From the number-one New York Times best-selling and award-winning author Colleen Hoover comes "A stand-alone romantic thriller that is tragic, creepy, and brilliant!" (Mel Reader Reviews)

Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of best-selling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish.

Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn't expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity's recollection of the night their family was forever altered.

Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, knowing its contents would devastate the already grieving father. But as Lowen's feelings for Jeremy begin to intensify, she recognizes all the ways she could benefit if he were to read his wife's words. After all, no matter how devoted Jeremy is to his injured wife, a truth this horrifying would make it impossible for him to continue to love her.

Sexy. Twisted. Consuming.

Due to graphic scenes and mature content, this book is recommended for listeners 18+.

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Colleen Hoover
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7 May 2019
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Listening Length	8 hours and 10 minutes
Author	Colleen Hoover
Narrator	Vanessa Johansson, Amy Landon
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com.au Release Date	07 May 2019
Publisher	Audible Studios
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B07Q8B5QQT
Best Sellers Rank	168 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 1 in Romantic Suspense (Audible Books & Originals) 12 in Suspense 17 in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Action Fiction (Books)

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This is not for the faint hearted.

Reviewed in Australia on 25 August 2021

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Having heard that Colleen Hoover delivers some very emotional works, when I needed to use the letter V for a book challenge, this one seemed like as good a place as any to start.

Honeslty. I have no words.

In the beggining I was sceptical. Mainly because Colleen used a word that meant an alcoholic beverage to describe someone eyes matching their tie without actually giving the colour. When I read that my hope for her hype plumted.

This isn't a romance, and when I realised it wasn't, my expectation changed.

When that happened, I was able to sink myself in this book. My emotions ran high. There were times I was disgusted in what had happened, there were moments I swooned, and moments I had to put my kindle down. Time when I thought I knew exactly how it would end.

I will neither confirm or deny my suspicions, though I wasn't entirely off the mark. That in itself shows that reading Colleen Hoover was worth it. That this book was worth taking the time for.

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SomebodyThatYouUsedToKnow

Soft core porn mystery written like a teen drama

Reviewed in Australia on 27 February 2022

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TRIGGER WARNING: Child Abuse and the Neurodiverse community (particularly late-diagnosis)
Please research thoroughly before reading

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I yielded to the hype. I heard "pace, thriller, insane twists" and I thought it was true - I wont listen to the masses again.
I am the wrong audience for this book in many ways. Romance is not my bag; I also took at face value the 'thriller and 'mystery' tags and I shouldn't have.
Even removing those personal preferences from my review - this is still 'meh' at best.

The storyline had enough pace but the plot felt seriously underdeveloped and the writing quality was very Y.A except for the scenes where she talks you though a seeming unrelenting amount of bl*wjobs and while I fine with reading about sex when it works in to the story line - I guess i'm self-aware enough to not be turned on by trauma-bond sex.
I didn't realise I was reading the (exposition only) twist because I spent the entire novel waiting for the author to get to the bit where ..... *twist ending* happened.

I guess I was expecting more depth- somewhere, anywhere! Or at least for things to not to be so obvious. To me this is soft core porn, mystery written like a teen drama.
2 stars

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Didn't quite live up to the hype for me...

Reviewed in Australia on 27 August 2020

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3.5* rounded down.
I had expected to be completely blown away by this novel, based on the reviews and comments of others, but found that, for me at least, it didn't quite live up to the hype.
Don't get me wrong, it's a solid thriller featuring an intriguing plot idea, a series of clever literary devices and well-executed misdirection, but I felt there was an over-emphasis on virtual soft-porn (and I'm no wowser!) to the detriment of fully realised and convincing characterisations. My feeling is that, with more emphasis on the latter, this had the potential to be a superlative thriller. Disappointingly for me, it fell a bit short.

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Kellie J

This book will mess with your head in the best possible way!

Reviewed in Australia on 22 January 2020

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This was my first ever Colleen Hoover book and I was told by a friend I simply HAD to read it. So I picked it up and started, and within the very first page, I wondered what that actual farrrrk I had got myself into!

