I read this book in a day because it’s the kind of book that keeps you wanting to find out what would happen next. The story starts with Polly drinking with a work colleague on the night of her 3 year anniversary with Oliver. She’s upset because there is no celebration of this and to make things worse, she bumps into Charlotte, Oliver’s older sister who he is very close to. On the tube home, something unexpected happens. Polly kisses and becomes intimate with a total stranger on the way home. This throws her into turmoil, especially when he ends their encounter with “Meet me again”.
Polly discovers her encounter is known as “tubing” and she is drawn into it looking for this stranger though as she finds, the excitement is also addictive.
There are lots of twists as we follow her on her encounters – does this stranger actually like her? How far will she go? What about her partner Oliver? Added to this, she is a bulimic which compounds the increasing stress she places herself under due to the secretive nature of what she is doing. I really enjoyed this book, it is the perfect novel for losing yourself for a couple of hours. And who knew the tube could be a setting for more than a commute?! Looking forward to McKeagney’s next novel.

This novel follows Polly who lives with her seemingly perfect boyfriend. However her life is mundane ,& boring & after a drunken encounter with a stranger on the tube she enters the world of tubing. Good story but the rushed ending let's it down.

This isn’t my usual type of book but I enjoyed it. It was very well written. I could connect with the story and the main characters. I found the storyline slightly far fetched but believable.

Many thanks to Netgalley and K. A. McKeagney for the copy of this book. I agreed to give my unbiased opinion voluntarily.

Book 7 of 2018 was this; Tubing by @kmckeagney . I am a sucker for a book based in London Town, so when the email from @netgalley came through for this book I hit the request button and @reddoorbooks kindly granted me a copy for this review. Admittedly I had some doubts when I checked out the books score and reviews on @goodreads
So the first half of this book came across a bit like a low rent 50 shades. The main character is Polly a 28 year old living in London with the perfect surgeon boyfriend. But on the way home from a night out she meets a mystery man on the tube home and this meeting changes her life forever, her first tubing experience. She is a very troubled young lady with quite an obsessive nature which leads to her obsession with Tubing or it could just be the mystery man.
The first half of this book is weak, the story doesn’t really go anywhere and it isn’t really that believable. How Polly still had a job come two thirds the way through the book is beyond me. Polly is just a character that is not at all endearing.
However once you got past this first half the story starts to get better and actually becomes a half decent thriller. There’s a little bit of a twist but I did see it coming from some way out as I am sure most people will.
It was an ok read, if you can put up with the mindless first half then you will be rewarded for the second half. On the positives it’s a short book and not too hard a read, I managed it in 48 hours. The 2nd half of the book saved this from being a real low rating. I give this 2.5/5

After another boring day's work Polly goes out drinking. On the train home she sees a gorgeous looking man. When their eyes lock, the next thing she knows, not only do they start kissing but end up having sex on the packed train. As he walks away without saying a word she wonders what the hell just happened. One thing she does know- she wants to see him again.
In her search for him online she discovers a thing called “tubing”, where people have silent sexual encounters. She's knows its wrong but the excitement of it makes her want to try it again, who knows, she may even find that gorgeous man.
She's heading into a very dangerous game, one that could cost her her life.
It didn't take me long to read this thriller. I wanted to know if she found him, if he turned out to be the man of her dreams or someone she really needed to fear. It gripped me from the first page and I loved the twists in it. I have no hesitation in recommending this book and it gets five stars from me.
Many thanks to RedDoor Publishing for approving my arc via NetGalley. This is my honest and unbiased review

IF Fifty Shades had been set on a train, then I imagine that it would have been this novel. I've not read the trilogy so can't say for sure, but there's some funny business going on her that's for sure! I find the Tube quite uncomfortable as it's so hot and humid - well that's nothing compared to the temperature of this book!. Pity I read on the kindle otherwise I would have been using it as a fan. Just as well I remembered before I gave myself a head injury!
The premise is a good one but I'm scared of googling the hashtags in the novel for fear of them being real! The tubes I've been on, people don't even look each other in the eye or make any kind of conversation so this was an eye opener! haha

Not the kind of book I usually read, but many will love it I'm sure

This book is an interesting cross-genre between erotica and thriller, with the protagonist being a quite hard to like character called Polly.

Polly is definitely a complex individual. She has a lovely boyfriend yet is completely disatisfied by her life, her love life, and basically everything. This seems to evolve from a difficult childhood and an addictive personality, which make this character very flawed yet interesting.

Suddenly Polly finds herself in what she considers an exciting situation. She hooks up with a handsome stranger and generally becomes hooked on the thrill of "tubing" - meeting random strangers at specific locations on the tube for some no strings attached sex.

I felt like this was not a book to take too seriously, but it is definitely one you want to continue reading, if only to see quite how badly it's all going to end for Polly.

Could this be why most passengers stare at the floor and avoid eye contact when they are on the tube? Only kidding, but the last 30% really ramped up the thriller side of things and was quite intense. I have to say this section was my favourite part of the book.

A well written tale. I would definitely read more by this author.

This was an enthralling, mysterious novel that kept you on your toes and made you second guess who you could trust.

