Another great book by Michael Robotham. Definitely an intriguing mystery that kept me reading until late in the night. Loved how the mystery of Evie’s past was uncovered. I am looking forward to more books with these characters! Thank you NetGalley for my ARC.

I love this series! This book was every bit as engaging as the first. This is a dark dark dark tale, and the backstory that was provided should have felt overwhelming but never did.

Robotham is a phenomenal writer who has a knack for writing characters who should by rights be completely broken but nevertheless manage to not only survive but thrive (in their own inimitable way) despite the odds. The revelations poured out page after page, but the back and forth presentation meant that just when you thought you couldn't read one more description of one more horrible event, you were thrown into the other timeline and given a breather. Don't get me wrong, the whole story is dark, past and present, but the shift back and forth made the darkness bearable. The story is so engaging and the characters painted so evocatively...

I could read about Cyrus Haven and Angel Face all day!

An excellent follow up to Good Girl, Bad Girl. Michael Robotham will always be a recommended first purchase for fiction collections.

Thanks Scribner and Netgalley for providing this ARC. This was a fantastic follow up to Good Girl, Bad Girl. Highly recommended but read the first one before diving into this. I can’t wait to read more about these characters and o hope there are more to come in the series.

After just finishing Good Girl, Bad Girl and falling in love with the characters I couldn’t wait to read this book. I was so excited when I saw it on netgalley and even more excited when I got the approval to read an ARC so quickly! I love this author, this series, and the characters. I gave the last book four stars only because I was so disappointed I hadn’t learned more about Evie’s past but this book is five stars.
Cyrus has not given up on trying to help Evie while she remains in a secure children’s home. While investigating the murder of a retired detective he finds Angel Face’s name written among his notes. While Cyrus continues to connect the dots Evie is busy getting in trouble once again. When she’s waiting in the hall waiting to find out what the home is going to do with her, she hears a voice that sparks terror in her. She knows she’s been found but nobody believes her. Then another girl at the home is found murdered in Evie’s bed and Evie goes missing. Cyrus doesn’t have much time to find out about Evie’s past and find her before somebody else does.

4.5 stars, rounded up!

This was fantastic!

I read the first book in this series, Good Girl, Bad Girl last year and really enjoyed it. But this book was even better!!

I was worried when I started that I had forgotten most of the story from the first book. And since this book follows Cyrus and Evie again, I was concerned I would be totally lost. BUT fear not! Robotham does an excellent job of giving you snippets here and there to remind you of what happened in book one.

If you have not read the first book, do that first because you need to read that in order to fully appreciate the story and characters here.

I was immediately HOOKED when I started this book. I forgot how much I loved Cyrus and Evie. What I loved about this book more than the first, was that this was the story of Evie. The first book left most of Evie's story vague and mysterious, and it focused on another crime that Cyrus and Evie were tag-teaming to solve. This book though, is about Evie and her story. AND IT WAS SO GOOD AND I AM SO SAD TO BE DONE WITH IT.

Thank God I read this on a Sunday so I could have the entire day to read this book because I could not put it down. The writing was superb, the story so engrossing and I loved reading about the relationship between Cyrus and Evie.

Basically, I was soOOOooooOOO happy to be back with these two characters.

Highly recommend - but be sure to read Good Girl, Bad Girl first if you haven't already done so!

*Important to note that this book is pretty dark and heavy - it covers a lot of intense topics and should come with a few trigger warnings: sexual abuse, pedophilia, sex trafficking, drug use.

A huge thank you to Scribner and NetGalley for the ARC and wanting my honest opinion!

Evie was found at a young age hidden behind the walls of a house where a tortured dead man was found. Evie heard the man named Terry being tortured by some men. They were looking for Evie. How did she get there? Was the dead man her captor? Cyrus, a forensic psychologist, took care of Evie until she was moved into a group home. Evie would not talk about what happened to her. She was terrified that these men would find her. Evie was in the hallway where she lived and overheard a man talking to the receptionist. He was asking for her. She recognized his voice. She froze in terror. These people would stop at nothing to find her because she knew the evil they have inflicted on her and others. She then began to tell Cyrus everything she experienced. Cyrus cared about Evie and will do anything to help find these people and bring them to justice. I enjoyed the pace of the book ,doling out bits and pieces of Evie's story and what happened to her. I would definitely recommend this book .It kept me up reading late into the night needing to know what happened to Evie and who was looking for her.

Thank you so much to net galley for sending me a copy of this book. I went into thinking that I was gonna fall head over heels with it but that was not the case. I found it to be very dull and boring.

Michael Robotham has written a superb read with When She Was Good. Well worth the time and a true page turner!

This is a fantastic psychological thriller. It is a continuation of the “Angel Face” story first told in “Good Girl, Bad Girl,” which I loved. It centers on a young girl who was rescued from captivity, and the forensic psychiatrist who worked to help heal her. Though this is the second book in the series it works very well as a stand-alone - it has been awhile since I read the first book, and this one caught me right up on the things I had forgotten.

Be forewarned that this is a book on a tough topic - child sex trafficking. But it is handled SO well, with sensitivity from the child’s point of view and with great passion from the people who are trying to help her. Cyrus is just the kind of person you would want pursuing traffickers and saving children from harm. The development of Evie’s (aka Angel Face’s) backstory here is fascinating and compelling and also very heartbreaking. The book takes a short while to get started and give new readers the background but it soon sucked me in and had me reading with my heart in my throat for Evie.

Another great effort by Michael Robotham - word to the wise, Stephen King’s author recommendations (which is how I found the first book in this series) rarely miss.

