REMARKABLE!!!
Just the perfect kind of thrilling and fascinating story I love escaping into!!
Someone Knows will take you on an emotional, suspenseful and intriguing ride from beginning to end.
I couldn’t put this book down!!!
When the past and the present collide Elizabeth’s life takes on a new direction filled with revelations, twist and turns and intense emotions.
So if you’re looking to lose yourself in something a little dark, alluring, dangerous and steamy, you will definitely be satisfied with this gripping, entertaining and astonishing story.
To say I enjoyed this book would be an understatement.
Every moment was so interesting and exhilarating!
Remarkably written from an author that gives us such OUTSTANDING character and stories.

𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰

𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐬
𝐕𝐢 𝐊𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝
𝐀𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐚 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬
𝐏𝐮𝐛 𝐃𝐚𝐲: 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝟏𝟕, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓
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Happy Monday!

Author @vi_keeland knows how to write a damn good thriller! This is the second thriller of hers that I’ve read and absolutely LOVED.

𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐬 is a dark and gripping thriller that is so so addictive. I read this in less than two days and when I had to put it down I was constantly wanting to get back to it. The flow was on point and the plot was past paced, far from a slow burn! I found many twists unpredictable and some predictable but that didn’t bother me. The characters were done well, and I was fully invested in their story.

If you haven’t read this author I 100% recommend putting her on your TBR! @vi_keeland’s debut romantic thriller 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 was one of my top books of 2024, and her newest 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐬 will be a top read for this year too!

This book is out ✨TOMORROW!✨ thank you to @atriabooks for the early copy!

𝐒𝐘𝐍𝐎𝐏𝐒𝐈𝐒: “As a college English professor, Elizabeth looks forward to the start of each new semester teaching her creative writing seminar. At least until she reads chapter one of The Reckoning, a tale about a high school senior who has an affair with her teacher. To anyone else it would be the beginning of a great page-turner, but to Elizabeth it is the beginning of the end.

She knows this story. It’s all familiar because she lived it. The girl in the story was her best friend Jocelyn, and Elizabeth knows exactly how the story will end—with the professor dead. Because she was the one who killed him.

Someone knows what Elizabeth did twenty years ago and her secret is about to be exposed, but who is the mystery student submitting the chapters? In an effort to find out, Elizabeth returns to her Louisiana hometown where it soon becomes clear that no matter how many years have gone by, she can’t escape her past.
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Elizabeth is an English professor with a dark past she manages to hide well. While she reads work written by a student, she realizes the story about her past. The one she has worked so hard to hide. Can she keep it hidden?

Another great read from Vi Keeland! If you are looking for a gripping and fast-paced thriller, look no further. This was my first thriller from Vi and I loved it. When English professor Elizabeth starts receiving chapters from a student that reflect her dark past, a past no one should know, she begins to suspect everyone. On a path to discover who knows the truth, Elizabeth is forced to face her past and it begins to unravel her.

A quick read that had me on the edge of my seat. I always figure out the twists in thrillers but this one was a wild ride I didn’t fully see coming! The perfect read for a beach day this summer.

Wow! The chapters are short and read quickly. The storyline twists and winds. Creepy, dark,disturbing, and potentially triggering, for anyone who may have been a victim of abuse, are all descriptors that come to mind. Vi Keeland is a new author for me but I look forward to reading other titles by her.
(3.5/5)
Thank You to NetGalley, Atria Books, and Vi Keeland for the opportunity to read this ARC.

This was a fun, suspenseful, page-turning mystery that will keep its reader up all hours of the night. There were layers upon layers of twists and turns, and not one of them I was able to guess. This is one of those reads that around halfway through, your second guessing yourself and this story and flipping back through the pages to re-read what you missed. This author is a talented storyteller in not just her ability to weave a tale but to do it in such a way that every little piece slots seamlessly together in the end. She created fully dimensional characters, each distinct in their personalities and traits. Overall, I was pleasantly surprised with this one and recommend it to all lovers of mystery and thrillers. Four stars.

Thank you to Netgalley and Atria Books for this ARC.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Someone Knows by Vi Keeland

Someone Knows is a sexy, psychological thriller that hit the mark. Twenty years after the murder of her teacher, Elizabeth starts receiving “chapters” written by a student that tells the story of this murder. And off she goes to figure it out…not only for herself legally but for her mental state as well. So through the course of this book we see a lot of interesting concepts fleshed out including why she struggles with relationships. And I think it’s done well.

