You Can Never Tell

⭐⭐

This book could have been SO much more. There were plenty of opportunities for the author to throw in a twist or two. It's why I kept reading. I was waiting for something, a twist, anything, because surely the people telegraphed as the baddies literally RIGHT FROM THE START couldn't possibly be the actual baddies. Alas, there was no twist or big surprise. There was literally nothing “taut and complex” about this book. Just a whiney heroine with awful taste in friends, and a bunch of flat side characters. Speaking of which...did Sandy come back from the dead? In the final chapter, the heroine mentions her shooting the “new girl” a dirty look.

This was a fast paced domestic thriller that attacked pretty and perfect suburbia. A pretty normal couple Kacy and Micheal start the book with their relocation to Texas after a toxic friendship with a co worker named Aimee leaves Kacy unemployed and blacklisted from her musuem connections. She then strikes up a nice new friendship with the lady next door Lena and her husband. But the couples lives are far from perfect in their new perfect neighbourhood. They get drawn into some more toxic and dark relationships with dire consequences for them both.

A great thriller with twists and turns and a compelling plot line. It only gets 3 stars however as I found the plot too obviously predictable from the very beginning and Kacys naïveté of the situation got annoying after a while. But loved the splicing of the true crime podcasts sections in here. It made for a great and fun and quick read. Would recommend to thriller fans.

Thanks to Crooked Lane Books, the author Sarah Warburton and Netgalley for a review copy in exchange for an honest review.