Thank you so much @ParkRowBooks for giving me this ARC in exchange for my honest and unbiased review (Release Date | 02 April 2024)

SYNOPSIS | Meghan is an ICU nurse and a single mom to her 16-year-old daughter. At work she is caring for a woman (Caitlin) who is in a coma after attempting to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge whilst at home she is trying to help an old school friend who may be in an abusive relationship.

WHAT I LIKED:
- tension and suspense scattered throughout the story which makes it very bingeable
- a whole host of unlikeable characters so you're not sure who to trust

WHAT I DIDN'T LIKE:
- slow pacing until the 70% mark (it took a while to feel sucked into the story)
- multiple plotlines introduced within the span of a few chapters
- after the big twist was revealed a lot of plot points felt way too convenient
- a lot of side plot elements are left as loose ends
- too much page time dedicated to Meghan walking around Chicago at night naming landmarks

I was too excited when we received an eARC for this thriller as part of the @thrillersbythebook.mke book club group! I absolutely love Mary Kubica's books and wanted to dig in to this one right away. But I also don't have the best memory... so I forced myself to wait until book club month. It was torture!

BUT HERE WE ARE, it is book club month and I finished She's Not Sorry in three sittings! I was both shocked and not all shocked. What do I mean? This book is fully of shocking twists and turns (I yelled, "OH SNAP!" at one point haha) but it is absolutely NO SURPRISE that the queen, Mary Kubica, wrote another jaw dropping, cuckoo crazy, wild ride of a novel.

I have a few of her older books left on my backlog and I am so excited to dig into all of them!

The newest Mary Kubica was at the top of my TBR as I always love her thrillers. This one felt different from her past books and I'm not sure how I feel about that. It was a very slow burn until the last third which was super action packed. It had a few predictable twists and one that blew my mind. I really liked the main character Meghan and her persistence to care for her daughter Sienna as a single mom but she made some questionable choices throughout the book where I wanted to yell "REALLY?!?!?". This will definitely be a fun one to discuss with PM Reads later this month!

I've read quite a few other titles by Mary Kubica, and she's probably one of the lesser known suspense/thriller authors that I recommend to people the most, but this one just didn't hit for me. I needed our villain to have more motivation for her unhinged behavior, and I needed our "heroine" to be more likeable. In the end, this one just didn't pack enough of an emotional punch for me. Fingers crossed for a return to form with her next title!

<b>TW: death by suicide, language, death by suicide attempt, rape, divorce, domestic abuse, cheating, gaslighting, toxic relationships, abusive relationships, drinking, toxic family relationships, unwanted pregnancy</b>

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<b>About the book:</b>
Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom to a teenage daughter and working as a full time nurse. While on duty at the hospital one day, a patient named Caitlin arrives in a coma with a traumatic brain injury, having jumped from a bridge and plunging over twenty feet to the train tracks below.

But when a witness comes forward with shocking details about the fall, it calls everything they know into question. Was Caitlin pushed and if so, by whom and why?

Meghan has always tried to stay emotionally detached from her patients, but this time, she mistakenly lets herself get too close until she’s deeply entangled in Caitlin’s and her family’s lives. Only when it’s too late, does she realize that she and her daughter could be the next victims.
<b>Release Date:</b> April 2nd, 2024
<b>Genre:</b> Thriller
<b>Pages:</b> 336
<b>Rating:</b> ⭐⭐⭐

<b>What I Liked:</b>
1. Writing style is always a treat with this author

<b>What I Didn't Like:</b>
1. Everyone is a hacker in thrillers
2. Super over the top scenios
3. Some parts where predictable

<b>Overall Thoughts:</b>
<b><i><small>{{Disclaimer I write my review as I read}}</small></i></b>

Luke has got to be the rapist.

I find it so weird that the intensive care in this book is opened to everyone. Usually only 2 people and family can visit. I would find it odd if anyone could visit my family member if they were very sick.

It's completely absurd how much this family is including Meghan into their business with their daughter.

Also I am 100% certain that Luke is the rapist. He put the red envelope in her bag and came back to see if she read his message, because that's what abusers love - a reaction. Plus plus he shows up behind Meghan while she's out at night.

Meghan mentions how rare it is to run into people in Chicago, but she's managed to run into almost every single person she knows; Luke, Nat, and Jackson.

Nat is Ben's girlfriend. That's why she got out of the apartment so cena didn't see her since she knew her.

