Dr. Faith Finley is a successful therapist whose goal is to help women escape their abusers. From in person therapy, anonymous radio call-ins, to a book complete with lists to give victims a step-by-step, she’s celebrated by many but also hated by some.

After a heinous accusation from a former patient, her life as she knows it begins to crumble. Her reputation is shattered, her husband questions her, and her friends abandon her.

After a car accident, her husband goes missing and her credibility is again questioned due to drugs being found in her system after the wreck. The police tell her she was the only one in the car when they arrived on scene. But she’s adamant Liam was with her and she was sober.

As Faith tries to find her husband and clear her name, it becomes obvious she is not safe. Someone’s leaving an obscene photo coupled with tips and quotes cut out from her book. Faith takes matters into her own hands and starts investigating who would have motive to threaten her and take her husband but as the villain closes in and her family is also at risk, Faith isn’t sure who is friend or foe.

Chock full of unreliable characters and plenty of potential suspects, this one kept me guessing. I thoroughly enjoyed the suspense!

Definitely enjoyed this one. The ending actually threw me off from who I originally thought the bad guy was. Someone's listening is worth the read!

My Rating:

4.5

Favorite Quotes:

I heard one of the women complain about her kids, and then say something like “but what is a home without children?” And uninvited, I answered, “quiet.”

He made a joke about how people with toddlers refer to them in months, and stated that if they’re over a year old, you can just say “a year,” not fifteen months. They’re not aged cheese.

I think of the Barbie graveyard we had in the garden where we’d buried fourteen Barbie dolls, in all, after Biff Larson’s dog next door chewed up their heads. Each doll had its own name and gravestone, and each had a proper funeral with personalized eulogies.

But it’s all the postmortem depression, that’s what the doctors say. Well, not a doctor, but her cousin Angie who want to be a nurse. It’s real shit though. I looked it up. After chicks have babies and stuff.


My Review:

I struggled with this one and waffled in how to rate this perplexing and engrossing tale. I marveled at the clever plot, the sustained and steadily ratcheting level of tension, the intrigue, peril, twists and turns, witty snark, and unexpectedly amusing observations. But damn, I had trouble even halfway liking the main character of Faith. I felt so badly for her struggle, but I wasn’t drawn to Faith as I found her to be annoyingly self-involved and making extremely poor decisions and idiotically abusing substances, all of which didn’t jive with her training and experience as a popular and highly successful psychologist.

Faith was impulsive, causing calamity, and making a mess of everything she touched. I surprised she didn’t have alcohol poisoning with the vast amounts she was tossing down. I had nearly lost all patience with her once she had begun spiraling out of control and losing touch with reality, but the compounding and confounding intrigue were just too good to give up. I was hopelessly ensnared, on the hook, deeply invested, and grinding my teeth for fear parts of this elaborate and multi-layered mystery would never be solved.

It was ingeniously clever, maddeningly paced, and tantalized me with misdirections, red herrings, and false assumptions. Everyone seemed to be suspect at one time or another and I would never have come up with this ending. Sigh, I’ll need a spa day, a crate of Moscato, and a stack of rom/coms to recover from this one. Seraphina Nova Glass (love that name) is a wily minx.

Someone’s Listening by Seraphina Nova Glass was and edge of the seat thriller. Faith is successful and happy with her life. She seems to have it all, until she doesn’t. The once successful author, host of a popular program and wife has fallen and fallen hard. But one night changes everything. While fighting a personal attack on her and her business, her husband goes missing. Questions are being asked and all of them are directed at her. What is going on? Who can she trust? The story was full of twists and turns and I was captivated with the story and suspense from beginning to end.

Happy reading!

Change your locks. Have a bag packed. Get somewhere safe. Words that Dr. Faith Finley wrote to protect the vulnerable are now being sent to her anonymously. She is being hunted and everyone around her has the potential to be a predator. She has no one to turn to and nowhere to hide.

Right before I started reading Someone’s Listening by Seraphina Nova Glass, I had finished Karin Slaughter’s latest novel. That’s a tough act to follow, but Glass totally held her own. I was immediately hooked and couldn’t wait to find out what was going on.

After the disappearance of her husband, Faith is a bit of a mess. Scratch that. She’s a total mess. She staves off anxiety with a pint or two of pinot noir before noon and turns down any and all invitations to socialize until there are none left to refuse. But despite this, she’s a lovable character because we understand why she’s a mess and it’s clear that she is still, underneath it all, a very strong woman. After what she’s been through, there isn’t anyone who wouldn’t be just as messy.

