Diana Sparrow was in a car accident where she broke both her collarbones, also had to have emergency surgery to remove her gallbladder, which cause anesthesia-induced amnesia. Diane may or may not recover her missing memories for five months.

Valerie, Diana's best friend, is having an affair with Jonathan, Diana's husband. Valerie believes that Diana is pretending to have amnesia. They go back a very long time, and once saw each other as sisters more than just friends. Valerie can't quite forgive Diana for their agreement, because Val refuses to keep her end of the deal.

With Diana unable to care for herself, she's had to rely on Harriett, her mother-in-law for help. Diana's relationship with her own mother was very rocky, so she sees Harriett as a mother she never had. As Diana recuperates, it's starting to feel like Harriett is a little too smothering, as Harriett has a key to the house and pops in and out as she pleases. A house, that once belonged to her mother-in-law, who moved out of and into the apartment above the garage.

To cope with her memory loss, Diana sees a psychiatrist, Dr. Levitt, where mostly they discuss reoccurring nightmares, that to Diana feel very real. Dr. Levitt suggests for her to take up a new hobby to do something creative. It is this suggestion, that Diana takes up watercoloring, and meets Cole Pelham at a coffee shop. What Diana doesn't realize is it's not the first time meeting Cole.

This story was engrossing with all the twists and turns. In the beginning, I didn't think very highly of Diana or Val. Diana for coercing her friend into a plan, and for Valerie for going along with it. As the story goes along, and more background is given regarding the friends, as one dirty deed deserves another. Secrets held between sisters, and one feeling they owe the other. Harriet drove me nuts! In the beginning, I felt she was only trying to help, but her behavior was odd and too clingy. I felt sorry for Cole, who out of everyone, wanting to tell Diana everything, but knowing her condition and not knowing how. The ending was explosive, I did not see that coming at all!

I received an ARC from NetGalley via Crooked Lane Books and I have voluntarily reviewed this book.

After a car accident, Diana Sparrow has anesthesia-induced amnesia and cannot remember the last few months of her life. She knows her husband is having an affair with her best friend, Val, but can't remember what led them to get together. Val's mother-in-law has been taking care of her since the accident, and when Cole Pelham enters her life, she starts to wonder what really happened.

This story was told from three different perspectives - Diana's, Val's, and Cole's. They are all unreliable narrators, but I found the story very intriguing especially with Diana's memory loss. My biggest issue was that none of these characters are likable. They're all really bad people and complete liars.

There were some really big twists throughout the story though. The problem is that I was able to figure all of them out including the really strange one at the end. I kept thinking to myself, "that can't be what is happening", but it was. I'm not sure how this author came up with that ending, but it was very icky and not realistic in my opinion.

If you're looking for a fast-paced thriller this might be a good one for you, but it fell a little flat for me.

Thank you NetGalley and Crooked Lane Books for an advanced copy in exchange for my honest review.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Crooked Lane Books for gifting me a digital ARC of this thriller by Mina Hardy. Between being hard to put down and that ending - 4.5 stars! And what a gorgeous cover!

Diana Sparrow had a car accident and is still healing from her physical injuries. In addition, she suffered medical amnesia and can't remember anything about the accident or the period before. She keeps having vivid dreams though that are threatening her sanity. And what she does know for sure s that her husband, Jonathan, is having an affair with her best friend, Val. While he professes to be working late at night, she is at home trying to heal with only her mother-in-law to help her. Then she meets a new man, Cole, at an adult ed class and finally feels she has someone to care about her.

Told in the different viewpoints of Diane, Val and Cole in different timeframes as we learn how all these characters ended up together. While some things were obvious, there were enough twists and turns that kept me glued to the pages until that disturbing ending.

Who can you really trust!

Diana was in a serious car accident and had immediate surgery and was left with anesthesia.induced amnesia and she doesn't not remember anything about any events that occurred the year prior to her accident. Diana was helpless for many months after her accident due to both collar bones being broken alone with her fractured ribs and so many other injuries, so she was dependent on her wonderful but sometimes very smothering mother-in-law who was so patient and kind to her throughout her recovery with taking care of all the cooking and household chores that needed to be done everyday since Diana's husband was working all the time and also having an affair with her best friend Val. As Diana continues to improve she finds herself having reactions to her medications (she does drink alcohol often) and is having dizzy spells with complete exhaustion happening regularly but she still needs her prescriptions because her pain can be unbearable at times. Lately, Diana is finding more and more pieces of her memory disappearing along with having recurring, horrific nightmares where she thinks she buried a body in her back yard and wakes up screaming on a regular basis. Something is very wrong with Diana and she keeps having setbacks with her healing and memory loss and also also is having feelings of being watched and followed by an invisible presence. Is all this in Diana's head of is something more sinister happening to her as she begins to distrust all the people around her as well as her own sanity. What really happened on the night of Diana's car accident and is her life in danger if she recovers those deeply buried memories or did Diana do something so horrible that her brain had hidden an awful and devastating truth from her present state of consciousness.

