This book went so much deeper and darker than I expected. Once it got rolling I couldn't stop until I got to the end. There are so many twists and turns that even the things you see coming take you by surprise. It's one of those books where once you know the truth you want to read it again to see the clues you missed.

I was very excited to read this story of suspense as it sounded very much like one I would enjoy. It held my interest until it took some turns that made this less enjoyable for me and more confusing. I don’t want to mention too much for the sake of the story. There were aspects I liked and many I did not. I do encourage others to read as it may become one of the best they have read.

I had a love hate relationship with this book. Love because I could not put it down and hate because I didn’t go to sleep until 2AM!

In Savannah, GA, Marcie is the second wife of a prominent lawyer. Much younger than the group of blue bloods and southern “royalty,” Marcie’s life gets an interesting twist when another young second wife is introduced to the clique.

Love, murder, betrayal, and some more murder. It has it all.

I didn’t think there was anything revelatory in this novel. Some parts were very slow and I felt myself wanting to skip to the end. I knew everything that was coming before the cards were shown. It was an interesting story with lots of characters and lots of things happening and lots of twists and turns.

Let me start by saying I love Sarah Pinborough. She is a fantastic author, and I'm always prepared for some sort of twist of the otherworldly or something along those lines, especially after reading Behind Her Eyes.

This book was not as good as Behind Her Eyes. Maybe the characters were more likable in that one, or it was less predictable. I can't exactly put my finger on it, but this one just wasn't as good. Don't get me wrong. I enjoyed reading this book. I got through it in around two days, staying up late to finish it because I just had to know what was going to happen. Turns out, I did know. I guessed early on who was responsible for what was going on. It was kind of the generic answer, the one that obviously would have been responsible no matter who was pointing you to other characters.

Thank you NetGalley and HarperCollins for an early copy for review!

I really need to stop requesting books that have beautiful covers! Ugh.

I'm sorry but "Dead to Her" is one of the most generic novels I've read in quite some time. I feel like I'm losing interest in psychological thrillers lately. I used to love this genre, what happened?

The writing was below average and the characters were artificial and vapid. It's really hard to care about entitled, rich brats. No one has any morals, it's pathetic. Apparently I need novels with a little more depth and substance. I can't even recall most of the plot because it was so flimsy and silly. This one is quickly leaving my memory. If you enjoy campy books, then this one might fill that need.

Thank you, Netgalley and Harper Collins for the advance reader's copy.

Release date: February 11, 2020

This book is sinister and full of lots of plot action, the author did a great job creating characters that are believable and the story was excellent.

Pinborough is one of my favorite authors. Not just in her writing, but also her as a person as she was extremely nice in an interchange with me a couple years back. She's an autobuy author and I absolutely love how divisive her books make the thriller community. It honestly just tickles me.

One thing I've noticed is that people tend to compare all her reads to Behind Her Eyes (especially if that's their first and only book). Personally, I say don't do that. That book is a divine entity of its own (for those who loved it like I did).

I think Dead to Her will also be equally divisive as most of her books are within the reading community. There's a LOT going on with the different, very unlikable characters. We have second wives, love triangles, voodoo, the rich, the poor, secrets on top of secrets and parties with masks! Let's dance, y'all! Personally, this is the kind of Pinborough read I love. I was highly suspect about one character and felt a certain warm feeling when I was right about said person. *ding ding*

Now some times you'll feel this story is getting just a tad bit too convoluted and you may go cross eyed a bit, but this is what I love. Keeping all this madness going while still keeping my interest. I did feel there were some lull moments but not enough for my eyes to glaze over. I was keenly looking for the next hint or misdirection.

This country club-esque, entitled neighborhood and all their drama reminds me why I would never want to be a part of such an elite, rich, white world. And that's what made the ending all that more satisfying.