Someone’s Listening is a fantastic book, full of mystery and intrigue, and heart-pounding suspense. It was exceptionally well-written, pulling me in and stealing hours of my time without my realizing it. And you know what? I wouldn’t have wanted to spend those hours reading anything else.

Thanks so much to Graydon House Books and Harlequin for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review, and for including me on this summer’s blog tour!

I just could not get into this story. The only character I found likeable was Will. The protagonist, psychologist Faith Finley, wrote a bestselling book on how to get out of an abusive situation and has a popular local radio program, Someone’s Listening. She did not come across as a professional psychologist to me. She was also heavy into drugs and alcohol, which certainly did not help her credibility when she insisted her husband was with her when she was in an auto accident. Yet he was nowhere to be found when the emergency services arrived. Now Faith’s husband is missing, and she is the prime suspect.

Then Faith begins receiving threatening notes ripped from her own book. Does she have a stalker? The story seemed to drag in several places, and I found myself skimming over those pages. There were twists and turns with false leads as I tried to figure out who it might be. But as it all comes together at the end the pace became frantic. I admit that I was surprised when the culprit was revealed.

Thank you to the publisher for the advance copy. All opinions expressed here are my own.

Title: Someone’s Listening
Author: Seraphina Nova Glass
Genre: Thriller
Rating: 4 out of 5

Dr. Faith Finley has everything she’s ever wanted: she’s a renowned psychologist, a radio personality—host of the wildly popular “Someone’s Listening with Dr. Faith Finley”—and a soon-to-be bestselling author. She’s young, beautiful, and married to the perfect man, Liam.

Of course Liam was at Faith’s book launch with her. But after her car crashes on the way home and she’s pulled from the wreckage, nobody can confirm that Liam was with her at the party. The police claim she was alone in car, and they don’t believe her when she says otherwise. Perhaps that’s understandable, given the horrible thing Faith was accused of doing a few weeks ago.

And then the notes start arriving—the ones literally ripped from the pages of Faith’s own self-help book on leaving an abusive relationship. Ones like “Secure your new home. Consider new window and door locks, an alarm system, and steel doors…”

Where is Liam? Is his disappearance connected to the scandal that ruined Faith’s life? Who is sending the notes? Faith’s very life will depend on finding the answers.

This one took me a while to get into. I almost stopped reading about 15% in because I didn’t like Faith very much. It ended up improving, but I still didn’t care for Faith. I felt like she was either just letting life happen to her, or she was making colossally stupid decisions that even she knew were a bad idea at the time. Neither of those things make me like a character, and if I don’t like a character, what’s the point in reading?

I think the mystery was well-done, with a nice red herring thrown in at the end. I didn’t figure out who did it, possibly because I was distracted by all my other guesses. In the end, this was a solid read, but yeah, still didn’t like Faith.

Seraphina Nova Glass is an Assistant Professor of Instruction and Playwright-In-Residence at the University of
Texas, Arlington where she teaches Film Studies and Playwriting. Someone’s Listening is her debut novel.

(Galley courtesy of Harlequin/Graydon House in exchange for an honest review.)

She wrote the book on escaping a predator… Now one is coming for her.

Faith Finley is a psychologist. Her career is going great, and she hosts a radio program. Life's wonderful— until it all goes wrong. Her husband Liam, a respected food critic, is missing.

Faith is the prime suspect as pages from her book are found.

Can Faith save herself before it's too late? Will Liam be found? Who is behind all this?

I was hooked by the synopsis and the plot. What really stood out to me and I was fascinated by was the fact that Faith wrote a book and then that same book was used against her. I was so eager to find out what was going to happen and this is a really gripping novel.

The writing and plot are sharp and the novel is twisty. The title sent shivers down my spine and I think Someone's Watching is for anyone who likes an excellently written thriller.

If you enjoyed the plot and suspense of Before I go to Sleep by S.J. Watson, you will love Someone's Watching.


Thanks to Seraphina Nova Glass and Graydon House in exchange for an honest and voluntary review.

From my blog: Always With a Book:

As a big fan of psychological thrillers, I was eager to get my hands on this one and just as excited to see that it was from a new-to-me author. I'm happy to say, it was one crazy ride and I will certainly be keeping an eye out for what Seraphina Nova Glass writes next!

I love nothing more than a protagonist that I am a little unsure about and Faith Finley certainly delivers on that end. Not only is she a completely flawed and complex character, but she is also so damaged that she doesn't even realize it. Enter the drinking and use of narcotics to get through the day. Of course, her issues are compounded by the fact that her husband goes missing yet no one believes her. Everyone else thinks he's run off but she intuitively knows something more sinister is going on.

