This was certainly a wild ride! A psychological thriller about a liar and all the lies and people she strings along the way. I didn’t see any of the twists coming!

This was a quick, twisty thriller that you can binge in a day. Unfortunately for me, it felt very similar to a couple of other books I’ve read, so I was a little bored. I think if you haven’t read one of the other two books that are extremely similar to this one, you will probably love it!

Sophie Stava’s Count My Lies is an absolute rollercoaster of a thriller! It’s dark, twisty, and completely addictive. From the very first page, I was hooked on Sloane Caraway, a compulsive liar. But as the lies pile up, so do the secrets, and trust me, nothing is as it seems. I flew through this in two days and already need more from Sophie Stava. If this is her debut, I can only imagine what she’ll do next!

Thank you to Sophie Stava and Gallery Books for the ARC!

Sloane is a liar…she tells lies more often than she tells the truth. But it’s just to make her boring life more interesting. One of her lies gets her into a situation not even she could have imagined.

I could not put this one down! In a way, I related to Sloane and why she did some of the things she did. She wanted friends, someone to choose her, so desperately. So she tried to connect with them in what she thought was the best way.

Told through multiple points of view, it really threw me for a loop when the perspective changed. What started out as one wild story quickly morphed into an even crazier one! You do need to suspend belief for a bit but damn, it really worked for me. With a fast pace and complex characters, fans of Freida McFadden will love this one!

I loved this thriller as it details so many twisted lies that keep your head spinning until the end! Sloane works in a day spa when Allison comes in, sees her and rushes out. It's a novel about mistaken identities, jealousy, affairs, and death! What more could you want in a novel? May keep you up at night but sooo worth it!
Thanks to NetGalley for this ARC!

Count My Lies was a compulsively fun read! The story introduces us to Sloane, who (by her own admission) is a an accomplished liar who is somewhat down on her luck and has made lying due to an inability to accept her life the way it is a permanent part of her identity. She falls in with a wealthy family as their nanny, and is desperate to keep their love and attention, as well as keeping them from finding out what exactly her lies have lead to in the past. The story really flips about half way through, and the reader ends up questioning everything we thought they knew. This is a great, clever read for people who want a quick thriller and enjoy dual POV's and unreliable narrators. Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher, and the author for this ARC!

I received an arc copy of this book from Net Galley in exchange for my honest opinion of it. This book was absolutely amazing and I could not put it down. There were so many twists and really kept me guessing until the last page.i so enjoyed it and highly recommend.

Thank you to the publisher for granting me access to this early release.

3.5 stars! This was a great book for keeping you engaged and wanting to know what would happen next. This reminded me of a mix between The Last Mrs. Parrish and A Simple Favor, both of which I really enjoyed.
This book follows Sloane, a down on her luck woman who starts to nanny for Voilet's daughter, Harper, based off of a lie and things spiral from there.
Overall, good, easy, fast paced thriller but similar to others I have read in the past. Thank you to Simon and Schuster Publishing and Netgalley for the ARC of this book.

.Count My Lies has the potential to propel her to become a “must read” bestselling author. This book kept me guessing until the very end, and I thoroughly enjoyed every moment of its unexpected twists and turns. Fans of Freida McFadden will have a good time reading this one.

In this debut psychological thriller, a woman with a talent for deception finds herself entangled in the lives of a wealthy Brooklyn couple, where nothing is quite as it seems. Sloane Caraway has always been a liar—reinventing herself at every turn—but when she crosses paths with Jay and Violet, she stumbles into an opportunity she can't resist.

Pitching herself as a nurse upon their first encounter at the park, she is thrilled to discover that they are looking for a nanny with a medical background who can care for their only daughter with a heart condition. Dressed in scrubs from her nail technician position, which she also weaseled her way into, she looks the part on that fateful day on the park bench. Is Sloane a little worried about the logistics of this role without a medical background? Yes, but the offer is far too appealing, especially when she finds a fast friendship with the mother and a little flirtation blossoming with the dad. Her only worry is the overlap they may discover from her past with another fellow student's family that could change everything.

But what begins as an innocent deception soon spirals into something much more dangerous as the story unfolds and Sloane becomes more enamored with Violet. The lies become thicker, and this game of cat-and-mouse develops into the kind of story where you don't know who is the prey and who is the predator.

While the novel doesn't quite reach the promised level of Gone Girl, it offers a refreshing departure from certain genre tropes. The protagonist, for one, is not another alcoholic woman unraveling on the page, and the structure—split into three sections rather than alternating POV chapters—keeps the pacing engaging and the timeline moving forward. The twists are well-executed, and while the conclusion is satisfyingly tidy and quite farfetched, it still delivers the kind of story you can finish in a day!

A fun, bingeable popcorn thriller. Not necessarily the most original storyline, but entertaining enough. A fast paced read that had me invested the whole time!

I really wanted to love this debut, but it didn't work for me. I felt like the plot was predictable and like we've seen it a few other times. With that said, I still flew through it and enjoyed the writing style. I will pick up her next book.