'Tubing' concerns 28-year-old Polly and her seemingly perfect boyfriend, who lives and works in London. Her life is turned upside down one night when a chance encounter on the tube introduces her to the seedy world of 'tubing'. I'm not sure if this is a real thing or a concept that has been dreamed up for the book, but it was certainly a little alarming! This involved some seedy, almost erotic scenes in the book, which I kind of wish I had had some warning about. I expected a psychological thriller, not some soft core pornographic scenes.

Polly as the main protagonist is not at all likable - in fact she's quite irritating - and comes with a whole host of personality issues thanks to her unsupportive mother. The author goes into a fair amount of detail about the relationship between Polly and her mother, which I didn't feel particularly augmented the story in any way.

The book started off fairly well but I quickly got bored with the plot, especially with the unwelcome sex scenes. It all got a bit too far-fetched, and the ending was just a little absurd. It definitely gave the impression that Polly had absolutely no idea who she could trust, and you share in that as the reader. But I'm afraid that's where the positives end. Its saving grace is that it is well-written, but otherwise I just would not recommend.

DNF: 56%

I would just like to say that I hate leaving a book unfinished, especially if I'm over halfway through it. I also hate giving a book less than 2 stars because I know the writer put a lot of effort into this and I don't like telling them that their work is crap. However, this book is the exception to both those statements.

This book was just awful. The main character, Polly, is just terrible; there is nothing redeeming about her. And the plot... when I first read the plot summary, I thought it would be a psychological thriller because that's how it's described. Instead, I found it to be more psychologically damaging than anything else. The whole having sex with strangers was twisted enough idea for the author to work with but then McKeagney apparently felt it was necessary to throw in an eating disorder that stems from a mother who was jealous of her daughters relationship with her husband. And by jealous, I mean that the mom thought her daughter, Polly, was having sex with her husband a.k.a. Polly's dad. I understand that Polly needed to have some underlying issue that would help validate why she felt the need to sleep with strangers but this was not the route to go.

I wouldn't even say this book was dark. I can only think to describe this as a total hot mess. There are no likeable characters, the story line isn't interesting, and the writing style feels overall weak.

A great thriller with a subject that I've not heard called Tubing. It had me gripped from the beginning.
Recommended read.

A interesting premise and a good thriller. I think it was the author's intent, but I found myself disliking the characters.

A highly original thriller featuring the idea of "Tubing" - the practice of "hooking up" with complete strangers travelling on the London underground. I am not sure if this is a real thing or not but the idea would certainly make for a more interesting commute than usual!
Our main character is Polly who is in a somewhat unfulfilling relationship with surgeon boyfriend Oliver. They live together and seem to be in a relationship-rut which when put together with Polly's distinctly dead-end and uninspiring office job means Polly is ready for a bit of excitement in her life. She gets more than she bargained for during a busy tube journey home one evening when a devastatingly handsome stranger makes sexual advances towards her which she succumbs to. Before long Polly is hooked and gets drawn further and further into the underground world of Tubing with disastrous consequences. The character of Polly irritated me at times as she lurched from one bad decision to another but the author gives some nice background which perhaps goes some way to explaining Polly's mindset and behaviour.
A very good read with plenty twists and turns but a slightly abrupt conclusion.
Thanks to the author, Red Door Publishing and Netgalley UK for an advance review copy.

Love Love Love this story. Read it all in one sitting.

Tubing by K.A. McKeagney was definitely an eye opening book. Is tubing actually a thing? I'm almost afraid to google it! That being said, this was an enthralling, mysterious novel that kept you on your toes and made you second guess who you could trust and make you want to throttle Polly for some of her choices! Would you call it an erotic thriller? I guess you could. Polly was a very frustrating, unlikeable main character, but the way her psychosis was slowly heading out of control made it all the more interesting. The ending was however, very frustrating and abrupt!

Thank you to the publisher for providing an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This book started off well - quite tense, a smidge of erotica and I felt it had loads of potential ( but I daren't find out if #tubing is a thing!) but became unrealistic and moved too fast. For me, we didn't learn enough about the characters backstory - we know that Polly has an eating disorder but why is that important to the plot? Is it important?

I would read more books by this author as I was really interested in the premise and felt that there was much potential but I felt like it needed more character development!

Polly lives in London with her boyfriend, Oliver. The story begins with a scene in an up-market wine bar on Chancery Lane, London. Polly thinks her boyfriend has forgotten their three-year anniversary. She has a dull, dead end job and lives in a one bedroom flat with Oliver.

On the tube journey home she meets a stunning looking stranger and she gives in to his advances. He walks away without a backward glance. She is now obsessed and discovers #tubing which allows strangers to meet up for sex on busy commuter tube trains.

She is lured into the stranger’s murky world but all is not as it seems. As the story develops her world is turned upside down and she doesn’t appear to be able to let it go. Polly realises how much danger she is in but is it too late?

I found this a sharp, original, erotic thriller with numerous twists and turns.

Highly recommended. Thanks to NetGalley, RedDoor Publishing and K A McKeagney for the ARC in return for my honest review.

A good psychological thriller with a "who can you trust" thread all the way through. Interesting storyline - is tubing even a thing??? Some elements I would have been interested in hearing a bit more about such as Polly's eating disorder and about Sebastians history but overall I thought it was a good read and would recommend.