A clinical study for Psychopaths tracking their moods with a smart watch. Chloe Serve if offered a college scholarship to participate in the group study and accepts to get closer to Will Bachman. Chloe plans to kill Will Bachman. Before she can carry out her plan someone starts killing members of her psychology group!! Started out good, slow on the back half.

I received a copy of this book from Netgalley for an honest review.

I started out really loving this. Chloe was a really interesting character and the revenge aspect against Will was great. It definitely lagged in middle and I was not nearly as interested in the side plot. Thankfully it picked up at the end and had a satisfying conclusion.

This book was creepy as all get out. You think the main character is sort of normal....and then you realize she's actually a complete psychopath. Well done.

I loved this book! I wish I hadn’t waited so long to read it, but it got me out of quite a reading slump. The angle the story took with the characters and the relationship between them was very original. I liked the alternating point of view, this kept the story moving quick.

I received an advanced copy. All thoughts are my own.

Thank you to Vera Kurian, Harlequin, and Netgalley for providing me with this ebook ARC of Never Saw Me Coming to read and review.

Review to follow.

3.5 rounded up to 4

This book had a really interesting concept and kept me guessing the entire read. There are 5 POV which is more than I typically like in a book because it can get a little confusing, especially in a book like this. This covers the story of a group of students that are brought to John Adams University under scholarship. What do these students have in common ? They are all psychopaths being studied on a day to day basis by a professor and his team in the psychology department. They have random tasks they're assigned and check ins throughout the day to rate how they are feeling. Everything is going well until one of the members of the study are murdered. And then another. But who is behind it when this study is private, and only a select group of people know. Chloe is brought to John Adams for more than one reason though. Not only are we following these murders and who may be behind it, but there is also a count down until the day a particular death is planned. Is this all connected ?

As mentioned previously, this is multi POV which got a little confusing at times. We mainly focus on Chloe and following her story which did help connect everything. I enjoyed the concept of this book a lot ! Bringing together multiple psychopaths to be studied anonymously ? Super interesting to me. I wish we got a little more information behind the study because that does fascinate me. I liked how this book was about Chloe hunting after someone, but then also being a target herself. It really kept me questioning everyone's motives. If you like campus thrillers, this nay be up your alley !

Thank you Netgalley and HARLEQUIN for a copy of Never Saw Me Coming in exchange for an honest review. Chloe Sevre is your typical girl next door, leggings wearing, honor student. Who also happens to be a psychopath. Chloe is part of a clinical study at her college for psychopaths. When on of the participants is murdered, Chloe suddenly finds herself in the crosshairs of a killer. This academic thriller kept me in suspense and kept me turning the pages.

Quick unedited thoughts

Just finished and I wanted more detail about Emma and Megan. That all wrapped up too easy. Where’s the backstory on Trevor. That could’ve really been another chapter. Why did you do all the things? Charles and Chloe’s characters were great and really pulled me in and kept me invested. There just wasn’t enough involvement of Andre. We get to know him in the beginning and then during the events he was a dude character. The added black character that fades. We learned what will did, but there was no character development. Was will actions serialized? He seemed unaffected by his heinous actions. The CRD killer wasn’t explained enough. I kind of didn’t really care. It only mattered about the tie in to the overall story. If we were told, in detail, about some of the crimes. Showing instead of telling.. I’m aware what I’m describing would have this book at 50-100 pages more, but I was just that invested.

All my rambling to say I recommend. I read while listening to the audio on Hoopla.

The college campus setting with frat parties, casual sex and excessive drinking is in here. The yuppie rich kid, black boy, pretty promiscuous girl, bad creepy one and the overall cool dude we’re all in here and more.

Thank you to Harlequin and Park row for the opportunity to read and review this title.

I was pleasantly surprised that the main character did not turn out to be as annoying/unlikeable as my first impression predicted. This book was a wild ride - of course, with the whole premise being about a "special college program for psychopaths" it was all a little over-the-top. However - if you as a reader accept that premise, the book is full of twists and turns and is a very fast paced, engaging experience overall.

I really liked this one! Quick and fast-paced, this book will keep you hooked. It’s definitely strange to feel empathy for a character that doesn’t have any. I would recommend for fans of “The Killer Inside Me” and “Wild Things” (yes, the movie).

