I absolutely loved this book! None of This is True is an addictive page-turner. It had hints of Single White Female and untrustworthy characters. Heck, the title says it’s not true. 🤣

I really like the trend of authors incorporating podcasts and other formats in books. This is one that I will listen to again on audio to see how they portray the story. The clever way Jewell foreshadows elements of the story in the glimpses of the future Netflix show was brilliant and engaging.

This is going to be a big hit! Great book!

NONE OF THIS IS TRUE review

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5

❓Wooooow it’s been a while since I’ve read a thriller that I binged in less than 24 hours (have I mentioned how much I love summer break?!). NONE OF THIS IS TRUE was such a wild ride and I was invested in the story line right away. I neeeeeeded to find out how the story would end and felt like I couldn’t read it fast enough.

❓Here’s a summary of the plot:👇
Josie is out celebrating her 45th birthday when across the restaurant she spies another woman celebrating her own 45th birthday. Josie can’t shake the feeling that there’s a reason she’s in the same place at the same time as her “birthday twin” and so she stages a run-in in the bathroom. Alix, her birthday twin, is the host of a popular podcast showcasing stories about women’s lives and the challenges they’ve overcome. Josie implores Alix to feature her on the podcast, even though she hasn’t done anything drastic with her life yet. But she promises Alix that she’s about to make some decisions that will completely alter the course of her and her family’s lives forever…

❓This book had me trying to guess the twist(s) and I don’t think I guessed a single one right. 😅 I never knew which characters I trusted or who to root for. The ending definitely surprised me! I think this would be a great audiobook given the fact that a podcast is a prominent part of the story! Overall, I really really enjoyed this one! Definitely check this one out when it publishes in August!

❓Thanks to @atriabooks and @atriathrillers for my advanced copy of this one! NONE OF THIS IS TRUE publishes August 8, 2023!

Hi! I'm your birthday twin! With this simple line starts a spiral into one edge of your seat & crazy descent into madness, truth, lies & fate. Easily Lisa Jewell's best book ever. I was sucked right in from the beginning and could not stop reading! All the stars!!!

this story intrigued me right off the bat and I had no idea where the story was going in the best possible way. Secrets and an unreliable narrator are some of my favourite thriller tropes. Through in pieces of the story told through a Netflix documentary/podcast and I am hooked.
This was definitely my favourite Lisa Jewell book to date and I would read that woman’s chore list!

I’ve read a few of LJ’s books but I’ve never felt “wowed” by them - until this one! From beginning to end this was dark & compelling and LJ/thriller fans are in for a real treat when this one releases in August!

I could not put this book down! Alix and Josie are birthday twins who meet at the local pub on their birthday. Alix is a podcaster and Josie pitches her an idea to do a series on her life.

NONE OF THIS WAS TRUE was truly unhinged & I LOVEEE when thrillers make you second guess everything and you can’t tell fact from fiction 👏🏼👏🏼. These characters had me questioning everything and I was kept on the edge of my seat the entire read. I ended up bingeing this one because I just needed to know how it ended!!! Thanks to the podcast/Netflix elements, this one played like a story in my mind and I think it would make a great Netflix adaptation 🤓

I tore through None of This Is True while on vacation—I couldn't put it down. I can almost always guess what's coming next with Lisa Jewell's writing (and this story was no different), but she has a way of writing that keeps me hooked even though I almost always know what's coming—it's like I know it's going to happen but I just want it to happen already so I have to keep reading. None of This Is True follows two women who are birthday twins in a present/future context of a story, a podcast, and a Netflix documentary, which was a really cool format. I hated Josie from the jump, but I feel like you're supposed to with her creepy mannerisms and the way she acts around people. The ending was pretty satisfying despite not really getting closure, but it leads you to draw your own conclusions about Josie—which I have done. Per usual, Lisa Jewell has knocked it out of the park.

This book felt relevant and timely in content, had great twists, and was another wonderful story by Lisa Jewell. I wanted to keep going to find out how things would turn out. I enjoyed the point of view.

Round up to 4.5

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an ARC of this book.

I LOVED this book. I could not put it down. I have read several of Lisa Jewell's books and this was among my favorites. It was fast paced with unreliable characters and was psychologically intriguing. It was not violent or graphic, but rather featured some twisted characters, which I always find more compelling. I liked that, even as the reader, I didn't know for sure what was true and what wasn't. The only reason why I knocked off half a star was because the epilogue revealed something about the protagonist in an attempt to make her more sympathetic, and I didn't think it was necessary. Aside from that, it was great.

