I was drawn right in from the first pages was so involved I stayed up way to late reading.A-love story a drama an author who never fails.will be recommending this page turner.#netgalley #st.martins.

Can't Look Away is a definite page-turner of a thriller. When I read the description, I was not sure that I would enjoy this book as much as I did. I am always up for a good mystery/psychological thriller...something that will keep me on my toes and wanting to continue to read. This book definitely delivered and I absolutely would highly recommend! The main character, Molly, is a yoga teacher, married with one kid and thoughts of growing her family. She is struggling to find connections and make friends in Flynn Cove when.... In walks Sabrina ....the new girl in town. Molly and Sabrina become quick friends, and before you know it, Molly's past comes creeping in. As it all unfolds, you see Molly navigate her new friendship, her unsettled past and her current life as she knows it. Both Molly and Sabrina are keeping secrets, but whose are the most destructive of them all?

@carolatlovering delivers another knockout of a story, this one full twisted lies and deceit. Sabrina loves Jake and is determined to make him hers, again, at any cost. Told in alternating voices Can’t Look Away will have you hooked from the beginning and holding on until the very end!

Can’t Look Away is an addicting, drama-packed novel. Although it’s categorized as a thriller/suspense, for me it was more of a romance with a side of suspense. I absolutely loved the alternating timelines as well as the alternating POVs. This book left me feeling heartbroken, much like a Colleen Hoover novel. Definitely worth putting on your TBR, especially if you love any of CoHo’s books or Daisy Jones and the Six! Thank you so much to the publisher, the author, and NetGalley for the ARC.

CAN’T LOOK AWAY

ARC Cordially provided by NetGalley~ Can’t Look Away by: Carola Lovering

First time reader to this author and I have to say it’s a good take to the beach or up to the cabin for cozy read.
It is a typical plot of “What ifs” for a now conventional wife and mother who is trying to reignite her life by trying to bcome a writer.
A bit of a wrench gets thrown into her plan when her past is suddenly coming though the radio station and an over friendly new comer weaves into her life.
It’s one of those books that now that you’ve tipped your toe into u gotta cannon ball in.
I have to say the title is a bit misleading... I could look away but for the most I’d say it was a nice read.
If u’re looking into something Hallmarky’ then this is ur lot.
I am more of a “who” “whoa” “WHAT” type of plot lines w/unexpected endings and such but I may look into reading this author again!
3 Solid STARS

This weekend I finished reading Can’t Look Away by Carola Lovering thanks to @netgalley !! I really liked Too Good to Be True last year, which made me really excited to see what she would write next. Added bonus she’s from CT so her books take place here!

Can’t Look Away follows a woman named Molly. She had a whirlwind romance right after college with a musician. Things ended and it’s now years later. She’s married, has a daughter, and is going through fertility treatments. One day she’s teaching yoga and a woman named Sabrina comes to the class. They spark a friendship, but will her past now catch up to her?

❤️Review❤️

Major trigger warnings in here with infertility and miscarriage. I normally don’t include trigger warnings, but these were major plot points throughout the entire book. I liked being able to see the characters through different perspectives and time frames to see how they’ve grown and changed. Although the twist was predictable I found myself really invested to see how it would all play out in the end. It was the train wreck that you couldn’t look away from. You knew it was coming, but you had to watch anyways. The ending wrapped up almost too easily in my opinion, which left me torn between a 3 and a 4 star rating. I decided to go with a 4, but it was definitely closer to a 3 than a 5 for me.

4 stars! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Told in alternating timelines/perspectives, Can’t Look Away starts in 2013 when grad student Molly who dreams of becoming a published author, meets up and coming rockstar Jake. They quickly fall in love and have a tumultuous relationship…

This is my favorite Carola Lovering book yet!! The multiple timelines and perspectives were so well written and kept me from being able to put down TBR book. I love a thriller with love story undertones and this had solid twists I didn’t see coming.

Hmm. What to say about this one. Is it a good book? Yes. Did I like it? No. But let me explain:

In a book world where thrillers fly off the shelves, I have come across some books in the past few years that are strongly marketed as thrillers that absolutely are not thrillers. If there is a single grain of sand of suspend in the novel, they call it a thriller. This is a marketing mistake that is unfair to both the readers and the authors. It leads readers to books they end up not liking, which they then write negative reviews of which hurts the author.

