I loved this book! It was a fast paced, easy read that kept my attention the whole time. I either loved or hated all the characters. I did see a couple of the twists coming but overall it was a great book!

I see so many reviews loving the plot and the twists and the story...and I'm just not one of them.

I do thank Netgalley and Storm Publishing for a digital ARC of this book, and while this is a genre that is right up my alley, I disliked this book from the first few chapters.

The dialogue is stilted at best, and in places the author could have shown, they chose to tell instead.

The story itself is interesting, but the characters are poorly developed, and certain things are repeated almost verbatim, as though the reader didn't catch it the first time.

I just wanted to finish this book so I could stop reading it.

Zoey Montgomerys aunt Heather went missing from Camp Medley 35 years ago. Zoey gets a job there as a counselor to try to find out what happened to her aunt and get answers for her heartbroken mother.
The setting takes place in a creepy wooded forest and is told in the two perspectives of Heather and Zoey 35 years apart. The book is full of crazy, dysfunctional characters and I couldn’t hardly put it down. Thanks NetGalley and Storm Publishing for this eARC that will be released August 1, 2025!

Where do I start?! This book was amazing! I could not put it down! This book was tragic and just kept me hooked the entire time! It's told in the POV of Zoey (present time) who finds out about her aunt that she didn't even know existed had disappeared at 16. And it's told in the POV of her Aunt that disappeared in 1989.

I found myself holding my breath at times and I just wanted to ignore the world while reading this book, it was so captivating! I can't even express how much I loved this thriller. Usually I will see a twist coming, but the ending was surprising for me. I recommend it to anyone who loves a good thriller and tragic stories!

This releases August 1, 2025

Thank you, Storm Publishing, Netgalley and the author for the advanced copy.

Zoey Montgomery takes a summer job as a camp counselor to find out what happened to her aunt Heather, who vanished from Camp Medley over thirty years earlier.

This book is a mystery with some thrills thrown in. It isn't outright scary, but it has a few creepy moments to keep you interested.

This is a first person narrative that shifts between Zoey and her aunt Heather. I enjoyed the two different perspectives. It was interesting to go back intime to see what happened to Heather while Zoey is actively investigating. The first person made it easy to connect with their thoughts and feelings, however, the characters weren't really developed and didn't have much growth.

The book felt repetitive at times when the characters thought or said the same thing over and over. Aunt Heather couldn't stop thinking about how much she loved her boyfriend and Zoey couldn't stop thinking about her ex-boyfriend. The writing seemed a little juvenile in this sense, but I can see this appealing to the young adult readers.

I thought the twist involving Zoey's ex-boyfriend was a little too much and unnecessary. There was already a mystery to solve at the camp and it just seemed a little weird and unrealistic.

Overall the book was okay, not really for me , but it was a quick and easy read that I think many will enjoy.

Really great read from start to finish. The author does a great job in bringing you into the lives of the characters. Whether you're a longtime fan of thrillers or new to the genre, this book is a must-read. It's the kind of story that lingers in your mind long after the last page is turned. I couldn’t put this one down!

Title No One Saw Her Go
Author: Sally Royce-Derr
Genre: Mystery/Thriller, Women’s Fiction
Publisher: Storm Publishing
Pub Date: August 1, 2025
My Rating: 4,5 Stars
Pages: 248

Story is told now and then
Now 2024 by Zoey and
Then 1989 by Heather.
Zoey Montgomery is a student at Penn State majoring in criminology she had hoped to do an internship this summer as it she will be a senior. Also was planning for her boyfriend Craig Hampton would be doing an internship as well. However things fell apart when he suddenly broke up with her and the internship fell through.
Chloe was able to get a summer job as a camp counselor at Camp Medley. The camp is close to where Craig’s parents’ live and she hoped to talk to them. Additionally she is hopefully of resolving a 30 year family mystery.
In1989 her aunt Heather was sixteen. Both she and her sister Jess – Zoey’s mother lived with their grandmother however when she died they had to move in with their mother and stepfather. When he started to abuse Jess she moved out to live with her boyfriend and soon Heather ran off with boyfriend Dean who had a summer job at Camp Medley. She did not have a job so Dean made arrangement for Heather to live in a tent in the nearby woods. 1Near the end of summer Heather disappeared after being picked at camp by her father.

