I thought I was going to like this a little more. However, it seems like so many books are taking place schools these days???
Overall, I felt there was so much going on and I felt the story lacked real direction. The writing is good but I felt myself just getting lost.
I wasn't connected really to any character and skimmed through just to find out how it was going to end.

Thanks to Netgalley for my advanced ebook copy.

This book was so easy to read in one sitting- I found myself unable to put this one down. I loved the very unique premise of this thriller, and the unreliable narrator out for revenge is very much my reading style. The seven serial killers being studied all have their own secrets, and nothing is what it seems. Perfect read for mystery or psychological thriller readers!

Thank you to NetGalley and Harlequin Trade Publishing for the ARC of Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian. Okay, fans of the thriller series "You".....I'm pretty sure you will want to pick up Never Saw Me Coming as your next read. It's very rare that a reader is taken in through the eyes of a clinically diagnosed psychopath, let alone, a group of psychopaths who are being studied and under the guise of "normal" college students. The main character, Chloe, leads us as she follows her obsession to her new college as a freshman. Shes's out to destroy him, but she didn't count on the fact that she could become the hunted....especially by equally as clever psychopaths such as herself. I personally love academic settings...and these characters are chillingly memorable.

I loved this book!! It honestly kept me guessing and on edge. Each chapter made me question who was the killer and absolutely did not disappoint in the end. Would highly recommend this book for someone who is looking for a page turning thriller.

I am a sucker for a book set in a school. College, high school, even summer camp works for me. I love the setting. So I was very excited to have the opportunity to review “Never Saw Me Coming” by Vera Kurian.

We learn from the beginning that someone is already dead and our main character, Chloe, has murder and revenge on her mind. Over the next few chapters we are introduced to a fascinating cast of characters. There’s Andre, Terrible Charles, the dark and awful Will, a whole host of frat boys and party girls, and the professor responsible for bringing Chloe and her motley crew to the Adam’s University campus. While Chloe plots her own evil deed, someone else is killing students. One of these killings is creative, to say the least. As the story plays out, all of these characters come together in a fiery conclusion.

I really enjoyed this one. I will say that some of the transitions between characters were a little rough and abrupt, but that is really my only complaint with the book. The twist is superb. I literally did not see it coming. (See what I did there?) The characters, while vapid and shallow at times, are compelling. You find yourself rooting for the “good” guys (and girls), and hoping the “bad” ones get what they deserve. And again, when the twist hits you, it’s so very satisfying. I would absolutely pick up a sequel.

Thanks to Net Galley and Park Row for the opportunity to review this one. It’s released in September, and if you’re a thriller lover I think you will enjoy this one!

Chloe is a psychopath, manipulative, lacks guilt and only thinks about herself plus her obsession with killing Will. She receives a college scholarship in exchange for being part of a psychological study. When two people are murdered where the study takes place, she wonders if the students participating in the study are the murderer's target and if so is the murderer also a psychopath? Along with trying to keep herself safe and finding out the identity of the murderer, Chloe is also planning her revenge on Will. In addition to Chloe's point of view, the reader meets two other college psychopaths, Charles and Andre.

Vera Kurian will have you guessing. Terror, mystery, twists and turns are all on board with this thrilling thrill ride of a thriller. Grab a beverage, put on something comfy and prepare for intrigue.

Never Saw Me Coming is a pulse pounding thrill ride. Vera Kurian carefully crafts each psychopath to be fun and different and completely compelling. I would happily recommend this book not only to readers who love thrillers but also to fans of horror.

Chloe Sevre is going to an elite DC college as part of a psychology program and scholarship. The program is for students diagnosed as psychopaths. While Chloe is a good student, she has more intentions than studying. She is going to kill Will Bachman. It turns out not as easy as planned when someone starts killing members of her psychology group.

I love all books that take place in DC AND I love all college/boarding school books, add in a group of psychopathic students, and you have Never Saw Me Coming. You will not be able to put this one down! I loved Chloe’s character so much. I never expected that I’d be rooting for a group of psychopaths, but that’s just how this book turns out. The entire story is scheming, scheming, clever scheming, and more scheming. LOVE IT. I also liked that we know the characters are psychopaths, so we have literally no idea what’s going to happen. Just because they say they are doing one thing... you just don’t know!

“The day it happened, I didn’t go to the police, or my clueless mom. I stayed home and decided that, one day, I would kill Will Bachman.”

Never Saw Me Coming comes out 9/7.

I love when a book gives me something different.

I have read numerous books on psychopaths. It makes for a fun story. But I sometimes feel like I could write these books myself. But not with this book.

A group of known psychopaths attend a college on a full scholarship - they just need to agree to be monitored through their time at the college. What could possibly go wrong?

People start to die. Are any of the psychopaths responsible? A group of them get together to "solve" the mystery - but of course they cannot trust each other because they are such skilled liars. It's a total cat and mouse and even as the reader, you don't know who to trust. This part of the books was super fun!