This was a very entertaining story and a fast read. The first part of the story moved slowly but halfway in it became a real page turner. The majority of the characters were annoying and unlikeable including Diana. I thought I knew how the story would play out but nothing could have prepared me for the most wild, ludicrous and unpredictable twists that this book took so it got an extra star from me even though the story seemed rushed at the ending but it was a lot of fun to read this outrageous story.. I look forward to reading more books by Mina Hardy in the future.

I want to thank the publisher 'Crooked Lane Books" and Netgalley for the opportunity to read this book and any thoughts and opinions expressed are unbiased and mine alone!

I have given this book a rating of 3 1/2 Shocking 🕞🌟🌟🌟🌠 Stars!!

What first drew me to After All I've Done was the stunning cover, the business of it and the quiet way in which the title stands out. And then the blurb had everything I could ask for as well: broken friendships, tense marriages, memory loss and a mysterious accident. Who could ask for more? Well, sadly After All I've Done did leave me hanging a bit. Thanks to Crooked Lane Books and NetGalley for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

One of my favourite things to find out about authors is how they write, or rather, how they craft their plot. I've heard of all kind of methods, from carefully crafted outlines that take up dozens of pages, to more simplified plans that paint a rough picture. Others prefer to just start writing and shape the material as it comes. Tolkien would begin re-typing his document every time he decided to change up something about the plot. As a wannabe-writer myself, I often wonder how I would go about it. The fear of plot holes, of loose endings and an unsatisfying conclusion would probably put me in the former camp, yet I've never been able to properly finish a plot outline, let alone a novel. I'm hammering on about this because a stable plot, and accompanying stable character development, is so crucial, especially in thrillers. In order to keep the suspense going and to keep a reader on the edge of their seat, it does all have to fit together perfectly. A random character can't just remain random. Like Chekov's gun, an obviously displayed plot device has to be used. The issue I ran into with After All I've Done is that much of the plotting felt very recognizable and yet the ending didn't come together for me. Somewhere halfway through the book it lost its cohesion for me and I was wondering if it was all going somewhere satisfying.

Diana thinks she may have lost her mind. After a car accident she is left badly injured and with memory gaps, although harrowing dreams make her think there was more to her accident than her husband is admitting. Her best friend is no longer speaking to her and she is not sure why. A handsome stranger keeps popping up and seems to know her oddly well. So what happened? Honestly, a lot happens! After All I've Done flits back and forth between elements from the past and Diana's current, confused present. The ex-best friend, Valerie, and mystery stranger, Cole, also get the opportunity to narrate chapters, which mostly adds to the confusion. It is clear a lot happened in the time Diana can't remember, but the gaps are not really filled in by the narration from Valerie and Cole. Rather, the tension is predictably heightened chapter by chapter, and then deflates with what feels like a rushed ending that tries to shock but really only feels misplaced.

This is my first book by Mina Hardy and there were a few things she did in After All I've Done that completely hooked me. The descriptions of Diana struggling with her injuries and the slow road towards recovery was very well done and added an interesting layer to the novel. Sadly this is then occasionally forgotten when the plot calls for Diana to do something physical. I also enjoyed the tension Hardy built between Diana and Cole, although the plotline also felt a little exploitative to me. The plotline with her mother-in-law is often repetitive and yet clearly hinting at danger, which leads to my pet peeve of heroines blatantly ignoring red flags right in front of them. Many aspects of the plot feel predictable, which can be part of the joy of reading thrillers, but then towards the end it seemed as if Hardy felt that she needed to throw in something unexpected to make After All I've Done truly rememberable. Instead the ending is a little sickening and disconnected from the tensions built prior.

Although After All I've Done did keep my attention, I found myself rolling my eyes a little too often. When everything was brought together in the end, it fell flat which lead to me questioning just what had kept me interested for so long.

In 𝘈𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘐‘𝘷𝘦 𝘋𝘰𝘯𝘦, Diana Sparrow is recovering from a horrific car accident in which she broke both collar bones. The anesthesia doctors gave her during emergency surgery triggered amnesia, and she lost memories of the last five months. Plus, she can’t explain things happening in her house—how the thermostat changes from one extreme to another, why her pill bottles are empty when she doesn’t remember taking them, or how she’s gone through two cases of her favorite Chardonnay.

Even if she thought her husband might help her, she no longer trusts him since she found out he is sleeping with her best friend, Val. Her mother-in-law is doting but would be heartbroken to learn of her son’s infidelity.

Vivid nightmares that feel as strong as memories signal to Diana that she might be guilty of nefarious deeds herself.

