This book definitely kept me guessing all the way through and didn’t expect the twist at the end! A great read! You don’t want to miss out on this one!

Best Friends Forever by Shannon Hollinger Narrated by Kate Handford was WoW this was Excellent from start to finish. I loved it. It was a gripping thriller with a jaw-dropping twist especially as this book messed with your head! lol
I highly recommend this book and the Narrator Kate Handford was excellent for this audiobook.

This book took me a while to get into, however after around the 75 page mark it really sped up and I finished it in just a few hours. Each chapter left me wanting more and I couldn’t put it down once I got into the flow of it! Highly recommend! My favourite book of the year so far!

Thank You to #NetGalley, Bookouture and Shannon Hollinger for the opportunity to read an advance coy of BEST FRIENDS FOREVER, In this domestic thriller, everybody was suspected until the very end! Kate, after 10 years, returns home to solve a murder and discovers more murders with the same modi's operandi have occurred. She feels guilty about having left her best friend and feels that she failed her younger sister. This is definitely a "who done it" kind of novel with multiple twists and turns. Readers of Shannon Hollinger are likely to enjoy this tale very much.
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Best Friends Forever written by Shannon Hollinger was an insane mystery-thriller. It took me a bit longer than expected to read this book due to moving and unpacking, but i'm glad I finally got to finish. This book was so so good, it kept me hooked from the very first page, Best Friends Forever was unputdownable. When I thought I had the answers, I was completely wrong and knocked on my ass with all the twists and turns coming at me. I love a good book that can keep me guessing. This book is a dual pov, now, and ten years ago. This book gave me goosebumps, I just remember sitting there holding my breath waiting for the truth to come out, but when it did, I was completely shocked. Ladies and gentlemen this is how you write a good mystery-thriller that will instantly have readers hooked. I went into this book blind, let me tell you, that was the best thing to do for this book because it made you feel like you were right there witnessing everything. There were pedophilia comments in this book, so if that makes you feel uncomfortable, skip over those parts. When you look at the cover, it doesn't give thriller vibes, but once you read this book, you will be completely shocked. In my opinion there was nothing I would change about this book, I loved every minute of it.

THANK YOU TO NETGALLEY AND BOOKOUTURE FOR AN ARC OF THIS BOOK IN EXCHANGE FOR AN HONEST REVIEW!!!!!!

Kate and Emma were inseparable, they were best friends that were so close they considered themselves sisters. On the night of their high school graduation, Emma and Kate and their group of friends went to a bonfire party, when their whole friend group decided to split up for a little bit and do their own thing at the bonfire. Kate comes into the clearing of woods to find her friend and protector, a homeless man named Brad, bloodied and dead, Kate finds Emma standing over Brad with a blood splattered rock. Kate decided to take her little sister, Lily to the party with her because their mom was running late from her work meetings or whatever little shenanigans she was doing, no one ever really knew what she was doing, Kate didn't want to leave Lily home alone, so she decided to take her with. Kate tried to always be there for her little sister, and be her protector, but once Lily witnesses what's going on, she's completely traumatized, she won't talk to anyone, she won't even speak anymore. Kate feels like she failed her little sister in so many ways. Emma whispers, "it was accident", but Kate doesn't listen, she turns and grabs for Lily and decides to run away never looking back.

Kate decided to run away with Lily and leave Emma behind not knowing why Emma did what she did to Brad, but as you read the book you will find all the truths. Kate decided not to tell anyone the truth of what she saw, knowing she could never betray her best friend. After that night, Kate decides to pack her bags and land herself in Boston, with a job as a server. Kate couldn't watch Emma pick herself back up and live a normal life as if the murder never happened, another reason Kate decides to leave. After ten years of being gone, Kate receives a silent phone call from her little sister, Lily, and Kate knows that phone call means she must return to Florida immediately. Kate arrives back in Florida just in time to help her mom because she has a broken hip "due to a fall". Kate also learned that Emma has died as well and Kate is in time for Emma's funeral. Kate sees all her old friends at Emma's funeral from ten years ago. And Lily still won't talk. Lily has been to a numerous amount of doctors and therapists trying to help her speak again, but she won't, she's too traumatized after that night she saw everything.

