This one was kind of long and drawn out. Wasn't a i can't put down book, i had a hard time picking this one up. Was a pretty good read, 3.5 points from me.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for a copy of this book in exchange for a review. Poppy is mourning the loss of her husband who was murdered one morning on his run and whose killer is still unknown. As Poppy is dealing with her grief she starts to have nightmares or possibly even memories of the days right after her husband’s murder. As she struggles to move on weird things start to happen to Poppy and she works to figure out what is going on and who killed her husband. When reading this there were times that I felt confused on what was happening and it was hard to tell if what was happening was currently taking place, in the past, a dream, or even a memory. However, this was a fun and quick read and I look forward to reading the other books by this author.

When Poppy's husband is found beaten to death in the park, her life begins to fall apart. She can't seem to move on and when she disappears for a few days and turns up when no memory of what happened or where she had been, her dreams start to fill her waking hours making it hard to for her to distinguish fact from fiction. Determined to find out the answers to her questions she decides to investigate and hope that she can find something out to explain all her questions.
The story, although confusing at times, is a page turning quest to understand her situation. No one around her seems to be telling her the truth, which makes it hard to determine who to trust.

Thank you for the opportunity to preview Under my Skin by Lisa Unger. I am a big fan of Unger's novels. She does not write your typical female books - they are filled with suspense, romance, and drama.
Under My Skin is about a woman, Poppy, who has lost her husband to a murder that is unsolved. She is a wreck - she takes pills, she blacks out, she drinks too much, and she is in pain.
Poppy has a best friend to lean on - Layla. Layla is her childhood friend who is married to a successful man, Mac, and has two great kids. Layla looks after Poppy, maybe too much, but she loves her and tries to get Poppy to recover and move on with her life.
But Poppy starts to believe she is being followed by a man in a hoody, but no one believes her. Poppy has strange nightmares and they become quite real, but no one really believes her. Not even the policeman who is working the case.
Is Poppy just imagining what is going on or is there someone out there who wants to silence her - just like they did to her husband.
Good Book, lots of detail - more than I usually like.

Thanks to netgalley for providing this book in exchange for an honest review.

I read this book in a day and a half. I couldn't put it down. It was one of the best books I have read this year. I have been sort of a Lisa Unger fan for years. I read Beautiful Lies when it came out and it is still probably one of my favorite books. Following that, there were some hits and misses and some books I skipped because they seemed to delve into supernatural territory. But, I am so glad I decided to read this one.

The quick synopsis is Poppy's husband was murdered a year ago. She is in a sleeping pill and alcohol haze and can't remember the events that occurred just following her husband's funeral. She drifts between dreams and flashbacks and reality not really knowing what is real and what isn't. I can see where some people found the flashbacks to be confusing, but I really didn't have a problem with them because even if we didn't know what was real, they progressed the story. Overall, I found this book to be very suspenseful. I really didn't have a clue what was behind Jack's murder and I the fact that I so badly wanted to finish the book and find out is a credit to the author for her ability to build the story and the suspense. The ending was one I didn't see coming and I felt satisfied with the conclusion, but now I am sad it is over, because I liked it so much.

Thank you so much for this ARC!

Firs, let me start by saying I am a HUGE Lisa Unger fan and usually I am obsessed with her books. I had very high expectations for Under My Skin. Unfortunately, I just don't think this is her best work.

Great story line and interesting characters but at times it was just confusing and difficult to get through. Normally I wouldn't put her books down, but this was tough. However! The last 30% of the book was great and totally worth the wait.

Still a forever Unger fan though!

Is she dreaming, is it a memory, or is it really happening? These questions are at the forefront of the reader's mind throughout the novel Under My Skin. Poppy is not the most sympathetic character as she mixes multiple medications and alcohol to get through the pain of the murder of her husband Jack - a murder she wonders if she could have prevented if she had forced herself to go on the early-morning run with him that morning even though she was sick. I will be honest and say that unreliable narrators are not my favorite and will sometimes make me put a book down and not pick it back up, but the pacing of the book was quick, and the pacing coupled with the varied twists did push me through to finish the novel in one evening.

There are a couple of brief shout-outs to The Hollows for Unger fans.

I received an ARC from NetGalley and the publisher Harlequin/Hanover Square Press in exchange for an honest review.

Poppy’s life draws you in like a vortex! Even though, in retrospect, some aspects of the story stretch into the implausible. However, it is an exciting ride which kept me up into the early morning hours more than once. Best of all, the twists and turns make it very difficult to figure out “whodunit”. When the bad guy is finally revealed, it is a satisfactory - well, I will leave it there so no spoiler here! Great summer read.