Can't Look Away follows all of the above. It is not a thriller. It is domestic drama or women's fiction. The novel follows the entire relationship of "the ones who got away" and mixes in a messy love triangle that adds some drama. But overall, this book is about people, love, relationships, life and how all of that can get tangled and make us look back on our lives and wonder "what if".

I personally didn't enjoy this book because that is not the kind of story I like. I fell victim to incorrect marketing. But this is not a bad book at all! It's really nice, if you like reading about love and relationships. The writing is really good as is the character development and the multiple timeframes and POVs. It's not a bad book, it's not poorly written, just know that it is not a thriller.

4.5/5 stars

The book is categorized as a thriller but I don't think that is the best way to describe it. It's a little bit drama, little bit thriller, little bit romance all rolled in to one. My favorite kind of book.

I love the way the author wove the characters together to create a great multifaceted story. It's a story of love and heartbreak in the characters early 20s. It's a story of growing and learning. It's a story of loss and healing.

It was such a wonderful easy read.

I'm so thankful I was able to read this one before its release date.

I was so happy to get to read this book before it came out.I love this author so much, and didn't even care what it was about..Because if Carols Covering wrote it, I was reading it.And I read it in 3 day's.. Just like the title, I couldn't look away..Please if you haven't read one of her book's do yourself a favor and read any of her book's.. They are like a train wreck you can't look away.

It gave very CoHo vibes and though I started this thinking it a thriller, it was more of a cross between women's fiction and romance with a stalker-ish suspense plot. Molly and Jake experience first great love and an amazing relationship in their 20's as an amateur writer and upcoming rock band star. But with time and circumstances, they fall apart and meet after years in the same suburb community with their new families. But can it really be a coincidence that they literally ended up in same town with same set of friends?

Molly is now with Hunter and their cute daughter. Jake is recently married to Sabrina who is not all she says she is. Why is she obsessed with Molly and what is her agenda for coming to this town? Sabrina has definitely taken a page from our favorite stalker from "You" series - Joe Goldberg. My only thought to Molly while reading this one was - Please don't cheat on your husband however your circumstances be, this is because I hate plots involving cheating by main characters. Can Molly and Jake forget their first great love and move on forms the crux of the plot. This was an emotional read involving jealousy, heartbreak, great love, family love, friendship all woven together beautifully.




Trigger warning: IVF, infertility, miscarriage

Molly and Jake have a once in a lifetime love. They are young and he is in an up and coming rock band. Once Jake's band becomes famous, their romance is a casualty of his fame.
Years later Molly is happily married with a small child. She runs into Jake in an unlikely place and their old feelings come back like it was yesterday.
Jake's live in girlfriend seems to really like Molly and befriends her but is it too good to be true ?
I liked this book although it did kind of drag on a bit. I liked the Author's writing style.
Thank you to NetGalley, the Author and the Publisher for a copy of this book for review.

Loverling sure knows how to write a tumultuous relationship and really hit the reader right in the feels.
I loved this book, but I’m torn about the ending. I guess I understand, but it’s not how I’d have liked to see it go. This book definitely makes you think: what’s important, what makes a lasting love, what sacrifices are worth it, what would you change if you could? I would have answered some of these questions differently than Molly did, but I suppose that makes for a good, thoughtful read.
I liked the duel narration/timelines in Can’t Look Away and it had just enough suspense to make it a real page-turner even though it’s more of an emotional drama than a thriller. I just feel like Loverling really captures characters in such detail that I truly feel like I know them. I felt like I was right in the thick of these relationships with them, which makes any ending hard to swallow- I know these people now, I want more.
I’d definitely recommend this book to anyone trying to find their passion or follow their dreams and fans of relationship/small town/family drama.
TW: miscarriages

Can’t Look Away is advertised by its author as a "romantic suspense" novel that focuses on three primary characters: aspiring writer Molly, famous musician Jake, and obsessively jealous Sabrina. Over the span of ten years, we see through each character’s eyes how their lives have dramatically intertwined with one another’s, including all resulting deep rifts of deceit that each one digs themselves, and their loved ones, into.

When I first came across this book on GoodReads, it was listed as a romantic mystery/thriller, which seemed rather intriguing, especially after having read its blurb. However, as I read it, I found myself bored. I felt like I had read this story before (though I knew I hadn’t). Despite the novel’s realistic dialogue, well-balanced description vs. character exchange, clear and mostly well-rounded characters, logical storyline progression and development, and generally great writing, the story lacked originality and cohesion of tone for me.