With this author’s work, there are always unexpected plot twists and at times, changing allegiances. This book is no exception. We follow Marcie who is watching the arrival of a newcomer, Keisha, to her social circle. Let’s be honest, even Marcie feels an outsider to this circle as she herself was not born into “society” and these folks are the upper echelon in Savannah. Keisha, a young, black hottie, has married William, whose first wife has passed away and his reaction has been to flee the country where he ends up meeting his new wife and trying to capture his youth by marrying a woman forty years his junior. Marcie isn’t sure what to do with the situation and she fears that her husband has an unhealthy attraction to our new entrant as well. I could feel one of those twists coming on early and the author did create a twist in the story early on. The book continues to unveil the true lives of most all of the characters and it is a page turner. Part mystery, part thriller, part character exploration, the story flies by and is thoroughly enjoyable if you are into changing your mind about who is right, wrong, villain or hero. I like not knowing where my allegiance will land, so I ate it up!

4.25 stars! I actually think the last 3% moved it up about a half star. I don't actually mean that because of big plot twists, but more so just the way it wrapped up and things came full circle. I had a few issues with the book and I was going to rate it 3.75, but moved it up after I read the last little bit. I also think for some reason, I am reflecting on it. I realize the genre is not a very deep thought provoking one ( like a general fiction tragic book), but when I think about a book a while after completion, I always appreciate it more. And I'm getting that vibe.

This is a slow burn of a read until the end when everything explodes. The author tells a tale of revenge, voodoo and some sociopathic behavior all rolled into one hell of a conjure ball. Marcie, Jason, Keisha and William have no idea what awaits them when revenge has to be fulfilled.

So, the book I read prior to this was kind of blow-your-mind fantastic on so many levels and I think this one may have suffered a little by coming right after that one.

This is a popcorn read. And quite sordid. You have a bunch of rich and nouveau-riche people behaving in all sorts of sordid ways. Most of them are, well, just plain dumb. There were only two characters I liked. One of them was dead before the book began. The other was her friend.

As for the others… I just kept getting overwhelmed by all the dumb.

The foreshadowing was hit-you-in-the-face-with-a-shovel obvious. Hmm…let me look up something on Google. (Mental note: Oh, police are going to look at this later.) Hmm…let me call your attention to the perils of anti-freeze 3 or 4 times. (Gee…I wonder why I need to know that???)

The book was entertaining enough, but I wanted more depth, more cleverness, and just one main character with a brain!

This one just didn’t thrill me.

*ARC via Net Galley

Dead to Her is a novel set in the Southern glory of Savannah Georgia, rich with privilege, dark rooted mystery and incestuous relationships.

When Marcie Maddox, a second wife meets William Radford's young bride Keisha, she is consumed with jealousy. After all, Keisha is the younger version of herself as a second wife. But as Keisha's guards start to drop, a fast passionate relationship unfolds between them.

Old friendships and loyalty start to rear their ugly heads and William falls prey to murder. Many have the motive to want this wealthy man dead and Marcie and Jason Maddox along with Keisha are tangled in the game outside of their control.

Dead to Her begins with some good character development. Initially, I was drawn into the drama of Marcie, a second wife with a past that would be frowned upon in the inner circle. After all, she sought out the affair to marry for wealth. Unformtualy, she became a desperate unlikeable character mid-way through the plot. Keisha's shattered life in London was turned into the cliche fairy tale life. It was likely that she would marry for money but her distaste for her husband made it punishment. Keisha's character was perhaps the most real element of this novel and I enjoyed her unraveling.

However, this novel rides on a few characters and provides a plot that seems simplistic and marred with voodoo witchery. I did finish the novel and never the less felt entertained

Overall, a very entertaining first half of the novel. Thank you, NetGalley, HarperCollins Publishers and William Morrow for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Personally not for me. I couldn’t get past the dramatic rich old people.
I wish the author lots of luck and success with this book even though it wasn’t my type of book.

Marcie Maddox has worked hard to become part of the privileged set of high society in Savannah, Georgia.  After the initial shock the city's old money had over her affair with Jason, the pair married and Marcie has since enjoyed the country club and now the ultimate status symbol of a grand Southern home.

Marcie's heading into her mid-30's, the youngest in their inner circle ...until the new Mrs. William Radford IV arrives.  
William, Jason's boss, has taken a trip abroad after the loss of his wife of many years.  He arrives home from London months earlier than expected with the sexy 20-something Keisha who is ready to step into her place as the vivacious second wife.