What a ride! Kept me guessing the entire way through. Is she crazy, is she sane, is she delusional from grief and self medicating? Everyone in her life wants to help her through her grief after losing her husband in a senseless tragedy, or do they? I couldn’t put it down. It’s another page turner from a great author. Thanks to Net Galley and Lisa Unger and her publisher for letting me read and review this fantastic thriller. I’m definitely going back for more from this author.

Lisa Unger is one of my favorite authors, and this is definitely one of my favorite of her most recent novels. The narrator, Poppy, lost her husband Jack to a brutal unsolved murder as he was running in the early morning hours. It's a year later, and Poppy is still struggling with Jack's absence. She's highly medicated (a lot of it self-medicated, mixed with alcohol), and she's having terrifying and confusing dreams, and experiencing blackouts. All of this combines to make her quite the unreliable narrator--throughout you're never quite sure whether to believe her or not.

I thought that the characters were well developed and believably flawed. Unger slowly reveals more information about each character, lending more insight as you go, and provides a satisfying conclusion to the tale. Highly recommended.

Loved this book, even when I was not reading it I kept thinking about it and couldn’t wait to pick it up again and I finished it in a day. Would definitely recommend to others and can’t wait to read other titles from this author.

Highly recommend!!

Thank you for this early copy!

I would recommend this to anyone who loves a well-written thriller.

Didn't care for this book. It was slow moving and not suspenseful. Plowed through it like a mandatory reading in school.

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I love Lisa Unger novels, and this one did not disappoint . I stayed up reading it all night long. Lisa has become one of my favorites.

“From New York Times bestselling author and master of suspense Lisa Unger comes an addictive psychological thriller about a woman on the hunt for her husband’s killer”

“Under the Skin” by Lisa Unger is a novel of psychological suspense about a photographer named Poppy Montgomery who is searching for answers of her husband’s seemingly random and senseless murder.

I had a hard time putting this book down and enjoyed the unexpected twists and turns. The book did lag in parts and could have skipped the “romance” angle, but overall, it was a good mystery/thriller.
Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for this Advanced Reader Copy.
3.5/5

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for allowing me to read this novel before its release. Poppy is having lots of problems after her husband’s death. Jack was brutally beaten and murdered while out on his morning run. A good start for a thriller for sure. But I found this book so difficult to follow. I had no idea when Poppy was in the present or fully engaged in the backstory. The writing is a blend of poetry, imagination and little reality. It does finally take off the last 50 pages and becomes interesting. Normally Lisa Unger is one of my favorite authors and does thrillers well. Hardly anything about this book was thrilling.

I am a big Lisa Unger fan....I’ve read all of her books, loved them, so I was really excited to receive a copy of her latest book from Netgalley!
This is the first of her books that I didn’t love. I found it to be very slow and confusing at times!
I didn’t grip me right from the first chapter, like every one of her previous books did.
I will still look forward to her next work, but unfortunately this book fell really flat for me.

Wow what a great read! This is not your beach read it is so much more. Lisa Unger knows how to weave a tale to keep you on the edge of your seat. Poppy's husband Jack has been murdered. The police have no leads on this senseless act of violence. Floating through days of sleeping pills and anti anxiety pills washed down by alcohol she loses herself in the twilight of reality and unreality. She swears someone is following her and she gives chase never to catch him is she hallucinating? Poppy dissapears for days after the funeral, then she shows up at her best friends doorstep not remembering where she was and how she got back. Her best friend since childhood and her husband have been a rock trying to help Poppy deal with the loss that affected them all. Roller coastering thoughts and strange events makes her fear she is losing her sanity. Visions of clues materialize in her mind that she is driven to follow. . Through a maze of grief she struggles to know who killed Jack. Why, he had no ememies. What happened to her those days following the funeral? Where was she? Is her life in danger as she thinks, She grapples with what if's over and over about that last morning before Jack went for that fateful run. The argument that now can never be forgiven. There is evil out there and she is closing in on finding who and what. The answer could shatter her. You won't forget this book. It'll reach into your life and make you think. A must read if you appreciate books with depth, mystery, drama and if you like to guess "who dune it". You won't not until it's revealed. I received a digital copy of the book from the author through NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.

Well this was quite the novel! I was confused but very much enjoyed the dream/reality of this novel. The beginning was a bit slow for me as we are dealing with fresh and raw emotions of Poppy losing her husband. But once it started to get more into trying to solve the murder it got better. I enjoyed the twists of the novel and through me for a loop on who the murderer was. I'm definitely going to share this novel in my Facebook book club I know lots of readers that will enjoy the ride of this novel.