I listened to the audiobook and really enjoyed it. The plot is interesting and keeps you engaged. The characters are cunning, dangerous and thrilling to read about. The narrator really took this story to life, she was easy to understand and was easy to follow the different characters.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for a copy.

Kubica is the absolute QUEEN of “they aren’t who they say there are” and this novel was no exception. The whole book was full of twists + turns.. I trusted no one + although I had a couple of suspicious, I really had NO idea what direction the plot was going in and was totally shocked by both the major twist half way through + the ending. Short chapters and fast pacing paired with the easy writing style and authentic characters made this a super bingeable, enjoyable listen.

Meghan Michaels was balancing life as a single mum to a teenage daughter and working as a full-time nurse. While on duty at the hospital one day, a patient named Caitlin arrived in a coma, having plunged from a bridge onto train tracks below. Megan had always tried to stay emotionally detached from her patients, but this time she got too close. Would she and her daughter be the next victims?

I was so ready for twists and turns going in, given this was a Mary Kubica book, but it still managed to surprise me in a positive way!

I loved all the details surrounding Meghan’s job as a nurse, especially the daily activities the nurses had to perform for the comatose patients. I loved the commentaries on the mental health states of the nurses and the family members. These provided the depth I wanted from a thriller, which made me relate to Meghan as a character.

Twist-wise, I had somewhat guessed about the cause of Caitlin’s accident, but I wasn’t fully sure until it was revealed. I thought the storytelling style and the reveal were done brilliantly!

This was definitely a page turner, especially on audiobook. The narration was performed really well, making it the perfect audio-drama for travels and commutes (just don’t miss your train stop!).

Oh boy, did She's not Sorry by Mary Kubica draw me in. This convoluted story had me on the edge of my seat multiple times. I would have never guessed the ending. Ms. Kubica wove together a fantastic tale with all the right details to keep it entertaining and believable.

This felt a little ploddy and formulaic - that’s not to say it’s bad, just a bit painting by numbers - I still enjoyed listening to it tho!

Really enjoyed this audiobook full of twists that I did not see coming. Would highly recommend this audiobook.

I really enjoyed listening to this thriller. Being engrossed in mundane tasks whilst listening, I didn't guess the twist, whereas, if I had read it, I think I would have done. There is a lot of time spent setting up the background and scene of the big reveal and it lulls you into a sense of the somewhat mundane lives of the fractured family. However, suddenly you realise what it has all been about and you are woken up to keep listening (or reading). Clever writing!

"She’s Not Sorry" by Mary Kubica is a gripping psychological thriller that keeps you hooked from the first page. The story follows a protagonist whose seemingly perfect life starts falling apart when she gets caught up in a dangerous web of lies and secrets.

Kubica skillfully weaves together events and characters, creating a plot full of twists and turns. The characters are well-developed, with the protagonist’s internal struggles and the surrounding mystery making for a riveting read. . Themes of guilt, redemption, and protecting secrets are explored in a way that feels real and compelling.

I listened to this as an audio book and was hooked!

An absolute corker of a tale.
Twists and turns aplenty and keeps you guessing until the final chapter!
This book will keep you wide awake long after turning out the light.
Highly recommended.

Another excellent book by Mary Kubica! Kept me on my toes and I didn't want to put it down. A twist I didn't see coming!!

I enjoyed the twists and turns in the audio book as well as the narration which I felt really added to the story. The main protagonist Megan finds herself stuck in the middle of lies and deceit. The great reveal at the end was jaw dropping

Not only is this book a page turning thriller, but also one that is timely as violence against women is escalating at an alarming rate. An appalling and tragic reminder of what women face daily.
 
Meghan Michaels is a single mother working as an ICU nurse in Chicago. She and her teenage daughter Sienna live in a small apartment after her recent divorce. Working long hours, she worries for her daughter after a recent spate of seemingly random attacks on women in the area.
 
The book opens with Meghan receiving a call that could shatter her life …
 
At work she is put in charge of a young woman who was found gravely injured on a train track where it appeared she jumped down to. As new evidence comes to light, the police start to investigate the alleged suicide and believe that something more sinister may be at play. Megan becomes consumed with the case. Was she pushed? Are her and her daughter safe?
 
At Meghan’s divorce support group, she runs into Natalie, a woman she hasn’t seen since high school and who she thinks is a victim of domestic violence and wants to help her.  
 
Meghan’s character is created with compassion and as someone who wants to help others. She also has a strong sense of independence that she wants to impart to her daughter. An underlining message of strength, resilience and justice for women, in a world without violence and threats comes shining through.
 
