this book was good! Kept me interested and I found the characters interesting. I love these authors so much, and all their books.

Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen are among my favorite writers. They create layered, flawed characters who walk through the world and seem to drop into an open manhole. The rest of the story is about asking ,why?

Shay Miller was leading drab life. She lost her job and was temping her way to nowhere. She had no love life. No real friends with the exception of her Sean, her roommate/crush/friend. Soon enough she had no place to live once Sean's new girlfriend manipulated herself into their apartment and Shay out of it. Even Shay's interests we dull - statistics. While most us were trying to avoid stats class like a STD, Shay was keeping copious notes and stats in notebooks. She believed in numbers. They were steadfast and reliable.
"Numbers never lie. Statistics, charts, percentages-they don't contain hidden agendas or shades of gray. They're pure and true. It isn't until people start meddling with them, spinning and shaping them, that they become dishonest."

One day Shay witnesses a woman throw herself in front of an oncoming train. Here is Shay's "why? " Her obsession with finding that answer leads her to the dead woman's memorial service and soon thrusts her in to life of the woman's closest friends. Shay now has the glamorous, posh Moore sisters as her friends and a wonderful new apartment in just right location to live in., What are the odds? The closer Shay gets to unraveling the truth, the less sure she is of everything she once held as true.

Hendricks and Pekkanen keep the reader engaged with a twist here and there and the same clever misdirection used by magicians to keep their audiences focused away from where the trick actually is,. They know how to "meddle with the numbers" in the most entertaining of ways.

My thanks to NetGalley for providing with an advance copy for my honest review.

I read this novel free and early, thanks to Net Galley and St. Martin’s Press. It’s for sale now.

Shay Miller has watched a woman die, and now life will never be the same. She is alone in the big city, barely getting by like so many working class women. She is in love with her roommate but doesn’t rock the boat by propositioning him; she has no friends or family nearby. Then one terrible day, she is waiting for her subway when a sinister looking man turns in her direction. Imagine how glad she is to see Amanda, a normal-looking woman who’s also headed her way. But instead of providing the security Shay is hoping for, Amanda jumps onto the tracks in front of a moving train.

It happens so quickly!

Shay is the sort of person that relies on information to deal with stress. She has a little notebook, what she calls her “Data Book,” filled with all sorts of oddball statistics that she quotes from at the start of each chapter and throughout the novel. (Frankly, I could have lived without this feature, which began to feel like filler at times.) She deals with the stress of having witnessed a suicide by finding out every single detail she can about the late Amanda.

And this part is the hardest aspect for me to buy into. She’s haunted by what she saw; okay. Amanda looked a lot like Shay, which made her more fascinating to our protagonist. Fine. But the obsessive way she pursues information—even once she finds she has the dead woman’s necklace, which she had forgotten momentarily—doesn’t jibe with me. She goes to her apartment, visits the woman’s mom…huh. Go figure.

Now, once I quit rolling my eyes and allowed myself to buy this premise, things flowed a lot more smoothly. Cassandra and Jane, friends of Amanda’s, hold a memorial service for her, and it is by attending this event that Shay comes to know these two sisters. They are kind, they are solicitous, and they are caring. Before Shay knows it, they are her new best friends, and because she herself is a good person—if a little odd—it doesn’t occur to her that their motives might not be as benevolent as they pretend to be. They are the spiders, and she is the fly.

Here’s the thing I like best about this story. Shay’s character has to be rock solid for it to work, and once we get past the stupid parts at the beginning, it is. I half expected her to be dumb as a box of rocks all the way through, but not so much. The way she is developed, neither too unrealistically savvy nor ultra-naïve, is admirable. There’s a thin path through the middle between these two extremes, and I wondered if she would be the dithering idiot that has to be saved by someone smarter, but that’s not how it shakes out. There are a couple of loose threads that are left dangling, but it’s the way Shay’s character is crafted that wins the day.

