Thank you Netgalley and Lake Union Publishing for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review. To me this story was a 3.5 rounded up to a 4.

The cover is beautiful, and Emily Carpenter does a wonderful job of making you feel like you are in the Caribbean. She did a great job with her descriptions throughout the book.

This book starts out slow until about 25% in. If you are thinking about giving up, this book does pick up speed and stays interesting until the very end. This book is being marketed as a thriller, but came across part women’s lit part thriller.

I enjoyed the back and forth chapters between mother and daughter, and also the change in their relationship through out the book.

I did not enjoy the Epilogue. I didn’t think it added to the story, and thought the ending should have been the actual ending.

I have seen a lot of reviews saying this story was far fetched, I would agree with that statement, but I don’t think that made me like this book any less. I would recommend this to Emily Carpenter fans for sure.

3.5*
Oh my goodness! This is not what I expected!

What appeared to be an everyday thriller took a deeply sinister and disturbing angle.
Definitely one of those books that you convince yourself alright, one more chapter! Immediately followed by total exhaustion after white-knuckling your way straight through to the end!

Erin hasn’t been the same since her husband passed in an accident four months ago. She’s barely treading water, incapable of focusing on the needs of her daughter Shorie. She’s also burdened with her responsibility as CEO of a tech company developed with her late husband Perry and best friends Ben and Sabine. Featuring an App designed to create, maintain and keep you on a budget! (I really want this App... no, I need this App)!

Erin feels she’s got no choice...she needs to sell the company and move on. But everyone else is convinced she’s headed for a breakdown. Maybe a reclusive spa retreat would be the best way to heal.

Shorie is 18 and wise beyond her years. She grew up as the company was developing.
She’s more than familiar with the inner-workings from top to bottom, thanks to her dads’ patient instruction and mentoring. But there’s a problem…now it’s time to go to college and put the business world on hold. Shorie can’t quite do that!

Emily Carpenter writes a suspenseful and chilling thriller that went off in multiple directions I never would have expected. What began as a fabulous read, took quite the turn leaving me confused and exasperated, wondering what I just read!

A buddy read with Susanne❄️

Thank you to NetGalley, Lake Union Publishing and Emily Carpenter for an ARC to read and review

This book, Until the Day I Die by Emily Carpenter, didn't really grab me like I thought it would, so I give it a 3.5 star review. Although it took a while for me to finish, it was good enough to finish. Maybe it was slower character development or slower plot development... I'm honestly really not sure. Overall, if you have free time and don't know what other book to read, this is a good choice.

Emily Carpenter is one of my favorite authors, that being said this is her best yet. As an avid psychological thriller reader, I think she has the magic touch of all the elements needed to keep you flipping pages, not knowing what's next and surprise endings that make you gasp. She treats the reader with the respect that there is no ruse or trickery, so to speak. You are in for the wildest ride with this book and she takes you there in an electrifying, jaw-dropping and thrilling adventure of mystery, serious thrill and suspense. Until The Day I Die has it all. It's un-put-down-able so be ready to be captivated until the last word on the last page. I give it my highest recommendation. READ THIS BOOK! 5 stars!

4.5 stars, bumped up to 5.

I. Loved. This. Book!

The character development at the beginning was perfect. It was the right amount length-wise and really set the stage.

Then suddenly it took a turn toward the suspenseful, and I was totally hooked!

And the ending was awesome, not drawn out, really good. I also like the fun epilogue.... I don’t hate on little curveballs at the end of books.

But what I absolutely loved about this book and what really bumped it up for me was Erin and Shorie. I especially liked that the choices they made make sense for their characters and the situations they’re in. So many times I read books and think “no, you idiot, why are you doing that/saying that/not saying that?!” And I never felt that way here. Everything really made sense and was cohesive with the storyline.

Emily Carpenter, brava! I loved it, fantastic!

PS minus all the bad stuff that happens with Jax, I need an app like that in my life pronto.

