3.5⭐️ A short and fast paced thriller! The audio production was fantastic! With multiple narrators, and sound effects, it was a very immersive experience. While this was not her best book, it was very solid and entertaining!

Thank you Simon and Schuster Audio and NetGalley for the audio ARC

🎧 AUDIOBOOK REVIEW 🎧

4 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

This Is a Safe Space is a gripping and emotional listen. Lucinda Berry does a great job diving into complex psychological themes and creating characters that feel raw and real. The audiobook narration was well done and added to the intensity of the story—I found myself hooked from the beginning. Some parts were tough to listen to emotionally, but that’s what made it powerful. A compelling psychological drama that kept me thinking long after it ended.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ — I listened in half a day. I couldn’t stop.

This is exactly why I love Lucinda Berry.

The premise pulled me in immediately—a therapist with trust issues of her own, a patient who’s gone silent, and a threat that hits too close to home. But it was the way the story unfolded that made this such a standout. Listening on audio made the tension even more intense—I kept telling myself “just one more chapter” and then suddenly, it was over.

Emotional, uncomfortable in all the right ways, and full of sharp twists. I loved how layered Jenna was, and the way the plot kept circling back on itself until the full picture snapped into focus. I highly recommend the audiobook if you're into fast, bingeable thrillers with real emotional weight.

I really like Lucinda Berry thrillers, and I feel like her background in psychology always comes through in her stories. (Note: this doesn’t mean I’ll ever agree with my friend about Saving Noah.)

This really worked for me. It’s novella-length, but with the speed I listen to audiobooks, I knocked it out over a long lunch. I’m usually wary of full-cast productions, but it was the perfect fit here. Since the story is told in a mixed media format, including internal monologues, session transcripts, and text messages, having each component voiced separately really suited the structure.

The central characters include therapist Jenna, her sister Phoenix, her husband Colten, Bodie (Phoenix's husband and Colten’s cousin), and patient Kaitlyn. You spend most of the story trying to figure out who’s lying and who’s telling the truth, and Berry threads that needle really well in this version of he said/she said.

The narrators were all fine. I know, glowing praise, but they did the job without pulling me out of the story.

Thank you to NetGalley and Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC. This Is a Safe Space comes out October 21, 2025.