This book is extremely well written with vivid descriptions that really set the scene and put you in the storyline.
The characters were all realistic and strong and I was completely invested in them throughout.
Worley skillfully builds an atmosphere of unease, making even the most mundane moments feel ominous.
The pacing is well-done, with the tension gradually escalating to a thrilling climax.

Just finished reading an advanced copy of a book that was just released today called, So Happy Together. This is about Jane, she goes on 6 dates with Colin and although he breaks up with her, she believes that they are soulmates. He starts dating someone else, so Jane works her way back into his life and into his friend group to be close to him and to make him see they're meant to be together. This was a fun and enjoyable thriller, and it gave me, "You" book/series vibes which I totally loved! It did take a little bit for me to get into this story, but then once I did I really enjoyed it! This had romance, thrill, obsession, friendship, suspense, betrayal, and some good twists! 🩷📚

Thank you to the author and to the publisher for this ARC of So Happy Together, in exchange for an honest review.

3.5⭐️
This was an interesting book filled with stalking, secrets, and dark twists. No one is who they seem to be, everyone is hiding something, and no one can be trusted. The first half of the book really hooked and pulled me in, but the last half had some parts that, I felt, were more forced/unnatural. While the ending wasn’t bad, it just wasn’t the way I expected it all to wrap up. Overall, it was a fast paced, twisty read. Thank you to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for the ARC in return for my honest review.

What happens when two sociopaths’ worlds collide? You get to go on a wild ride where you think you know who is driving this crazy revenge, yet not everything is so black and white. There are more things at play here then meets the eye. Will they all come together in time or will Jane’s plans be derailed? Readers will fall in love with this fast paced story filled with twists and turns.
Thank you to St. Martin’s Press and Netgalley for allowing me to read an advance copy of this title.

Jane is certain that Colin is “the one”. The attraction is electric and he gets her, really gets her. And she gets him. So when he dumps her after their sixth date (by text), she’s convinced he’s just overwhelmed by his feelings for her. She frequents a bar near his apartment with throw away hook up dates, until she encounters him on a date of his own. Enter Zoe, beautiful, confident and, Jane thinks, wrong for Colin. When Zoe befriends her and Jane infiltrates the couples’ life, things get crazy.

All of the characters are kind of despicable and I like that in my thrillers. This was a fun read.

Recommended.

I love stories set in New York and I love psychos, so there's two points right off the bat! Jane goes on several dates with Colin and decides he is the "one". He breaks it off before she can convince him of that. No worries, she will just befriend Zoe, his new, and much hotter, girlfriend, stay in his life and work on just that! Well, obviously things do not go as she had hoped, disturbingly so, as she learns a few things about Colin that could mean maybe he has serious issues of his own. Now there are a mind-blowing number of twists but just go with it and enjoy the ride! The ending especially has a nice one! I look forward to more from this author!

Thank you to #NetGalley, Olivia Worley and St. Martin's Press | Minotaur Books for this ARC. All opinions are my own.

I will post my review to Amazon, Instagram and other retail and social media sites upon publication day of June 3, 2025.

ARC Review!!
This one took me for a loop!!!! I knew the premise was thriller but this was crazy thriller!!! Jane was the perfect girl until she went a little crazy or I guess was always a little crazy but she started to show it more. Jane believes that Colin is her person but when he suddenly ends it with her and she sees he's dating someone else and needs him to come back to her. Jane is suddenly friends with Colin's new girlfriend, Zoe, and is finding all the ways to be around him and remind him that it's Jane he wants not Zoe.
As the story unfolds, it becomes clear that Colin is not an all perfect boyfriend and he's had his blurry past with previous girlfriends. Jane and Zoe start to unravel Colin and his past and find ways to make him confess. Jane might go a little too far and Zoe feels like she might not be going far enough.
The story wraps up perfectly with another little twist leaving it up to the imagination.
4 stars!!!

Do you ever finish a book and think to yourself, “wait…what?” This book was dark and twisty, full of lies and stalking. I am still scratching my head over the end because….did that really just happen?!? The author definitely threw in more than one twist, several turns, and the fear was 100% instilled in me. This was not an ending I saw coming!

This book tries way too hard to mimic the vibes of You and only partially succeeds in the long run.

The general story is that Jane is quite unhinged and believes that she and Colin, a guy she dated for a few dates before he broke things off, are soulmates and belong together. Jane haunts places near where Colin lives in order to engineer a "chance" meeting so he will be reminded of their "true love." After she creates a meeting at a coffee shop when Colin is there with his new girlfriend Zoe, Jane starts to get invited along to get togethers and actually becomes friends with Zoe. How can Jane make Colin see what he's missing with her?