A highly anticipated book that left me so disappointed.

I read this one with a couple of our Traveling Sisters and we had similar thoughts on this one. It's not often we all struggle with a story. Disappointing was a word that was used quite often in our discussion.

I really struggled with the authenticity of the story. The characters and their actions didn't feel real and I was convinced the twist was that they all were play acting. When the twist came in, it was all so disappointing. Did I say that already?

Thank you to NetGalley and publisher for my copy to read and review.

Totally improbable and over the top ridiculous, but fun and entertaining. This is not a great thriller, but might hit the spot if you're in the mood for something fast paced and kind of bonkers.

This book started out a bit slow for me and it wasn’t until about half-way through that it picked up. Erin is mourning the loss of her husband who died in a car accident five months ago, she’s not coping and has pretty much checked out on her daughter who is also devasted by her fathers death. Erin forces Shorie to go to college and she also wants to sell their business, that’s where things get interesting. This book is told in both Erin and Shorie’s perspective. This is a good read, it has mystery, suspense, murder and intrigue.
Thank you netgalley for this arc

While I've read and loved Emily Carpenter's last books, this was kind of a disappointment for me. I kept reading to see if the plot would improve but I didn't connect at all with the story. It felt too unrealistic and kind of a soap opera but with techie stuff. I will definitely read her next book and I hope I enjoy it more than this one.

Review This book! Emily Carpenter does it again. In Until the Day I Die, the reader will be cheering on heroines and hating on the bad guy villains. This is a fast paced thriller that explores relationships and brings the suspenseful, creepy factor that this author has perfected. The twists and turns and the END!

Lets get to the creepy details, but with no spoilers! This book is told in alternating perspectives between Shorie, a college student and Erin, her mom. Erin's husband Perry was killed in a tragic car accident just 5 months earlier. Erin is having a really hard time and an "intervention" is called , and she is sent to a "restoration spa". Okay , can i get one of those interventions? Pretty please.

I could not PUT THIS DOWN. So many twists and turns and an unexpected ending that will leave you rereading parts of it (or was that just me?).

Thank you NetGalley for the chance to review this book!

Emily Carpenter is usually known for what I like to call "Southern Louisianna suspense" and almost a little Goth like but this was a little bit of a different path for her and I loved it. Its a pretty fast pace book with twists and all.. At times it was a little overwhelming for me and almost confusing.
All in all it was an ok book for me!

Absolutely loved this book. Couldn't put it down. Going to look for more books by this author and get them all. I am so glad to have found another great author to add to my collection of favs :-)

This book started slowly, and with the key characters in a deep rut emotionally. I nearly gave up on it early on, but persevered and the story soon hooked me in enough that I had to know how everything would play out. The main characters both have strong storylines which kept me guessing about who was manipulating who, though I have to say that this wasn’t a plot that felt relatable in any way, so it definitely lost some of its power over my emotions.
Overall, an escapist book, with a great app central to the plot...any chance of getting to work on making it real?!
Many thanks to Lake Union Publishing and NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.
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Picked this book from NetGalley on the recommendation of @lindsays_books and it did not disappoint!! I will say, it took me a little while to get into the book, but once I did I was completely hooked. And that ending!!! 😱😱
Without saying too much, I loved trying to piece together what was happening and who was involved. If you like thrillers, I think you’ll enjoy this one!

Thanks to Lake Union Publishing and NetGalley for the advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you to Netgalley, the author and the publisher for this ARC.

Likable characters, with a slow start that never really picked up for me, this wasn't my favorite Emily Carpenter book. It reminded me a little of Liane Moriarty's latest book. A messed up therapeutic retreat with alternative methods. The first half of the book I just felt sad. Erin's husband dies, she loses her grip on managing daily life, and her daughter, Shorie, is left to mourn on her own. Working in finance, the idea of Jax was really cool and interesting, so hopefully Emily Carpenter patented that, lol. All of this said, it was a decent read, but not my favorite of Carpenter's. Hopefully you enjoy it more than I did, as the reviews I read before diving in were stellar and could not say enough positive things. To each their own, and I hope this is the right book for you!