This book messed with my head. It kept me flipping the pages faster than I could read the words! It kept me guessing until the very end and I found the hairs on my arm standing on end beside goosebumps for most of the book. This book is incredible, a book I’ve highly recommend friends read long before I’ve even finished it. A book those friends are WTF’ing just like I was. A book that will go down as one of the best books I’ve EVER read.

5 stars doesn’t do it justice, and nor does this review!

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Bron D

A Thriller with Sex

Reviewed in Australia on 12 September 2021

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Firstly, I've seen this on lists of romance novels... just because there's a sex relationship developed doesn't mean there's a romance. Don't come to this for the romance.

Secondly, I don't see anybody comparing this book to Jane Eyre. While not a faithful retelling, Jane Eyre comes to mind while reading this book.

This book wiĺl leave you asking 'who is sane really?' but it isn't anything to write home about. Fans of Colleen Hoover seem to love this though.

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Part romance, part psychological thriller - wickedly good. Will blow your mind!

Reviewed in Australia on 23 December 2018

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This book was amazing! It marks a departure from Colleen Hoover’s usual genre of an emotional love story. It is unexpectedly part romance, part psychological thriller. Verity Crawford, a successful novelist, has been seriously injured in a car accident but the seriousness of her injuries have been kept secret from the public. Her husband, Jeremy Crawford, insists that struggling author Lowen Ashleigh write the remaining books in a successful series that Verity is unable to complete. Lowen is on the precipice of emotional and financial ruin. Her mother has recently died after a long illness and she has no projects in the pipeline, so this offer is life changing. Lowen visits the Crawford home to begin work on the novels and quickly is drawn into their world which has been more recently marred by tragedy. She discovers a hidden and unfinished autobiography of Verity’s - something never intended to see the light of day. The existence and shocking contents of the manuscript she keeps hidden from Jeremy not wanting to contribute further to his grief and also because she’s developed feelings for Jeremy. She realises that if ever Jeremy did read Verity’s autobiography there would be no way that he would ever be able to love her...

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Paige

4.5 stars

Reviewed in Australia on 21 July 2021

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Holy… Wow. I didn’t read the blurb, didn’t read the trigger warnings (I firmly believe you should). I went into this head down not knowing what to expect and my mind is absolutely blown. I cried fat tears through most of it, it really upset me, but it was so well written that I loved it. I gripped onto every page I turned and demolished this book in mere hours. This book is a work of art, I should have expected it, being from this amazing author but I just, wow.

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Candygirl

Barely two stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 July 2020

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I don’t know where to start with this one.it got so many rave reviews from, mainly US, readers and book clubs, I thought I’d try it myself. I’ve never read a Colleen Hoover novel so had no preconceptions but I didn’t think it was either well written or interesting. The novel is supposed to be creepy and suspenseful but it’s just a bit silly. I don’t want to give any spoilers but there were just so many parts of this novel that were completely unbelievable. When was the last time you heard someone say they ate a letter they wanted to dispose of? Seriously?

I hate romance novels as they don’t really reflect real life - they are far too convenient - woman meets handsome man, they fall in love and it’s all perfect - and they really undermine the idea that women can live happy fulfilled lives without being in a relationship at all times. Anyway, I hate romance and this is really just a romance with a slightly odd twist to it.

I’m glad it s a short book as it meant I didn’t waste more than a day on it and it’s safe to say I won’t be reading any more “CoHo” books ever again!

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aquariusismymood

I want my 2 hours back

Reviewed in the United States on 30 May 2021

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I think I got a different copy of this book from the one the raving reviewers got. The plot was full of holes, there was no character development, and the twist was completely predictable. I saw it coming at chapter 2. It was obvious the author doesn't write thrillers/mysteries and that the story would go with a cliché twist. A twist that was used in the most basic way. I'm okay with some suspension of belief, but this book requires all logic and reason to be set on fire and thrown into a black hole. The most notable is that all doctors/nurses and police are 150% inept at their jobs. Seriously, they are complete trash based on what the reader is expected to believe happens in this book. The only positive is that I read it through a KU free trial.

