Interesting story of a young English woman struggling with her mundane life. She is definitely not a likable character but by the end of the story I do sympathize with her just a bit. Overall this is definitely not what I expected! Not a "thriller" in the typical sense but still intriguing!

Thanks to NetGalley and publishers for a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review!

After reading this, you will never get on a tube train in rush hour without wondering what's going on in the corner.

Having lived in London, the ease with which I believed this could go on was disconcerting and on the whole, I enjoyed the ride...

The protagonist is deeply unlikeable and unsympathetic, especially at the beginning, which is refreshing and the author has brought her struggles with her psychological well-being brilliantly to life. You feel so frustrated with her, for much of the book, in fact.

But they aren't thrown at the reader constantly or in a bid for sympathy, again refreshing. The character has lived as she is for many years so details of her past and how she lives now are thrown in casually and the people around her are either oblivious or sadly accustomed to it all.

There were a few plot points I didn't think about too closely and some questions which weren't tied up satisfactorily, however, my main criticism would have to be Oliver.
He was this seemingly perfect shadow in the story and I didn't really ever get a sense of him as human. He came across as a bit of a superhero (to which many of you will shout 'what's wrong with that?') and I think this did the story a disservice.

Pacy writing and the easy-to-read style made it fly along and an unusual 'heroine' and crowded public transport as a good thing for once, make this one to pick up on holiday (or maybe on your commute home).

Tubing is a little bit of a different read for me, I normally err away from anything remotely sexual. But there was something about the synopsis that really appealed to me.

The story felt like a book of two halves seamlessly put together. The first half was rather racy, not for anyone who may be prudish when it comes to intimacy or if any form of erotica isn’t your cup of tea. But then after a personal tragedy for Polly, the story takes a dark turn as her life begins to unravel and the psychological thriller element shines through.

I have to say I didn’t particularly like any of the characters in the story. But in a strange kind of way, that kept me reading. Would I come to like these characters or would I see their lives end in shreds?

For me Tubing is a fast paced thriller with sauciness thrown into the mix. The explicit narrative is written in a way that it’s not out of place. The story centres around sexual encounters so it’s needless to say they are kind of required to set the scene. I’d like to think that the dark world of #tubing doesn’t exist but who’s to say what happens on that cramped carriage in rush hour between Holburn and Oxford Circus.

This is an impressive debut! K.A. McMeagney has written a rather compelling read and I really can’t wait to see what she does for her follow up novel!

This book reminded me a bit of one of the favorite thrillers "Killing me Softly" by Nicci French.

Polly doesn't seem to be having a great night out with her friend. She takes the last tube to head home. There she makes eye contact with a beautiful stranger and shares an intense, sexual moment with this man right there on the tube. Without knowing his name or anything about him so, it peeked my interest.

After asking around at work, Polly discovers a hook up called "Tubing." it's arranged on Twitter and people meet up and share a sexual moment with a total stranger in the tube. Although I am not from London, I had been there several times and rode the tube many times. It made me wonder if "Tubing" is real and if those acts were happening around me.

I was engrossed in the story and plot. Throughout 60% of the book, the thriller element kicks in.

I found Polly hard to like nor sympathize with. She keeps making bad decisions after bad decisions. She has an eating disorder, hardly does anything at work, and treats her boyfriend like crap. As aspiring thriller writer myself, I understood where this was coming from, the author focused on the complicity of the character.

Overall I liked the originality of the story. I would like to thank Net Galley, the publishers and the author for a copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.

Wasn't sure what to expect based on the title, but I thoroughly enjoyed this book. A roller coaster of emotions, lust, fear, and despair feature highly! Great read!

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Polly is a 28-year-old who is stuck in a "perfect" relationship with the "perfect" guy and is quite frankly bored with her life. She needs a little excitement. When she hears about a new phenomenon called Tubing in which strangers "hook up" on the tube in large crowds of people without anyone seeing, Polly's interest peaks. Then, it happens to her. Polly finds herself obsessed with the man who she first encounters and wants to hook up with him again. She doesn't realize that even though the encounters are scheduled, it doesn't mean you'll get the same partner. Polly becomes entranced in the world of tubing and is completely sucked in. I requested this book as an ARC because I really wanted to see where the author would go with this storyline. McKeagney did an amazing job of describing each character and creating a flow within the storyline that you just don't see with other books.I thought the voyeurism would be creepy but instead I was immediately drawn in to the story and wanted to see what Polly would do next. Complete with the requisite twists and turns at the end, Tubing was like a crazy car ride with your hands up and the top down! Fantastic!