This book, starting with the title, is addictive and just a little creepy. Not nightmarishly so, but just enough that it keeps you on edge, wondering just what the heck is going on. Faith's mental stability only adds to the complexity of what is already a crazy story.

The suspense builds throughout this story and while I thought I had things figured out, I found myself second-guessing things a time or two. The twists and turns this book takes, especially towards the end really ramped up the tension and while I ended up being right with my first guess, I never put all the pieces together as to the why.

This is such a fun, wild ride and I cannot recommend it enough. It's the perfect read to escape in during these crazy times...you will surely not be able to put this book down once you start it!

Someone's Listening was a fairly solid mystery. It's a milder psychological thriller with a questionable narrator. I did like that I never really knew if Faith was telling the truth. She is an alcoholic who can't prove she didn't kill her husband. The book has multiple scenarios that Faith investigated, so it did keep me guessing. My biggest complaint about the book was the pacing. It was a bit slow at times. I also wasn't a huge fan of Faith. For a psychologist, she made a lot of dumb decisions. I also never got the feeling that she was in a lot of danger. In the end, I did see some growth. I do recommend giving this one a try. While not my favorite thriller of the year, it was still enjoyable.

From the eye-catching cover to the creepy title to intriguing blurb, Someone's Listening grabbed my attention and raised my expectations pretty high. Now, that could've gone either way, and I usually try to avoid assumptions one way or the other when I crack open a new book. Honestly, I just couldn't help it with this one, and it did not disappoint. Other than a few small lags in the middle, this psychological thriller kept me turning the pages to see what would happen next. Faith drove me a bit crazy with her choices, and I really wanted to give her a good shake at times. That said, an unlikable main character isn't a dealbreaker for me, especially in the thriller genre. Likable character or not, this is one edge of your seat story. The story is fast-paced other than that few small exceptions already mentioned, and we get a fair amount of red herrings to sift through. Speaking of red herrings, I did manage to guess correctly, but Seraphina Nova Glass knows the art of psychological thrillers and utilized it wonderfully. She made me doubt my guess more than once, and by the end, I wasn't at all certain. So, to sum it up, this psychological thriller is everything I expected, and I'll be on the lookout for whatever this author does next.

Not halfway through this book, I was already recommending it to family and friends. I was hooked before the end of the prologue, and it only got better and better. Seraphine Nova Glass cleverly drops clues about how Faith Finlay's life implodes and how her downward spiral into depression and addiction began.

We meet Faith when the trajectory of her life has already changed. She's inexplicably accused of an unforgivable action. Embroiled in the scandal, she finds her husband shutting down on her and intake of alcohol and medication to control the inevitable panic attacks. The story is told in both present and past as Faith reflects on what was and what is. Her stress and drinking only increase as the truth about her husband's disappearance is revealed and she begins receiving threatening messages.

I really enjoyed the pace of the story and how the mystery unfolds. It's a wonderful suspense read that doesn't lack for possible suspects and when it's revealed, you see how easily Faith is duped by her adversary. As a reader, I didn't see it coming and I always love reflecting on the clues. Glass is a new to me author and I look forward to reading more by her. 4 Stars and recommendation!

**3.5-stars rounded up**

Self-Help guru, Faith Finley, has suffered a lot of trauma in her life. Luckily enough, she has been able to spin these negative events and use them for good. Those horrifying personal experiences help her better relate to the individuals she counsels and she feels like it makes her advice more credible. Just when her career is starting to take off, with a successful book published and regular radio and television spots, a sex scandal hits the news waves and her reputation is instantly shattered. A past patient has come forward and made some pretty damning allegations against her. Since her main area of interest is abusive or toxic relationships, this patient's claim seems particularly ironic. She can't believe it. She had such a good relationship with him. Why would he do this to her?

Faith doesn't take the scrutiny well, relying on pills and drink to get her through. Her loving husband, Liam, claims to believe her, but still, their relationship begins to feel the strain as well. After a mysterious accident, Liam disappears. Faith is desperate to find him, or at least find out what happened to him. Is it a case of a man fleeing an unhappy marriage or did something more sinister happen to him? When Faith ends up a suspect in his disappearance, she becomes even more determined to find out the truth.