I get Meghan wanting to offer Nat a place to stay but I think she should have run it by her daughter. This is also a dangerous situation that is dragging Meghan's family into and could hurt them

Couldn't the police look at the cameras in the hospital? Why did they also need Meghan's IDing the photos? Yeah, Meghan the police will rat you out for IDing him.

I was bothered at how much people are dragging Meghan into their business.

Oh so Meghan's daughter isn't Ben's and she weirdly reveals this to Nat.

Omg omg omg Meghan answering all these weird questions to Mr. ;
• Do you live alone?
• What happened to your relationship?
• Are you married?
He then walks her to her home. Does Meghan not care to protect herself? Leading people to her house. Also walking at nighttime while a rapist is around her neighborhood.

We find out that Caitlin worked for Milo at his restaurant and was fired for stealing. She was mad and framed him with the child SA images the placing a phone call about it, but I don't think that's how it would work. You can't just place a call and get a search warrent to check someone's computer. I would think you'd need probable cause and not just someone saying it.

I swear to God Meghan is thee dumbest character. She doesn't take the hint that Nat lied to her with the school but then with her husband. Omg omg and then she doesn't even notice that Nat doesn't look like herself when she was in high school.

No one dusted for prints after Nat?

I love when people yell from a distance to someone who's far away from them when their avoiding them. Like what do you think going to happen? You think this is tag and they just stop and say "you got me!"

Nat is Caitlin. I didn't see that being the twist.

Omg why would you want to kill off Caitlin in the hospital? Her parents are so attached to her plus her father is a lawyer! Who would believe Caitlin is saying that Meghan threw her from the bridge - it would be so completely random. The same way Caitlin hid her identity meant that she wasn't linked to Meghan too, so yeah who would believe Caitlin?

Yep yep Caitlin was Ben's girlfriend and that's why she was wearing Meghan's wedding ring.

Sienna was the one leaving envelopes to Meghan and locked her in the basement all because Caitlin told Sienna she was another man's child.

Oh look Luke ordered her drink before she got there. And now his wife calls ahead to tell Meghan that they know he's the rapist. That's why the police where at the ER.

Thrillers give you always thinking there's only 5 people that exists and those 5 people are going twenty terrible things to each other.

Why oh why with Luke kidnap Sienna and then send a text to Meghan telling her to meet him? What is the point? And of course she goes alone. Don't worry because that ties up on like 3 seconds.


<b>Final Thoughts:</b>
Book got a little confusing because it starts in the middle of the story.

I found it so annoying that the author would say someone did something and follow it up with the cliff notes on what that means or how it works; Example:
<i>"Mám that's a stock photo."
"A stock photo is images bought online. They are dirt cheap only $1 to buy."</i>
The author kept doing it when we were introduced to random things. I don't need to have a definition of things.

There was just too much happening in this book. On one hand we have Meghan who is being stalked by a woman that was dating her ex-husband add in a co-worker that is a rapist that's after her daughter. Meghan also ends up being the person that pushed Caitlin off the bridge and then has to rekill her again. Sienna is the one that was writing the notes too. I feel like I can only suspend so much disbelief before I was shaking my head at all of it. Honestly I never thought it was never going to end because the author kept asking more and more to the story.

When you're first reading this book and you don't know the reveal or the twist it all feels confusing why Megan does not want to know anything about caitlin. She even mentions not wanting to reveal too much to the patient's family or know too much about their case, but when you find out that she was the cause of her being in the hospital it seems weird that she would have these thoughts or beliefs. You would think that she would want to find out a ton of things about this person now knowing what she went through and why Caitlin is the way she is.

At the end of the day though just a pretty <b><i>meh and basic</b></i> book.

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I was completely engrossed in the narrative. The level of delusion displayed by one woman was truly astounding. Her meticulously crafted plan was impressive and left me pondering the extent of her ex-husband's knowledge. The unexpected twist towards the conclusion was a delightful surprise that added an extra layer of intrigue to the ongoing saga.!

Thank you to the publisher and the author for allowing me to arc read this book in exchange for my honest review

Mary Kubica has done it again with She’s Not Sorry. This book is another example of her brilliance. Mary is a must read author for me and I look forward to what she comes up with next.

