3.5 stars, rounded up to 4.*

I've really enjoyed everything I've ever ready by Mary Kubica. This one is no exception.

It is the story of recently divorced ICU nurse Meghan, living in Chicago where there is an active attacker/rapist assaulting women in her community and she is dealing with co-parenting her 16 year old daughter.

She meets an old high-school friend at a divorce support group and finds herself divulging her own secrets and the stresses of her life. She is also caring for a women that jumped (or was pushed??) from a bridge and it is bringing up issues with her own sister who died from suicide.

It all comes to a fantastic, unpredictable head. Kudos Mary Kubica.

*with thanks to Netgalley for the digital ARC in exchange for this honest review.

Mary Kubica hits it out of the park again with SHE'S NOT SORRY. and beings her mystery/thrillers to the hospital.

Meghan Michaels is trying to juggle all the things being a single working mom and an ICU nurse. Then, a patient named Caitlin arrives . Although the events surrounding her brain injury seem obvious - having jumped from a bridge onto train tracks - details soon emerge that cast a more sinister shadow. Can Meghan care for Caitlin properly while keeping herself and her daughter out of danger?

Two big twist and turns in this new book by Mary Kubica. This was a bingeworthy read and filled with all the little things you except from a Kubica book. Thank you netgalley for this arc in exchange for my honest opinion.

Many thanks to Netgalley for an arc of this book in exchange for my honest review. My thoughts are entirely my own.

⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 stars.


In this story we are following Meghan who is a nurse and one day a patient named Caitlyn Beckett is brought in and Meghan is assigned to her after her first nurse is out sick and her family takes a liking to her. Meghan has been divorced from her ex husband Ben and they have a daughter named Sienna. Meghan ends up reuniting with an old high school friend named Nat and tells her how she had a one night stand with someone after breaking off her engagement to Ben and then she ends up pregnant and never tells Ben that Sienna isn’t his. Nat turns out to be Caitlyn Beckett and Meghan pushed her off a bridge after Nat takes her wedding and engagement ring after telling Meghan that she would tell Sienna the truth. Caitlyn/Nat was actually dating Ben until they broke up after she kept wanting to know about her. Then Sienna tells Meghan that Caitlyn told her the truth about her father and she was upset. Meghan goes to meet her friend Luke who is married and expecting a baby with his wife and her ends up being the man who has been attacking women who are alone. Luke kidnaps Sienna to try and use as leverage and Meghan finds him and he ends up dying from a gunshot from the police and Meghan thinks that some of his blood is Sienna’s and that she is being punished for killing Caitlyn with a epi-pen from another patient before she can tell people that Meghan pushed her. Sienna ends up with only a sprained ankle and they agree not to tell Ben the truth. There is only one plot point that they leave hanging which is if Ben was in on it with Caitlyn and stole some of Meghan’s money that she got from her grandmother that Caitlyn stole. But other than that it was a pretty enjoyable book.

This one as a little difficult for me to get into because of the domestic violence aspect but I’m so glad I stuck it out. The twist is jaw dropping and I found it completely unexpected! A great quick read.

She's Not Sorry started really slowly. Lots of twists--some startling, some predictable. Probably one too many plotlines; I kept getting distracted. Like it, didn't love it.

A stellar prologue that draws you in and leaves you baffled, I simply needed to know immediately were this book was going.
In the first few chapters we learn of Caitlin who is in ICU for attempted suicide. Meghan our MC is the nurse looking after her. I immediately got the impression that Meghan relates to Caitlin in someway and boy was I surprised by the outcome of this book!
I did find that the book took a bit of a roundabout way to get to the point and some of the content felt unnecessarily drawn out, but it got there in the end. The plot was amazing, the ending felt a bit abrupt. But after finishing I feel it did the job well enough.

Thank you Netgalley and Harlequin Trade Publishing for the opportunity to read and review this ARC.

The story was a slow burn but really picked up halfway through. I found myself unable to put down the book in order to see what happened. I didn’t find the characters likable though.

