Lisa Unger has done it again! I love the way she draws you in with the details, the characters, and keeps you guessing. This was a great read and when your finished you’re left thinking about the characters and reexamining the clues you missed along the way. She also weaved in The Hollows and Jones Cooper for her past readers! Ahhh.....now I’m anxiously awaiting the next book.

At first I was going to give this book maybe 2 stars. The first half of the book was a big mess where you didn't know what was a hallucination, a dream or real life that I almost stopped reading..I am glad I finished this book because it did all come together in the end... Not one of this author's best books but not the worst I have ever read.

This suspense thriller grabbed me right from the start. I read it in one day. The author did a great job of jumping us from current time, to the past and through reality and dream. The flow made it so I felt like I could understand the confusion and trauma Poppy was going through. I highly recommend this one!

I did not finish this book. It was just not for me personally. I won’t do a full review as I didn’t finish the whole book.

Lisa Unger at the top of her game! Wow! Once again, a Unger book i read in one sitting. Poppy is a brilliantly written protagonist that I pulled for on every page. An ending that I did NOT see coming.

I was given an advanced copy of this title in exchange for an honest review. This book was so very well written. It captivated me the entire time!

In Lisa Unger's latest novel <i>Under My Skin</i> our main character, Poppy's husband was brutally murdered a year ago, and she is trying to finally bring the killer to justice. This is complicated by the fact that for Poppy, the line between dreams and waking, reality and fantasy, are blurring and in some cases disappearing completely. She is an unreliable narrator, to say the least.

Though Unger is usually an exceptional storyteller, something about this novel fell flat. The story seemed a little too easy, and it was pretty clear, not too far into the novel, who the real murderer would be which left me a bit disappointed in the end.

That being said, it was still nice quick page-turning read, and at no time was I bored. I would recommend this book to folks who like their thrillers with a side of "is-this-real-or-a-dream?" type narrative.

totally mixed feelings.

I tore into this book and was sailing right along...Then it just seemed to go on for a bit too long.

Poppy is trying to recover from the brutal murder of her husband Jack. After his funeral, she disappeared for a couple of days and she has no recollection of those days. Since then she has become addicted to various meds, mostly sleeping pills. She has vivid dreams that she writes in a book when she wakes so she knows what was a dream and what is real. Her best friend Layla and her husband Mac have been by her side trying to help her through this time. She feels like she is being followed by a man in a hood. No one else knows if this is real or not. She tries dating, Layla signed her up but she's not ready. She meets Noah who helps her get off the pills and start to remember the lost days.
There is a lot of supernatural goings on which sort of lost me. She talks to jack, her former neighbor trying to figure out what is going on. She has a cop on her side trying to help her along.

When the book ended it was just wham, this is what is happening and now it's over. Maybe I was too dense (could be) to pick up on the clues but the ending surprised me. I didn't see it.

I don’t recall reading much of Lisa Unger’s work, but I am somewhat of a sucker for the plucky heroine in danger genre, so I was happy to get a copy of Under My Skin from Harlequin-Hanover Square Press and NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.

I did read this book pretty much in one day, so I was able to keep on track in terms of the plot line, but I wonder if I had been reading a bit at a time over a span of several days (or more) if I might have gotten lost in the story.

The plucky heroine is Poppy, whose beloved husband Jack was murdered while on an early morning run, which Poppy elected to sleep through. The event was so traumatic for her that she had a breakdown and doesn’t remember anything about a stretch of time. She only knows she was found by her uber-wealthy friend Layla and was hospitalized.

The story includes both the reality of Poppy’s life (about a year after the breakdown as she tries to regain the missing time) and her dreams/memories/imagination. Poppy is desperate to get it together: when she looks in the mirror she sees “…a tired, wrung-out version of the person she used to be.”

Poppy and Jack were both photographers who had successfully traveled the world before they settled down and started an agency (also successful), but it’s a bit unclear whether they both were completely happy. And Poppy knows that “Everyone wants you to think their relationship is perfect. But nothing’s perfect, no matter what they post on Facebook.” And Poppy’s view of the world is that of a photographer: “Our faces, our body language, the changing light of a room, every second is different than the one before or after The photographer chooses one among the infinite. It’s both a lie, a trick of light, and an irrefutable truth.”

I loved the writing and the use of language. I am not good at solving the mystery in a book – generally, I get an “aha!” at the end rather than figuring it out, so it isn’t a surprise that I didn’t figure this one out—also, there were several red herrings and plot twists which were good. Personally, I viewed Poppy’s uncertainty about the reliability of her memories/hallucinations as a normal result of the tons of pills she was washing down with alcohol, and thought she was an addict who needed to get straight if she really wanted to get it together.

I had some mixed feelings about the end, but can’t see how another resolution might have worked. I liked it, and it entertained me and made me feel and think, which all adds up to four stars.

A truly fantastic standalone book by Lisa Unger. I just love her writing style and this one didn't disappoint. It was so intriguing not knowing weather Poppy's thoughts were memories or dreams. I will definitely be recommending this one! Great read. Thanks for the advanced copy.

I did not care for this book. I have read other books by this author, but this one was just too depressing.

After her husband is laid to rest Poppy Lang completely checks out of her life, she is confused and lost, and unsure how to go one without him, so she disappears for a couple of days. And what she does during those two days is a complete mystery to her, every time she thinks about those days now, she draws a complete blank as to where she went or what she did. The days that follow are rough, she doesn't have the energy most days to get out of bed and be productive, so she turns to therapy, and winds up doing a stint in a psychiatric facility. After spending roughly a year there she begins to return to the land of the living, finding the courage to return home, and even going back to work at the agency her and her husband created. But between her husband's unsolved death still plaguing her and her darn subconscious stirring up memories she begins to feel herself being sucked back in to a dangerous place, one that give her answers she not prepared for...

