I had to think through my feelings about this book overnight. I have been a BIG fan of Preston's since "The Cellar". I even downloaded Wattpad so I could read her online only writings, but I feel like she took a step back with this book. It may be an editing issue and the final copy will be better, so I'm holding out hope.
The premise is great, but I feel like the book is missing a lot of background. I wanted to know more about the narrator's past. She is attempting to recover from this terrible tragedy, but there's little to no backstory. As she and her friends are being stalked, they fixate on one potential suspect, again with little to no backstory. I would love to have seen less detailed descriptions of the stalkings and some flashbacks interspersed between the present day incidents. The end was unexpected, but I felt like back story would have made it feel richer. 2.5 stars.
Thank you to Netgalley for the digital galley in exchange for honest feedback.

This is the second book I've read by Natasha Preston (the first one being "Awake"), and I enjoyed this one every bit as much. It's absolutely chilling, and Natasha Preston's writing is so engaging that I put myself in Layla's shoes far too much, and found it very hard to put the book down - reading it in just a few sittings.

As with almost all suspense novels, the big question is always - does the ending hold up? Far too often it will be too far-fetched or unbelievable and the resolution unsatisfying. I kept wondering how Natasha Preston would wrap this up in a suitable manner, as I could see quite a few options that would indeed fall into those traps.

But fortunately Natasha Preston delivered. Yes, I'd guessed the culprit ahead of time... but only a few pages too soon, which to me is one of the marks of an excellent suspense novel - one where the reader can follow the clues along with the characters in the book and make an educated guess, but not one where the answer is screamed from the pages at a much too early stage.

I greatly enjoyed this, and will definitely be on the look out for more of Natasha Preston's work. The only reason I didn't give this 5 stars straight, is that I thought everything was wrapped up (or not) too quickly in the last few pages, and I'm left wondering if a sequel is in the works.

Almost two years after the tragic death of her parents, Lylah is still trying to pick up the pieces of her life. She is doing well – she is going to university, she lives in a house with five other students whom she considers her closest friends, and she is maybe finally moving on. Valentine’s Day, the day her parents died, is still difficult though, and the days leading up to the anniversary of their accident bring up a lot of anxiety for Lylah.

As Lylah and her friends head out to kick off their campus Valentine’s Day celebrations they find a note on the doorstep; a message pieced together with cut out letters from a magazine. They brush it off as just another prank, typical on campus this time of year. What they don’t realize is that this note is the beginning of a dark and terrifying spiral that their lives are about to take. Someone is watching them, and it isn’t a secret admirer…

You Will Be Mine is very…dramatic. It reads like the script of a cheesy horror movie. Don’t get me wrong, it’s still a fun read, it was just very dramatic. And maybe I read too many murder mysteries, but I saw the ending coming from a mile away. It’s a typical whodunit murder mystery surrounding a group of college housemates who start dropping like flies in the days leading up to the most romantic day of the year – Valentine’s Day.

Woah. I read this in one sitting. I simply could not put it down. I had a suspect in mind, but I was totally off base. The last line has to be the best ending ever!

This started out creepy and got creepier as it went on ... definitely not one to read alone at night! (I discovered this far too late.) The characters were well drawn and engaging, even if I did occasionally want to yell at them, in that great horror tradition, not to go in there. I was glued to the page all the way to the end, desperate to find out what was going to happen to everyone ... or at least to the ones who survived, haha.
Thank you for the chance to read this. I'll be keeping an eye out for more by Natasha in the future.

The writing made this book very hard to read. It wasn't that it was hard to understand it was just very amateur writing. I honestly don't think my teens would stick with it. The book is supposed to be a mystery you are supposed to want to continue to read but it was very hard to want to. Also, fr what I gather the book is set in England and it mentions the Krays. For the teens in the US they will not catch the reference unless they do the research.