This book sucked me in from the beginning and didn't let go. I loved everything about it and truly didn't want it to end!

I’m not sure how I feel about this one still. I liked it while I was reading it but I found it very forgettable. I did really like the characters and the story line.

Interesting and well written I just personally couldn’t get into the story. Difficult to follow at times and a little slow. I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

I was lucky to receive an advance copy of Regrets Only by Kiernan Scott from NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for my honest review and opinion. This book grabs you from page one and will keep you entertained all the way through. I absolutely loved this!

Regrets Only is a phenomenal thriller from start to finish. Filled to the brim with twists and a captivating plot, this one is sure to keep readers hooked. The characters are well-developed. The story is incredibly fast-paced. This is one not to be missed! Highly recommended! Be sure to check out Regrets Only asap.

I enjoyed this tale of greed, betrayal, intimidation, redemption, acceptance and friendship. I would call it Soft Suspense. Everyone was a suspect so there were several twists and turns before the ending but although I had guessed the perpetrator before the end, I still recommend this novel. #RegretsOnly

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.
Great roller coaster of a read. Definitely enjoyed it.

Paige Lancaster, single mom and prodigal daughter, has returned to the East Coast from her prestigious, well-paid job in Los Angeles, writing for the smartest detective series on television. Something terrible happened to her back in Hollywood. Okay, two terrible things, one featuring a misplaced tire iron—and now she’s broke, homeless, and living with her widowed mother and eight-year-old daughter, Izzy, in her Connecticut hometown.

Paige needs to buckle down and find a new writing gig but first, she meets the movers and shakers of Izzy’s school’s Parent Booster Association, run by the intimidatingly gorgeous Ainsley Anderson, who just happens to be married to Paige’s old high school flame, John.

Then she shows up at the annual Parents and Pinot fundraiser, held at Ainsley and John’s dazzling mansion in the toniest part of town, where she’s caught in a compromising position with John, accidentally destroys the guest bathroom, overhears an incriminating conversation, and discovers that her purse has gone missing. And later that night, Ainsley turns up dead at the bottom of her own driveway.

Did she fall? Or was she pushed?

Paige may have only written about detectives, but she is convinced she can handle a little undercover sleuthing. After all, it’ll give her an excuse to spend more time with John. Still, she can’t help but wonder: could he be capable of murder? Or could one of the PBA members have planned a dastardly crime to reach the top? But the most important question of all: will Paige ever get her life back on track?

No regrets here! I’m glad i started this book! It was a wild ride, but an enjoyable one! This is not something I’m typically into, but this was great!

A fun, fast read, compared to Big Little Lies for good reason.

*Thanks to Edelweiss, Netgalley, and the publisher for providing an e-galley in exchange for an honest review

This was a really engaging and entertaining read. It wasn't a super surprising book but I really enjoyed reading it. There were some cliché moments and a few parts were pretty implausible but that was easy to overlook. This really was a fun read.

I had just finished watching Big Little Lies on HBO and picked this book up right after since I wasn’t done with my fill of rich, spoiled, housewife drama. I’m so glad I did! The author paints a pretty good picture of what wealthy parents will do just to fit in. Some if it is so over the top, you can’t believe this stuff actually happens, but it does! I loved Paige’s character and found her very relatable. Overall, this was an entertaining page-turner and I have no problem recommending it to domestic thriller fans.

I have this author’s book; Wish You Were Gone and hope to read it very soon!

I have a confession to make: You know those awful PTA moms in the wealthy suburbs? The ones featured in books like Big Little Lies and so many others, the catty ones who are always backstabbing each other, cheating with each other’s husbands and sometimes killing each other? I was one of those moms. And no, nobody died or even attempted a coup in order to dethrone the PTA president. We were all nice women who had given up careers and loved volunteering at our kids’ schools and cheering on the sidelines at their soccer games. I did the newsletter and helped out with the book fair. (Okay, there was this one mom…)

In any case, I still love these books, even though the plots and settings are starting to feel a bit cliched. In her latest book, Regrets Only, Kieran Scott has given the “PTA moms gone wild” subgenre a unique heroine that keeps her novel from feeling cookie-cutter. The result is a fun, if slightly uneven, murder mystery to help kick off the winter semester and give basketball moms something to read on the bleachers.

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I would recommend not reading too many reviews for this one! It’s in the vein of Big Little Lies, which is my favorite trope and I loved it! It is juicy and full of lies and drama. It basically centers around the women of the PTA of a posh school. The queen bee of the PTA ends up dead and the rumors and accusations start flying. Who would want to hurt her? Sounds good right?! I also really enjoyed this author’s previous novel and recommend you grab that one too!

Thank you Netgalley & Gallery books for an eARC of Regrets Only by Kieran Scott. Told from 3 POVs, this is a dramatic, quick, and captivating read. Think Mean Girls meets Desperate Housewives with plenty of murder, mystery, and scandal! Paige, a woman who moved back into her mother's house with her daughter and leaving her LA writing life behind. Paige has her own secrets as to why she left LA, but little did she know that the moms around her had their own interesting secrets. Paige takes her detective writing skills and carries it over into her real life when a death occurs within the school. So many connections and secrets slowly trickle out. Highly recommend!