I will say that the book started a bit slow but when it took off, it flew. I was both satisfied and disgruntled at the end…I didn’t know I needed more until I had no more!

Well-done thriller by Ms. Keeland. I would highly recommend it.

Thank you to NetGalley, the author, and the publisher for providing me with an ARC of this title for review.

This story had so many twists that just kept coming. Elizabeth was a professor and one of her students submitted chapter 1 of a mystery that sounded eerily similar to someone she grew up with… and secrets no one was supposed to know.
As Elizabeth visited her hometown to try to unravel the mystery of who her creative writing student could be, she uncovered more secrets that had her wondering what was even real.
This was a fun and twisty thriller.

This was such a fun fast paced read for me, as someone who only reads a handful of thrillers a year. The twists and turns I did not see coming and I couldn't put it down, I just needed to know what happened next! The extra added bits of spice was GREAT too! I would definitely recommend this to someone who is dipping their toes into the thriller genre for the first time! Thank you again for the arc and cannot wait to recommend to more people!

Something happened twenty years ago and only a few people knew and were sworn to secrecy. Now Elizabeth is an English professor teaching a creative writing class, and a story has been submitted that is hauntingly familiar to her. And now she has to find out who else knows before the complete story exposes the truth.
This is only the second thriller novel by this bestselling romance author and I'm a fan! The story is fast paced and full of twists and tension, some I predicted some not, but the ending just blew me away. I love that the main character is a little older, in her later thirties, which made her more relatable to me (and also more sensible in her actions lol)
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advance copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

DAMMMMMN!!!! I love a thriller that makes you think you have it all figured out and then shuts the door in your face. You don't know nothin' bro!!! Ha, I love an ending that leaves things a little gray and open ended for interpretation. It's my favorite kind. Loved this one. Thoroughly entertaining.

I throughly enjoyed this. Took me about a day and a half to read. I love a less than 300 page quality thriller. I also LOVE trying to figure out if the unreliable narrator is reliable or not. Pacing through the clues of that kept me highly engaged. If that is your vibe, then this is an easy pick for you.

If you like:

-Small town secrets (Elizabeth has to return to her small town to face the trauma of her past)
-A dark past that comes back to haunt you (Elizabeth murders her P.E teacher due to grooming and S.A)
-A secret book submission that outlines the FMC past secrets ("Hannah" sends Elizabeth a manuscript that outlines her big secret of killing her P.E teacher)
-Murder and moral ambiguity (Elizabeth and how/why she killed her P.E teacher)
-Cat and mouse element (Elizabeth trying to find out who is trying to expose her with her big secret) -An unreliable narrator (Elizabeth's past trauma and disassociate personality disorder makes it hard for you to believe anything she says).

An amazing fast faced thriller that I couldn't recommend enough.

Thank you to Simon and Schuster for the ARC!

This book was like a kinkier version of The Plot that I never knew I needed. A professor of writing is shocked to get an online assignment submitted by a student. The scene that the student describes seems VERY familiar to her: it's a murder she committed. She needs to find out who this mysterious student is and how they know all her secrets!?!?!?

Someone Knows is a CRAZY ride. If you loved Verity and are looking for a book with twists and turns that will surprise and shock you, then Someone Knows is the book for you.

3.75 stars

This was a quick and easy read, so it gets an extra boost for serving that purpose, but otherwise I was hoping for a little more out of a highly hyped book. Elizabeth is a creative writing professor at a NY college, who receives a student submission that eerily mirrors a traumatic incident from her teen years, right down to the character names. With only herself and a former friend knowing what happened on the night their teacher died, she travels home to rural Louisiana to try to find the source of the chapters. Upon arriving, she finds her alcoholic mother on her deathbed, and inadvertently connects with the son of her friend's abuser, now a grown man ten years her junior. Although Elizabeth had a terrible childhood and from a psychological standpoint, you can understand why she acted the way she did, she was still an extremely unlikeable character, who treated the few good men in her life terribly. As someone else who also sure knows how to pick em, even I couldn't muster up sympathy for her at the end. A message I certainly should heed though, never trust a certain "type." With all thrillers, I hope for a truly shocking twist, and an idea occurred to me that would have been absolutely bonkers, so I couldn't help but be disappointed when we circled back to one of the theories already presented to us throughout the story and not something original. This felt like a good filler read/palate cleanser for me coming off an intense read, and I'll probably save more books from the author for this purpose in the future rather than rushing to read.