It appears that Emma has committed suicide or died accidentally, without her always present EpiPen. The official cause of death for Emma was a shock from her peanut allergy. Kate doesn't believe Emma would have committed suicide, but concluding that Emma was murdered, because Emma never went anywhere without her EpiPen. Kate starts during research to find the truth of Emma's murder, Kate comes up empty handed, but what she does find is so shocking, a homeless man has been killed every year in June, the anniversary of Brad's death. Kate believes Emma had an accomplice out there helping her, "Someone else is out there. Someone who was close to both of us, someone who knew the smallest details of what had happened that night ten years ago. Who from our small town could have murdered not once, but twice? And whose next?". Once you read this book and all the answers start unraveling, it will leave you completely shocked. Best Friends Forever was totally an engrossing thriller. Some parts of this book does get a bit too wordy, so you may want to skip over those parts as well. The ending of the book had all of my answers that I needed. This book definitely didn't disappoint at all.

Kate returns to her childhood home when her mother breaks her hip. Her former best friend dies the next day but Kate has been haunted for a decade by the death of their friendship after a murder in the woods on graduation night. She becomes convinced that Emma was also murdered but does it link to the events of 10 years ago...?
Best Friends Forever is a psychological thriller and murder mystery set in America. Most of the book is written in the present day from Kate's first person perspective but these are interspersed with chapters showing the night of the graduation party in the third person.
Kate ran away from her friends and family after the death on graduation night. She believes her best friend to be responsible for the murder and feels guilty about hiding the truth to protect everyone involved. Now she is forced to confront the past when she returns home to care for her mother. Her sister has been mute since that night but she hopes that their reunion can heal both their pain.
I think I suspected most of the characters of some nefarious dealings, lying and even murder. The tension builds over the course of the book as Kate deals with her recollections of the past and concerns abouts events in the present. There were lots of twists and I did guess most of them but this didn't spoil my enjoyment as I worked through the clues alongside Kate.
Best Friends Forever has interesting and intriguing mysteries to explore in the past and present.

First thriller read of the year and it did not disappoint! I was hooked from the beginning. The author kept the suspense throughout the book and the ending…shocker!! Thank you net galley for this advanced reader copy! Would definitely recommend this book to others.

The first 2/3 of the book were pretty slow. The last third was crazy, in the best way possible. I loved the twists and how the book ended. I never suspected who the villain was. So for the ending… I would give this book 5 stars!

Some issues I had with the book:
-it kept going back and forth between 1st person and 3rd person. I think this made it very difficult for me to keep track of what was going on.
-I couldn’t remember/keep track of all of the characters. There were some people in this story that I just I couldn’t keep them all straight. What their names where, what they did for a living, who they were to the main character, etc.
-there was a lot of time spent trying describe what was going on or how the main character felt that it made me jump ahead a lot to get to parts that really mattered in the story line.
-“eyebrows furrowed”…. This was used way too many times.

Overall, it wasn’t the worst book I have ever read. But not one I would recommend.

I would like to thank Bookouture and Shannon Hollinger and NetGalley for the ADC of Best Friends Forever by Shari

It’s so true how well do you think you know your best friends/ friends? We really don’t everyone has secrets, pasts they want to protect and at what lengths will they go to to keep them hidden..
Best Friends by Shannon Hollinger, was a fast paced read that was full of suspense and chills that pulled me in from the beginning. I couldn’t put the book down until it came to the dark and twisted shocking ending that I didn’t see coming.
It literally took my breath away…. This was my first bookI read by Shannon Hollinger and it certainly won’t be my last.
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This was a twisty story about 2 friends a little sister who is left mute. Kate returns home for her friend Emma;s funeral, she wonders what happened. They have not spoken in years. When Kate returns home she starts to uncover secrets on what lead to the death of Emma and her sisters condition. This was an amazing book for a debut! I enjoyed the twists and turns in this book.

I was super excited to read this novel by author Shannon Hollinger and it was a thrilling read.

We meet main character Kate who I thought was a very interesting and slightly complex character. We learn of what mystery surrounds a night many years ago with regards to herself and her best friend Emma. Kate and Emma were literally what they thought would be Best Friends Forever but a night years ago changed their course of destiny. Kate has to leave town as she is physiologically scarred from this event.

Kate returns to town only to found out that Emma is found dead and Kate wants and needs to investigate how and why Emma has died.

If you love a really good phycological read that keeps you on the edge of your seat and you can not put a book down then give this novel a go.

Thanks to Netgalley, Shannon Hollinger and the publishers for allowing me a copy of this novel. 4.5 stars from me.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for allowing me to review this book.

While attending a graduation party in the woods with her friends and 12 yr old sister Lily, Kate's world is turned upside down. A grisly murder rocks the group, rendering Lily mute and causing Kate to run away from what she'd seen. Ten years later, after her mother breaks her hip, Kate returns home to face her demons.

