This was so much fun! I always enjoy an unreliable narrator, and the dual timeline was done very well. The setting of this book was so vividly captured that I truly wished I was there.

I was hooked on this book from the beginning with its thrilling plot and twists that I didn't see coming. Gia seemed so oblivious to the intentions of those around her, and that created a feeling of extreme unease. It was wonderfully suspenseful all the way through.

The ending, though, was a little too vague for my liking. I don't mind lingering questions, but this one left way too many unanswered.

I received a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions expressed in this review are my own.

I love a book that makes me do a good "WTF?!" at the end. Gia and Abby are childhood friends who reconnect as adults for Gia's birthday on a trip to Sweden. Except Gia doesn't show, and Abby and Gia's brother are also forced to reconnect to solve this mystery. Overall this book was entertaining and had me flipping pages to see what happens.

Thank you to Netgalley and Randomhouse / Ballantine / Bantam for the opportunity to read this in exchange for my honest opinion.

Thank you NetGalley for allowing me to receive this book for an honest review.

I had such high hopes regarding this book. The description drew me in and it started off good but then I lost interest and found it boring
It was very difficult to finish.

A great escapist read! Just enough to keep you entertained but not so much that you have to expel a lot of brain power. A popcorn thriller with a beautiful setting!

Gia and Abby have been friends since childhood. They bonded by a tragedy that happened in Greece. ,Gia is back in Greece with her new husband, entertaining guests with champagne. Abby is working fourteen-hour days as an attorney. When Gia invites Abby on an all-expenses-paid trip to Sweden to celebrate her birthday, Abby’s thrilled to go and see her. However on the day of her flight, Abby gets an email that threatens to unearth the skeletons from her past. What could they be? Abby and Gia’s brother connect in Sweden. Gia isn’t there. They wait for her before deciding to go to Gia’s beachfront estate. They find no one there. Their only clue is her manuscript giving the events leading up to her disappearance. It also tells the dark truth about her marriage and dirty secrets of her guests. The manuscript ended abruptly leaving more questions than answers. How much of Gia’s story is true? Where is she now? Will Abby find her before it’s too late?

Wood writes about the later years when the three are getting back together. It is a novel from two viewpoints. One viewpoint is Abby’s as she prepares to see Gia again. The second viewpoint is through Gia’s as she experiences issues with her husband told through her new book’s manuscript. I liked seeing through their eyes as the story continued. The novel is a suspenseful mystery.

A low 2 stars for a lot of wasted potential.

I LOVED the prologue of this book! The writing in it was so great. But it quickly went downhill from there! Gone is the fun and snarky tone. The rest of the novel is written in a completely different style and is quite frankly boring.

This book is very repetitive and I didn’t really care what happened to anyone. Also, the ending made me mad! Don’t read this book if you don’t like open endings that give no answers or explanations.

At first I thought the story line was good, and it would keep me going at a very fast speed, but then it got monotonous and drawn out, and I found it hard to finish the book.

Thank you NetGalley, Random House & Katherine Wood for the chance to read this e-arc in exchange for my honest review.

This book was so much fun! I absolutely loved the setting and the past and present timelines. The characters were very entertaining & I thoroughly enjoyed it!

In Ladykiller by Katherine Wood, childhood friends Abby and Gia are pulled into a mystery spanning luxury and deceit. After a tragedy in Greece years prior, Gia, a wealthy heiress, now lives a glamorous life, while Abby works as an attorney. When Gia vanishes from her Greek island estate, Abby and Gia's brother, Benny, try to unravel clues hidden in a manuscript Gia left behind, revealing unsettling secrets about her new marriage and their friends. Tension builds as Abby races to uncover the truth before it's too late.

This was sexy and deliciously dark!

I received an ARC of this book from Netgalley and Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine in exchange for an honest review.

I'm honestly not sure how I feel about this book. I thought the build up and the back and forth between narrators was immensely well done, but in the end I was let down. The lack of resolution felt less like a "whoa, what happened?" than a "eh, the author couldn't decide how to end the book."

This is a nice escapist read. It is about two very rich siblings and their poor friend that their parents also supported. It is set in a mansion in Greece and in some other expensive exotic locations. The characters are kind of shallow. The plot is ok. it was fun and very lightweight read.


I received the book from Netgalley

Thank you NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read "Ladykiller." Unfortunately, I did not enjoy reading this book. I didn't find it exciting. I found flaws in the writing. Some of the characters were suppose to be learning English and one moment they speak broken English and in the next a perfect complex sentence. Some of the actions of the characters I found unbelievable, which made the book hard to enjoy.

This book was just ok for me, I think I wanted it to be something more than it was. I loved the idea, but just couldn’t get into the actual book. I think in this case switching between present day point of view and Gias manuscript didn’t really work for me.

Where is Gia? Gia and Abby have been lifelong best friends and are even more closely bonded as a result of the tragedy they experienced when they were eighteen. Twelve years later, Abby and Gia’s brother arrive in Sweden but Gia is nowhere to be found. This story unfolds through a manuscript Gia wrote about her life and it is difficult to tell what is true and what is not. I really enjoyed this way of storytelling, it kept me engaged and constantly thinking about what was happening. This was a very twisty tale and I am still undecided about the unresolved ending.
Thank you to @netgalley and @randomhouse for this gifted copy in exchange for my honest review.

An incredibly fun impossible to put down thriller. I loved everything about this one including the fun Greek setting. I would love to see Greece.

As always, I can't help but love a book with multiple POVs. We gets Abby's as she tries to figure out what happened to her best friend, while we get Gia's through the manuscript that she's left behind. You can't help but feel for Abby, who clearly tries to live in the here and now. Gia is harder to root for as the spoiled rich girl that seems to constantly drag Abby along. However, as you dig further into the story, you start to realize that Gia may not be all she's cracked up to be.

I wanted to read this book because it mostly takes place in Greece, a place I have always wanted to visit. Wood creates this twisty, suspenseful story that you just don't want to put down because you have this deep need to understand what's going on.

With a novel like this, you worry that possible not everything will be discovered by the end of the book, but the author pulls it off flawlessly. I genuinely enjoyed this novel, it would make a great vacation read (but maybe not if you're in Greece).

I’m not a fan of ambiguous endings to a mystery/thriller, so when I heard that from other reviewers about this book, I decided to DNF because I wasn’t loving the content anyway.

I enjoyed this! The plot was fast paced and I didn't see the ending coming! Would read this author again

I really enjoyed Ladykiller! I found the premise of reconnecting with a long lost friend intriguing and different. This book kept me on the edge of my seat!

I liked the sound of this book and the story starts out strong. The manuscript to tell Gia's story was an interesting change. I really liked the build up of the mystery and how it would all come together in the end. Twists and turns all throughout. However, some felt very unrealistic and the ending fell flat for me. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an eARC of this book.