrs! If you’re a fan of Jewell’s unputdownable writing style you’re going to want to pick this up in June!

I can’t talk much about the plot without giving too much away, but this book gave off Dear John-esque vibes told in multiple viewpoints and timelines.

There are a lot of female characters to follow, but the book comes together nicely in the end. I

Thank you to NetGalley and Atria Books for an advanced copy of this book!

Wow what a page turner! I devoured this book. Loved reading Nick’s perspective and his character development. However, the end was a little anticlimactic and predictable.

If you are a fan of Lisa Jewell this is a definite read. This book was another page turner with all the twists you would expect (and one I did not).

I received an ARC of this book and this is my honest review.

Lisa jewel is one of my favorite authors-her ability to tell a story, is nothing short of amazing. With that said, I am sadly so disappointed in her latest book. Typically, I am pulled into Lisa’s books from the beginning pages. In contrast, this book started very slowly. The many characters, changing timelines, and multiple POV’s, made the story-telling clumsy and murky. The many timelines were confusing, at times.The entire story was a repetitive storyline involving the same scenario playing out with many different women. The book went into great detail of their lives, and their association with the main character. The storyline moved extremely slowly, with not much happening other than further examples of how awful a conman the main character is, how he lived his very dysfunctional life, and how the women were conned over and over again. Not many surprises or twists, often predictable outcomes. I believe the story idea is a good one, and with the proper execution, could have been fantastic. Those who like character driven novels with many character storylines and analyses, may enjoy this book. The theme of obsession is prominent. The author is able to weave together all the characters, and intersecting plot lines, although the intersecting character interactions were sometimes forced. I still adore Lisa Jewel and look forward to her next one!

Thank you #netgalley for the opportunity to read and review this book from a fantastic author!

While I enjoyed “Don’t Let Him In”, it sure took me a while with the back and forth between characters to figure out the storyline. It was a good read, I just wish the ending didn’t crash upon it so quickly. DO make sure you read the epilogue!

This book started off extremely choppy. It eventually came together, but I found it rather irritating. Since I was reading this on my kindle, I couldn’t easily flip back to chapters to jog my memory. Not a spoiler, but I’m a bit confused also about the letter at the end. What was the significance?

Thank you to NetGalley and Atria Books for a free advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

It's amazing how many lives can come together, and be negatively impacted, by just one man... Do you know what it feels like to meet a friend of a friend that everyone loves, but they give you a vibe and you know that there's something wrong with them? Do you know what it feels like to question your sanity, or to have other people question it? If so, then you will likely resonate with this novel.

Jewell always keeps me interested with her cast of flawed and very human characters, but I think this is probably her strongest work yet. The way she goes back and forth between POVs in this novel really kept me on the edge of my seat. The rate of revelation felt very controlled and the whole thing felt so well plotted out, like I could see the red strings on the map connecting characters, locations, and events on someone's wall.

I really enjoyed this as a thriller novel, it had that element that I was looking for and enjoyed the overall concept and was invested in what was happening in this storyline. I was hooked from the first page and enjoyed the overall concept of this. Lisa Jewell has a strong writing style and had enjoyed previous books that I read.

Whatever you do, do not let him in!

Jewell’s new novel surrounds a man with many names, but we’ll call him Nick. We begin by learning about Nina and Ash, who are overcome with grief over the death of their father/husband. This leads to Nick swooping in to offer comfort and company as an old friend of the new,ly deceased. Nina soon begins a whirlwind romance with Nick that leaves Ash immediately suspicious.

As the book progresses, we learn how secrets, lies, and deception can all play a role in someone’s story.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book as the plot started to pickup. Jewell did it again by keeping me captivated by a story that contained a lot of twists and turns.

Thank you Net Galley and Atria for the ARC!

Martha is a florist with two sons from her first husband and one daughter with her current husband, Alistair. While Al is always charming, she can’t understand why despite how many hours she works, they are always short on money. Recently Al has become more distant, disappearing for days on end for work.

Paddy Swann was pushed in front of a train and killed leaving behind his wife, Nina, and two adult children, Ash and Arlo. They receive a note and Paddy’s old lighter from Nick Radcliffe, an old friend of Paddy’s of whom they’ve never heard. After some back and forth correspondence Nina and Nick form a relationship despite concern from Ash.

Ash’s unease about Nick propels her to investigate his story. She learns a lot more than she bargained for about Nick…and Al.


As always Lisa Jewell has written an amazingly creepy and complex antagonist. The short chapters and fast pace of this book makes it a fast and binge-worthy read. The multiple POVs and timelines were a bit confusing at times - I wondered if chapter headings would be helped me keep track. Overall, I enjoyed this thriller & would recommend!

I typically love any book written by this author but I was sadly surprised that this was not one of them. I found the book to be very hard to follow to begin with as we went back and forth to different characters without explanation a lot of the book did not make sense and didn't begin to wrap up until the ending. It was a difficult read one that I probably wouldn't have finished but did in order to give it my best review. This would not be a book I would consider one of her best or even one of a book I would expect from this author. The book was not horrible by any means but it was definitely difficult to follow

Bam...another amazing Jewell novel! This one wasn't as much as a thriller as other books but the character...just so evil!
Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for the ARC.

Queen Lisa has a way of dropping you into a story and have you not knowing what’s going on all while thinking you do. She is the master thriller writer, and I did not want to stop reading this one!

Don’t Let Him In will leave you on the edge of your seat wondering what’s going to happen next.

I went into this book blind, and I fully believe that’s the way to go with any Lisa book!

I had so much fun reading Lisa Jewell's new book, Don’t Let Him In! It’s a delightfully disturbing, impossible-to-put-down read that moves fast from start to finish. The story centers on Ash, her mother Nina, and Martha. Ash and Nina are still dealing with the tragic loss of their father and husband, who was pushed onto the London Tube tracks in a shocking act of murder. Meanwhile, Martha seems to have it all—her own adorable floral shop, a beautiful baby, and a picture-perfect husband. Their lives are all tied together by one man: Nick.

And what a character he is! Nick is ridiculously handsome and effortlessly charming, with that lost-puppy vulnerability that draws people in. Even when he’s being awful, there’s something oddly captivating about him. As his story unravels, that charm turns into a dangerous weapon—a mix of charisma and manipulation that keeps everyone, including the reader, hooked. With perfectly timed twists, quirky side characters who bring humor and heart to the story (I loved Jane and seriously think she deserves her own novel!), and a plot that never slows down, this is Lisa Jewell at her absolute best!

Thank you NetGalley and Atria Books for providing this digital review copy in exchange for my honest thoughts!