After the opening scene which caught my attention pretty quickly, the rest of the first 50% of this book really dragged for me and unfortunately I almost DNFed a couple of times. It took weeks of a reading slump and sheer willpower to get through it to get me from the 20% to the 50% mark where there was more action and the story began to make sense like puzzle pieces falling into place. It wasn’t the quality of writing itself, which was fine. But the storyline/plot. I get how all of the lead up was necessary for the story in the long run and the twists that came later, but I really could have put this down and not picked it back up before I got there. The last 50% was a little more entertaining and lots of twists, although fairly predictable and not very suspenseful or edge of my seat personally.

Overall, I’d rate this book 3.5 stars.

As always, I am still honored to be selected for the opportunity to early read and review such an incredible and well known author, even if this wasn’t my favorite. Thank you Mary, HTP, and NetGalley for the e-galley!

I love that this book took place in Chicago. It was a slow burn for me until Part 2. I could see one major twist coming. I will still auto read Mary Kubica but did not feel this was her best.

I was looking forward to this one, but I was a little disappointed. What I do like is the beautiful cover. I also liked a couple of the unexpected twists and the ending left open to interpretation. There was too much repetition in the FMC Meghan’s monotonous daily routine. It was essentially boring until over halfway through the book. I found myself wanting to skip over Meghan’s internal dialogue because she was annoying to me. Overall it was okay, and I’ll likely read her next book in hopes of it being better than this one. Thank you NetGalley and Park Row Publishing for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Yikes! Mary kubicas books keep getting weirder and weirder. There was so many plot lines in this book that felt entirely unnecessary. We could have just found out who pushed the girl off the bridge and left it at that! I truly didn't care about every single street name of Chicago. Idk this book had potential but it just got way too chaotic with the paternity issue, the rapist on the loose and the medical murder. Terrifying!
Thanks to netgalley and publisher for advanced copy.

This was an okay read. I did enjoy the suspenseful aspect of the story. However, I did not like the two competing storylines. I think one or the other should have been the only focus of the book. Also, there were a few dangling plotlines that bothered me and extra information about characters that didn't need to be included.

**She's Not Sorry** by Mary Kubica is a captivating thriller with twists that keep you guessing. While the plot is intriguing, the pacing felt a bit sluggish at times, and some characters lacked depth. Overall, a decent read for fans of the genre

Mary Kubica did it again. Book was excellent. So many twists that I did not predict. Binged it in 12 hours!

Divorced single mom of teen daughter works as a nurse caring for a woman in critical care after falling from a bridge. As the story unfolds find how Meghan and Caitlin’s lives intertwine. More than just patient and nurse.

She’s Not Sorry was a fast and easy read due to the way I was sucked in and had to know what happened next, I was in shock of Meagan’s life and all she was going through, the way she tried to support her patient and ultimately ended up tethered to her story.

She’s Not Sorry is the first book by Mary Kubica and I felt that it was a passable mystery that never truly engaged me and never seemed to feel that suspenseful honestly.

I really enjoyed the medical aspect of this book as that is something that is not seen often. The pacing was slow for the first half of the book, but twist after twist came in the second half. I gasped several times at the twists that just kept coming. I do wish some of the side plots were remove as they were unnecessary and the timeline and main twist was better developed.

This book kept me guessing and I would recommend to readers looking for a quick page turning read.

It’s a good thriller book , it kept me entertained and in suspense. I do recommend this book if you’re looking for a good read. It has a twist that will leave you thinking!

This was twist after twist and I was there for it! A nurse in ICU tells us of her new patient that has jumped from a bridge in Chicago. It is all over the news and everyone is talking about it. Her parents sit vigil and Megan Michaels can't separate her sadness like she is supposed to be able to do. She walks home in the cold every night, ever aware of a serial rapist that is in her neighborhood and being just divorced from her ex, Ben, her and her daughter Siena are all alone in an apartment where the door doesn't close properly, and Megan still just thinks of the woman in a coma.
Then one day she runs into an old high school acquaintance Natalie at her divorce group. After some discussion she convinces her to go in. Megan couldn't help noticing her hair covering up a bruise she has on her neck, and she is suddenly worried about her old friend. She thinks about asking her to have coffee afterwards, but Nat disappears too fast for that. Luckily, she asks to be her friend on Facebook later on that night and Megan is relieved that she has not lost touch with her again.
This is fast paced, heart pounding, page turning goodness. that doesn't slow down for a minute. Mary Kubica is my queen of thriller writing and I'm here for anything she writes.

What a rollercoaster! Omgoodness after chapter 16 my head spun for the rest of the book! This book held me on the end of my seat for so long. I literally got nauseated from holding my breath a few times too many. This is a must read thriller!