Under My Skin is a can't miss read! With it's mind twisting, thrilling, and intense story line it's sure to keep readers on the edge of their seats, and guessing until the last page is turned!! I really enjoyed this one, it kept me engaged and flying through the pages until the wee hours of the morning!! Highly recommend!!

I requested an advanced copy of this title from NetGalley, and voluntarily read and reviewed.

Poppy’s husband was murdered when he was out jogging. He had just his cell phone and $5 on him. In the year since he was killed with his murder still not solved, Poppy’s weird dreams are becoming more vivid and more real. She begins to wonder what is real and what is a dream.
If she can solve what happened will she be able to handle it?

I received a free e-copy of Under My Skin by Lisa Unger from Net Galley for my review.

An exciting and twisty psychological thriller that will keep you reading and wanting more.

Fantastic. Very suspensful. Another great read by Lisa Unger. I love this author and her style of writing. I will definitely recommend this book and this author

Thanks Netgalley for a copy to read and review.

What an amazing book. I loved it. Intense Hypnagogia anyone? Lucid dreams while awake. I shuddered through most of this book, what a tragedy that happens to poor Poppy. Her husband is killed one morning while out for a run, after the funeral Poppy has an episode where she is gone for days and doesn't remember anything from that time. My second book this week with such an intense tragedy .....so bear with me. My heart poured out for poor Poppy. Can we just say train wreck? I mean you can see everything coming but to be inside this girls head while she figures it out is just horrifying and amazing at the same time. The author does such a good job putting you behind this girls eyes as she fights to determine what is real and just what is a dream. I was amazed at the writing. I wanted to reach out and strangle her friend Layla at some point when she helped her get more pills, when all she needed was clarity...not more sleep. I loved it. Five huge entertainment stars.

I just could NOT get into this one... Poppy is a strange narrator and the all-over-the-place/head space/time narrative was difficult to maneuver through and kept losing me. It would have helped to have some type of clue/cue as to what was what. I appreciate that this was part of the point and the mood that the author was going for, but I found it less intriguing and mysterious than just plain confusing.

Poppy Lang’s life is in disarray two days after her husband’s funeral. She has a nervous breakdown and can’t recall where she was or what she was doing after Jack was laid to rest. These unaccounted hours are what this story is centered around.

This story picks up a year after Jack’s death. Poppy has completed a short stint in a psychiatric facility, has returned to the agency she and Jack created, and she is finally wading out of a deep mental swamp of despair. But Jack’s unsolved murder leaves Poppy in an emotional limbo and she’s haunted by her memories of him.

A year—for most people it’s a heartbeat, days rushing into weeks into months that pass in a blur. For the grieving, it’s an eternity, life aborted, days dark and slogging.

Poppy acknowledges that her marriage wasn’t perfect and that she was always in love with her husband.

A marriage is a mosaic, comprised of pieces—some broken and jagged, some shiny, some dull, some golden. The pieces don’t matter as much as the whole picture of your life together.

Along the way, Poppy’s friends and even her subconscious seem to hint that her repressed memories are a kindness, that there’s only agony laced with the truth of what she can’t remember.

“Poppy,” Jack says. He stands, wearing his running clothes that are smeared with mud and blood. The side of his head is mashed, unnatural. “Don’t do this. Keep looking for answers and you’re going to find things you won’t like. Take the advice everyone keeps giving you and let me go. I’m gone. Long gone.”

This book is divided into two parts. The first forty percent was a bit lackluster and it took extra effort to keep reading on. Part one was repetitive as Poppy drifted from one flashback to another and had difficulty distinguishing reality from hallucinations and nightmares.

Issues?
All of the secrecy, ominous bits, and obvious withholding of information from the fragile Poppy should’ve spurred me on to read this story more quickly. Oddly enough, this book was too easy to put down and didn’t grip me as strongly. Also, every time Poppy thought she was inching closer to truths about her old life with Jack, she’d self sabotage and derail by pill popping. Part of her wanted her memories back. The other part of her was very content to live in the peaceful woods of denial.

▣ The writing was solid but this story didn’t rock me, shake me, or deliver the thrill I was after. This story is perfect for the reader looking for a psychological suspense novel with a character-driven approach and featuring an unreliable narrator. For me, finding out the why behind Jack’s death was anticlimactic.

Can you tell dreams from reality? Poppy is still faced with unanswered questions a year after her husband was murdered. Was her husband the man she thought he was or was her marriage lined with deceit? What happened those days after the funeral that she cannot remember and who is the man in the hooded sweatshirt? As she tries to put the puzzle together will she discover the truth?

I quite enjoyed this book! Every time I had to put it down I couldn’t wait until I had the time to pick it up again. I didn’t find this book to be predictable at all, I thought I had it figured out a few times but was wrong every time! This book kept me on my toes and my brain stayed engaged trying to figure out dream vs reality. This is the first book I have read of Lisa Ungers, and I believe I’ll be grabbing some of her others soon.

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When two free spirits marry and settle down into a traditional lifestyle there are certain to be some bumps in the road. Poppy and Jack have a successful ad agency and have settled into a good, if not exciting life. Everything seems normal until Jack is brutally murdered on his morning run. Then Poppy begins to question all her memories and direct hidden meanings in everything. The question is how well do you really know anyone. The book has a good pace and some dark twists that add to the suspense. You are kept on edge until the very end.