You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen – 368 pages
ARC from Netgalley and St. Martin’s Press for an honest review.
Book Blurb:
You probably know someone like Shay Miller. She wants to find love, but it eludes her. She wants to be fulfilled, but her job is a dead end. She wants to belong, but her life is so isolated.
You probably don’t know anyone like the Moore sisters. They have an unbreakable circle of friends. They live the most glamorous life. They always get what they desire. Shay thinks she wants their life.
But what they really want is hers.
My Review: 3.5 stars – Guest Review
Similar to other novels written by this writing duo, You Are Not Alone is a thriller with a unique plot. As always, I got a lot of enjoyment out of their books and was thrilled to have not guessed the ending! With so many thrillers to be read, it seems hard to create a new plausible twisted ending.
This book had a large cast of characters that were hard to keep track of. Multiple characters had their own POV chapters (ranging from childhood to present time) and I didn’t particularly love or relate to some of the supporting characters. When a book has a lot of characters and also has many puzzle pieces are a lot also a lot of pieces to the mystery distracts from the flow of reading.
Although I loved the apparent vigilante of these women, (girl power!), I couldn’t get behind the believability of it. The women were always so many steps ahead and for seemingly normal women, they had this no holds barred ability to get what they wanted.
Often times coincidences drive the story forward and they did in this book as well. I was troubled, however, by how many there were. I enjoyed following in Shay’s steps. I felt as if I was willing her to move along and figure things out. She wanted so badly to be liked and to belong that her naivety was blaringly painful at times. That being said, she reacted how a normal person would (i.e. me); she wasn’t some super sleuth who had all the answers. She worked through situations how an ordinary person would.
This is a quick read and leaves you thinking about your friends and what you may not know about them. Reviewed by Guest Fairy Carly.
Quotes I liked:
Some people contend there are two primal fears. The first and most basic is the end of our existence. The second is isolation; we all have a deep need to belong to something greater than ourselves.”
“There’s also a stat I’ve thought about a lot lately: that the average person will walk past sixteen killers in the person’s lifetime.
I watch as a woman moves down the subway aisle.
I keep staring at her as she passes my seat. I wonder if she will walk past fifteen others during her lifetime.”
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