This. Book. Y'all.

You will be hooked in right away, or at least I was. Jake and Clara meet on a flight and they are both convinced that they've met the other one before but can't quite put their finger on it. They have an eerily amount in common with one another and are both unable to remember a portion of their lives, which made me only more invested in the two of them. Despite trying to figure out how they know each other together, they still can't and as they separate, Clara reveals to Jake that she's traveling to the mountains to kill herself.

This book was so twisty and turny and lovers of psychological thrillers will eat this one up. I don't want to say too much because it's such a treat but I strongly recommend this!

Thank you Netgalley and the publisher.
Unfortunately, I could not get into this story.
I will surely try at a later date

Thank you Publisher and NetGalley for the early copy.

I could not connect with the writing style and decided to put it down.

I loved Mister Tender's Girl and I was really excited to read this one. I thought I would enjoy it but it was very different from what I loved about Mister Tender's Girl. It took a different turn then I expected and it just didn't work for me.

3 stars*.

Not AT ALL what I thought this one was going to be, The Dead Girl in 2A is not a vanishing or a typical mystery. Rather it is a psychological mystery with nods to the Twilight Zone and leaves the reader questioning the sanity/memory of the protagonist.

It is the story of Jake Buchanan, a 30-something midwesterner who takes a freelance job ghostwriting the memoirs of a mysterious Coloradoan. On the flight to Denver, Jake is seated next to Clara Stowe, and immediately he has the sense that he knows her. The reader begins to learn that Jake has sought unusual treatment for memory issues and as the chapters progress, that Clara also suffers from the same issue. Clara, however, is headed to Colorado to commit suicide.

I did not love this book. The characters seemed one-dimensional at times and at others just too cliche. I also did not hate this book. I found the mystery intriguing and wanted to see what the source of the mystery was and how it would wrap up.

Based on other reviews I would seek out other books by this author, if only for the uniqueness of the subject mater.

*with thanks to NetGalley for the digital ARC in exchange for this honest review.

Enjoyed this story immensely! Very creative and original -best to go into this book knowing very little so you can be stupefied as to what's going on. Quite a roller coaster ride!

This was a decent read. Standard mystery and suspense. The perfect book for reading (ironically) on a long flight.

Poisoned Pen Press and NetGalley provided me with an electronic copy of The Dead Girl in 2A. I was under no obligation to review this book and my opinion is freely given.

Jake Buchannan has been hired to write the memoir of a dying man. On a plane bound for Denver, Jake is unsettled when he is struck with the certainty that his seatmate in 2A is familiar. Though Clara and Jake do not figure out their connection before they land, there is someone who is pulling the strings who does. Dead Girl in 2A tells the story of their collective pasts, that which has remained hidden for years.

This book is definitely not what it seems at the beginning. The multiple perspective format is warranted, as Jake and Clara are manipulated into remembering the past. I liked the premise of the novel, but the pacing was a little off. If the story was tightened up, especially regarding the not entirely necessary plot line involving Jake and his daughter, the book would have been more compelling. I did not like or dislike The Dead Girl in 2A, so I am on the fence about recommending it to other readers.

*Thanks to NetGalley and Sourcebooks for the ARC!*

I went into this without reading many reviews (because the first review I read saw it was best to go in blind!), this is one that I'm not sure I would've picked up if I had read the other reviews first. It was fine - not bad, not great, just fine - and with a list of books to be read that is hundreds of books long, I likely wouldn't have read it if I had read similar reviews first. The story was okay - I was definitely hooked at the beginning! - but again, nothing stunning. Quick read!

Just how much does a feeling of déjà vu mean?

Jake Buchannan is taking a flight from Boston to Denver to write the memoirs for a man who has offered to pay him a lot of money. He needs the money to help pay the bills for his daughter’s medical expenses resulting from the accident that he was a cause of – something he cannot forgive himself for. His client paid for the air ticket, first class, seat 2B. He is already seated listening to a playlist containing the recordings of thunderstorms when his seatmate arrives …. 2A. As she takes her seat the memory of a smell jolts him viscerally of a powerful déjà vu but before he can explore it, it washes away and he is left with a feeling that unlikely as it is, he knows this woman from somewhere. As the flight progresses, they exchange bits of their lives and their lives are in stark contrast and none of their geographical and chronological history overlap and yet, the feeling persists, for both, that they have met before. Sometime during the flight Clara confides to Jake that she is going to Aspen to die. Not knowing how to respond to this, but knowing he can’t just let it end there Jake gives Clara his business card and says she must call if she needs him. On landing, she steps into the afternoon air and is gone.

