SOMEONE'S LISTENING is a bit of a disturbing read but in a good way. Seraphina Nova Glass constructs a story that is suspenseful and terrifying.

Faith is a radio psychologist, giving relationship advice to women in their time of need. However, when her husband goes missing and pages from her book begin to appear she realises she might be the one in need of assistance….

Faith Finley is a great main character, as a psychologist she understands what she should do but so often ignores her own advice. She’s sarcastic and has a lot of flaws which makes her feel human and realistic. There were some points where I was internally yelling at the choices she was making though.

Someone’s Listening is a well-paced thriller that kept me guessing throughout. There were definitely a few red herrings that tripped me up and I wasn’t expecting the ending! I liked how it didn’t just wrap up neatly – there was still a real sense of loss which was appreciated. I’m not a fan of books that tie everything together with a happy ending (psychologists make of that what you will!) 

I really liked the idea of someone using Faith’s psychology advice against her but I would have liked it to have been taken a little further in this regard. I think the book pages only really crop up once or twice but I think they could have been used more to a greater effect.

Overall, Someone’s Listening is a well-paced thriller with an engaging main character. Thank you to NetGalley and Harlequin – Graydon House for the chance to read the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Dr. Faith Finley has achieved the level of success she’s always dreamed of. Not only does she host a radio spot dispensing advice, she’s also penned a self-help novel, all but guaranteed to launch her career even further.

So what happens when a former client accuses her of the unthinkable? Will all she’s accomplished go down in flames? Who’s willing to chance standing by her side? Her publisher? The radio station bigwigs? How about her husband?

Not enough problems for poor Dr. Finley? Okay, maybe just one more little issue to deal with… her husband has suddenly vanished.

This was a very clever, well developed thriller that held me right to the end. Filled with lots of surprises and twists, this book will keep you on your toes!

Looking forward to more from this author.

Thank you to NetGalley and Harlequin Trade Publishing - Graydon  House.

Faith has worked her ass off to get where she is in life. She's proud of the woman that she has become and the life that she has built for herself and her family. Then like everything in life...one night changes everything. 

Now Faith's husband is missing and she's having a hard time remembering the night of his disappearance. Not only is her memory flighty, but she's also suspect in the police investigation. One by one the building blocks of her life start to fall down and crumble. Leaving behind shambles where pride once stood. 

It's up to Faith to find out the truth behind her husband's disappearance and why someone is intent on ruining the life she has worked so hard for. 

Intriguing and thought provoking. Someone's Listening is a great suspenseful story.

Someone’s Listening, by author Seraphina Nova Glass is a standalone thriller. Faith Finley is a famous psychologist who is also a bestselling author and radio show called Someone’s Listening. She coaches women into how to leave abusive relationships. The story switches between then and now. The story really begins in the then when Faith and her husband Liam are in a horrific crash and he allegedly disappears without a trace after withdrawing a large sum of money and later a suicide note is discovered.

As Faith is trying to find Liam, the cops believe that he was never in the car and she made the entire story up. And then the notes start to appear; notes with quotes pulled straight from her own book. The ‘Now” part of the story deals with Faith having recovered from the accident and desperately trying to find out what happened to Liam. She has lost all her friends, her radio show has been cancelled, her life and career is in ruins, she drowns herself in any bottle of alcohol she can find, but thankfully she doesn’t jump bed to bed with the next thing that comes along just to make herself feel better.

As we switch back to the then, Faith is accused of having sexual relations with one of her clients. She knows it’s a lie, her sister knows it’s a lie, Liam knows it’s a lie, but in the era of the Me-Too movement, any hint of sexual inappropriateness leads to a career being destroyed, and friends turning their back on you. The only positive she can fall back on is her book signing which is well attended.  About halfway through the book, the story finally settles in the Now as Faith moves forward and makes friends with some pretty strange people in her complex and wonders why she ever walked away from her former flame Will Holloway who is a successful lawyer.

The last third of the book is a basket of mixed feelings for me. Faith was a good character but did come across not totally likeable. I felt for Faith but also had my suspicions about her and didn’t know who to trust. I had my suspicions about who the culprit was but that was only because I suspected pretty much every character at one point or another. I thought the story started a bit slow, and confusing at times, going back and forth, and I really felt mad when the truth about what really happened the night Liam disappeared.

