Can't Look Away features a "one that got away" story with a bit of a twist. Full of angst, emotions, and a bit of thrills, this book is perfect for fans steamy suspense. If you need a page-turner to carry you away from your real life, this book has high-drama and feels like stepping into a TV show.

Molly and Jake have an instant connection that leads to an intense love, with a song Jake writes about Molly rocketing his band into stardom. Nearly a decade later, Molly lives in Connecticut with her husband and daughter, feeling a bit lost and unfulfilled. She meets a new friend, Sabrina, and secrets begin to unspool on why Sabrina moved to the small town of Flynn Cove.

The first half of this book had me totally gripped! It was suspenseful and I had to know what was going to happen. Then the story began to lose me. It was a bit too soap opera-y for me (like cringey at times) and I found the ending to be a bit anti-climactic. I loved TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE and enjoyed TELL ME LIES by this author, so this was probably a fluke and I'm excited to read her future books.

Once you start this one, you won’t want to put it down. I really enjoyed Can’t Look Away. This is my first book from this author but I’m looking forward to reading more from her.

Can't Look Away by Carola Lovering is more of a suspense than a thriller, and it's a look at relationships and choices made when young. And, how those choices can impact our lives later on.

Many thanks to the author, publish, and NetGalley for sharing this book with me. All thoughts are my own.

This book was hugely disappointing. I really enjoyed Too Good to Be True, but this one lacks suspense; it all felt really obvious and not very exciting. The characters felt unrealistic with their motivations. I saw all the twists coming. I know people have really enjoyed this one, but it didn't work for me.

I love Carola Lovering and find all of her books to be unputdownable. I couldn’t wait to get to the end of this one to figure out everything! She writes a special kind of thriller where usually nothing extremely sinister has happened, but the toxicity of the relationships is so addictive that you are frantically flipping pages till the end.

Carola Lovering has published some really sold books and I have enjoyed every single one! This one felt like it should have been categorized differently, maybe romantic suspense vs. thriller, but regardless I enjoyed it! I really enjoyed the multiple POVs with this one. There were so many twists and turns that kept me on the edge of my seat. I read so many thrillers that I feel like I can typically grasp them and figure them out, but this one kept me guessing and I was SO wrong about quite a few of them. Looking forward to her next book.

After a whirlwind romance in her early 20s with Jake, the lead singer of an up-and-coming band, Molly has established her new life with her husband, Hunter, and their daughter. She teaches yoga and has abandoned much of her writing aspirations, and she is trying to conceive her second baby with the help of IVF. When Sabrina, a new woman in town who seems more genuine than the women in the local mom clique, befriends Molly, she is eager to get to know her better. However, Sabrina has an ulterior motive for moving to Flynn Cove, and her chance encounters with Molly were no coincidence.

Although this book is marketed as a thriller, the tension and suspense build slowly, created more so by the format of the alternating perspectives. The drama is focused more on past relationships than actual danger, not your typical thriller trope. The writing style and pacing are well-done, and the characters are relatable and likable. The way the book alternates timelines and perspectives is done artfully and builds suspense in an organic way. We learn about Molly and Jake's history at the same time as the events of the present day, propelling the story seamlessly. I was riveted every step of the way and enjoyed this dramatic, low-stakes, thriller tremendously.

4.5 stars- Let’s clear up the discrepancy of ratings. This book is NOT for those people who are hard laden thriller/horror junkies…if you go into this book looking for this you aren’t going to find it.

This book is more of a REALISTIC domestic suspense that would leave most people terrified if it were happening to you.

Hopefully that will help those choosing to pick this up because it’s really good and it should be picked up!

This was a DNF for me. I tried to get into the plot, but I struggled to accept some of the choices and mindsets of Molly. I get pining for what could have been (I suppose?), but the story was not for me.

I was real into this one. Told in dual POV and multiple timelines I was hooked.
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In 2013 Molly and Jake fall head over heels for each other. Jake showcases that love in a song that makes his band hit the big time.
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Years later Molly is living a nice quiet life with her husband Hunter. She has a husband she loves, a sweet daughter, a beautiful home, but something is missing. She wants another child and doesn’t seem to bond with the other women in town, until she meets Sabrina. She finally feels connected to another woman in town.
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I don’t want to say too much because I was genuinely surprised by a lot in this book. Lovering proves once again that she is the queen of writing about toxic relationships. If you don’t believe me check out #TellmeLies on @hulu based on her novel.
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Thank you @stmartinspress and @netgalley for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

Carola Lovering’s books have gotten a lot of attention lately and I do think she’s a solid author. This one felt more like a soap then thriller but I was still captivated and enjoyed it!

I kept waiting for some major twist to come but overall this felt like it was trying to make a non suspenseful story into a thriller. I did think that the characters felt very well done and true to themselves.

This book was not for me. It was less of a thriller and more of a romance. I also really didn't care for the characters so I couldn't really get invested in them or their story.

The balance of the storyline and the love story was equally as important and kept my interest all through the book. I wasn't the fondest of the ending, but I feel that the rest of the book kept enough interest for me.

I do enjoy a good book that goes from one time frame to another to point out the issues that were in the past, and that come up in the future.

Love this author, and can't wait to read the next.

This is a love story/thriller. It is about young love, and what a person feels that they need to do for themselves, but memories can take them back in time. It is also about jealousy. A well written story. I voluntarily reviewed this book.

Can’t Look Away
By Carola Lovering
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I am LOVING this type of book recently. I just can’t get enough of all the lies and deceptions!

I read Too Good to Be True last year and absolutely devoured it. I had high hopes for this one and it definitely delivered.

I love a book with alternating timelines/multiple perspectives. I was so glad that this one alternated between the past and present so we could get a better understanding of Molly & Jake’s relationship.

While this one is classified as a thriller, I would definitely say it’s more suspenseful. And more like a romantic suspense at that. So if you’re the type of person that wants to read thrillers, but doesn’t want to sleep with the lights on, give this one a try!

I really liked the ending of this one & while Sabrina was the wooooorst, I’m glad we got one last glimpse into her crazy mind.

I didn’t expect to like this chaotic cast of unlikeable characters and their messy drama as much as I did. Every character was so annoying to me the whole time, yet I could not put this down. While there are many too-corny-for-enjoyment moments, Sabrina’s obsession carried the story line so much that I can almost look past the parts that made me cringe. I would likely recommend this for fans of Colleen Hoover, you are way closer to the demographic for this than I am.
Thank you to NetGalley and St Martins Press for the e-book!

I loved Can’t Look Away by Carola Lovering and couldn’t put it down! Even though I was quite far into a massive novel I couldn’t stop reading about Molly, Jake and their trials and tribulations. Ms Lovering depicted the heart and soul of creative people in a very realistic way but also gave them some redemption by having them come to hard-won realizations about themselves. The infertility process depictions were frighteningly true-to-life. I thank the publisher, St Martin’s and #netgalley for this ebook of #cantlookaway to read and review—all opinions are my own.

Carola Lovering does not miss with me. This was such a fascinating mix of You with a coming of age love story gone wrong somewhere, I truly was stuck to my kindle reading this. Thanks to St Martins for the arc for my honest review.