Nicole is living her life with her husband and daughter when a writer knocks on her door asking about the downfall of a popular 80s band Nicole was involved with. Flashback to the 80s and we find out that Nicole's sister, Cassie, is obsessed with the band, especially the lead singer, Ben. She doesn't know that Ben heard Nicole singing one night, and one thing led to another, and Ben and Nicole have been seeing each other and recording music in secret. This dual timeline novel jumps back and forth from the present to the 80s as we see the effects that fandom and obsession can have on some young girls. Things quickly escalate in this novel, and everything comes to a head at the end. This was ok, even though it does leaving you hanging a bit at the end, just not my favorite by this author.

SO good! I listened to this one on audio and it was fantastic. Fans of Daisy Jones or Mayluna will enjoy this book that follows a band through its trials and tribulations along with those in their circle.

This was a weird one. Disjointed storylines, clear mental illness, and just...annoying characters.

Nicole is a do-gooder. She lives in California with her military husband Brad and their daughter Hannah. Nicole is the leader of a 'save the seals' organization. One day, a woman comes to the front door and asks Nicole to tell her about Secret Oktober, a band from the 80s that ended in tragedy. Nicole hasn't thought about that time in almost 20 years, and she doesn't want to. She rushes the woman out of her house and tries to move on. When the school bus doesn't arrive to drop off Hannah, Nicole knows that things are going to start unraveling.

1986 - Cassie is 16 years old and in love with Ben, the lead singer of Secret Oktober. Her older sister, Nicole, has recently moved out of their childhood house and their mother is currently laying in bed, dying from cancer. She meets Amelia, another fan of Secret Oktober, who quickly brings her into the (somewhat) inner circle of the band.

Nicole (1986) is a struggling songwriter, who waits tables to pay for her small apartment and gas for her run-down car. One night, Ben walks into a bar where she is singing and they slowly start to connect....all while Cassie continues following the band to airports, hotels and red carpets.

Current Nicole's marriage is starting to fall apart as her long-buried secrets start to come out. She's not the person she said she was, and someone is threatening to tell everything.
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I get the idea behind this story, but I felt like the flashbacks to the parties, etc where reading like fan-fiction. Of course, there were models and drugs, but this read like something out of a tabloid. I found Amelia tooooo shady, and Cassie just...went along with it, with no questions!

It just overall was a bit disjointed. I felt like there should have been more to the Cassie/Nicole relationship, more to the resolution to be explained. Everyone was a bad person, that's the moral of this story. Everyone is terrible.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for the opportunity to read and review this book.

Nicole is a Mom and married to a man she loves living her best life until a writer tries to interview her about the events that happened years ago regarding band leader, Ben Edwards and then her daughter goes missing. Sometimes the past doesn't stay in the past and the secrets can come back to haunt you! Another twisty thriller for Sandie Jones!

Thank you to St Martin's Press and NetGalley for the advanced reader copy in exchange for an honest review! #IWouldDieforYou #NetGalley

This book keeps you guessing throughout. Interesting premise. Would recommend to others as overall a good book. I personally am not a huge fan of multiple timelines, but that is more personal preference and this author handled them well.

I Would Die for You is a thrilling novel by Sandie Jones. Nicole Forbes lives a quiet life in a small town with her husband and young daughter. However she hasn’t told her husband about her past in England. She was suspected of murdering the member of a popular boy band, and he family is now gone. However, when her daughter’s aunt picks up her daughter from school one day, Nicole’s past has come back to haunt her. What really happened that day?

This story really sucked me in. I like how it was told in multiple timelines between the present and what happened before Nicole left England. However, I felt the book ended abruptly. It felt like that was a stylistic choice by the author, but I felt like it was too abrupt.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for access to an advanced copy in exchange for my honest review.

"I Would Die For You" by Sandie Jones was a book that keeps you guessing to the very end. This book was fast paced and had many twist and turns. This book is a duel timeline.
Nicole is happily married and living her best life, when trouble comes knocking on her door. Nicole's past is coming back to haunt her and it's effecting her whole life. As Nicole tries to figure out who is messing with her life and why all the old memories come back to her.
Highly recommend this book.

