I really enjoyed this book! This book was generously provided to me through NetGalley. Highly Recommended!

This book contained 2 mysteries, a court case, and involved a podcast...ingredients for an excellent thriller. It was very interesting, heartbreaking and slightly creepy at times. I flew through the story and had a hard time putting this one down. I highly recommend this book and will be picking up more books by Megan Goldin.

I received a copy of this book from NetGalley and St. Martin's Press to read and review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

I strongly believe some books are written for audio and this is definitely one of them. The audio for this book was fantastic I felt like I was listening to a true crimes podcast. This book was so powerful and had me in tears by the end. I was not expecting that at all! This book gives you look into the devastation rape can cause not just to the victim but to the victims family as well. This book was so so good and I highly recommend it on audio!

Intriguing book that had me guessing throughout... as the book progressed I kept changing my mind about who was going to be the culprit in the old case that she was investigating while simultaneously covering the trial of an eerily similar case. Looking forward to reading more books by this author.

Great dual timeline/POV mystery. Really enjoyed the audio as well. Great story, I'd read this author again for sure.

If you have heard about the groups who take on legal cases pro Bono for innocent people in prison then this book may be of interest.
This story is intense and shows what some people will do for others even when they don’t know each other only because it’s the right thing to do.
People who use their influence to set the truth free.

I was slow to review but that is in no way a reflection on The Night Swim. All the stars for this book. Would highly recommend. Thanks to Megan Goldin, St. Martin's Press and NetGalley for my copy in exchange for my review.

I had a fantastic time with this book, and it's so much improved over The Escape Room that I have to give it five stars.

Trigger Warning: It's about the rape of two girls and the murder of one of them. It's not a passing scene, the rapes are described throughout the book, though not graphically.

The Night Swim is a fast paced thriller with a lot of characters with very dark pasts. It takes place in a small town where everyone knows everyone, they all grow up together, and residents rarely leave. It's about class and sexism and misogyny, and the very slight differences in how we treat rape victims now versus in decades past. In truth, there are not a lot of differences, but there are some.

The main character, Rachel, is the narrator of a famous true crime podcast, and I love these books when they are done well. This one does it well. Our secondary character is Hannah, the younger sister of a girl who was raped and killed as a teen 25 years before. Rachel is currently reporting on the trial of a college swimmer accused of raping a teenage girl in current times.

[In real life, the Stanford swimmer rape case was local for me. I knew the locations involved, I was able to vote to recall the judge in the case, I read the victim's memoir and because it was a local case, it all felt very personal to me. If you have any desire either to read about that case or to hear exactly what happens after a rape, Know My Name by Chanel Miller is invaluable. The Night Swim does not take its main details from that case, but does appear to report the aftermath of a rape accurately.]

The primary plot of this book is Rachel and her investigations into the crimes against both women, and it is a gripping ride. There were a lot of characters who were intertwined but I was able to imagine each of them and remember who was whom. I didn't find any glaring plot holes in this complicated story, and I felt it was for the most part believable.

It was so good I had to forgive it when one of the rapists decides to just confess everything for no apparent reason at all. Honestly, I was mad at this part, and maybe not too happy with how that particular story was wrapped up. But it wasn't the main focus of the book, nor was it the main ending, and I did love everything else.

I thought The Escape Room was an enjoyable mess. I hated that I enjoyed that book as much as I did. The Night Swim is a Not Guilty Pleasure, and I hope Rachel Krall appears in upcoming books by Goldin. Thoroughly enjoyable!!

Thank you to NetGalley and Mirror Books for the ARC (which I received after publication). I was slightly hesitant because of my ambivalence over Escape Room, but Goldin has upped her game here and definitely earned five stars!

I found this story started a little slow for me but then really took off. It's two stories of rape, 25 years apart, that intertwine and tell the horrible outcomes of two innocent young girls. It also tells about the impact to the families and the reactions of the people in a small town where everyone knows your business. Both stories were intriguing and gut wrenching.

Told from alternating perspectives and Podcast episode transcripts, the two cases eventually come together in the end with some surprising twists.

This book was a crazy thriller! I couldn’t read it at night haha. If you like thrillers then this book is for you! I rated this one 4 stars.