Faith has a life most people dream about...she’s a psychologist, a best selling author and hosts a local radio show. She’s happily married to Liam, a food critic, that is until the night that her world fall apart. On the way home one night Faith and Liam are in a car accident. When Faith wakes up in the hospital, she’s asks about Liam but she’s told he wasn’t with her. Faith knows he was and argues but it’s no use the police are suspicious of Faith’s every word. 

Faith best selling novel is all about escaping a predator and now it seems one has her in their sights. She’s receiving notes from someone...notes from Faith’s own book. Lock your windows...invest in a steel door. Terrifying! 

This was an intense, quick read. I didn’t love Faith but it didn’t take away from the mystery. I had so many guesses but none of them were quite right. I will definitely read more by this author.

Faith did have it all, the first few pages you get to meet her and her life. Her husband Liam goes missing after she gets accused by one of her teenage patient of having a sexual relationship with him. Liam was always showed his support for his wife Faith, so when he disappears with out a trace people start to wonder if she might be a suspect and if their marriage was in trouble. I found Faith to be very funny and had a lot of great thoughts. The writing was good and the story was fast paced. The plot came together in the end and the I should of seen the reveal in the end, but I’m glad I didn’t. Seraphina did an amazing job with this mystery, and made sure to cover up any questions you might have. from the first page I couldn’t put my kindle down. With out giving away to much of the story, I’ll add an excerpt for you.

Thank you netgalley and Graydon house books for the blog tour

Alcohol and Klonopin-loving psychologist Faith Finley wakes up in the hospital after a car crash only to learn that her husband is missing, so she sets out to find the truth about what happened before and after his demise. 

Although it is a slow-going ride, told solely through Faith's perspective, it is so expertly-paced that it keeps you interested and guessing until the end! Full of twists and suspense so that you just want to keep reading and reading. I look forward to more from this author!

Thank you to NetGalley, Seraphina Nova Glass and the publisher for this great thriller!

this was a great mystery novel with great characters and I enjoyed going on this journey with the characters. I look forward to more from the author.

Dr. Finley is a radio therapist who doles out advice, including helping to make sure that abused women have a plan to escape from their situations. But her success is stripped away when a patient makes a stunning accusation against her, then suffers injuries from a car crash. If that wasn't enough, during the chaos of the car crash, her husband disappears. She is the only one who can figure out who is trying to make her life hell, and it isn't easy. 

This is a great thriller/mystery. What makes it so good is that the narrator is slightly unreliable because of her abuse of alcohol and prescription drugs. Along with that, you aren't really sure who is doing these things to her until nearly the end. A typical thriller gives it away about halfway through the book, but this one waits until nearly 90% of the book is read before you understand just what's taking place. It's certainly a book most thriller lovers will not want to put down until the last page.

This was a quick, easy, and dramatic read that kept me guessing the entire time. I feel like most people may think the twists and turns were a bit predictable in this book, but they actually were still enjoyable nonetheless.

This was another fun, dark romp where I was certain I knew what was happening, second guessed myself, and then realized I was on the right track to begin with.

I like sharply written, razor-witted characters with a dark inner monologue and I got that in spades with Faith Finley so if this is your thing, Someone's Listening is going to be a great fall read.

A mystery painted against a vividly drawn setting, Glass masterfully makes you root for a character that you're not sure if you should 100% trust and keeps you guessing from the beginning of the story to the end.

4 stars because of the misplaced British jargon peppered in that made me think I missed something in Faith's back story and slowed me down while I went back to search for it.

Otherwise, lovers of a good, suspenseful story will enjoy Someone's Listening.

Thank you, Netgalley, for a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for my honest opinion! 

Wow, just wow!!! I'm glad I got to read this book! I was so drawn in that I got the audio and finished listening to the book while doing my shopping. I just had to know what happened. I love it when that happens. I couldn't get enough of this story! This book deserves to be classified as a psychological thriller. It had all the action, mystery, and mind games that mark a good psychological thriller. I love that the main character is a psychologist and still couldn't figure out until it the very end what happened and who was behind this stalking. Fantastic book!