With her own mental health spiraling, it's hard to determine how much Faith actually knows. Y'all know, I love a unreliable narrator and Faith Finley fits that description to a T. In addition to the fantastic use of an unreliable narrator trope, you also have Faith working a bit as an amateur sleuth in order to determine what happened to Liam. Having two of my favorite tropes, it is no surprise that I really enjoyed Someone's Listening. I found it easy to become completely immersed within the story. Faith has a lot of flaws, but I think they are flaws that many readers will be able to relate to.

She's not claiming to be perfect and I think after everything she has gone through, you can't help but root for her to finally get some peace. There are so many twists and turns and exciting leads that Faith follows during her investigation. Red herrings are plentiful and really well executed, in my opinion. The only thing I was a little disappointed about was that, for some reason, I thought there was going to be a radio show involved in the story and there's not. Admittedly, that's my own fault, but I just wish we could have got a little more of her in action in her career, but that isn't a part of it at all.

Overall, I think this is a fun, fast Domestic Suspense novel that a lot of Readers will enjoy!

Thank you so much to the publisher, Graydon House and NetGalley, for providing me with a copy of this to read and review, I definitely hope to read more from Seraphina Nova Glass in the future!

Imagine waking up to discover you’d been seriously injured in a car accident. Now imagine how much more shocking it would be when your husband, who was in the car with you, is missing.

This is what happens at the beginning of this book, as Faith Finlay wakes up in the hospital and has to begin slowly piecing her life back together. A therapist with a successful practice, a part-time radio career and a book deal, Faith’s husband Liam is a top food critic. Together, they’re a perfect couple. On paper.

There’s evidence that Liam may have been planning to leave, and the police don’t seem interested in looking for him. Faith can’t believe it, but as she digs, more and more things come to light that she didn’t know about her husband.

Written in two timeframes, before the accident and several weeks post-recovery as Faith tries to come to terms with her new reality, this is really cleverly done. It takes a long time for Faith to finally realise she’s being gaslighted and she’s the target or a concerted attack; though clues were planted early on, I absolutely didn’t see the villain reveal coming.

It would be easy to resent Faith for having it all; she’s pretty, clever, successful etc., but she’s also falling apart at the seams and descending into depression and dependence on alcohol and prediction drugs. She’s a reliable protagonist but she’s not operating with all the information, the reader learning right along with her what’s really going on and being just as shocked as she is. It’s not always an easy read and there are quite a few potential triggers in it, from the aforementioned alcohol/drug dependency to parental abuse of a child, gaslighting, partner violence and a surprisingly gory description of an accidental death.

This is such a clever read and I was genuinely hooked. There are a few spots where things get a little slow and quite a lot of red herrings, but they’re all a logical part of Faith’s investigation and her character arc. It’s a really excellent psychological suspense and I will definitely be looking for more books by this author. Five stars.

Faith Finley is a psychologist that published books and has a successful radio show. Her marriage to food critic Liam Finley is perfect until the day he disappears. Police either suspect her or think she's crazy, and she gets notes with phrases from her books advising women how to leave abusive partners. This escalates, and the mystery of Liam's disappearance intensifies.

Faith may have had a popular radio show and was getting popular with her books regarding domestic violence, but her personal life was messy. As much as she was in love and they had a great relationship, cracks appeared as soon as there were aspersions on her character. They were pretty big accusations of child abuse leveled against her, which would definitely be enough to wreck careers, not just marriages. Following this was the car accident that Liam disappeared from, and Faith coped by drinking too much and taking more Klonopin for her anxiety than usual. For someone who grew up in an abusive home with a junkie mother, this seems to be a really poor decision. Then again, children in those households usually do the exact same thing or separate themselves and become the exact opposite.

Faith is the kind of stubborn person that has to take control in some way when she feels out of control, and so much of the situation is out of her hands. She's a flawed heroine, at least. She's not perfect and definitely makes poor choices along the way. This makes her human and approachable, even as she can be frustrating at times. I wanted to yell at her "They just told you NOT to do that!" in response to some of her actions. But at the same time, other choices she made that I thought were dumb turned out to be not as disastrous as I thought they would be. (Trying not to spoil the ending here, sorry if that's too vague.) So again, she's real in that sense. Sometimes we make dumb choices under pressure, and somehow it turns out okay.

The conclusion of the novel tied it off neatly and quickly, with an exciting payoff for all of the building tension in the second half.

A Psychological Thriller with a Twist

Faith Finley is a psychologist and a best selling author. Her books on how to deal with an abusive spouse have catapulted her to fame. She’s also married to Liam, a food critic. Their’s is a happy marriage until on the night of a release of one of her books, he disappears.

She’s been receiving receiving accusations and is upset that Liam is not instantly supportive, but she gives him space and on the night of her book release things seem much better. That’s why it’s such a shock when he disappears.