As a distraction, Diana signs up for a watercolor class where she meets Cole Pelham. He’s the first sympathetic listener she’s found since her accident—but he knows too much about her past.

Not only does Diana lack trust in those around her, she can’t trust herself. Yet, the momentum around her is building and to protect herself, she must face the truth of her present while confronting the demons of the past.

I found 𝘈𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘐‘𝘷𝘦 𝘋𝘰𝘯𝘦 to be an entertaining escape. It shifted among three perspectives—Diana’s, Val’s, and Cole’s—and moved back and forth in time. I tend to enjoy paranoid narrators, and Diana certainly fit that description. For me, though, the beginning dragged a little, and I predicted most of the plot, though there were a few jaw-dropping revelations. I also had lingering questions.

Thanks to @netgalley and @crookedlanebooks for providing an advance reading copy in exchange for an honest review.

What an ending! There were so many twists and turns in this book. When Diana Sparrow is in a car accident, she loses her memory. At home, she has her husband and mother-in-law to take care of her. She knows she is not happy with her husband and her mother-in-law is beginning to get on her nerves. Diana has her best friend that she conspired to have an affair with her husband, Diana has her own affair. The dreams of bury a box in the back yard. What does all this mean? A book that will have you reading until you finish. The ending will astound you. Thank you to Ms. Hardy, Crooked Lane Books, and NetGalley, for the opportunity to read and review this book.

Domestic psychological drama, and oh, the drama! The characters are well developed. The plot is intricate and convoluted. Diana who is recovering from a car accident, wakes up with no memory of the last few months. She is told that she hit a deer, totaled her beloved car, that she is lucky to be alive, and she has anesthesia amnesia. And believe it or not, those are the least of her problems! Everyone she knows is lying to her! Everyone has malicious intentions - does that include Diana herself? What a twisty web of deceit, pure evil, and a whole lot of crazy!!! Quite a roller-coaster ride!

Amnesia.? Best friends at war? Infidelity? Mother in law from hell? It’s all here in a psychological thriller told from different points of view of the two friends bound together since childhood and sharing each other’s darkest secrets. Now add the husband, a possible boyfriend, a possible murder and a possible staged a car accident that fractures their small complicated word and we watch as Diana tries to piece the past together to remember what happened prior to the accident. Add in a healthy dose of love, jealousy and craziness, shake, stir and watch it explode.

This book wasn’t for me. It follows the story of Diana, who is suffering from amnesia after a car accident. I appreciate a good amnesia plot twist just like the next person, but this didn’t make the mark.
The story was hard to get into, but picked up about halfway through. The ending seemed rushed and ultimately left me disappointed. The final revelation was definitely not anything I had hoped it would be. This may be a good book for some, but definitely was not one that I enjoyed. Thank you Crooked Lane Books and NetGalley for my ARC.

After All I've Done will stick with you far after it's done.
Thank you to Netgalley and Crooked Lane Books for the eARC for review!
Diana Sparrow was in a car accident and rushed into emergency surgery. She was left with anesthesia-induced amnesia; a black hole of lost memories for the months preceding the crash.
Her mother-in-law Harriett cares for her while she convalesceces, while her husband is having an affair with her ex-best friend.
Diana's unreliable mind sets forth questions of odd events she's experiencing - is it psychosis, drugs, gaslighting or something else?
Author Megan Hart - writing as Mina Hardy - takes us through Diana's recovery as well as history, and chapters alternating from other characters' POV. The tension is consistent throughout this fast-paced and addicting read.
And. I read a lot of thrillers but this one still managed to shock the hell out of me! Recommended!
Released on Nov. 10, 2020.

After All I’ve Done starts with a lot of promise. Although the memory loss plot has been incorporated many times before in Thrillers, there were extra layers of mystery and doubt right from the first chapter which carried through to the end. The book was always filled with tension and suspicion which led to a very cryptic mystery, forcing the reader to anticipate the characters’ intentions from the little background that is disclosed on the main character, Diana.

Thrillers often feature either too many characters or so few that the plot is watered down however After All I’ve Done stars the right number of characters and a perfect balance between character development and plot. I couldn’t connect with Diana as I felt that she was too untrustworthy and sometimes too dull for a main character. However, the other minor characters such as the mother-in-law and best friend dipped in and out of each chapter with ease and encouraged me to speculate on their motive which I always enjoy.

My main concern with this book at the beginning was the possible predictable twist and ending. I believed that my theory was too farfetched despite the multiple hints throughout the book and especially given how twisted and wrong such an outcome would be but unfortunately my guesses were right. I finished this book feeling somewhat shocked and unsettled however I applaud the author for bravely analysing twisted family relationships and for not being afraid to push boundaries to the extreme. Although I didn’t entirely like the direction it took, the added suspense and mystery surrounding Diana’s accident kept me invested until the end.