Those that enjoyed this authorial pair’s other books will like this one too; those in search of a good beach read or a fun weekend book should consider this one. All told, big fun, and delightfully original.

Fast paced but ultimately forgettable. Mystery/suspense readers should enjoy the story, but there isn't much depth here.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an advance digital review copy.

The books Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen are the Best books I ever read! They keep you in suspense every step of the way! And of course the endings are wow!!!

Not my favorite by these authors, but it definitely kept me engaged from start to finish. Overall though I couldn’t connect with the characters really at all, and the ending felt kind of implausible.

Another enjoyable read from this amazing writing duo. Highly recommended. Thanks very much to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

St. Martin's Press and NetGalley provided me with an electronic copy of You Are Not Alone. I was under no obligation to review this book and my opinion is freely given.

Shay Miller's life changes the day she sees a woman leap onto the subway tracks. Alone and bereft, despite never having met the woman, Shay goes to the memorial service. She meets the Moore sisters, Cassandra and Jane, who were friends of the deceased woman. Brought into their circle of friends, has Shay made a dangerous choice?

Besides being transparent, You Are Not Alone was a big disappointment. None of the characters were really likable, not even Shay. The story was not believable, far-fetched and without merit. Though this is supposed to be a psychological thriller, I did not find You Are Not Alone to be all that twisted or suspenseful. Overall, I was underwhelmed regarding the plot and the characters, so I would not recommend the novel to other readers.

You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen starts off with a pretty big event and then slows down a bit. The slow down is not bad, it is then that you begin to try to piece things together to figure out what is going on through clues and backstory given throughout the rest of the book which expands on that initial event. There is not a lot I can say about this book without giving away things that happen throughout, but I can tell you a bit about the characters that will draw you in. The main character is named Shay Miller, she's a quirky one that is pretty obsessed with facts and figures, she is also relatable. She keeps a journal of these factoids and tidbits are shared at the beginning of each chapter. The other two main characters are a pair of sisters named Cassandra and Jane Moore. These two are something to behold, they are chic, glamorous, and have a tight, small circle of friends. Shay, having few friends of her own, and having witnessed the drama in chapter one, desperately wants to be part of their circle, they make her feel alive and safe. The story is told in chapters with alternating points of view between Shay, the Moore sisters, and others in the small circle of friends.

You Are Not Alone is the third thriller from author duo Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen. It wasn't my favourite of their work, it was an ok read.

I didn't find the story had a fast paced feel, to me it developed on the slower side. It wasn't gripping, or an edge of your seat thrilling ride, but I did enjoy some of the twists and reveals along the way.

The story was told from multiple points of view however I found it difficult at times to differentiate between certain members of "the group." The characters were all rather two dimensional and their voices blended together.

On the whole, You Are Not Alone was just interesting enough for me to finish, but it's not a story I'll remember in a week's time.

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*Complimentary copy for review provided by St. Martin's Press. All opinions expressed here are honest and entirely my own.

If you've read any other books by this writing team, you know to expect a certain level of discomfort and dread building throughout the story, and this one is no exception. Shay is the protagonist and she keeps a fact diary, which gives us an insight into her personality. Her life is changed forever after witnessing a woman throw herself off a subway platform in NYC. This is a tale of wanting to belong and how that can blind you to red flags in relationships. There are plenty of twists and turns and flashbacks to explain the back stories of the characters involved. Definitely a pageturner!

I truly enjoy anything that Greer & Sarah put out! This twisted psychological thriller was wonderful! I was so engaged and couldn’t not figure out where it was going. I love when that happens. Highly recommend!

Thank you to the publisher for this copy - all opinions are my own.

I really enjoyed this new one from this delightful duo - as always they come at readers with completely unique plots that are twisted, interesting and wildly dramatic.

There is something about their writing style that clicks with me - I always enjoy the movement between characters and perspectives, which keep the story fresh, and I LOVE how that reveals bit by bit of what is going on, without giving too much away or becoming too slow.