I loved this one! First I must say, as a former teenage girl who loved a boyband once with all my heart, I am definitely the intended audience for this book. This book follows a hot 1980s band (similar to Duran Duran) called Secret Oktober, and focuses on one family with two sisters who become enmeshed with the band in different ways. Cassie is an obsessed fan who meets the band as a fan and eventually a sort of groupie, following them about and showing up at their hotels and parties. She gets to know the band outside their clean-living image and some dark things happen. And most of all, she's in love with Ben, the lead singer whose face is all over the posters in her walls. She has a somewhat fantastical and delusional view of Ben, even as she sees the darker underbelly of the band and its worldwide fame.

Meanwhile, her older sister Nicole (who doesn't even know the half of Cassie's groupie adventures) stumbles upon the hot lead singer Ben in a real life situation, and the two begin a real relationship.

All of this comes to a head in 1986 with a national tragedy.

The book follows two timelines, 1986 and 2011, as we learn about the sad events that tore a family apart and caused the national mourning of a death in the band.

I thought the book did a fantastic job of capturing that crazed teenage crush love so many of us experience for celebrities, and showing how the fantasy young girls have of such boys doesn't comport with reality. I also loved the character of Nicole and her more mature and real relationship with the celebrity. The murder mystery unfolds with intrigue and lots of emotion and there are many twists and turns. More so than a thriller, this is an emotional book about the contrast between teenage infatuation and real love; and about girlish fantasy versus reality. I loved the narrator and the writing and really enjoyed listening to this one. 5 stars!

This was another good story by Sandie Jones. To be fair, the ending was abrupt and didn’t provide a definitive resolution, although based on the storyline up until that point the reader can pretty much tell what will happen. This was entertaining and had some good twists

Another one that had potential but falls short in the end. I think this was my first book by Jones, and I'm not sure I would pick up anything by her again without a recommendation from a friend. The plot had some holes, and it just required you to suspend disbelief overall. The character development was all over the place, and their arcs were not consistent. There are better thriller options out there to read.

Thank you NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for this early review copy.
This book was kind of a roller coaster. It was not at all what I expected going into, and I did enjoy it. The story goes back and forth between two timelines of events, the character's past and their present which is in 2010. Lots of twists and turns, and the end... ugh! Are we getting a sequel, or do we have to fill in the blanks of what happens next??

Honestly, this was just boring to me. I didn’t like any of the characters and I skimmed to the ending. The “thriller “ aspect was mid at best. 2/5 stars.

“I Would Die for You” is my first Sandie Jones novel but I was captivated by the title right away! Those fans of Daisy Jones and the Six and other Taylor Jenkins Reid books I think will really like this one!

Nicole lives a quiet life with her husband and daughter. They don’t have much family and keep to themselves, until one day her daughter goes missing. The school says she was picked up by her aunt, but Nicole and her husband know that’s not possible. Nicole finally has to come to terms with her past in England in order to figure out what’s going on.

I liked this! Definitely suspenseful and it doesn’t all come together til the last twenty or so pages. Just when I thought I knew where the book was going I was proven wrong. 4 ✨

Told in 2 timelines, we follow the perspectives of sisters Cassie and Nicole -- in 1986 Cassie is a teen girl obsessed with Secret Oktober, a boy band. In 2010, Nicole is living overseas trying to escape something that happened in '86.

Between the two timelines, I really didn't care for the more modern day one. Everyone acted so irrationally and the dialogue was frustrating. I really didn't care for how dramatic both Nicole and Brad were when talking to each other. No wonder Nicole didn't want to divulge her past to her husband when his reaction was to instantly blame her.

The storyline in 1986 was more interesting and we got to see it from the perspective of both sisters. I felt this should have been how the whole book took place and not had the flash forwards. The "mystery" and "twist" of this book was not necessary and actually stunted the pacing, in my opinion. I think it would have been stronger to not make it so obvious about how events and situations were actually playing out, whether or not things were actually happening a certain way, or if the character was delusional. It's hard to get into it without spoiling too much.

The reasoning for the events in 2010 didn't make that much sense to me. And how Nicole was able to hide her identity (even down to her ginger hair colour) from her husband required some suspension of disbelief. Several of the twists were very unnecessary and the abrupt ending just left me confused as to whether there was supposed to be more.