Never Saw Me Coming is such a hit debut! Chloe is one person in a group study of people identified as psychopaths who are invited to be part of a study at a university together in exchange for a free ride to college. When one of the people in the study turns up dead, Chloe enlists the help of a few other students she finds are also in the program to figure out who is targeting them.
I would give this story three and a half stars. I ended up listening to it on audio and was extremely intrigued by the story line. I found myself wondering about how all of the pieces would fit. I also was extremely disturbed by the amount of hacking one person can do and how nonchalant numerous characters were about it!
I did not love the ending. I felt it a little lacking and jumbled with how it turned out and wish it was a little bit longer, simply to have the ending explained a bit better.
Overall, this one gets three and a half stars from me!
Thank you to Netgalley and Park Row Publishing for the opportunity to read this one in exchange for my honest opinion.

Trigger Warning: Alcohol use, Mentions of rape (rape occurs off-screen before the beginning of the book)

To the casual observer, Chloe Sevre is the typical teenage “girl next door”. An honor student in her first year at college, she gets along well with her classmates and doesn’t really stand out.

Chloe Sevre however, is also a psychopath. She has been concocting a meticulous plan to kill Will Bachman – a fellow college student and someone from Chloe’s childhood who hurt her. Attending the same college is just one step in her overall plan.

Because as they say, revenge is a dish best served cold.

The overall story contained in Never Saw Me Coming is a multi-layered one. On the uppermost layer is the storyline centered on Chloe and her revenge on Will. An act of revenge she had been planning for years and finally is about to come to fruition. Beneath that is the murder mystery Chloe finds herself involved in. As one of seven psychopaths, she is at the university taking part in a specialized study. When one then two members of the study are killed, Chloe finds herself as both hunter and prey. Finally, beneath that is the rest of college life for Chloe including things like classes and parties and such.

The first two-thirds of Never Saw Me Coming are very well done in my opinion. Watching as Chloe tried to juggle getting close to Will as well as try to figure out who else was in the study and would want to kill her while also maintaining her facade as a typical college girl was entertaining. The issue came when Chloe was able to get her revenge but there was still so much of the book left. With what I considered to be the main driving plot point gone, the rest of the story kind of fell flat.

And personally, the final reveal of who was behind the murders wasn’t that satisfying either.

Final thoughts: Excellent premise, decent followthrough, needed a better ending.

An interesting read that strays from the norm or psychological thrillers. Chloe’s psychopath diagnosis makes her an asset to the research program at a DC college. She is offered a full ride to college if she participate in a program that provides her with therapy to help curb her psychopath tendencies. There at 7 students in the program. Early on in the book, there appears to be a killer targeting students in the program. Chloe begins to investigate and discover which students are a part of the program and if she thinks they are capable of being the killer. I have always been interested in the psychology of psychopaths and this book provided an accurate representation and engaging read. I was impressed to read that the author ever had a background in psychology..

This book had a lot of GREAT potential. It started out, and I thought it was going to be my favorite book ever... but the characters started feeling too flat to me and the situations too contrived. I think there was maybe too many characters. I think fleshing out a few characters, instead of spreading it out so much, would have really added to the book diving deeper into their mental states.

Never Saw me coming was an exciting book that follows college students at a Washington, DC school for are participating in an unusual clinical study for psychopaths. I thought that I would be watching movies on the plane but I could not stop listening to this captivating book. Chole is one in the group that along with receiving “care” from the program has her own murderous reason for attending the school. Andre is the farthest thing from a psychopath who on a prank with his older brother happened to be classified as a psychopath receiving a full ride to college just to wear a monitor and participate in some “dumb program”. Boy, was I rooting for these characters! They all had such unusual stories and personalities mixed with the normal college drama. Especially in the political scene of DC. This is an exciting book with such vibrant young characters who are uncontrollable and unforgettable. Anyone who reads it will not regret it. It was a great way to begin my year of reading.

Love a good sociopathic narrator and yep I’m serious, they’re fun!! Add in some revenge and I’m sold and addicted.

Didn't capture my attention and engagement. Interested in trying it again though and hopefully it will take.

This is one dark and twisty read. NEVER SAW ME COMING is a smart and unique thriller that is one binge-able read.

Thanks to NetGalley for the advance reader copy of this book. A psychopath or faking being a psychopath? Either one makes this college related thriller a great read. 3 stars

Chloe is one of seven students at her DC-based college who are part of an unusual clinical study for psychopaths—students like herself who lack empathy and can’t comprehend emotions like fear or guilt.

This book was a lot of fun. Once the members of the study start getting murdered, Chloe makes some allies to solve the mystery and stay alive. She may also have a hidden motive to let the murders continue a little longer....

Twisty, thrilling fun.