This is the first book I’ve read by Mina Hardy and in theory I should have loved this book but for some reason I didn’t LOVE it. I felt that it was very drawn out and there were a few inconsistencies that niggled me.

I predicted the ending half way through and felt that it could have been wrapped up a lot earlier than it was.

I would like to thank netgalley and Crooked Lane Books for an advance copy of this book in return for my honest review.

I thought this looked a bit predictable but it really wasn’t. It’s actually written by a successful author but I won’t say who (or spoil the plot!). What I will say is this is a nice read. Not quite a 5 but I’ll give it a strong 4. It’s not what you’re expecting but some of the characters weren’t realistic enough for a 5.

This had the best twists to it. I loved it. I wasn’t crazy about the mother in law. The poor main character sure had a lot on her plate. I don’t know if I would want to remember anything. Stuff like she went through would leave you traumatized forever. It’s full of suspense and I couldn’t put it down. I love the cover. That’s what first drew me to the book.

2.5 stars. This review was a hard one for me to write. Some parts of the book I absolutely loved but other parts I absolutely hated. Unfortunately some things I just couldn’t get passed. For starters, the ending was very problematic. I felt like it was done to throw off the reader and add a shock factor but all it did was disappoint me. I also didn’t like the predictably throughout the rest of the book. I didn’t enjoy the mother-in-law storyline at all, it felt very repetitive. I LOVED the Cole storyline so so much. That made me fly through the book and even made me consider looking past the parts I didn’t enjoy. But in the end.. that was just a tiny portion of the book. I wish there would have been more on the wife & husband and much less of the mother-in-law (and that awful plot twist). I’m sorry to say it was a miss for me but I encourage you to check out all the great reviews out there. I hope that you have a better reading experience than I did if you decide to pick it up!

Thank you to the publisher and @netgalley for providing a free advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Diana had an accident in her car several months ago and she has ansthesia-induced amnesia. She cannot remember anything from the accident to the present time. She does know that her husband Jonathan is having an affair with her best friend Valerie. Diana wants to remember what happened during that time but cannot for all her might.
This is one of the best psychological thrillers I have read in quite awhile. I highly recommend this book.

This book had me on the edge of my seat while reading it! I really enjoyed this domestic thriller and the character building that it included. It made me feel like I was a fly on the wall watching everything happen.
I am so glad I picked it up!

Thank you to Crooked Lane Books & Net Galley

I received a complimentary ARC copy of After All I’ve Done by Mina Hardy from NetGalley and Crooked Lane Books in order to read and give an honest review.

...Mina Hardy has crafted a clever psychological tale that is intriguing and unexpected…

While driving to the hospital for a severe gallbladder attack, Diana is involved in a major car accident that changes her life.

Although she survives it is not without complications that leave her debilitated. Broken bones, intense pain and absolutely no memory of what has happened in the time leading up to the accident her life has turned upside down. Living with her Husband and a devoted mother-in-law determined to care for her until she gets back on her feet it seems like an uphill battle. Plagued by pain, amnesia, blackouts, and bad recurring dreams Diana attempts to piece together her memories and figure out why her life-long best friend/soul sister Valerie will not talk to her and why she is filled with a sense of dread about what has happened.

Knowing that she does not love her husband and finding out he is having an affair; she is feeling alone and helpless yet knows something horrible has led them to this point. When in her dreams she is burying something underneath a tree she wonders what she has done and why she cannot remember but knows unlocking the memories will open the door to her healing.

Mina Hardy has crafted a clever psychological tale that intriguing and unexpected. The plot was so intricate and in one word…twisted. I found I just could not put it down and that it kept me reading into the wee hours of the morning. A must read for those who enjoy psychological mysteries. I loved it and would highly recommend it.

Mina Hardy aka Megan Hart writes a psychological thriller, that you will think you have solved pretty early on, until she takes you on an unsuspecting path, that you will never guess.

Diana is our main protagonist. When this book opens, we know she was in a major accident and suffering with some amnesia. Her Mother-in-Law helps care for her during her long recovery. Her husband Jonathan is somewhat there, but we know something is not right. We know quickly Jonathan is having an affair with Diana’s best friend Valerie, which Diana knows about.

All this is the setup for this thriller. As Diana unravels the layers of what happened before her accident, she realizes there is a lot more to this story than she realizes.

This is a mystery, so I do not want to give much away. This book was written in typical fashion with the unreliable narrator. I felt very early on, I had figured out the entire plot, and almost gave up on this. However, there is payoff with this one. While not everything is a surprise, the final twists that Hardy puts in here are really good and was well worth the genre of thriller.

Thank you NetGalley and Crooked Lane Books for an Advanced Reader’s Copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.