Hmmm we know it wasn’t her father. We do know of the creepy ghost story about the old man in the woods who kidnaps girls – did he take her?

Zoey wants to know what really happened to her Aunt as well as why Craig broke up with her.

Story kept me wondering as well.

Great story– have to admit I did like the creepy vibe with the camp setting.

I have read only a few other Sally Royce-Derr stories and really enjoyed them!
Additionally enjoyed her “A Letter From the Author” where she tells a bit more about these characters.

Want to thank NetGalley and Storm Publishing for this GREAT eGalley.
Publishing Release Date scheduled for August 1, 2025.

Book was good, family was nuts but enjoyed it and read in one sitting! Would recommend definitely

Received early as part of ARC reviewed for free etc

Thank you Net Galley and Storm Publishing for this ARC.

Enjoyed the premise. A girl returning to the summer camp her aunt attended and went missing from decades earlier to investigate the disappearance was intriguing. Didn’t like the execution.

This was an easy read as far as the writing style is concerned. However, the style seemed more juvenile, like reading a YA book. Pacing was slow. Very repetitive, the same conversations between characters and scenes occurred multiple times. Ending wasn’t anything original. Anti-climactic. No shocking twists.

This thriller focuses on Zoey, a college student, who decides to spend her summer as a counselor at Camp Medley. She’s nursing an unexplained breakup with her boyfriend and stumbles across photos of her mom with another girl that she didn’t know. Mysteriously, Zoey’s aunt disappeared several years ago at the same camp Zoey is spending her summer at. She makes it her mission to figure out what happened to her. The more she digs for info, the crazier and more dangerous things become.

This book is engaging and thrilling. There are a lot of surprise twists towards the end that will have your head spinning and wondering what you just read. They’re not so out of this world crazy that they aren’t believable. I feel that there should have been some trigger warnings with this book. There are some heavy topics such as child abuse/child predators briefly mentioned at the end of the story. There’s not a lot of focus/detail to it, but a heads up is always appreciated. Otherwise, this was an overall good read and gave some creepy vibes that reminded me of stories told around the campfire growing up.

Zoey Montgomery, a criminology student, accepts a summer job at Camp Medley, the same place her aunt Heather vanished from over thirty years ago. Hoping to uncover the truth about her aunt’s disappearance, Zoey begins to investigate the camp’s dark history. As more missing girls and eerie patterns emerge, she starts to question her own sanity. The deeper she digs, the more dangerous her search becomes, leading her to a chilling discovery that changes everything.

This book is all about family secrets and the truths that have been buried and it’s exactly as dark and twisty as that sounds.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I looooove a good missing person thriller. No One Saw Her Go by Sally Royer-Derr delivered all the suspense I crave, but added something even better: a chilling summer camp setting, a decades-old disappearance, and a determined main character who refuses to let the past stay buried. I also appreciated that this was a super quick read and it pulled me in fast and didn’t let go, with short chapters, eerie flashbacks, and just enough twists to keep me flipping pages. If you love thrillers with creepy atmospheres, unreliable characters, and long-buried truths clawing their way to the surface, you’ll want to pick this one up.

I received an advanced copy of this book and am leaving this review voluntarily. No One Saw Her Go publishes on August 1, 2025.

I love summer camp-centric mysteries, but this one was hard to get into. I was already a little on the fence with the setup and the imbalance of showing versus telling. But then there was some graphic and heavy content almost right away, with no trigger warning, that put me off of the story.

No one saw her go…

First; this book was such a great summer thriller read. The description of the camp, the woods, the smells, everything, were just top notch. Made me feel as if I was right there in the summer camp!

After taking a summer job at Camp Medley, the camp her aunt Heather mysteriously vanished from in 1989. Zoey goes on a hunt to solve the cold case of her Aunt Heather’s disappearance.
Once at Camp Medley, Zoey makes a friend with the daughter of the camp owners and soon all these strange things start happening, more weird things than normal.