Wow! The Night Swim by Megan Goldin is a gripping story that's impossible to put down. I loved the way the story was told in past and present, as well as the chapters told in podcast. At times it was a tough read because of its subject matter (rape and bullying), but I couldn't stop reading it. The connection between the 25 year-old possible murder and the present trial hooked me. I can't wait to see what the author writes next. Highly recommend, especially to readers who love true crime. Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for a copy in exchange for an honest review.

This one just didnt do it for me. I DNF'd the book at 30%. Something about it just was not able to hold my attention. I plan on trying again.

I really enjoyed this book! It connected both the recent increased fame of couch detective crime podcasts and a first person crime experience. I will be recommending this read to my book club for sure!

Thank you to the author, Megan Goldin, the Publisher St. Martin's Press, and NetGalley for providing me an ARC in exchange for my candid review.

Wow! I read this book in about a day. What an amazing and interesting way to tell a story and to discuss a very timely and heated debate about women and sexual harassment and rape. It really had enough information to be a topical paper or treatise on the subject of women's rape, but told in a fascinating fictional story. Rachel, a True Crimes on air blogger, decides to change up from her history of reinvestigating old crimes and instead covers an ongoing trial. The trial is set in a sleepy backwater town in North Carolina and involves a charge of rape of a local 16 year old girl who is accusing the college-aged Olympic Swim hopeful. Along with that story, Rachel is dragged backwards to into investigating a 30 year old murder of a 16 year old.

It was a fascinating, readable book about a very hard topic wherein rape victims are repeatedly brutalized by the system of investigating and trying sexual abuse and rape. And how, it usually just comes down to "he said/she said" and who is the more credible person.

It really is very sad. Sadder yet is what women still tolerate as being okay. I would highly recommend this to anyone who really wants to understand the challenge of rooting this out in our society.

I really enjoyed this book. It has a podcast side to it and I thought that was very interesting to read about. I will definitely pick up future books by this author.

What a fascinating book. I was impressed by the storyline and the characters were all well written and complex. Where there are complex storylines combined with intriguing characters the reader experience is magnified tremendously. To have a book that is well written as well as entertaining is a delight. Reading is about escaping your world and entering another one. Here I forgot about my own life and was immersed in the world created by the author. I would recommend this book.

Once again, I feel that this was a book that was labeled as a great thriller with twists and it completely fell flat for me. It had a very slow burn which I do appreciate with thrillers if there's going to be a huge plot twist that it leads up to in the end but this one didn't have it for me. The premise of the book was really intriguing and I do like the rape topics it delved into but go into this cautiously if those topics bother you because they were graphic and disturbing at times.

This was definitely not an easy read and I did the like podcast aspect but overall, not the best thriller in my opinion. I preferred her first book over this one but I will still continue to read her books.

*Thanks so much to St. Martins Press and NetGalley for the complimentary copy for my honest review!*

The best thing about this book was its historical mystery storyline revolving around the death of a 16 year old girl 25 years ago. The courtroom drama tangent, that involved the alleged rape of a 16 year old girl by a 19 year old college all star swimmer, seemed weak to me and I was less engaged during these parts. Although the message was a powerful one and I can see why other readers might be emotionally impacted, I found it difficult to get past the somewhat cliché writing. The podcast chapters were repetitive as they would basically summarize what was just presented in the plot line. The “who done it” at the end was riveting although the events that transpired afterwards were predictable. Just a so-so read for me although I would encourage others to read it and form their own conclusions as it is one of those books that many readers absolutely loved.

Thank you to Netgalley and St. Martins Press for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I ended up listening to this book because it has a podcast element, which I was able to appreciate so much more through audio. This was an interesting story, following two timelines and two different cases. I wasn’t sure how they would be connected in the end, but the cases seemed to have some kind of connection. I was very intrigued for the most of the book, but in the end, felt a little disappointed with how it was concluded. If my just didn’t live up to my expectations after getting through the whole book with high hopes that it was a great ending. In the end, the conclusion brought it down a star for me.

Such a fun thriller! And it was even better as an audiobook! The podcast element made it even more engrossing, and I thoroughly enjoyed it!