Thank you to Netgalley, K.A. McKeagney, and RedDoor Publishing for my ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This book was very interesting. Started out slow but then picked up with a surprise ending. I was very shocked at the ending and had a hard time putting it down. I read this book in 6 hrs. Great story.

A very random book, nearly stopped reading it as it seemed a little too much of the erotica for me but then the story itself was very clever and well done with plenty of things to keep you thinking.

I thought that the synopsis of this book sounded great and was really looking forward to reading it. Sadly, it did not live up to my expectations as the first 70% or so read as an erotic novel rather than any sort of thriller, and not until the last third did the thriller start. I admit, by then I did not have much enthusiasm for the book, but I continued to give the book a chance and although this part was much better than the beginning, it did not do enough to win me over.
Polly is a very disturbed young woman (we find out the reasons for this throughout the course of the book) but this makes her an unlikeable character (and finding out the reasons for her troubles did not make her any more likeable). As Polly is the main protagonist, it is impossible to avoid her.
In my view the book would have been better to be categorised as an erotic novel and spiced up a bit more, as at the moment it falls much too short to be called a thriller.
Thanks to NetGalley for an advanced Kindle copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Thanks Netgalley for a copy to read and review whilst giving my honest opinion.

Polly has drinks late one night with her boyfriends sister, and after taking the train home a stranger gives her a rocking orgasm on a crowded train. Polly is a anorexic woman with a boring boyfriend in a relationship rut. This taste of excitement makes her addicted to finding that man on the train. She later finds a website and link to tubing, which is basically all kinds of hooking up on a train.

My first taste of this book was honestly boring. You can clearly see Polly is unwell, given the fact she is always puking. This is clearly a girl that needs mental help. She lost all interest in everything but what few moments of adrenaline could give her on a train. Lost interest in her job, eating, and the man she had at home. I've not a clue what to think about Oliver and his sisters relationship. It just seemed strange to me since this was Olivers Circle of friends, how did she miss ever meeting them. The ending was also very short, given the lengthy circling in the novel the ending being so short really doesn't make sense. It was a great idea though, the blurb and cover definitely caught my eye. I'm making this a fence book, three stars for entertainment. Even though once I knew this book had puking anorexic and a cheater in it, I still read it through despite it offending me. So warning to anyone thinking that cheating is hard limit.

Thanks Netgalley for allowing me this book. I will post to Amazon and Goodreads after the book comes out.


This book reminded me of Killing Me Softly by Nicci French.

I'm sorry to say this book was absolutely ridiculous. It felt like a complete mess of a plot - and the last 40% was almost an afterthought - as though the author suddenly realized that this book was meant to be a mystery and not simply an erotic romance.

Polly, our protagonist, ends up on the tube after an evening of cocktails with a colleague. While on the tube, a handsome stranger ends up fondling her, while surrounded by a full carriage of passengers. Polly is instantly obsessed with what had happened to her and decides to find out how to make it happen again.

Drawn into the world of "tubing" - where strangers arrange to meet up via twitter, and engage in sexual activities on busy, public tube lines (part of the excitement involves possibly being watched by strangers), Polly not only has encounters with strangers, she also keeps meeting up with "him" - the handsome stranger who initiated her to this world.

Becoming more and more obsessed with her past-time, Polly's relationship with her boyfriend comes under stress, her work suffers and then she witnesses a horrible accident. One that involves her handsome stranger.

And that's when this book goes from being slightly silly to absolutely ridiculous. This book would have been fine as an erotic novel (think Fifty Shades of Grey - only with public sexual intercourse as the focus) - but then a "mystery" was thrown in. In order to connect to two story-lines we get silly connections that pop out of nowhere.

I don't think I was expecting much, other than a little escapism of a read, but this book was a struggle to get through simply because it tried to become more than it needed to be.

Thank you Netgalley and RedDoor Publishing for an advanced copy in return for an honest review.

Not recommended read.

Ominous, risqué, and exceptionally gritty!

Tubing is a spine-chilling, erotic, psychological thriller that highlights just how quickly life can spin out of control when you're driven by sexual desire, engage in destructive behaviour, and play dangerous games.

The prose is sultry and dark. The characters are manipulative, consumed, deceitful, and reckless. And the plot is a fast-paced, incredibly twisty tale that unravels a world filled with power, control, betrayal, obsession, malice, hatred, infidelity, mental illness, seduction, violence, and murder.