So many twists and turns I never saw coming! This was PERFECT!

This book kept me on my toes, on the edge of my seat, biting my nails, allll of the feels!
I loved the different timelines and POVS.

Rounded to 4.5 Stars

This is the 4th book I have read by Sally Royer-Derr and I continue to love her fast paced and intense thrillers!

This book is told between two timelines, both present day and 35 years in the past. Zoey has a taken a job at a summer camp where her Aunt Heather disappeared from to try and solve the mystery around what happened to her.

The story mainly is told from 2 POVs: Zoey’s in present day and Heathers leading up to her disappearance in 1989. This book moved fast and kept me hooked the entire time! While I did predict the first small twist, I didn’t see the full ending coming together the way it did. I took off the half star because I felt like the final twist tried to wrap everything up too neatly and was kind of out of left field.

Thank you to NetGalley and Storm Publishing for the ARC of this novel in exchange for my honest review!

the brilliant unease i felt in this book was on point. there was that creepy something going on here feeling throughout. the dual pov where we get to really deep dive into what happened in the past and what was occurring now was a great addition to the way this is written.
Zoey has taken a summer job at camp Medley. but there is more significance to her choice as this was where he Aunt went missing decades ago.
something happened and she is here to reveal it all. but what she discovers is something far deeper and darker than she could have imagined going in.
as a reader you are hooked. and then you are teary and emotional. and then you have that bold reader anger at the injustice for the characters.
the characters described in this book was also fantastic and they keep you guessing with their trust and motives.
at times i wanted to hug Zoey but then the next minute i wanted to make her see what i was!
learning of Heather's story was so heartbreaking. i wanted to leap in there and save her from the horrid way she was treated.
i was waiting for the end and need Zoey to come good, for something good to come of all shed learnt and this book wasnt finished with me yet. a corker of a thriller that goes that layer deeper and darker than just an excited thrill.

Wow this is the most suspenseful book I’ve read in a while! The build up is slow and steady until you’ve finally gotten all the answers you’ve been frantically turning pages for. I really liked the flashbacks and getting Heather’s story. This book is suspenseful and heartbreaking. A truly emotional read.

Told from the view point of two characters from different years but parallel of their experiences from their arrival at camp. Some elements felt repetitive, particularly details of characters’ features, and some elements felt rushed. I could see the intended tension with certain moments but wasn’t particularly taken in with feeling it, though I’m not discrediting the descriptions. The ending felt obvious, as did many of the reveals. overall I enjoyed the journey of the story but I was left feeling underwhelmed.

Thank you Storm Publishing & NetGalley for the ARC.

There was no way I would have predicted the ending, it was brilliant. There was so many twists at the end which I always enjoy. Zoey has recently found out by accident that her mother had a sister called Heather that she knew nothing about. When she has the chance to go and do some work at a holiday camp which was the exact same place that her aunt went missing she applies at once for the job. Her mother isn't happy about her going but she wants to try and find out what happened to her and bring some kind of closure for her mum. The book goes back an forth from the past to the present but flows nicely. A great read.

2.5 stars, rounded up to 3 stars.

This just didn't work for me, and I'm feeling generous in the rating. This felt like a YA book; the writing style was built on repetition, with the same sentiments repeated over and over. Many things made no logical sense to me, and I just suspended belief until the book was over. The characters were unlikable, shallow, and there was no real twist for me to sink my teeth into.

On the positive, I liked the cover.

Clearly there is a market for this, as it's received a slew of good reviews -- apparently I'm not in the same market. Ah well.

Would I read more from the author? Hmmmm. Maybe.

I received a complimentary copy of the novel from the publisher and NetGalley, and my review is being left freely.

Thank you to NetGalley and Storm Publishing for my copy of No One Saw Her Go by Sally Royer-Derr.

When criminology student Zoey discovers she has an aunt who went missing years ago, she knows she's going to investigate.
She enrolls as a counselor at the same summer camp her aunt Heather went missing from, determined to find the truth.
The story is told as a dual timeline between Heather and Zoey and is quite creepy in parts.
A good storyline that did sag a little in parts but overall, well worth the read.

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