I made the mistake of starting this book late in the day. I didn't put it down until I finished it at 3 a.m. It was a roller coaster ride of a story told by two strong women that kept me guessing until the end. Emily Carpenter continues to bring us books that keep her readers in suspense from the first page until the end.

This book is told from two perspectives - Erin, the mom who is still dealing with the grief of losing her husband in a car accident several months earlier. She and her husband owned a software company that was a major part of their lives and now she is considering selling it because of her grief. Her daughter, Shorie, is leaving to go to college. She doesn't want to go, she wants to work at the software company but her mom feels like she needs to get away and experience college life. Shorie is very worried about her mom's state of mind and convinces her during an intervention with friends and family, to get some rest at a rehab facility in the Caribbean. Things at the resort aren’t exactly how the brochure described, and unless she’s losing her mind, Erin’s pretty sure she wasn’t sent there to recover—she was sent to disappear. Who is behind the danger to Erin and will she and her daughter be able to stop whoever it is before its too late?

I loved the way the story was told from Erin's and Shorie's perspectives because it gave us more of an insight to each character. I also liked the relationship between the two of them - mothers and daughters love each other even as they try to pull away to live their own lives. They were both so well written that they felt like people I knew and I experienced their terror and confusion along with them. I barely breathed during the last 50 pages of the book.

This is a wonderful story of survival and mother/daughter love and I highly recommend it!

Thanks to the publisher for a copy of this book to read and review. All opinions are my own.

Not bad, but not great either. For sure it is a fast-past thriller with a lot of twists. But for me it was too chaotic. I really like the main characters Erin and her daughter Shore but some situations that they were in were just weird and impossible in real life.
It was my first book written by Emily Carpenter but not last, I will definitely check her other thrillers.

Thank you to Net Galley and Lake Union Publishing for a free copy in exchange for an honest review.

Until the Day I Die follows a mother daughter pair after the death of the family patriarch. This book is out March 12, 2019. After starting a wildly successful tech company with the help of some friends, Erin and Shorie Gaines, are left with loose control, devastating grief and something fishy going on when Perry Gaines, their husband and father, suddenly dies. Erin, unable to deal with her grief, is sent to a tropical island paradise to heal, while Shorie goes away to college, despite wanting to stay and work at the family start-up. Shorie quickly notices something is amiss in the code of the company's app, but no one takes her seriously. This is the believable portion of the book and a plot line I thought was written well. The plot of the book involving Erin on a tropical getaway? Not so much. It quickly becomes clear that she was sent there by one of the friends in their start-up to be killed and gotten rid of, all because Erin wants to sell her shares in the company. Erin is whisked on this wilderness adventure hike and people begin dying right and left at the hands of the retreat staff. It's messed up. This part of the book was just so unbelievable and the plot was hard to follow. Then, when everything was wrapped up in a tiny, perfect bow, the ending makes it almost seem like there could be a sequel and I was not good with that.

Thank you to Net Galley and Lake Union Publishing for a free copy in exchange for an honest review.

A very tense thriller! It wasn’t spooky but it was one of those who can you trust books! Erin seemed sane but then you also didn’t know if she was reliable along with all the people around her! The atmosphere of the jungle made it even more nail biting and gave it a more sinster vibe. Left me questioning and guessing until the end very enjoyable!

This book was great! It was tense and full of wondering what could happen next. I liked the characters and the writing. I thought the nostalgia attached to Perry was spot on and just the feelings that were inspired by his character were moving. I enjoyed how different clues were revealed and how things became clear to each character. I thought the characters were written well and organized well. The only thing that I didn't particularly enjoy was the part where the particulars of the app, Jax, were explained. It just didn't flow to me. Parts of the beginning were a little slow but it was still interesting to be able to continue without feeling bored. Overall, I really liked it.