Regrets Only....

I have a regret to share, I regret not reading this book sooner!

Regrets Only has plagued social media for the past month. Multiple times I had told myself "this is your next book" but you know, life can sometimes get in the way. Well, I finally made some "me time" and got to sit down with this award winning novel.

When it came to Regrets Only, I had wanted to challenge myself and go in blind. I didn't want to read the synopsis or the reviews, I wanted to go in completely blank and feel each twist, turn, and emotion without warning. Boy, was I in for a treat.

I had read Wish You Were Gone, also by Kieran Scott this summer, so I knew that I would enjoy the writing style and with having seen it literally ALL OVER BOOKSTAGRAM, I knew I was going to love this book.

Love?

How about Obsessed.

As you have all seen with my prior posts, I am a sucker for some good ole "mama drama" . Desperate Housewives? Check. Catty women who have nothing better to do than torture one another? Check.

This book oozed secrets and deceit. I was completely consumed early on and there was no way I was going to put this one down. I mean, lets be serious, it took me way too long to pick it up!

I was in, completely consumed and adrift from reality.

This was a fast paced, drama packed thriller that will keep you on the edge of your toes. I enjoyed the multiple points of view and the realism of the characters. The exposure of secrets was done with perfection and like I had previously stated, my only regret is not having picked this one up sooner.

Learn from my mistakes, buy the book.

I will leave you with this.... not everything is what it seems.

Teaser :

Paige Lancaster, single mom and prodigal daughter, has returned to the East Coast from her prestigious, well-paid job in Los Angeles, writing for the smartest detective series on television. Something terrible happened to her back in Hollywood. Okay, two terrible things, one featuring a misplaced tire iron—and now she’s broke, homeless, and living with her widowed mother and eight-year-old daughter, Izzy, in her Connecticut hometown.

Paige needs to buckle down and find a new writing gig but first, she meets the movers and shakers of Izzy’s school’s Parent Booster Association, run by the intimidatingly gorgeous Ainsley Anderson, who just happens to be married to Paige’s old high school flame, John.

Then she shows up at the annual Parents and Pinot fundraiser, held at Ainsley and John’s dazzling mansion in the toniest part of town, where she’s caught in a compromising position with John, accidentally destroys the guest bathroom, overhears an incriminating conversation, and discovers that her purse has gone missing. And later that night, Ainsley turns up dead at the bottom of her own driveway.

Did she fall? Or was she pushed?

Paige may have only written about detectives, but she is convinced she can handle a little undercover sleuthing. After all, it’ll give her an excuse to spend more time with John. Still, she can’t help but wonder: could he be capable of murder? Or could one of the PBA members have planned a dastardly crime to reach the top? But the most important question of all: will Paige ever get her life back on track?

I really wanted to like this especially after it was compared to Big Little Lies. I can see some comparisons, but Regrets Only does not live up to the hype.
I found it slow and struggled to finish. The characters were selfish, rich, and very unlikeable. I didn't really care who the murderer was by the end.

3.5 Stars

The Real Housewives meet Desperate Housewives meet Big Little Lies in this domestic thriller set in a wealthy area of Connecticut.

Paige returns home from LA with her tail between her legs after losing her job and a few other mistakes. She and her daughter move in with her Mom. She walks her daughter to school and has the ‘pleasure’ if meeting the PTA czars. These women are over the top and will stop at nothing to be the best! But, everyone has secrets and some are bigger than others! Is Paige the one to uncover the truths?

Enjoyable read, slow in parts and then the ending had almost too much going on in a short time frame.

Thanks to Gallery Books and NetGalley for this ARC. Opinion is mine alone.

Regrets Only by Kieran Scott was a different type of read from what I normally enjoy, but it was well written and surprising in the end.. I would read more books by this author.

I started reading and there was a long list of characters, which sometimes makes it hard for me to figure out who did what because I don’t always remember names. This book proved to be different. Each character was well developed and individual so I did not have a struggle keeping track of the action.

And there was action, even though it was about the PBA which I know as PTA or PTO, Parent teacher Association. That is on the surface what it is about. It is about how some people need to be in charge of things and how some people will do what it takes to help them stay there.

The moral of the story is that things are not always what they seem.

A new author to me, and I plan to read more! A fast-paced, entertaining read as Paige maneuvers her way around the clique of the privileged Parent Booster Club of her daughter’s school. After writing for television in California, she should be able to handle the suburban housewives.

The whispers start at the annual Parents and Pinot party, where the PBC president is found dead. Is it murder?
Escape into the backstabbing shenanigans of the former mean girls, now privileged, who now make up the elementary school PBR! The gossip is juicy, and the blackmail and secrets are plentiful.

Thank you to NetGalley and Gallery Books for the advanced copy; this is my voluntary review.