Someone's Listening is an edge of your seat thriller debut. Faith Finley is a successful, talented psychologist with a best-selling book and a popular radio show called Someone's Listening. She is happily married. Until Liam goes missing without a trace and the police are suspicious of Faith. Then the notes begin, notes that are Faith's own words taken from her book. The book is super twisty and creepy. Highly recommended to readers who enjoy thrillers and are looking for a new author in the genre. This is one not to be missed.

Someone’s Listening is Seraphina Nova Glass’s debut novel.  It is a thriller featuring Dr. Faith Finley who wakes up from an auto accident in the hospital to find her husband missing.  The police find no evidence of Liam being in the car despite Faith’s insistence.  All evidence points to Liam deciding to disappear.  Of course, it is understandable considering recent events. Their lives have been in flux. Faith leaves their Sugar Grove home to return to their Chicago condo.  Then the notes begin arriving.  Are they threats or warnings?  Someone’s Listening has a unique format.  It is told in alternating chapters of Then and Now.  We get to learn about Faith and Liam’s past in the Then chapters and what led up to the accident. I found Someone’s Listening to be slow starter with the pace increasing in the second half of the book. Some parts of the story moved very slowly.   There is some great suspense and action near the end that will have you riveted.  There are a variety of suspects and you will be wondering who you can trust.  Many readers will be surprised with the outcome. I was not a fan of Faith Findley.  She is an unlikeable main character who drinks and pops pills.  I would not want Faith as my therapist.  She was self-involved and just plain annoying.  I wish the main character had been friendly and warm.  It would have made a difference.  There is foul language, intimate relations, pill popping, and vast quantities of alcohol consumed in this story. Someone’s Listening is a twisty suspense novel with a lost spouse, nasty notes, an abundance of alcohol, a disengaged detective, and a prominent psychologist.

Faith Finley is a psychologist/therapist, who appears to have it all.  She is a successful author, with her own radio advice show, and she’s happily married to the love of her life, Liam.  Then it begins to fall apart.  A former patient accuses her of having a sexual relationship with him while he was underage.  Her career suffers damage, and she and Liam have to endure the snubs and attacks of colleagues who are only too happy to see Faith’s fall from grace.  When driving home from a book signing, Faith and Liam are in a serious car accident.  When Faith awakes in the hospital, she’s told that she was alone in the car, and her husband seems to have disappeared.  Her tox report shows that she had a high level of drugs in her system, though Faith is sure she didn’t take any pills that night.  The evidence points to Liam choosing to disappear on his own.

As time passes and there is no sign of Liam, Faith spirals into living on alcohol and pills, while still being determined to find her missing husband and the truth.  She begins to receive anonymous notes which quote from her book, but with seemingly ominous intent.  The police begin to finally believe Faith, and encourage her to leave her condo for a safe location, but she’s determined to stay in her home and to continue her pursuit. Who could want so badly to destroy Faith’s life and career?  Is Liam responsible?  Is he even alive?  Could it be her ex-lover, Will, who never recovered from her leaving him for Liam?  Or, maybe the computer hacker, Marty, who lives in the building?  What about her drug addicted and abusive parents?  Or even her sister’s enigmatic husband?

SOMEONE’S LISTENING is a book that definitely captured my attention and interest.  The writing is well done, and I have to admit that I was wrong about who the villain was.  The one thing that detracted from the book for me was the actual main character, Faith.  Though I can’t deny that she suffered greatly, she was truly a train wreck.  Her constant pill popping and drinking had me shaking my head, as did many of her impulsive and unwise actions.  As an educated psychologist, she was well aware of what she shouldn’t be doing, yet she forged ahead.  Those actions came close to costing Faith her life.  The twists and the suspense were excellently crafted, making this a true page turner, and a recommended read for fans of this genre.

Faith Finley is a psychologist with a radio talk show called “Someone’s Listening.” After the book launch for her latest self-help book, she gets into a car accident with her husband, Liam. However, Liam wasn’t found at the scene of the accident with her. Liam has disappeared without a trace. Faith is also dealing with the repercussions of a sexual assault allegation from a patient. When Faith starts getting threats that are ripped out of the pages of her own book, it becomes more urgent for her to figure out what happened to Liam.