Sloane Caraway has a problem.
As the title suggests, she is a liar.
Not a fib here and there. But all the time!
And a chance meeting with a Dad, Jay Lockhart, in a park sets off a whole new series of lies.
What’s her end game?
An affair?
Money?
A new life?
Maybe all of the above.

The story develops slowly as under the name Caitlin, she imbeds herself into the Lockhart family’s life. I thought the story would take a predictable direction from there.
But NOOOOOO!!
A twist and a new POV turns the story on its head. Things presented earlier begin to make more sense. And a devious plan takes shape.

I also loved the last minute twist, another one I didn’t see coming. Loved it!

I love an unreliable narrator and Sloane Caraway is most certainly one. She lies to everyone, even herself, making her untruths her life. When her lies entangle her in the lives of a privileged New York couple, Jay and Violet Lockhart, she knows only one thing - don't get caught in the lies. Sloane, known as Caitlin to the Lockharts, accepts a job to nanny their five-year-old daughter. She slides into their perfect life and finally feels accepted. Is it too good to be true?
What Sloane doesn't know is that this perfect couple may not be what they claim and her biggest mistake is believing the lies someone else is telling her.

A quick, entertaining thriller.

Just when I thought I knew where Sophie Stava’s Count My Lies was going, she would throw a twist into the mix, and I was left wondering if I really knew what I thought I knew. Sophie Stava has the best use of multiple narrators in my recent memory. This is exactly how they work best, for each character’s perspective and opinion of events, and I eagerly devoured all of them. The final twist got me, and I’m keeping my review spoiler free, but, in a plethora of “popcorn thrillers”, Count My Lies has some depth, gritty realistic characters, and it kept me entertained from the very first sentence to the very last.

A pathological liar ends up as a nanny for a family that has its own issues. I'm not a huge reader of psychological thrillers and therefore am not that critical of a reader of them. This was a page-turner that kept me guessing what was going to happen until the very end.

Count My Lies is the kind of psychological thriller that reminds you why compulsive books are a gift. There’s nothing quite like tearing through pages, utterly engrossed, as tension builds and secrets unravel. And for a while, this one delivers.

Sloane Caraway, a chronic liar whose many, many small deceptions usually serve no greater purpose than making her seem more interesting, spins an on-the-fly lie—pretending to be a nurse to comfort a child—which she massages into a gig as a nanny for a wealthy New York couple. Violet and Jay Lockhart are glamorous, curated, and—it is a thriller, after all—not remotely who they seem. As Sloane embeds herself deeper into their world, she starts transforming—mirroring Violet's looks, her mannerisms, her life. But the course of true lies never did run smooth, and before you can say Gone Girl, her plan has spun wildly out of control.

It is not a lie to say I blew off any number of things I really needed to do in order to read this book. For most of its pages, Count My Lies veers close to thriller perfection—it’s fast, voyeuristic, and laced with just the right amount of dread. But then the final pages arrive like an ill-timed plot twist in real life: jarring, unbelievable, and frustratingly preachy. A truly great thriller earns its ending; this one mistakes escalation for payoff.

None of the leads are remotely likable. Sloane has the ethics of a self-absorbed grifter, Violet is the kind of woman I’d never invite to my book club, and Jay is man at his horndog worst. And yet, I kept reading. Maybe I was rooting for their comeuppance, or maybe Stava just knows how to pen compelling bounders. Either way, I was in.

And, without any spoilers, the midbook twist has been done better elsewhere.

But do I recommend it? Well—here’s the thing. Books that make you turn the pages as fast as you can are a gift. But when they sabotage themselves with a ridiculous ending, they land in that purgatory: not quite worth returning, but not the kind you press into your best friend’s hands, insisting they have to read it. If you love a fast, twisty thriller with an unreliable narrator, Count My Lies is worth the ride. Just expect to roll your eyes at the destination.

Prepare to cancel everything you have on your schedule when you start Count My Lies, because you will not be able to put this one down!

Sloane, a compulsive liar, lies to the father of a girl she sees crying at a park, saying she's a nurse who can help. This lie coalesces into Sloane becoming a nanny to Jay and Violet Lockhart, an elite NYC couple. The longer Sloane works for Jay and Violet, the more she realizes she may not be the only one with a penchant for lying. Perhaps the Lockharts aren't as picture perfect as they seem.

You don't want to know much more about this twisty domestic thriller, because encountering each reveal is a huge part of the fun for this one! Fans of None of This is True and Greenwich Park will love Count My Lies!

This book sucked me in right from the beginning and kept me guessing the entire time. I enjoyed the many plot twists and will be recommending this to customers who want a book to read in one sitting!

This is a good thriller - one that I couldn't put down, mostly because of my curiosity of where it was going.
Sloane is a liar...and she weaves a complicated lie with a family, but little does she know that the family has secrets and the wife/mother Violet is creating her own plan for a change in her life.
I wasn't a big fan of the main character (Sloane), but kept reading because I was so intrigued of what the twist would be!
Thank you, NetGalley and the publisher, for access to this eARC.