5/5 stars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you Atria Books for the advanced reading copy (special thanks to my book club friends for gifting the physical copy)!

First things first: my recommendation would be to GO IN BLIND to this one. I knew that people were hyping this up as Lisa Jewell's best book yet (spoiler alert: I agree) and I knew nothing else beyond that. It was ideal for a truly fun reading experience.

Okay, now that I've said that... if you still want a synopsis, here it is:

On the night of her 45th birthday, plain and simple Josie Fair runs into Alix Summer, a popular podcaster who just happens to be celebrating HER 45th birthday, as well. Newly identified "birthday twins," Josie and Alix strike up an unexpected connection, leading to a new podcast endeavor involving them both. Alix begins to uncover Josie's shocking, unsettling and, yet, captivating life story and is utterly shocked when Josie simply disappears. Suddenly, Alix is left with more questions than answers, the biggest of which: who will make it out alive?

Okay, I'll say this: you think you're gonna know. You will think you have it all figured out.. you. do. not. This book was clever and cunning until the very last page. I am laughing at myself for writing down a prediction about 1/3 of the way in and being so absolutely wrong that it's hilarious. A bit of a different style for Lisa Jewell and I am HERE FOR IT. While all of her other books have past and present timelines written very obviously separate, this one was a little more chaotic in the best way. The documentary aspect painted a fantastic picture for the reader and added a few twists and turns at unexpected moments. This book left me unsettled in a really fun way; I could tell that something just wasn't lining up but I had no idea what until the very end. I haven't read a book this fun in a while and I was instantly sad it was over. @emilybookedup labeled this story as "addicting" and I've never heard anything more accurate -- I'm telling you, you won't be able to put it down. Lisa Jewell's mind is chilling and that is the highest praise I could bestow. Preorder this RIGHT NOW, because come August 8th you're not going to want to wait one single second longer.

It’s my last Charleston inspired post because it’s time to get back to reality. 🥺 I spent my girls weekend reading None Of This is True by Lisa Jewell.

Here’s the premise: This is a psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself the subject of her own popular true crime podcast.

Alright y’all here is what I loved…multiple POV, mixed media format, creepy disturbing characters that kept me guessing. My only issues were the pace was off and the ending was not my fave. It very much felt similar to The Family Upstairs. So if you like psychological thrillers with a podcast element consider picking this one up when it comes out August 8th!

Thanks to @atriabooks and @netgalley for the E-ARC!

Thank you to NetGalley for the advance reader copy of this book. Lisa Jewell is hit or miss with me. Some of hers are amazing twisty thrillers and some are so so. This was a so so read. The storyline was familiar and characters not likeable. 3 stars.

Calling all true crime podcast fans, this one is for you! Lisa Jewell works her psychological thriller, twisty magic in this novel about a woman who suddenly finds herself the subject of her own true crime podcast.

Two women with the same birthday meet on their 45th. What could go wrong?!

None of This is True is told through three alternating perspectives: Josie, Alix, and Alix's birthday twins turned true crime podcast turned Netflix series. Whew! The last 10% of this book is hard to read. There's so much mystery throughout and then you get the answers you've been searching for and those answers are devastating. This is one of the darkest and smartest thrillers I've read in a while, and it will definitely be a great summer companion to those when it comes out on August 8th. Just totally captivating, intense, full of that familial drama, and very disturbing but in a delicious way... 5/🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂

Thank you to @netgalley and @atriabooks for the egalley!

Thank you to #AtriaBooks and #LisaJewell for the ARC of #NoneofThisisTrue. I know I am always in for a good time with Lisa Jewell, and of course she didn’t disappoint with None of this is True! Two strangers, each celebrating their 45th birthdays at a restaurant, find their lives inextricably intertwined when they discover they are “birthday twins.” Dark and twisting, the story takes on many suspenseful turns as the relationship between the women grows more convoluted. The format of the book is absolutely fantastic, written with several different narrators, including a future Netflix documentary made of this most incredible friendship. Fantastic read – everything and more I would expect from Lisa Jewell.

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I wholeheartedly believe this book may be my absolute favorite book by Lisa Jewell!

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Riveting, bone-chilling, dark, twisty.

You'll find yourself drawn into this psychological thriller within a few pages, and it won't let you go as you get into the unreliable back-and-forth feeling as if something bad is about to happen

Podcast meets true crime documentary- the story is told both after the tragedy happens and as it's happening. The story revolves around birthday twins - who run into each other on their 45th and things escalate from there.