The police go through the motions of investigating, but Faith knows they don’t believe her. She tries to deal with her demons with alcohol and pills, but threats keep coming, and she’s not sure who to trust. She particularly wants to avoid her neighbor, Hilly Lancaster who has an unexpected tie to Liam. When the police don’t believe her and threatening notes continue, Faith has to try to find the answer to the mystery.

This mystery is full of twists. I didn’t see the end coming until it was almost on me. I didn't’ care for Fiaith’s character. She had reasons to distrust events, but her use of alcohol and pills to solve her problems seemed a poor choice.

The story is well written, and it will definitely keep you guessing.

I received this book from Harlequin for this review.

I have been having a tough time with thrillers lately and have lost my groove with them. Well, Seraphina Nova Glass had me grooving to the pace here with this entertaining story.

The mystery here is suspenseful and interesting with well-developed characters. The story is layered with well done red herrings, twists and turns that that kept me on my toes going back and forth with who I shouldn't be trusting. I had my eye on a few characters here and suspected most of them.

I had mixed feelings here with our main character Faith, and at times I found her entertaining with her snarky inner voice, and at other times, I found her a bit annoying. I liked her, and I disliked her, and at times, I questioned her actions. I like her vulnerable side, but not so much her flaws. Her pill-popping and drinking weighed on me at times, and I wish we would have been shown more there rather than told every time she popped one.

Some things I saw coming and some things took me by surprise. What I didn't see coming were well layered and paced. Things get tense, and that final climax had me gripping my kindle and clicking the pages as fast as I could. I like how everything wrapped up, and I was left satisfied after finishing this one! I recommend it!

4+ stars! Well-written, snarky and suspenseful!

Dr. Faith Finley is a loving wife, a psychologist, host of a popular radio show and author of a bestselling self-help novel. Her life is thrown upside down when one of her teenage patients publicly accuses her of having a sexual relationship with him. Faith’s husband, Liam, supports Faith throughout her public demise until he goes missing from the scene of a car crash where Faith was driving.

If you enjoy snarky, sarcastic inner thoughts and dialogue, you will LOVE Dr. Faith Finley! I adored her character and found her inner snark so extremely entertaining and hilarious. I was giggling to myself at several points throughout this story. The entire novel unfolds through her perspective so connecting with her is a must in order to enjoy this book.

The writing was excellent! The pace was perfect and the plot flowed seamlessly between a Now and Then timeline in the first portion of the novel. 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. My curiosity was piqued from the first to last page and I enjoyed every twist this story held. A fantastic page-turner that I highly recommend!

Thank you to NetGalley for my review copy!

Someone's Listening is an extremely suspenseful story and kicks off with a tantalising prologue. The reader is first introduced to Faith Finley, a talented psychologist with a flourishing career, a bestselling author and the host of a popular local radio program, Someone’s Listening. One icy winter's night she is travelling home from a book launch party, then wakes up in hospital having been in a car crash. Happily married Faith asks for her husband Liam, but he appears to have vanished... into thin air. The police aren't listening to Faith's concerns, but then she starts receiving threatening messages.

This compelling début had me hooked from the very first paragraph, and Faith made a very good, if unreliable protagonist. In this chaotic whirl of lies and duplicity, the abundant wicked twists and turns kept me guessing from the start. The complex characters and arresting dialogue helped to make Someone's Listening a riveting read. For me, the cherry topping was the obvious ability of Seraphina Nova Glass as she probed ever deeper into the psyches of her characters, creating some fascinating, though alarmingly troubled souls. I read it in one day and was left dumbfounded after the astounding, fast-paced conclusion. Very highly recommended to fans of the genre. 😊

A special thank you to Graydon House Books, the author, and NetGalley for a complimentary copy of this novel at my request. This review is my unbiased opinion.

This book really took me by surprise, I kinda doubting it at first, because I'm not a fan of the main character, she's an alcoholic and always popping pills here and there, I understand where she comes from and what's happening to her is really horrific, but the more I read, the more I admire her determination to find out the truth, when lots of people doubt her, she's trying her best to proof them wrong, therefore I respect her in the end and root for her happy ending.

As for the story, I loveeee it, lots of questions and mystery in every chapter, makes me wondering what's the truth, who's lying, is there really a bad guy, it's kinda playing with my mind and keeps me turning page after page and the twist!!!...wow totally didn't see it coming, yup this book has captivating story, it got me frustrated, sad and a bit teary at the end, so I definitely recommend it for mystery and thrillers addict.