WOW. What did I read? I am unwell after reading Vi Keeland’s Someone Knows. Especially the last chapter.

This book got my attention from the first chapter, and it is fast paced. It read quick and I loved that about it. I also enjoyed that one of the dual timelines we got to read in the form of a book that was being submitted chapter by chapter by a “student” of the main character Elizabeth. Imagine someone sends in their homework to you and it’s the story of your past, in exact detail, that nobody knows about? Crazy right.

I will say, the last chapter really threw me off and ended up leaving me with so many questions. I felt like I had to go back and re-read it immediately to see if it didn’t leave any plot holes. I mean it did make sense, and I was not too surprised who was the person sending the chapters but at the same time the why of it all was not clear and it did leave me with some questions. Mind blown for sure.

This is the first thriller I read by this author and second book overall I have read, and I am looking forward to reading more of her books.

Thank you to NetGalley and Atria Books for the eARC. All opinions are my own.

𝐈'𝐦 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠

𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
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"To anyone who has done something evil in the dark and believes it will never come to light.

You’re wrong. Your day of reckoning is coming."
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I'm not generally a fan of thrillers because I don't like the anxiety they usually put me through, but when I saw this on "Read Now" in NetGalley, I couldn't help myself. I've read and loved Vi Keeland's contemporary romances, which made me trust her writing style, so I knew there was a good chance I would enjoy it. I'm so happy that she did not disappoint! 😊

𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐈 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐃 💕

💜 The storytelling sucked me in. It was effortless for me to connect with Elizabeth, and I loved that.

💜 I loved Elizabeth. She was proactive in finding answers, and even with her spiral from paranoia, the things she did to get them weren't as unhinged as I expected. My heart cried in sympathy for what she and Jocelyn went through. She was also a much better daughter than I am because I wouldn't have been as kind as she was if I had her mother.

💜 Not as convoluted and mindbendy as I expected. For huge psychothriller fans, this may be tame in comparison because even I, who's terrible at guessing plot twists in books, guessed some of the "surprises" that unfolded here. I did peek at the last chapter early to see if everything would be okay (which I really shouldn't have done), but what I found there was kind of obvious at that point. Still, I was curious enough to read the rest and find out how everything unraveled.

💜 I have a love/hate relationship with that ending. I still don't understand the writer's motivation for sending those chapters. Revenge is too broad, or rather, I don't get why they'd want to get revenge on Elizabeth after finding out the whole history. I hate that, but at the same time, I love that the author (Vi) left it hanging because I expect a good thriller to leave me with questions. I finished this book before I fell asleep, and when I woke up, one of my first thoughts was "WHYYY?" lol

DID I LAUGH? I giggled at that scene when Elizabeth and Noah met.
DID I CRY? Nope.

𝐒𝐖𝐎𝐎𝐍 𝐒𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐄: 🦋

Didn't really expect there to be anything swoony about this book since it's not romance-focused, but I did meet a character who could've been swoon-worthy.

𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐋𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐋: 🔥🔥🔥

There was one on-page (dirty) spicy scene at a public restroom, and a bit of ~exploration~ by Elizabeth at some point. Language used is not overly explicit, meaning you won't find the c and p words here if you're the type to search.

DO I RECOMMEND THIS? ✅ YES 💯

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GENRE: Thriller
POV: Single, 1st person

Vi Keeland brings you an Absolutely chilling and Page turning thriller in Someone Knows. This book is full of Mysteries and you get hooked and involved while reading the story. The way the story unfolds is Interesting and Captivating.

I Cannot Recommend it enough to all readers. An Absolute Must read.

That ENDING!?!?! What the heck man! This was my first Vi book & WOAH! This was great!

Elizabeth is a professor but when one of her students may know some secrets about her past…she’s gotta do some investigating if her own.

SOMEONE KNOWS is full of twists! A few I thought I knew…& finally when I was satisfied then boom! Another twist!

I’ll be honest the cover absolutely drew me into requesting this thriller! It turned out to deliver as an absolutely tense psychological thriller. It’s completely insane in the best way. I was gripped and thought the spice element was an interesting twist for the genre. I really enjoyed this and look forward to reading more from this author. Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for my ARC.

This was ok. A quick read. I didn't really like any of the characters. And possible spoiler...why would her "Nickname" have been in the yearbook? It seemed to try to hard to be shocking.