This is a slow burn thriller, and as these violent and dangerous storylines merge, Kubica deftly weaves twists and turns, creating a wholly believable, dramatic and jaw-dropping, suspenseful read.

Highly recommend ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

Huge thanks to @HarperUK audio @HQ for ALC 🎧 Brilliantly narrated by Andi Arndt 🤩

This was a fairly enjoyable listen. It started off quite slow but did pick up towards the end. There were quite a few coincidences for my liking, but overall it was a good storyline. The narrator was good, which added to overall enjoyment. Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers.

II initially rated this one lower, but I realized it deserved another star. She’s Not Sorry started slow but picked up towards the end and was intriguing nonetheless.

Meghan, a single mother and ICU nurse, becomes invested in her comatose patient, Caitlin, after she attempts to take her own life.

As the story progresses, other subplots are seamlessly woven into the main one, leading to a fantastic twist at the end that ties everything together.

Thanks to NetGalley and HarperCollins UK Audio | HQ for the free audio copy of the book.

I haven’t read ir listened to anything by this author before, but the blurb sounds exciting. Well, it turns out to be a story that picks you up and throws you into a spin. It’s packed with drama and from the opening scenes where Meghan, an ICU nurse, receives a call from a stranger holding her distraught daughter, there’s more or less non stop action,

Meghan is a caring individual struggling with work life balance and as a single mother, it’s her daughter who seems to be losing out. She becomes interested in a new ICU patient, Caitlin, allegedly a suicide victim in a coma. Or was she the victim of a crime? Add to this a friend in an abusive relationship who needs help and you can see the conflicts for this caring nurse who has so many demands upon her time and emotional energy. I felt that on the whole, Kubica balances these threads well and as the first half of the book unfolds, they’re drawn together and connections are made.

I didn’t expect a number of the twists and one is gasp out loud, so the narrative works well as a domestic thriller. I listened to the audio version which is well narrated throughout; balanced and thoughtful delivery. I’ll be looking for more from Kubica.

ICU nurse Meghan Michaels is drawn to the latest patient on her ward. A young woman, Caitlin, has tried to commit suicide, but as the police investigate they discover that there is a possibility that she was pushed off a bridge. Why would someone want to hurt Caitlin, a much-loved daughter?

There is so much going on in She's Not Sorry by Mary Kubica that I really had to pay attention to keep up with the story. The time frame isn't linear either and this adds to the unsettled feeling you get as you listen. The opening chapter is chilling, with a mother getting a phone call from the kidnapper of her daughter. The story then introduces us to Meghan.

Meghan has a lot going on in her life. Recently divorced, she's now living in an apartment in Chicago with her teenage daughter. Meghan loves her job but the hours are long and exhausting. You can feel Meghan's frustration as she tries to balance work with her life raising a teenager and an ex-husband wanting access.

When Caitlin, the attempted suicide, is admitted to the ICU you immediately get a sense of Meghan's compassionate side. She is drawn to the patient, at a loss for why a young woman would try to end her life. Caitlin's parents are also at a loss, they struggle to comprehend why their daughter would take such an action. Things become more complicated when a stranger tries to gain access to Caitlin and then the police decide that it wasn't a suicide attempt, Caitlin was pushed. This is compounded by the fact that someone is attacking women. You begin to wonder if Caitlin was one of the victims and her attacker is determined that she won't regain consciousness.

While all of this is happening Meghan bumps into an old school friend, Natalie. She learns that Natalie is a victim of domestic abuse and struggling to leave her husband as she has no access to their finances. Having recently divorced Meghan is sympathetic towards Natalie and offers to help her.

It was at this point that I felt that the author had put too many threads into the narrative, especially when we still had to learn more about the kidnapping from the opening chapter. What I didn't expect was the twist that was thrown in part way through which drew some of these threads together. From this point on it was one revelation after another. Even when secrets are uncovered you are still left with a feeling of uncertainty, not quite sure if we know the full truth. The ending doesn't fill you with satisfaction, intentionally, it leaves you with a vague sense of unease.

Meghan Michaels is a good mother, a good nurse, a good friend - even a good ex-wife. She strives to do the right thing and is selfless to a fault, so it's no wonder people turn to her with their problems - whether it's a high school classmate she hasn't seen in years, a co-worker or her comatose patient's desperate parents.