This story started out with some thriller tropes. Faith had a different version of reality than the people around her. She believed that her husband was in the car with her when she had the accident, but he wasn’t found there. Faith also came from an abusive household and was a heavy drinker, both tropes in the thriller genre. Once the main mystery of finding Liam was underway and Faith started to get threats, the story left the tropes behind and became its own story.

The layout of this story was a little confusing at the beginning. The chapters alternated between “then,” which was immediately after the car accident, and “now,” which was seven months after the accident. These chapters were confusing because they were so similar. Both time periods would flashback to other events, so I had a hard time keeping the events in the correct order. The second half of the book was much more linear because it remained in the present, rather than switching back to the past.

I was quite surprised at the ending. I had a couple of suspects in mind, who weren’t actually the main suspects in the story. The person who was threatening Faith wasn’t who I suspected at all. There were a couple of red herrings, which weren’t cleared up at the end and just made me suspect the wrong people, but most of the clues lined up with the guilty person.

This was a great thriller!

Thank you HarperCollins for providing a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

The book opens with an accident. Faith is found driving her car and seriously injured. Liam, her husband is not in the car. She is sure that he was driving when they left the party to launch her new book. Where is Liam? What can't she remember? Faith Finley is a loving wife, a psychologist, the host of a popular call-in radio show and author of a just published self-help novel. Her life is now a mess due to one of her teenage patients publicly accusing her of having a sexual relationship with him. Faith’s husband, Liam, supports Faith through the fallout, until the night he goes missing. The evidence points to him wanting to disappear, to get away from the notoriety, but Faith is sure something happened to him.

This was an entertaining read. The story is told from Faith's perspective and she is a wonderful, well-developed character. Her inner dialogue is so well written. There is a dual-timeline, but Ms. Glass did a great job with the flow between the now and then. The plot was well-developed and the pacing was great. I thought I had it all figured out, but I was not correct. I loved the twists and the finale was fantastic. A fun ride from start to finish. I recommend this one to those who enjoy psychological suspense and thriller stories

OMG! What a dynamite book! Talk about suspense, thrills, and mystery! Someone's Listening by Seraphina Nova Glass is fantastic! I couldn't put it down for anything. I was hooked from page one. This story had me reading late into the night to find out what would happen next. It was seriously the epitome of an unputdownable read. I just LOVED it!!

Faith has it all. She's successful in her career, her marriage, and in her life. Things are perfect until they are not. Yep, life winds up throwing a bunch of lemons at Faith. Her husband disappears. He's missing or gone. And, she's a suspect. Plus, someone is sending her notes filled with quotes from a book she wrote. Quotes filled with ways to protect yourself in case someone is out to get you. Faith is freaked out, stressed out, and worried to the nth degree. What is she going to do? Who's sending these notes to her? Where's her husband?

Glass has written a terrific thriller that is chock full of twists and turns that will have you guessing every which way. You won't be able to help yourself when you get sucked down the rabbit hole of trying to figure out whodunit. I absolutely LOVED spending a rainy night with Someone's Listening.

I am so tired of the drunk, unreliable narrator. It was kind of cool for Girl on the Train, but at this point, it's been done. I much prefer new takes like Silent Patient, but I digress.
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Other than the protagonist driving me crazy, which I get was kind of the point, this was a very satisfying mystery. A little slow in the beginning, I felt like this could have been edited a little, but the ending proved that the beginning had its purpose even if it made for slightly frustrating reading. Specifically, I could have used a few less inner monologues about her desperate, mixed up feelings.  It set up the second half of the book nicely, but dragged the first half down a bit.

I also wish the creep factor could have been turned up a bit, but the stalkerish notes were good to build suspense. I just didn't feel the danger as I should have until the ending, which was spot on dark and thrilling, if a little too quick. I did love the twists with the ex, the nosy neighbor, and the tech support neighbor. Great idea for a mystery because Seraphina Nova Glass brilliantly used red herrings to keep the ending a surprise even though all of the players and clues were available.

Overall, good mystery, tons of narrator uncertainty, and a great ending.