I feel like the blurb above gives away way too much about where the plot is going. The book is better if you just let it unfold. Yes, Jane is obsessive and delusional, but there's a lot more going on here that the reader will experience as it goes. Things go better with this book if you just suspend your disbelief and go about reading it like the popcorn thriller that it is.

I listened to the audiobook and the narrator does a great job at capturing Jane's intense, obsessed personality. I was able to get immersed in the story even if I spent the entire time thinking she needed some serious therapy.

There's a good twist towards the end which redeemed the story for me, although I kind of suspected it all along. Regardless, readers should be pleased by the surprises that keep the plot moving quickly. I just feel like there wasn't much character development, we don't know or understand the motivations of any of the characters. To go back to my You reference, we know why Joe is the way he is and it helps that narrative to make more sense and easier to forgive the repetition.

Overall this is a beach read type thriller. Not particularly memorable but worth it if you're looking for an escapist read.

A suspenseful thriller with a strong twist, but uneven pacing and characters that felt flat—especially Colin. Jane’s obsessive behavior was hard to read, making the story frustrating at times. The NYC setting and audiobook narration were solid, but the self-gaslighting and scattered plot held it back. Worth a try if you like dark, twisty stories.

So Happy Together is a thriller that promises a messy plot, messy characters, and some interesting twists. Unfortunately, it didn't deliver it on the level I was hoping for. The plot was messy in a way that felt rushed and not intentional. It seemed like the author had a bunch of ideas, and just threw them at the book hoping they would stick. The characters were definitely messy, but in a way that was baffling. Colin wasn't developed enough for the level of insanity Jane was written at. It was a decent read, but I felt there could have been a little more added to it that would have elevated it to another level.

Big thank you to St. Martin's Press and Netgalley for the e-arc!

My thanks to NetGalley and Minotaur Books/St. Martin's Publishing for the ARC of "So Happy Together" in exchange for an honest review.

I'm so happy too. So happy to dive into another New York City-based psychological thriller where absolutely nobody is who you think they are, nobody's to be trusted and everybody's got more skeletons in their closet than a Halloween funhouse.

Our lead characters are young, brilliant, beautiful, handsome and in true thriller tradition, lookin' for love in all the wrong places. Aspiring playwright Jane is perspiring over her obsession with software engineer (and rich kid) Colin, who dumped her. She worms her way back into his life by striking up a friendship with his new soulmate du jour, Zoe, who's not only a drop dead stunner,, but a gifted multi-media artist and a genuine sweetheart of a person as well.

But Jane's endgame to eventually re-snag Colin for herself comes undone with the discovery of some dark, dark secrets about her dream studmuffin........not to mention she's still grappling with some terrible, repressed memories of her own. Can a dead body or two be far behind? Don't bet against it.

And now we've reached the point of this review where we move into my-lips-are-sealed territory.

I used to go 'tsk tsk" when books like this start setting off their Fourth of July fireworks display of twists, each one more increasingly outlandish and defying all rational belief. But I've come to realize that's the pure joy of reading them. I say bring on that pile up of twists that make you make you mutter,, "Say WHAT now? You gotta be kidding me!".......the more the merrier.

And author Olivia Worley knows her genre well, delivering one last final page zinger that's equal parts satisfying and deeply unsettling on multiple levels. (You can decide how much of which.)

A fast. lively read if you can never get enough of those spiffy young achievers who end up wiping off the blood from their designer outfits.

I absolutely devoured this one!! I could not put it down! Jane's character was so unhinged and delusional when it came to Colin, that there were parts I just couldn't help but laugh at, because the whole time you're just like wtf?!? Who thinks that way?!? But Jane just did not get it, and I loved being inside of her head with her delulu thoughts. Olivia delivered twist after twist and the ending had me gasping!

3.75 rounded up!

the first half of this book was a 5 star! however, after reaching "part 2" it became a bit too predictable and i didn't love how it ended.

the "love quinn/you" vibes were everything and more along with the nyc backdrop. the fmc's head was very entertaining to be in and i could NOT put this book down. i started to have some theories or an inkling where it was going and was correct in my prediction. the way it all wrapped up in the end wasn't my favorite but i also didn't hate it.

also some modern/social media references which doesn't bother me but i know some people dislike that so just a heads up (not a lot but enough that i remembered it lol)

overall, very fast paced, addicting read and i had a fun time. def give this a read if you want that + stalker/delulu girl (to the max!) with a funny inner monologue.

thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press Minotaur Books for this arc. it was so much fun!

I love a crazy deranged FMC and Jane is one of those.

Jane’s boyfriend has broken up with her and she thinks it’s just a misunderstanding. Once he starts dating someone new she will do anything to get him back even become the new girlfriends BFF.