The rest of the book is about what happens to them when they get off the plane; their journey to recover lost memories, their lost childhoods and their manipulation by some forgotten figure from deep in their past. A psychological thriller of note.

Saphira

Breakaway Reviewers received a copy of the book to review.

Ganz nett geschrieben mit einigen guten Aspekten und teils gut ausgearbeiteten Passagen/Charakteren, aber allgemein ist es etwas unrund und langatmig.

Overall I liked this book, did I love it? No. It was a decent suspense story but not my favorite. I think it will appeal to many people and I am just too picky in my thrillers.

I wasn't really a fan of this book, but it's through no fault of the author. It was promoted to me as a psychological thriller, but it was a bit too science-fictiony and less thriller than what I normally read. If I hadn't been going into it relatively blind, it probably wouldn't have been a book I would pick up.

I wasn't really invested in any of the characters, including the main character, so that made it hard to care about their stories. I also had a hard time keeping Eaton and Landis straight, which is never a good sign in terms of character development.

Again, it wasn't that this book was bad, it was that this book was made to be seen as something it wasn't, and that made it not a good fit for me personally.

The Dead Girl in 2A by Carter Wilson is a really different kind of psychological suspense. What do you recall from your childhood? Ever meet someone who just feels familiar? Read this book now and reconsider your past. Spooky-good storyline. You need to read this; you really do! Fantastic twisted suspense that will keep you hooked from start to finish.

Jake and Clara find themselves sitting in adjacent seats on a flight to Colorado. Jake is certain he's met this woman somewhere before, but he is damned if he can remember where. Meanwhile they strike up a conversation and Clara eventually admits that she is planning to commit suicide in her hotel room when they get to Denver. Immediately after landing she disappears into the crowd, and Jake is left with the disturbing knowledge of her fatal intentions...

Twists and turns like crazy--riveting, must-read suspense!!

I’m really sad to say that I didn’t enjoy this. The premise was excellent and I was so
Excited to get stuck in but it just bored me. It lack a bit of meat for me.

3.5*
Jake meets a woman named Clara on the plane. Everything about her is familiar to him, he is certain they somehow know each other and this feeling is mutual. Clara tells Jake she plans to kill herself and then they have to go their separate ways. But this meeting changes Jake's life.
The first 20% of this book were boring for me,I have to say. But after that the story had my full attention. I wanted to know all the things the characters were so desperate to find out. The answers,however, were not that shocking or unexpected, so I gave The dead girl in 2a 3.5* but I would still recommend it.
Thank you to netgalley for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Amazing! The story is filles with unexpected twists and turns. I gave it 4 out of 5 stars, because the ending was a bit predictable.

I love it when a book is perfectly situated on the fence between the real and the surreal, and this book does that very well.

Two characters with similarly missing childhood memories end up sat next to each other on a plane. Obviously not a coincidence. Through two perspectives, we experience them leave each other at the airport and separately continue their already-begun journeys to untangle the web of mystery that is their lost memories.

The characters are nicely developed and all flawed enough to feel real and yet still sympathetic, and the descriptive work in the book does a good job of painting a picture of the scenery in the mind’s eye.

The ending felt a little anticlimactic and wrapped up a little too quickly given the level of intrigue and build-up created - the primary mystery was unwrapped throughout the book which left little to shock or surprise the reader, and the secondary mystery had an incredibly obvious result. This is the only real reason that I’ve rated it 3 instead of 4 stars - it is a decent read regardless.

Review posted to Goodreads. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the eARC in exchange for an honest review.

Wow! This book was out there! So many twists, so many turns, so much confusion! I don't want to spoil any of this story, so I will keep this review brief. Extend your disbelief, and jump right in!