In this novel, Meghan, the ICU nurse and a single mom, cares for a comatose woman who was brought in with a traumatic brain injury. Did the woman jump off the bridge or was she pushed? And who is the strange man lurking in the hospital hallways?

Gotta love stories that pull you in from the opening scene! At the beginning of the book, Meghan received a call from her daughter's kidnapper. It was really hard to put the book down after that. The story was fast-paced and captivating. When Meghan met Caitlin and ultimately became her emotional support and later invited her into her home, I was just silently willing Meghan to be careful. You could tell something was going to go wrong. At first I admired Meghan for her good heart, but then was really disappointed as she made a series of questionable decisions. The biggest win of this book though was its twist! It was shocking and completely reversed the trajectory of the story for me.

Besides being incredibly dark and propulsive thriller, this read touches on some important topics such as mental health, integrity and victims of abuse. Great suspense novel with a major twist!

This was definitely a slower burn compared to the other author's books. While I enjoyed the second half of it, it definitely took a little long to keep me engaged.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book! Ms. Kubica is a master and twists and turns and this book did not disappoint.
The multiple character layers led to some shocking twists and plot points I didn't see coming.
I also enjoyed the Midwest setting being a fellow Midwesterner myself!

This is a hard review to write without spoiling anything, so here it goes! Mary Kubica is hit or miss for me but this was definitely a hit. I enjoyed the many plot twists and only guessed one of them. I loved the tension and multiple plot lines that led to the tension. It kept me turning pages! I also enjoyed how things tied together. I have thoughts about the ending, message me if you want to discuss! The only thing I really didn’t like was how there were multiple things and scenes that were repeated many times. I felt it definitely needed a better edit.

She's Not Sorry had a big twist I did not see coming, and then came Part 2. I loved how this book kept me constantly guessing and changing my thoughts on who was guilty and who was innocent. It definitely made you reconsider how who a person is on the outside may not truly be who you will discover on the inside. There was so much hiding of the truth. It was fun to unravel the secrets one by one.

This book grabbed my attention from the first page. There was a lot happening but it flowed nicely. The very first twist was so shocking, to be honest they all were and I didn't guess any of them. This book gave me trust issues and I loved every bit of it. Thank you Netgalley and Harlequin Trade Publishing for the ARC in exchange for my review.

She's Not Sorry is a thrilling and edge of your seat page-turner! I couldn't put it down! There were so many twists and turns that left me guessing. I highly recommend! Thank you to NetGalley and Park Row for the ARC!

Obsessed. Mary Kubica is thriller QUEEN. I will never not buy her books. Another 5 stars EASY.

The twist in this one I did not see coming! And as an avid thriller reader, I can usually spot a twist fairly well. Kubica is phenomenal at revealing secrets as just the right moment that leaves your jaw on the floor.

My favorite is Local Woman Missing and I think it always will be, but this one is definitely closeeee second!

Meghan is an ICU nurse with a new patient (Caitlin) who is in a coma after a fall. She gets overly involved with Caitlin’s family drama and is also dealing with drama in her own family (she is newly divorced w/ a snarky teenage daughter). Also someone is attacking women all over Chicago.

There was one fun twist (but it involves one of my least favorite thriller devices, so it felt like cheating) and a whole lot of Meghan being nervous on the empty streets (what?) of Chicago, except for when the streets were super crowded and Meghan still manages to accidentally run into whoever she needs to run into to move this wackadoo plot along. I liked the Good Girl and Local Woman Missing, but this was… not great.

This was my first Mary Kubica book and I was not disappointed! Thank you so much for the arc!

This was definitely more of a slowburn thriller, but it was still good and I loved it!

I’m kicking myself for not DNF’ing this one. It was so slow and those twists…eye roll. This book was not for me.

Thanks to NetGalley and Harlequin Trade Publishing!
Being a Chicagoland girl myself, I always love reading a new Mary Kubica for the detailed locations she includes. This novel, about an ICU nurse dealing with all manner of things gone wrong, is eerie and gripping, and so unexpected! Big recommend!