I also loved that it included some interesting facts, such as a percentage of the population that are actually psychopaths, and there are degrees of psychopathy, etc. It made me interested enough to look some of this up for real. It's fascinating actually (and a little scary).

What I didn't love was the last 25% of the book. It started to feel a little outlandish. However, would I read this book again? Absolutely! It's a quick, fun, interesting read.

I want to thank the author, the publisher and #netgalley for the ARC which did not impact my review at all.

Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian is a superb read which will keep you engrossed and turning pages at a rapid rate until the very last one.

I never thought I’d find myself rooting for a psychopath, but <i>Never Saw Me Coming</i> had me doing just that. This fast paced novel, with an intriguing storyline - 7 diagnosed psychopaths get a free ride to a college if they commit to being studied by the psych department - had me from page one. The novel has many twists, red herrings and gives you three different perspectives, which I also found I interesting. This was a fantastic debut and I highly recommended. Looks like Kiribati also left the door open for a sequel, which I would absolutely love.

A compulsive psychological thriller that kept me guessing to the end. I loved it and will be recommending it for library purchase.

This is a roller coaster of a novel that kept me guessing until the very end. Not one of the character is likeable, which is entirely the point. A group of psychopaths is in a secret program at college, lead by a professor who not only wants to study their behavior but hopes to rehabilitate them and teach them how to function and coexist. His belief is that their cold and detached lack of empathy does not have to lead to violent future behavior. He is even more determined since one of his past participants ended up committing heinous acts while under his care decades before.

Chloe is one of his participants, and she applied to the program for one specific reason: there is another student at the college, one that she seeks to end. Her mission is complicated though when the students in the program start getting picked off one by one. She doesn't know who all the other people in the program are though, and this makes her a suspect and a target. And she still has that unfinished business to take care.

This is a tale of murder, of vengeance, and cold deception. Everyone is a suspect and everyone is capable of the act. It kept me guessing until the end.

I loved the premise and that it's set on a college campus. Some of Chloe's dark comments made me laugh out loud and this is very readable in general. I liked that there were two subplots going as well - Chloe's agenda and then finding out who was targeting the students in the program. However, it did drag a bit in the middle and I felt like I kept waiting for something to happen and it finally all unraveled pretty quickly towards the end.

Kindly received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

The characters in this book are terrible, but that was the point. You like them, but you don't want to like them. A group of psychopaths are put in a clinical study at university. When one of them is murdered, they have to find out who they can trust, even though they shouldn't trust any one. This was a wild ride of a thriller that I could not put down.

From what seemed like an unlikely premise did a very real and fun and thrilling novel emerge! Did any of all y'all read that new book THE PLOT? It's out May 11. The premise of the book THE PLOT is that there is a nascent novel with a plot so great it is bound to be a bestseller, prize-winner, Oprah's choice allstar. The plot in the book THE PLOT is honestly not as good as the plot in this book NEVER SAW ME COMING (ANOTHER PLOT). I think you'll love it! The plot!

You had me at the blurb: a young co-ed who's been promised free tuition if she takes part in the psychology department's study of seven psychopaths to see if they can be "re-wired" to some degree of normalcy. And her only goal is to kill a former boy who wronged her years ago. What's not to anticipate? Chloe is an odd duck; she's hot (and knows it) but she has her plan in mind and is determined to follow through. But when another random student is found murdered...well, you can see the plot thickening. Who's behind it all? Who's to blame? So many suspects and red herrings! And as for me, well I "never saw it coming" either!

I loved this book and read it in one sitting. It is a unique story focused primarily on Chloe, a diagnosed psychopath who is part of a special study at John Adams University in DC. Chloe schemed to get accepted into the program because she has an ulterior motive to kill a guy named Will who did something terrible to her when they were children. The book is primarily narrated by Chloe in the first person, but there are also some chapters narrated by other members of the program, Charles and Andre, in the 3rd person.

The plot was fast-paced the entire way through. When a student is murdered, both the reader and the characters are trying to figure out who did it as well as whether it's part of a larger plot. The characters can't trust each other (nor can the reader trust them), which just adds to the mystery. I love an unreliable narrator and enjoyed the fact that we really don't know if we can trust Chloe or not; I also loved that the writer had a unique way of getting me to root for Chloe even when she was doing things she shouldn't do.

The mystery was sound and I honestly couldn't figure out who the villain was. I got there about the same time as some of the characters and greatly enjoyed the way it all came together. Also, being familiar with the DC area, I enjoyed the setting, and although John Adams University is fictional, the rest of the descriptions of the area are spot-on.

Would definitely recommend this unique and fast-paced thriller! Thanks to Netgalley for providing me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I’m really transfixing thriller. This book really blew my mind I couldn’t stop reading it and I was dying to know what happened. A really big winner I highly recommend it.