Wow!!! This book was so gripping and chilling!! I loved the way it was written, the back and forth in time, but also in a way that really made the suspension hang and you wondering exactly what the heck happened and when! It was very intense, chilling, thrilling, but also dark in the way it had the children act, but I truly thought it made it so much more riveting! I will definitely be reading more by Lloyd, who definitely has a knack for writing thrillers in a manner that really has even those who’ve read hundreds brains spinning!!
Will be highly recommending to the members of Chapter Chatter Pub!!

FIVE STARS!
This book had me from the first page and didn't let go until the last word.
*Gripping
*Dark
*Intriguing
*Sinister
*Twisty
*Twisted
*May cause paranoia

The characters were so well built and the scenes were so incredibly and darkly set.
Thank you #Netgalley, the author and the publisher for my free ARC in exchange for my honest review, which is I loved this book and could not put it down. Finished it in one day. Highly recommend!

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It is a psychological drama that deals with friendship, grief, mental illness and so much more. The one lesson I enjoyed the most about this story is giving others second chances. There are multiple layers to this narrative and I enjoyed them all.

A good read. Charlotte lets everything and everyone get in her way to find her own "place" in life. She is still drawn to Sean with whom she (allegedly) committed murder, 18 years ago.- this on a developmentally disabled child, Luke Marchant. Charlotte's release from prison is contingent that she wear an ankle monitor and see Dr. Isherwood, her therapist, on an ongoing basis. Charlotte had been told that in no way should she attempt to contact or speak with Sean. He had been released from prison a few moths earlier. both began their sentences when Charlotte was 10 years old and Sean was 12 years old.

Charlotte wanders through life and needing direction. Her childhood was awful and Sean's not much better. They became good friends when she was 8 and Sean, 10. Eventually, after their release , they become in phone contact. Their closeness and love of adventure in childhood holds a strong bond between them.

Other characters make their way in and out of the story but the base is Charlotte's THEN and NOW and some of Sean's THEN and NOW. The book can be a bit confusing; but the reader gradually becomes more acute to this style of writing.

A good psychological thriller - a bit slow at times but the general pace is fine.

Many thanks to HARLEQUIN - Hanover Square Press and NetGalley for a 4 star read!!!

More like 3.5 stars. I would like to thank Netgalley and the publisher for an advance copy in exchange for an honest review. I immediately requested this book because I loved Amy Lloyd's first book "The Innocent Wife" and couldn't put it down. With that being said, I enjoyed this book, but not as much as the first. The characters were interesting and the book kept me interested but sometimes there was too much back and forth but overall a good book that I would still recommend.

Was a good read, Didn't take that long to get through it. Didn't love the very ending was just oh.. well that's why, kind of a let down. But leading up to it was very good.



Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for an early release of this boom

It was hard to read and understand what was going on because it kept going back and forth from present to past too much.
the character was supposed to be learning how to live again, how to work in society.. after getting out of jail but i felt like she kept drifting off too much. the story got away from what it was supposed to be out.
it needed more direction and stay on topic with a end goal in sight. like what's going to happen next something to keep the readers invested and wanting to keep reading.. i lost interest

Wow, this one was really good! I was totally hooked and had to finish it, staying up well past my bedtime to see what was going to happen. Don’t miss One More Lie by Amy Lloyd!

Charlotte wants to start fresh. She wants to forget her past, forget prison and, most of all, forget Sean. But old habits die hard. Despite the ankle monitor she must wear as part of her parole agreement and frequent visits to her therapist, she soon finds herself sliding back toward the type of behavior that sent her to prison in the first place. The further down that path she goes, however, the closer she gets to the crime that put her in prison all those years ago. And that’s the one memory she can’t face. Until, one day, Sean tracks her down.

I do enjoy an unreliable narrator and this book definitely had one. Charlotte doesn’t really know how to behave in society since she’s spent years locked up due to a crime committed when she was younger, a terrible crime that she doesn’t remember committing. Something in her mind won’t release the memory and she doesn’t know exactly what happened.

But she’s paid her dues and served her time, as long as she does what she is supposed to, everything will be fine. All she has to do is stay out of trouble and stay away from Sean, her childhood best friend who was part of what put her in jail in the first place. I kept wondering what happened, what horrendous thing did Charlotte and Sean do? And why? I kept reading and reading as the clues were dropped until the final chapter which blew me away.

Excellent pace, tension, suspense. Due out May 28.

Kept me up late wanting to know the details of the crime but in the end, the reveal was a little disappointing. Not bad but I guess I was expecting something more!

A good, slow burn of a novel. Definitely psychologically twisted. It wasn’t a *can’t put this down* for me, but it always drew me back.

I love a novel that throws me off balance, a story that makes me wonder what the protagonists motives really are. Charlotte may be out of jail, but she still wears an ankle monitor so the authorities can keep track of her every move. She wants to stay out of prison and visits to a therapist are part of her parole, but despite her best efforts to change, Charlotte finds herself drawn back to the one person she cannot have any contact with. Sean, and the real reason she went to prison along with a memory she doesn’t want to face but can’t forget may be her undoing. Fingernail biting good