This one kept me hooked from start to finish and definitely works as a perfect summer thriller that will suck you in for a lazy afternoon of reading in the sun.

Unfortunately this book didn't do it for me. I found the plot so slow moving I really struggled to want to finish it, the characters were so underdeveloped, and while the ending was meant to be shocking, I found it to be a letdown. Hopefully the next collaboration will be better.

I enjoyed the two previous books by these authors (The Wife Between Us and An Anonymous Girl – you can find my reviews here and here respectively) so I requested this as soon as it appeared on Netgalley. Like their other novels, this is told in chapters that alternate between different perspectives. I love that they always seem to do the main character’s perspective in first person and the other chapters in third – makes it much easier to keep up with.

This definitely sucked me in – I read 89% of it in one sitting on the night I started it. The only thing these authors don’t seem to nail with their books is the ending. For all three, the endings are fine, but not super satisfying. I’d still recommend this one for a rainy night in, though.

Thank you St.Martin's Press and Netgally for a copy of You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen for review.

You Are Not Alone was an interesting idea for a thriller. Shay is a lonely character, she collects data and statistics in a little notebook which is something I found odd and hard to follow as to why or what she thought it might do. I think she was trying to use it to connect dots in her life or make better choices but I found it was just weird. Shay sees someone commit suicide one day and goes off the rails a bit trying to figure who and why she did it. Shay makes some random choices that lead her the exact right group which is another thing I found hard to believe. The Moore sister are the head of the friend group and they take Shay under her wing. Or do they know more than they are letting on?

The plot moves along pretty fast and that always keeps me coming back to thrillers. I wish the characters were a little better explained and the plot points a little less based on coincidence.

Great book! It's so nice to read a book where you truly don't know what will happen next! A psychological thriller with lots of surprises, put this book on your to-read list ASAP.

This book had me guessing almost the whole time. Greer and Sarah did it again. I really like how everyone was tied together some way. The way they began the book and ended it, was so good. Can't wait for their next book.

I usually love their books but this one was not good. I didn’t like Shay at all and the book just left me wanting so much more. I usually read very quickly, especially if I am into a book and this one I had to make myself finish.

This is one of those reads that I didn't see coming from a mile away. When I first started reading I was thinking that this was going to be the first novel by this genius pair of authors that I was disappointed with. The whole idea made me so sad. Since I was so impressed with the two books that came before this one. I am so glad I gave it time because the Big Reveal paid off and everything I thought didn't make sense came together beautifully.

“You Are Not Alone” is a suspense novel, told in first person by the heroine Shay, who shares the storytelling duties with a few of the other main characters. The tale begins innocently enough, and early on I could feel the danger that was creeping up on Shay. She is not ordinary and has a few character quirks that are endearing and understandable, traits that cause a reader to identify with her and easily pull the reader into the story even more. I will say that I was not a fan of some of the characters and found myself waiting for the Shay chapters.

The story is told differently than others, with the pertinent facts slowly revealed through flashback chapters. Shay’s character, while mostly revealed in the text, is also spotlighted in her chapters by allowing readers a glimpse into her Data Book. Crammed with facts that she considers important, this “fact diary” shares the inner workings of Shay’s statistically-oriented brain. I felt as though the fact diary added more depth to the story and actually enjoyed the concept.

I am a big fan of slow burn kind of reads where the author drops clues that could be deciphered if you pay close attention. This was one of those reads where the confusion added to my enjoyment of the story. While I followed the events that tied everything together, the authors dropped enough clues in plain sight while somehow still blocking the ending from my sight line. The brilliant work of both Ms. Hendricks and Ms. Pekkanen makes storytelling look effortless and should be applauded for this contribution into this genre of books. A five star read with no question. My sincerest apologies for my delay with this review; it is not a reflection of this book at all. Thank you Netgalley and all parties involved in my receiving t