This book...what can I say? The story is told in the present time and in flashbacks. I found most of the flashbacks to be unnecessary and they dragged the book down. There wasn't a lot of new information given and I feel they could have been used more judiciously or not at all.

the tone of this book also threw me. It's written as an adult general fiction/thriller but it read like a YA book. No knocks against YA, as it's one of my favorite dramas. It's just that the protagonist of this book is a 28-year-old woman who still acts like a fifteen or sixteen-year-old. It didn't fit the story being told. I constantly forgot that the characters weren't still kids and that the traumatic event that ended her friendship with Emma was ten years before.

My biggest problem other than tone was that I feel the author had too many ideas and used too many tropes to add twists. The ex-boyfriend turned out to be a complete jerk (honestly, saw that coming from the jump). The best friend not being who she seemed. The sister drama. It's mutism. The friends/foes storyline. Everyone is a suspect, it seems, but it falls flat when you realize the author is just painting a weak picture of each person until the big reveal (which wasn't really surprising to me." Also the big twist at the end? Made no sense at all. None.

You have to suspend a lot of disbelief at the outset of this novel to get through it. The cops in this book are jokes, for one. Two,, the number of secrets in this small town that all seem to bubble up to be solved by a traumatized woman doing her own research. It was a lot to digest and none of it quite worked out. It all read false and unbelievable in a bad way to me. There isn't enough substance to make me want to suspend disbelief to go full in on this novel, so for me, I rated it at 2.5. It's just too out there and slapdash.

Best Friends Forever had me gripped from the first page. It was a very twisty story that kept me turning the pages and it kept me guessing throughout.

Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for my ARC.

Kate is leaving Boston and returning to her childhood home after fleeing ten years ago, following a traumatic event that happened. Her mum has had an accident and broken her hip. When she gets back, she finds out that her best friend, Emma died... and might have been murdered. The story goes back and forth with Kate ruminating on the events that happened years ago and trying to find out why Emma is now dead. This is a slow burner but towards the 50% mark the tale really hots up. Mainly told from Kate's viewpoint, past events are described in the third person's narrative. The ending was completely unexpected. A tremendous début, I hope to read more from the pen of Shannon Hollinger going forward.

I received a complimentary copy of this novel at my request from Bookouture via NetGalley. This review is my own unbiased opinion.

This book definitely had me questioning everyone and everything until the very end! I was intrigued by the book cover and description, and I think this is worth a read. With that being said, I absolutely could not stand the protagonist Kate. I found myself rolling my eyes at her overly negative self-talk. The part that irked me the most was when she went out of her way to help a complete stranger out of a situation, yet as soon as she sees her BEST FRIEND FOREVER in a bind she just leaves. Overall, I enjoyed this book and the twists at the end! Thank you NetGalley for this ARC!

Wow,what a thrilling tale full of twists..I was gripped from the first page and just could not stop reading. Addictive. Compelling. Just amazing. Do read this one.

This was a little predictable but an enjoyable read nevertheless! Thank you to Netgalley & the author for the opportunity to read this book for an honest review!

Loved that this book was based on a younger crowd that grew up together. Was fun to see how their dynamics played out when they were back together. Kept me on the edge of my seat. Read it in one setting. Every time I thought I had it figured out, bam, I was wrong. I have never loved characters so quick and then hated them so quickly. It's a definite must read!!

BOOKWORMS REVIEW: When young Kate is a witness to something her eyes can't believe,she leaves town. Her best friend Emma had been standing over a body declaring "it was an accident". 10 years later back again,another murder occurs and Kate wonders if someone else is a murderer too...or was Emma even responsible for the first one. Things aren't what they appear as is sometimes the case. Told in dual timelines,which is done really well..this is a thriller with a great ending and lots to like in the middle. A good read.
With thanks to Bookouture and NetGalley and Shannon Hollinger for an arc to read and review.

Who can you trust?

After witnessing the murder of a homeless man as a 12 year old Kate sister Lily is mute, refusing to speak at all. Kate travels back to Florida to assist her mother after she broke her hip. And all hell starts to break loose.
A day after arriving her childhood best friend is found dead under suspicious circumstances. Was it suicide, an accident or murder?
Then when another homeless man is found dead Kate checks back and finds a trail of murders all on the same date every year!
With some family secrets, and crime running rampant in the Florida town Kate doesn't know who she can trust, who to believe and she doesn't feel safe!

I never would have guessed who the guilty party's were, there were a few huge twists I never saw coming. This was the most unpredictable book I have read in a while.
Told in two time lines this jaw dropping novel kept me guessing and on the edge of my seat with it's unexpected twists and turns.
This was an excellent debut novel and I'm excited to see what else Shannon Hollinger writes!