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Alyssia Cooke

If it wasn't for the obsession with sex this would be five stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 November 2019

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Unnerved doesn't begin to sum up how I feel having finished this book. Also kind of needing a shower... although less so that some I have read - *cough* Gone Girl *cough*. This is one of those books that makes you doubt yourself and whether what you think you know is actually true. I found the atmosphere to be realistically creepy and the situation really felt for Lowen as she becomes steadily more paranoid, never quite sure that it isn't her mind playing tricks on her. The multi-faceted lies and manipulations are excellently shaped and laid out.

I'm not going to say that I enjoyed the diary excerpts; they are deeply, deeply disturbing. However, they felt real and whilst I certainly couldn't empathise with the person behind them, they are very good at forcing you to see through her eyes at the world. It is frightening at points and it is easy to get sucked into the fear and the disgust that Lowen is feeling. Characterisations are generally quite well done, although the gratuitous and constant sex became tedious rather quickly. I felt like I was getting to know all of the characters, with all their faults and whilst I wouldn't want to go on holiday with any of them, they definitely felt real. Each and every one of these characters is flawed and each and every one feels utterly real.

It is also a realistic glimpse at the very nature of grief and loss without ever becoming preachy, with all three adult characters grieving for someone close to them in very different ways. The concept of grieving for someone who you don't particularly like all that much is also woven into the narrative quite well, and how that gives a different but no less raw experience. I did however think more could have been done with the child; at times he seemed to be there just for the cuteness factor and his reactions and interpretations of what is going on could have been utilised to a far greater extent. I liked the kid, but that's all that I can say about him. He's in therapy, then he's not in therapy, he doesn't mention the girls and he loves his mother and he's back in therapy. There's no emotional pull with him though, it's all surface platitudes.

A full star gets knocked off however due to the constant use of sex as a blunt implement throughout this novel. It's almost every other page and it got really boring. If it's not Verity being screwed by Jeremy in her diary, it's Lowen thinking about screwing Jeremy or actually screwing Jeremy. I'm no prude and I have no issue with sexual content in books, but the over-reliance on it here really did work against it. I could see that it was part of how Hoover is building Verity's character, but it did very little for me. It's a pity because otherwise I flew through this dark and nasty book at a rate of knots, desperate to find out just what was going on and just as confused and horrified as Lowen.

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Sorry...and a spoiler

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 December 2019

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I wanted to be surprised by all the reviews on this book. Verity means truth.
Here comes the spoiler....
Crew is plain old creepy but always kept in the background. What would have been a nail bitten ending was if he tipped the boat. If instead of his butter knife incident, he could have blamed it on the visitor.
But no. This book is as "shocking" as the lables on orange juice are "vegetarian".
At least here in the UK they feel the need to let buyers know that in this bottle of 100% organically squeezed oranges...that there is NOT a single drop of blood. That's nice of them, if I were a moron.
Not to be so cruel to just one nation... we live in a time when the professionals feel it is necessary to print out instructions on a box of Pop-Tarts!
If you enjoy reading books, but are ironically looking up on Google the vegetarianess of a box of fruit juice- then this book might just be your cuppa!

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sarahe32

Blown away

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 December 2018

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I am a massive Colleen Hoover fan and when I heard she had written something completely different I was sceptical that she could pull it off but I take my thought back as this woman has written something that I could never imagine and it’s pure genius. I have never read a book that makes we wake up in the middle of the night to check the end of my bed but Colleen has achieved this. I read this book with anxiety, fear and pure horror at what I was reading... and when you think you have worked out the plot BAM a bend in the road appears. I have not been able to put this book down, I will say this with pure confidence this is the best book I have read if 2018! Well done Colleen hats off to you you took a gamble and it paid off... if you want a book like nothing you have read before this is the one!!!

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