Alix: a well-off Podcaster that is married and with two children, and a seemingly perfect life.
Josie: A mother of 2 and married to a man who looks old enough to be her father - she tells a story of darkness and unaccomplished dreams

The ending was shocking. It was heartbreaking. It both unsettled and disturbed me.
Honestly, this book will haunt me for years. And it's 💯 going on my physical shelf.

#qotd 💬 Do you listen to podcasts? If so which ones.

Where are my Netflix &  Podcast people?

Lisa Jewell is the queen of slow and steady wins the race. It's rare that I ever want to binge-read a mystery, but her mysteries are done so well, leaving readers wanting more. This felt fresh and is equal parts dark, twisty, and convulsive.

Two completely different women coincidentally meet at a local pub. One with their husband and the other with a group of friends. The kicker? They are both celebrating their 45th birthdays. Let's turn it up a notch here because not only that but they were born at the same hospital at the same time! The two bump into each other a few days later and there begins this unsettling chain of events.

The two women couldn't be any more opposite from each other. Alix Summers is a popular Netflix podcast host and Josie Flair lives a quiet life and is a part-time seamstress who has a thing for all things denim. She wants change for her 45th year. Something is alluring yet a bit off with her and Alix senses that Josie is hiding some pretty dark secrets...

I'm going to cut my thoughts off there because it's a real treat to read without getting a full sense of the storyline. I think this would be fantastic on audio. The chapters alternate between Josie and Alix. You then get snippets of interviews filmed by Alix's Netflix podcast headlined "The Birthday Twin"

The whole book was rich in suspense. Slowly unraveling layer by layer. 4.5 ⭐️

Thank you @netgalley and @atriabooks for this E-ARC! Out on 8/8.

Lisa Jewell is consistent but rarely predictable, so I think if you like her stuff generally, you'll like this. Alix and Josie meet at a gastropub one night when they're both turning 45. It turns out that they don't just share a birthday but that they were born in the same hospital and now live less than a mile apart. Josie, who sees glamorous podcaster Alix as the person she could have been, gets a bit fixated on her and ends up fabricating a chance encounter and getting Alix to agree to do a podcast about her because she wants to change her life and wants to use a podcast to explain why. She reveals all kinds of messed up stuff - her upbringing with a narcissistic mother who never wanted her, the relationship with her husband that started when she was 15 and he was 42, what she portrays as an abusive relationship, the challenges she's faced with her daughters, a crime she thinks her husband committed, etc. It's all extremely disturbing (content warnings for described grooming, sexual abuse, and domestic violence), and Alix is horrified. But as things slowly start to unravel, she's starting to wonder how reliable of a narrator Josie actually is. Because of the title, and because it's a Lisa Jewell book, I kind of assumed there would be some element of struggling to figure out what was true and what wasn't, so I wasn't completely shocked by the outcome but there were still lots of surprises in store. And of course, classic Lisa Jewell - the very end left me with even more questions.

Thanks to NetGalley for the gifted copy of this book in exchange for my honest opinion.
None of This Is True is a fast paced thriller by Lisa Jewel. This story is from the POV of two women, Alix and Josie. Alix is a podcaster and Jose is a house wife. Jose approaches Alix after meeting her one night while they are both out celebrating their birthdays. Josie wants Alix to do a podcast episode about her life and so begins a long and twisty tale. You don’t know who is telling the truth and what really happened. Solid 4 stars.

The storyline was SO interesting and kept my attention so well. The character of Josie is quirky, mysterious, smart and intriguing - as I was reading along and I really wanted more and more of her story. Nobody in this book is perfect, and I loved that aspect of it. The lines are blurred between good and bad and it really makes you think. I never anticipate the ending of any Lisa Jewell books and this one was no different!!! An unexpected ending for sure. The reason I am giving it 3 stars, is that I did feel some parts were longer than need be. And truthfully the ending was disappointing. It was very unexpected but it did leave me feeling like “ah, that’s it?”.

I loved this book at the beginning--such an interesting premise, the somewhat famous and very enviable Alix meeting Josie on their shared birthday. Alix has her own podcast, and Josie appeals to her to let her be on it--to interview her as she transitions in her life to being independent. At first, I really enjoyed this book, but at about the 1/3 mark it started to stall out for me. It felt repetitive and the characters weren't terribly likable.