I felt like 60% of this book was intriguing, but the pacing and the ending really let this down.

I could not put this book down. I read it in the span of a couple of hours. It was fast paced. There was not a lot of filler. The storyline had me hooked I needed to know what happened. The story follows Nicole in two separate timelines one in 2010 and one back in 1986. In the events of 1986 that she has been trying to avoid and forget are coming back to haunt her in 2010. Very well done like I said a good thriller I think if you were in a reading slump, this would be a great book to pick up. There were a few little things that kept me from giving this book a five star nothing horrible just my own nitpicking. But I would definitely recommend for a quick east to binge thriller.

Well, that was incredibly bad. Worst Sandie Jones book I've ever read and I'm starting The Trade-Off tomorrow as my last Jones book to read. Though reading it did cause me to feel nostalgic and start listening to Backstreet Boys. 😂 But otherwise, this was just bad. I hate to say it because Jones did model after her groupie experiences with Duran Duran sans murder (but probably not sans drugs). The motivations of one character were just absurd, I don't care what their age. The relationships were awful. I just did not enjoy this book.

She’s done it again! Every time I pick up this authors newest novel I know I’m in for ride. Highly enjoyable, shocking twists and turns and just an overall great read.

I Would Die for You is a story of where the past meets the present in a very unlikely way.
Fast paced, dual timelines and characters that aren't always likable, Jones will take you on a ride with a story that pulls you in and won't let you go, even with all the craziness.

We begin the story in California in 2010. Nicole is married with a young daughter. When the daughter is unknowingly picked up by a stranger from her school, Nicole is afraid that her past has come to haunt her.
Told in dual timelines, we get to see a woman that is married with a daughter, with the seemingly "perfect life". But she is always scared of what the past may do to her and if it will ever find her.
The second timeline is set in 1986 in London with Nicole's young sister Cassie and her friend, Amelia. They are huge fans of a pop band, Secret Oktober, and end up following them and intertwining their lives with them more than the average fan.

I ate this story up! Being a lover of music and growing up in the 80's and 90's, I was totally consumed with Cassie and Amelia's toxic actions with the band and everything they went through to get a piece of them. It was dangerous, outlandish yet exciting and fun. Cassie and Amelia were teens, so I always thought that they were stretching the truth to fit their narrative. But things ran a bit deeper than expected. Then further connections were made, making the whole story more convoluted and dramatic.

As the story continues to play out switching from the past to the present, we gather pieces to this big piece in history and what really happened "that day". I originally had no real strong feelings for any of the characters. Cassie seemed to be an OTT teenager that was a die hard fan that got caught up in the moment. And Nicole just seemed like a "ho hum" character and I didn't understand how she fit into the past at all. But the way the story flowed and the way Jones connected the past to the present and to the 'big reveal', I appreciated how it was done in a very cohesive manner with a flair from the drama added in.

Overall, I liked the characters alright but didn't love any of them. And the ending? I felt like I was kind of done dirty. It is almost a cliffhanger, or just didn't feel complete after everything we went through to understand what happened in the past and how it was all going to come together. I still had a great time reading the story and being transported back to a time with the 80's music. Which brings me to the authors note at the end. That was the perfect way to bring in her own piece and honestly made me relate to the whole story on another level.

"Because I guess, sometimes, what you thought you wanted doesn't make you quite as happy as what you once had."

Nicole is living a peaceful life with her loving husband and adorable daughter. But one day, her past comes back to haunt her.

This was a pretty cool thriller! Here's what I liked:

The format: The book jumps back and forth between past and present. This worked really well for the story. You find out about a traumatic time in Nicole's life when she was younger while also following her current day life. Both weave together perfectly to give you a full picture of the mystery.

Nicole: I felt so bad for Nicole most of the time. She has such good intentions, especially in the past, but kept getting the short end of the stick. But still, she's strong and keeps going.

The settings: Both are well-drawn and really help with the fullness of the story. I especially liked the music scene in the 86 timeline.

All in all, this was a great thriller!
Thank you to the author and publisher for the gifted copy!

I Would Die for You was not my favorite. There were too many storylines and it took too long to bring them together. Characters were not very believable. Or like able. But I read it to the end in case I was missing something. Sad, because I have live Sandie Jones other books.