There are three main narrative threads in play in She's Not Sorry: Meghan's quest to help her old friend, Nat, escape her abusive husband, the mystery surrounding her ICU patient, Caitlin, who survived a fall from a bridge, and a spate of attacks and home invasions plaguing Meghan's home city of Chicago. At times, the author deftly weaves these strands together, resulting in well-planned, unexpected twists and reveals, which I didn't see coming but which do, crucially, make sense; however, the more the story develops, the harder it seems author Mary Kubica is having to work to prevent the seams of the story from coming apart, and the more contrived and unlikely the twists become, as if wrong-footing the reader is the goal in itself, rather than telling a clever, tightly-plotted story. The ending, when it comes, feels very abrupt and left me with plenty of unanswered questions; even as I write this, I keep thinking, 'But what about...?'

Like Kubica's previous works, She's Not Sorry is a readable, engaging thriller with a shocking prologue to grab the reader's attention and an 'everywoman' main character who makes the target audience wonder how they would respond if placed in a similar situation. Meghan is a very thoroughly drawn character - to the extent where you could posit any situation and I could probably tell you how she would react to it - but I just didn't find her very interesting. As a thriller protagonist, she oscillates between preposterous leaps of deductive reasoning and struggling to come to the most obvious conclusions; there are many elements of the plot which could have been resolved far sooner if not for Meghan's obliviousness and determination to take everyone she meets and everything they say at face value.

Fans of Kubica will undoubtedly enjoy this book, but I felt that it did not live up to its intriguing premise - or to the author's previous titles.

I listened to the audiobook of this title and the narration was strong.

Thank you to NetGalley and Harper Collins UK for the opportunity to listen to and review an ARC of this title.

If you’re an aficionado of the thriller/mystery genre, I expect, like me, you have a great appreciation for the art of misdirection; the ability of an author to so efficiently pull the wool over the reader’s eyes that its sudden removal is like being hit by a thunderbolt.

Alice Feeney springs to mind as one master of this craft. Mary Kubica is another.

Told from the POV of Meghan, a recently divorced ICU nurse, this is a dark, multilayered, multi-strand story with a shocking prologue that whets the appetite for what’s to come.

There’s a lot going on in Meghan’s life. One of her patients is in a coma with a traumatic brain injury, after ostensibly trying to take her own life. She’s recently reconnected with an old school friend, whom she suspects is being abused by her husband. And there’s a dangerous stalker on the loose in their neighborhood, making Meghan fear for her own safety and that of her teenage daughter.

I listened to this on audio, popping in my buds at every opportunity, so compelling were the unfolding storylines. There were gasps aplenty as twist after twist sent the narrative spinning off in new directions, but none was louder than when all three strands suddenly came together in a magnificent WTF moment that had me frantically rewinding to listen to it again.

What a sucker punch! The last time a twist like this sent me reeling was in Feeney’s Rock Paper Scissors. I kicked myself then and did so, doubly hard, here.

She’s Not Sorry is an utterly brilliant piece of revenge fiction, made all the more so for being dressed up as something else entirely. It’s not until you reach the end that the relevance of the title becomes apparent, but the message is clear: Don’t mess with a mother’s instinct to protect her child. You do so at your peril.

She's Not Sorry by Mary Kubica
(Narrated by Andi Arndt)

Such an enjoyable twisty thriller. The storyplot was something that drawn audience in immediately. It tensed up steadily, with a great pace of moving.

The characters are somehow relatable. And I truly enjoyed the whole story setting.

The narrator presented the story well. I loved her way to express various emotions of the characters!

Many thanks to NetGalley, the publisher and the author for my copy.

Pub date: April 2, 2024

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐+⭐
She's Not Sorry by Mary Kubica, an audiobook narrated by Andi Arndt is THE NEXT LEVEL OF TWISTED!
Oh, my sweet potato fries! I believe I experience all emotions starting with a deep inhale through the mouse with a wide open eye, dropping jaw, and loud gasp! Like seriously! How is possible to hide so many twists in one book?

And I absolutely loved the writing style! Instead of jumping back and forth between past and now author managed to deliver important details, that so relevant to what was happening at that moment. Probably someone would say it's slow-burn and I usually don't like slow-burns but this was just perfect!

Single mum and intensive care nurse Meghan balancing her life as good as she can. City life is dangerous and rap!st is on the loose which makes things more intense, especially if Meghan must walk from the hospital in the dark. Meghan always was dedicated to her job but when a new patient Caitlin who survived the su!cide attempt was admitted to the hospital she became like a strong shoulder for Caitlin's parents. If this is not hard enough Meghan runs into her school friend who is dealing with domestic violence.

Will willingness to help will put her and her daughter in danger?

Andi Arndt did fantastic narration, it was engaging and intense and voice changes were creating the illusion that there was more than one narrator!

Thank you HarperCollins UK Audio and NetGalley for this audiobook! I loved it so, so much!