Overall, Tubing is a taut, sinister, explicit, shocking tale that kept me absolutely riveted. It's a great debut for McKeagney, and with that kind of imagination, I'm a little scared but extremely excited to read what she comes up with next.

I really wanted to read this because I was hoping for an interesting thriller. Unfortunately I was disappointed. The main character, Polly, is very unlikable. She is happy, more or less, with her handsome and faithful boyfriend but that is all she is. She doesn't seem to have any formal training and is just wiling away her time in a small office where she only pretends to do some work. She and her boyfriend actually live separate lives but she just doesn't seem to care. She tries to avoid serious conversations.
Later in the book we learn that there is more; Polly faced some serious problem in her youth. Sadly this part of her story isn't worked out very well and it ends very abrupt.
I didn't care for the 'erotica' part of this book, mainly because it is not 'erotica' but just some hard porn - which is very boring to read. After the first scene I just skipped over it because it didn't add anything useful to the story.
It is a pity because this book could have been so much more than it is now. Take out the porn, or at least the vivid descriptions, add some more background to Oliver and Polly herself and explain a little bit more about why Polly is such an unsymphatetic character.
I found it only very funny when Polly, sitting in a park after one of her escapades, is commenting on the fact that so many people are sunbathing and showing too much flesh... I can hardly believe this is serious.

Unfortunately, this book did not excite me like some thrillers do, it seemed to be slow and not well developed. I truly expected a very exciting, twisted ride, but it was very slow moving and not well developed. I didn't even finish.

An interesting debut in which I thought the thriller element worked better than the the tubing story. Although the author tried hard to give Polly a character and back story I didn't feel I knew her any better by the end of the book. I would be interested in reading future books by this author however.

Gritty, no frills barred exciting first time novel. Does tubing really exist? don't think i want to know! Dark, seedy, wanton. Think you have the perfect life but then everything goes AWOL, how can a seemingly good girl gone bad get herself out of the mess she has got herself into and the foundations of all she knows and loves not collapse. Definitely a hot summer read five stars for me even though it could do with a little work can't wait to see where her second book takes us hopefully it too will have the shock factor this one has.

I was expecting a gripping story with many twists and turns but a bit disappointed. Don't get me wrong, it was not a bad story but for my taste was a bit slow. This story has great potential to please the right reader but it was not within my liking.

Read this book. It is amazing. My tube journeys will never be the same again! This was totally gripping, from the very first page until the very end. Not gratuitously raunchy, but really gets to the heart of the matter psychologically, and totally unlike anything I have ever read before.

Wow - what a book....and where to start. Tubing is intense to say the least. An uncomfortable read at times, it is full of sex, drama and violence.

After falling into the dark and seedy world to tubing - where people hook up on the London Underground for no strings attached sex (in public no less) - Polly finds herself drawn deeper into the grimy world until she is struggling to find a way out.

Be warned, there is a lot of sex in this book. A LOT. So, if explicit sex scenes make you uncomfortable, then this is not a book for you. Part erotic fiction and part thriller, Tubing moves between the two genres well and has enough of each to keep fans of both interested. However, for Polly, the spiral into tubing is only the latest in a long history of obsessions, and this is where the true heart of McKeagney's story unfolds.

Polly is a disturbed character, set on a course of self-destruct which started long before tubing entered her life. However, in it she finds a new thrill, addition and ultimately a new way to destroy everything she has worked to achieve. Even as her world starts to crumble around her and paranoia sets in, she still can't walk away.

I wouldn't say she's a particularly likable character - in fact I'm not sure anyone in the entire book is - but she is certainly an interesting one. So much so that not only did I want to know how everything came together, but I also wanted to finally see Polly grown a backbone and deal with the situation.

It's hard to say much more without giving away too many spoilers, but let's just say that Tubing will turning page after page to find out how things turn out for Polly. It will also leave you looking at people on the underground a little closer and make you wonder, could this really happen in real life?

I was not a fan of this one. It's supposed to be an erotic thriller, but I didn't find it especially erotic--Polly comes off as so troubled and desperate that her sexual encounters don't read as particularly hot. We're dragged along as she makes bad decision after bad decision and behaves cruelly towards her boyfriend, who is an inexplicably forgiving doormat. By the time the thriller aspect really kicked up, I just didn't care anymore.