Thanks to NetGalley, Michael Robotham and Simon and Schuster for the ARC of this great thriller in exchange for my honest review. I’m glad I didn’t have to wait any longer to find out how Angel Face was doing.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! No spoilers. Beyond amazing I enjoyed this book so very much. The characters and storyline were fantastic. The ending I did not see coming Could not put down nor did I want to. Truly Amazing and appreciated the whole story. This is going to be a must read for many many readers. Maybe even a book club pick.

Michael Robotham was finally released his sequel to Good Girl, Bad Girl and it's as good as the original. In When She Was Good we once again get to spend time with Cyrus Haven and Evie (Angel Face, Adina). We get an update on how they're doing while both cope as demons from their past surface and threaten to overwhelm them.

Both are survivors of terrible tragedies and need each other for stability. Alternating narrations between the two as well as flashbacks slowly reveal the details of their pasts and the ever increasing terror of their present. With the body count rising, will they be added to that list?

I enjoy the relationship these two have and I hope there is a 3rd novel in this series. I'd like to discover that Evie's sister survived and they will locate her as they continue to unmask the members of the deviant organization that kept Evie a prisoner.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for the ARC.

This is a sequel to Good Girl Bad Girl. It was interesting to read more about Evie's remarkable history, and to learn the secrets previously left unanswered. It's hard not to like this little firecracker of a girl. A worthwhile read from this author whom I've recently discovered.

Thanks NetGalley.

I was really excited for the follow up to Good Girl, Bad Girl. I thought it was an interesting premise, still do. Some of it is a little hard to handle and other parts, you kind of have to suspend reality a bit (does a forensic psychiatrist have that much clout with the police?) but that aside, it’s a decent procedural.

Thanks to Netgallet and Sribner for letting me read this before the publication date, was excited to find out more about Evie and where she came from, I hope there is still more to come

I ADORED "Good Girl, Bad Girl," so when I saw that there was a sequel coming up, I just had to get my hands on it. And it was every bit as good as I had hoped for.

In this thriller, the main characters and forensic psychologist Cyrus Haven attempts to finally find out who the seventeen-year-old Evie Cormac really is; a girl with a very dark past (believed to have been held by a pedophile), Evie has a special talent of being a human lie detector, which helped Cyrus solve a mystery in the first novel. In this one, we are dealing with missing children and sex trafficking, and Evie IS the mystery.

It's perhaps a bit odd that Cyrus is the investigation with his job as a psychologist, but to his defense, he is not working alone. I also would have wished to see more of Evie's lie-detecting talent as we did in the first book. However, it was truly satisfying to finally learn more about her life story.

This book is definitely heartbreaking and may be triggering to some, dealing with topics of child abuse, child porn and sex trafficking. It is difficult, but it's written in a very respectful way, and thankfully none of it was either romanticizing or giving gruesome details of the crimes. The book is really well written and full of twists and turns which do not disappoint.

Waiting for a part three!

*Thank you to the Publisher for a free advance copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Michael Robotham is one of my favorite authors and this book is just another reason why,
This is book #2 in the Cyrus Haven series but I think you can read it as a stand alone.

I love these two characters- Cyrus and Evie. They have a close friendship and depend on each other.
The narration alternates between these two throughout the book giving two distinctly different perspectives on events happening which adds another layer.
I'm hoping for a third book because I love these characters.

Another win for Robotham. Thanks to Netgalley for my advanced ebook copy.

*Many thanks to NetGalley, Scribner, and Michael Robotham for an ARC of this book!*

Wow! I am brand new to Michael Robotham but I have been wanting to dive into his books for quite a while, so I didn't even realize initially that this was the second book in the Cyrus/Evie series, but that did not matter one bit! Robotham did a masterful job of reiterating just enough of the initial plot from the first book to give this book a solid framework and help a new reader establish a baseline.

I love a thriller with quick, exciting chapters and beautifully developed characters, and this book delivered and THEN some! Cyrus was a breath of fresh air for me as a character, since he has the grit of a hardened detective, but a clear soft spot for Evie AKA Angel Face. I know there is a quite a bit of backstory built up in the first book Good Girl, Bad Girl, but even without that, I was drawn in by mysterious Evie and was eager to read about her past and her intuitive nature in helping to solve crimes. I loved her spunk and can see why Cyrus goes to such lengths to protect her! The book wrapped up fairly neatly for our characters, which was pretty surprising considering all they went through to get there, but if this ends up being the last book in this series, I think readers will feel it was a satisfying conclusion.

This was a fast and furious thriller and so fun to read! I look forward to discovering more about Cyrus and Evie when I get to pick up Good Girl, Bad Girl and would recommend this book whether or not you've read the series in order...it's THAT good!

Tense chilling a book I couldn’t put down.This is a sequel so I would suggest you read the first book in the series.Both of these books are true page turners book that will keep you reading late into the night.#netgalley#scribner

When She Was Good was so, so good! This is the sequel to Michael Robotham's book, Good Girl, Bad Girl.

"Who is Evie, the girl with no past, running from? She was discovered hiding in a secret room in the aftermath of a terrible crime. Her ability to tell when someone is lying helped Cyrus crack an impenetrable case in Good Girl, Bad Girl. Now, the closer Cyrus gets to uncovering answers about Evie’s dark history, the more he exposes Evie to danger, giving her no choice but to run."

This was an absolute page turner for me. I could not stop reading and finished the book in a day. Michael Robotham is an outstanding story teller. He grabs you from the first page and doesn't let go until it is finished. I loved this book! An excellent sequel.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an advanced copy of the book for an honest review.