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I Know Who You Are by Alice Feeney

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tyreadsbooks_'s review against another edition

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5.0

✦I Know Who You Are by Alice Feeney✦

★★★★★ 5/5 stars

“Not everybody wants to be somebody. Some people just want to be somebody else.”

✦ synopsis

Aimee Sinclair is the actress everyone thinks they know but can't remember where from.

Aimee has a secret she's never shared, and yet, she suspects someone knows. When she comes home to find her husband missing and all evidence points to her, she struggles to keep her career and sanity intact.

Someone knows who Aimee is. And they know what she did. Her past comes back to haunt her, forcing her to play one of her biggest roles yet.

✦ my thoughts

It’s no secret that Alice Feeney is one of my favorite authors. She’s so clever & creative with her storylines, & her ability to turn a phrase is unmatched. After reading this one, I have officially read all of her backlist! I have loved every single book, but this one takes the cake as the most chilling, unpredictable, disturbing one yet - & I freaking loved it.

I really couldn't put it down, a wonderful roller coaster ride of a read. The anxiety I felt alone was 5☆ quality. This one is pretty controversial, but to me, sometimes a jawdropping, outlandish, unhinged ending just works. Easily one of the most insane books I’ve ever read, & one I won't soon forget, which is why it gets 5 stars from me.

✦ Read if you :

-have a traumatic hamster story

-like a child’s pov

-like thrillers with more twists than a pretzel factory

-like unreliable narrators

-like short, suspenseful chapters

-are down for an insanely mind boggling ending

PS - Stephanie Racine absolutely crushed the narration of this audiobook, as per usual. I would listen to her read the phone book.

*I Know Who You Are is not for the faint of heart - but if you love a dark, twisty thriller, I say bump this up your TBR! (Check trigger warnings, as there are several)

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babiefats's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

Holy moly this was horrifying …

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novellearts's review against another edition

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dark tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

Book was almost decent until that disgusting twist at the end.. it made the whole story far fetched as well.

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mizzrie's review against another edition

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dark mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

0.5

It was amazing for the first 70 chapters. It absolutely dissolved from there, ruining the whole build-up.

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lmc_phd's review against another edition

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dark fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

Oof. Okay, so I was enjoying the book until it became very confusing at the end. With a mix of incest, uncertain connections, “how the hell does she not know that’s who that is,” and so forth, it’s hard for me to give this book anything greater than 2.5 stars.

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va1kyreads's review against another edition

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dark reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

1.0

(SPOILER is a trigger for traumatic animal death)
What the fuck did I just read?
I thought

an abusive parental figure deep frying a child's pet hamster

would be the worst part of this novel. I was very, very wrong.
The book is a decent ride until the last 15 or so percent in which everything falls apart in an entirely uncomfortable (to put it mildly) way. And I am normally not one to get squeamish about taboo topics and depictions. But what editor let this mess of left-field ending featuring INCEST make it to print?
Seriously, I just want to talk. Mostly to a therapist, but said editor and Feeney need to come with me to pay for the services I now need.

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screechie's review against another edition

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dark tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Now THAT was a twist I didn’t expect(eeked out is an understatement). If I’d been reading it in physical book form,I’d want to boil it.

Listened to it on 1.5 speed.I’m not sure if it’s the writing or the voice actor’s reading pace, but if it’s on normal speed I zone out within 5 minutes.Speeding it up turned it into a straight-through listen.

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