In the beginning, Sabrina’s chapters sometimes make her come off as this creepy, threatening individual similar to the serial killer in Netflix’s YOU. She uses the second-person singular as she indirectly explains to one of the characters the reason for her jealousy and stalking. This starts to create a mysterious, suspenseful tone for the book, but it doesn’t last, as her chapters often unsteadily weave in and out of creepiness back to normalcy until (quite quickly, actually) the creep factor is completely lost, and she just seems like the cliché jealous type. Also, the poorly established tone of suspense is not even a fine thread woven throughout the other characters’ chapters.

Due to this unfortunate imbalance, I feel like the book has neither mystery, nor suspense. It just reads like a normal, contemporary romance novel; there are themes of love, identity, marriage, maternity, jealousy, heartbreak, and healing, but no elements of mystery or thrill, just normal relationship drama unfolding. The only different aspect that makes this book stand out among others is that this drama interwoven in the characters’ lives is well thought out (albeit a tad predictable).

Regarding the book’s end (no spoilers, don’t worry!), I quite like it. It ends appropriately, without falling into cliche territory (so, this part is original!). However, the epilogue, I feel, is unnecessary; it doesn’t warrant being told in order to advance and close the story.

I think most contemporary romance readers will enjoy this book. Mystery/suspense/thriller ones, on the other hand, will be left disappointed and unsatisfied. Had this book not been advertised to me as it had, and if Sabrina’s chapters had been more balanced in tone and her character more developed and clear (because its lack of clarity does not lend itself to mystery or suspense, in this case), then I would have given this book a higher rating, as I would have found it more enjoyable.

At first I was bored with this book but by about 40 percent into it I was all in! It ended up keeping me on my toes without being a typical psychological thriller. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for a free copy in exchange for review.


4.5/5

Love Carolo Lovering and loved this book! It follows Molly Diamond to and from her 20s living in NYC to her 30s living in suburban CT married with a child. It is about lost love, relationships and female friendships. It kept me riveted till the end!

I've never read a book by Carola Lovering but I can tell you that I will now be looking into what else she's written and be procuring those asap. Can't Look Away was nuts and I couldn't put it down. The basic premise--girl meets boy, falls in love, relationship ends + girl meets other boy, falls in love and tries to live happily ever after, even though there are still deep feelings for boy number 1--isn't new. The love story of to twenty somethings at the beginnings of their lives is one we can all identify with and made that part of the story relatable. It's what she builds around Molly, Jake, and Hunter that makes it so that you can't look away (sorry! I couldn't help it). Primarily, it's Sabrina and what a complete obsessed psychopath that she is that kept me on my toes. She was so cringe-y and made me want to face palm so many times and yet at the same time I had a teeny tiny bit of sympathy for her. Just a smidge though. Mostly I just wanted her to clue in and move on. While Sabrina was busy plotting and planning, Molly, Jake, and Hunter were finding themselves, together and apart, and growing up.



Fast forward a decade later and life seems to have settled down, though clearly it has not. Molly and Hunter are happy, minus one major aspect--having a second child and Sabrina should be completely content and happy with how things are in her life, but noooo, she has to be a little psychopath and can't leave well enough alone.



Can't Look Away had me pick it up every second I could and now I can't wait to dive into her previous novels.

I really enjoyed this book. Reminded me of being young and in love with your first love. The free feeling, intensity and drama were all there. Such a fun read. I recommend it to everyone. It was also be a great book club read and discussion.

Sorry, this was a DNF for me at around 30%. The book's description sounded amazing, but the suspense just wasn't there in the reading.

After breaking up with Jake, Molly gave up his rock and roll life-style and settled down in a marriage with Hunter. She doesn’t quite fit in her new suburban life but they are happy together. When beautiful and friendly Sabrina moves into the neighborhood, they hit it off immediately.

I loved this book because it was different. I haven’t read anything quite like it. It was suspenseful, mysterious, but also a love story. The romance took a front row, which I normally don’t like, but there was enough darkness and suspense that I was into it. I didn’t like the main character and liked the person I probably wasn’t supposed to like, but sometimes that’s just the way it is!

“Obsession always interested me. The best artists, the most brilliant innovators, they’ve all been driven by it. It straddles the line between passion and insanity; it instigates creativity and genius despite the darkness in which it lingers. To be obsessed with someone or something is to adopt a single-minded drive that reduces the rest of the world to sheer insignificance.

Can’t Look Away comes out 6/14