Reading about what Jane is doing is like watching a train wreck that you can’t look away from. I literally read this book in under 24 hours.

It was fast paced and twisty and didn’t stop going until the very last chapter.

Thank you St. Martins Press for a free copy of So Happy Together for an honest review.

Genre: Thriller
APK: Ebook
Pages: 296
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Series or Standalone: Stand-alone

Jane is in love with Colin and won’t let anything stop them from being together even if he has a new girlfriend and A LOT of skeletons in his closet.

I tore through this book in just two days. The MC was absolutely crazy and that’s what made me unable to put it down. You have to suspend belief in any sort of crime procedure to embrace the plot but that’s why it’s fiction, right? :) Although I saw the twist/ending coming from a mile away, I still enjoyed the ride.

Thank you to St. Martin’s Press for providing a free ARC for review via NetGalley.

✌🏼for Tuesday
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Happy pub day to these two beauties! Thank you so much for the publishers to sharing these arcs with me ! Both of these are SO good!!
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So happy together- ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️thank you @netgalley and @minotaurbooks for the gifted copy! Jane and Colin are soulmates he just doesn’t know it yet. Jane meets Colin and falls so hard, he seems perfect until he dumps her on the 6th date. Jane befriends Zoe (his new girlfriend) to get close to Colin and chaos ensures. Colin may not be the perfect man Zoe and Jane thinks!
This was a 4 star read for me ! I loved how unreliable Jane was and some of the twists toward the end I just didn’t see coming! This one is described as You meets Riley Sager and I think that is a spot on description. All in all, a really fun and quick read!
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Jane is in love with Colin. It doesn’t matter that he ended it with her after they slept together. Or that he doesn’t want a relationship. OR that he has a new girlfriend, despite the aforementioned commitment issues. He is THE ONE for Jane, and she will do what she has to do to prove it to him. Jane befriends Colin’s girlfriend, Zoe, by accident; beginning her infiltration into the friend group. Jane has her sights set on getting Colin back, but along the way, she finds some disturbing information out that she’s not quite ready to face. Not everyone will make it out of this situation alive.

This is the year for unhinged women in my thrillers and I’m LOVING it! Jane’s the delusional single woman in the dating scene energy that none of us actually allow to escape in a serious capacity. It’s all in good fun to say “omg he’s obsessed with me 🤪”, but Colin could spit in Jane’s face and she would still believe he was. I listened to the audio while I was reading, and the narrator absolutely crushed it in her display of Jane’s thought process. The author made me doubt my theories a few times over, but the one she settled on made me happy, as it was what I hoped would happen. This was absolutely bingeable and I definitely recommend!

*Thank you to St. Martin's Press, Macmillan Audio, and NetGalley for access to the advanced reader copy and advanced listening copy for this book!

Full transparency: I have not been in a mystery/thriller mood for many months and was really worried about So Happy Together putting me into a reading slump.
Fortunately, I had no reason to be worried! Olivia Worley absolutely hooked me with this wild ride of a novel. The story is so intriguing and keeps the reader entertained throughout.
Our female main character is so interesting. It's easy to think of her as one dimensional - No depth, no substance, fully delusional. But that initial illusion is intentional and it allows for such an intriguing unfurling of her characterization. The reader is gradually provided with insight, which leads to needed context. Worley does such a great job of making this character someone that the reader slowly understands and empathizes with.
The twists and turns in this book? Wow! I really didn't see them coming. They're unique enough to not be guessed, but not so out of the box that they don't make sense for the story. I really appreciate when a mystery/thriller can stick the landing and Worley does a really great job.
I think mystery/thriller novels lend themselves to an enjoyable audiobook listening experience. The at the edge of your seat/needing to keep turning the page feeling works well with the story immersion audiobooks offer. I enjoyed the narrator and felt like the performance did not detract from the story, which is always appreciated.
If you're in the mood for an intriguing mystery/thriller, I definitely recommend So Happy Together!

So Happy Together is a darkly addictive story about obsession, heartbreak, and the delusion of happily ever after. Jane, a playwright, falls hard after just a few dates with Colin—so when he ghosts her, she refuses to let go. Instead, she crafts a plan to win him back… only to discover he’s already moved on with Zoe, a confident up-and-coming artist.

What follows is a wild ride of manipulation, misplaced hope, and twisted friendship. Jane is an unhinged but fascinating character—equal parts tragic and cringeworthy. You’ll want to shake her, but you also can’t look away. And as bodies start dropping, the suspense ramps up fast.

Olivia Worley keeps the tension high and the twists coming, right up until the final gasp-worthy reveal. It’s unsettling, sharp, and surprisingly emotional. Perfect for fans of psychological suspense and messy, complicated women.

A big thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press | Minotaur Books for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.