Marcie's jealousy of Keisha's youth is soon overshadowed by the spark she sees between Keisha and Jason.

Oh, this book.  It's a tale of old money set in the perfect Southern city with plenty of secrets and betrayals.  Every single character is shallow and completely unlikeable but each time I thought I had them figured out, they surprised me with a twist.  Thanks to each character's secrets, their motivations are never known to the reader until the author is ready to dish. 

Dead to Her is like a soap opera with lots of wealthy, insecure people and some murder and voodoo thrown in for good measure.  Ridiculous at times, I was still entertained enough to wade through the domestic drama that dragged on to find out what kind of over the top final twist would be delivered.  It was wicked but also a bit underwhelming.

I'm on the fence here.  It was compulsively readable with all the twists but I needed more from certain aspects of the story (I don't want to spoil it by explaining what, exactly) for the ending to shake me up.

Thanks to William Morrow and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC in exchange for my honest review.  Dead to Her is scheduled for release on February 11, 2020.

Thank you to NetGalley and HarperCollins for providing an ARC in exhcange for an honest reveiw.

Dead to Her is full of secrets and deception among "friends". This novel is set among the elite in Savannah, Georgia. Marcie is the second wife trying to fit in among her husbands friends and wives
who grew up together. She had an affair with Jason and he left his wife and married her.
Yikes! What an uncomfortable start to a new life. Will she ever fit in? She isn't like the others. She's been married to Jason for 6 years when the novels starts and she is the youngest of the wives until her husbands friend and busines partner William brings home his new wife Keisha, who is 40 years younger than his first wife, less than a year after his wifes death. I say brings home because he was out of the country for a while which is how they meet. Keisha is younger than Marcie, carefree and beautiful. Marcie becomes jealous of Keisha and fears her husband is cheating on her. This part was very predictable to me. I knew which way it would go and wasn't surprised at all. Marcie being jealous of Keisha is not what the book is about but I don't want to spoil it. There is mystery and a lot of questions. The friend group is full of history and secrets. The characters are all developed so beautifully.
This is a very fun read and I enjoyed the ride. There is some black magic and I lost a little bit of interest. I kept getting all of the characters mixed up and was having a hard time with the their names. The novel started to move slowly somewhere in the middle for me. However, things picked right back up and I love the way it ended. It wasn't much of a suprise. I guessed all most all of what I think I should have been wowed by but I really liked the book. I have never read a novel by Sara Pinboruh but I will be starting Behind her Eyes next.

An insane psychological thriller that is reminiscent of Desperate Housewives meets a voodoo murder mystery.

This is set among a group of Savannah Georgia’s more wealthy couples with a back and forth narrative between a set of second wives to current business partners. Marcie Maddox is a well established second wife to Jason with a desperate want to climb to the top of the social ladder, she’s the youngest of the wives and has been building a steady respectable rapport over the years. In enters Keshia, the even younger new second wife to widower William she’s wild, sexy and eye-catching even to Jason second in line to take over Williams business once he retires. Lies, deception, sex, unearthing the past, there is so much to this extremely intensely twisting novel that always keeps you guessing. Sarah Pinborough is brilliant. This will be one of the most talked about thrillers of 2020 I can already see it. Go ahead and add this to your to be read stack it releases February this coming year and will make some serious waves.

Set among the exclusive upper echelon of Savannah society this is the story of 2 seconds wives and what they are willing to do to be a part of the group, or at least leave their own lives of struggles and poverty behind. It is a story that leaves you wondering if you can trust anyone and what is really the truth.

This was a quick and easy read, but not necessarily an excellent one. The beginning started off with promise, but the characters became more and more unlikable and the content shifted to unnecessary sex scenes (especially with the old guy — blech!). Add in voodoo and you’ve got one helluva strange plot. Not my cup of tea.

Thank you to NetGalley, HarperCollins and William Morrow for this advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

This was a bit too soap-perish for me...little mystery...lots of drama. Some of it silly. The book started out good but dropped off in interest almost like someone else took over writing. The middle of the book dragged and then in the end the book sort of redeemed itself. I would probably not recommend this to anyone but I can see how it might appeal to another kind of reader. Thank you NetGalley for the advanced readers copy for review.