It had been a long time since I read a book I couldn’t put down. As soon as I started Things We Never Say I was instantly hooked! The elite private school was an intriguing setting and I loved all the families and their drama. I came to love all three of the main characters Rhea, Anna, and Maggie. I was so invested in their stories and wishing happiness for all their families. This book is definitely in my top 5 for the year 2024 and I’ll be recommending it to everyone!

Caitlin Weaver has quickly become an auto-buy author for me, and this book as expected did not disappoint! Loved how the story panned out and how the characters were written. She has a knack for writing amazing characters which are complex but relatable too. You would always find yourself rooting for them. Loved this one and definitely would recommend!

Caitlin Weaver, had me hooked within the first few pages. 4 1/2 stars from me.

This is a story about 3 very different women who end up becoming good friends when they bond over some pretty suspicious activity they discovered.

The women’s lives look perfect from the outside, but nothing is at it appears to be. Between their secret mission and learning more about each other’s lives, they create a thick as thieves friendship.

This is the second book I’ve read by Weaver, and she nailed it once again. I’m so glad I discovered her and anticipate her next book. Great writing and a definite page turner.

Thank you to NetGalley and Storm for the ARC for my honest review.

This was a solid 4.5

Fast paced and entertaining. If you like drama, secrets, scandals and real housewives vibes you will like this book.

I actually enjoyed reading each of the 3 main characters lives throughout the book and their perspectives. Anna was my favourite.

The drama/mystery book that kept unfolding with new craziness. Such a fun read. I would definitely recommend if you are into domestic drama/mystery.

Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Oh my gosh, the story is just marvelous! Anna, Maggie and Rhea are in charge of fundraising for the Gala Dinner to celebrate the Centennial of Civitas, one of the country's top private schools. The three women have teenage children and are not acquainted. The story deals with the development of their friendship during the Gala Dinner's organization. There is a lot of family and school drama. Each one of the women is dealing with difficult aspects of everyday life. The story is so well told that it is quite hard to stop reading. I loved it.

A well written, easy to read emotional rollercoaster of a book. Thanks to Storm Publishing and NetGalley for the chance to ARC this book.

This domestic thriller took me on a wild ride. The three women form a friendship but also hide secrets of their own.. I love how it’s told in multiple POVs, filled with intense family drama and scandals!!! I absolutely enjoyed this book!! Grab your copy today..

Thank you so much NetGalley for the advance reader copy!!

This is the second book I have read from this author, and although I didn't enjoy the story as much as her first, this is still an easy read with great characters.

Whilst not my usual type of book, with characters that seem to be out of "Desperate Houswives," this is a good story, revealing twists and turns along the way.

The story follows three mothers who are thrown together to help organise a gala for their local prestige school that their children attend. The three women have their own secrets, and as their relationships form, the secrets are spilt alongside discovering a dark secret about the school.

The story was engaging and also covered some interesting topics such as domestic abuse, infidelity, and teenage pregnancy. I feel the author tackled these subjects carefully and respectfully.

The three protagonists, even though at first, are not likeable, soon change the readers' minds and at times are relatable. The character arcs are well written and show the difficulty and importance of making friendships.

Although this book is paced slower than the authors debut, and some reveals could have been told earlier in the story, the last 100 odd pages were read quickly in anticipation to get to the ending. I quite enjoyed where the story went.

This book is released at the end of September, and I recommend that if you like family drama and even something different than your usual read. Special thanks to Netgalley and Storm Publishing for the ARC.

I love books that are set in suburbia with lots of secrets and scandal so this one did not disappoint! When the wife of an elite private school headmaster teams up with two other PTA moms to disclose what is really happening in their small town, trouble starts happening. This is more of a domestic drama than a thriller but it will keep you turning the pages and hoping that justice is served!

I received this as an ARC from NetGalley


This book was amazing with all of its twists and turns. Three different life stories from the women that come together. What they thought to be just a gathering of helping with the school committee turns into uncovering layers of lies in each one of their lives.

With each turn of a page, a new event took place pulling you to keep reading. I enjoyed this book and do recommend it.

Things We Never Say by Caitlin Weaver is an enjoyable and unforgettable, emotional story of secrets and lies.
I was totally immersed in the story. The characters are well fleshed out and realistic. Every time I picked it up, I couldn't stop reading and was anxious to learn the outcome.

Thank You NetGalley and Storm Publishing for your generosity and gifting me a copy of this amazing eARC!

This book is all about our main character Anna who is trying her best to fit into the perfect PTA life that her husband has built for her and her family. That wouldn't be so hard if Anna wasn't hiding some very important secrets. it isn't until Anna is thrown onto a PTA group with the other women in the neighborhood that she starts to see some of the other women's behind the scene issues and some of them don't paint a pretty picture. There is Maggie a relationship expert who can't control her own marriage and Reah who has a shining presence and a must be number one attitude however that is to cover up all of her own personal troubles she's buried in her past. Even with all of the bonding and discovering it is still Anna who holds the real secret in her group and when hers come out it will really blow the top off the neighborhood. I loved this book because I really like books with secrets and this one was perfect. I really enjoyed how we slowly learned so much about everyone's lives instead of it being thrown at us all at once. Even though each woman had their own secret they were dealing with I enjoyed how all of the secrets fit together well. There were many different story lines however each one can together to show the big picture. This was great as a reader because it gave me lots of different viewpoints on what was really going on. Each character had their own complex issues and I found myself being drawn into every one which I didn't expect. This was a great read that has everything going for it and it will be able to touch lots of different types of readers because of that. Even though so much happens everything was perfectly written and there wasn't anything lacking. Great read I don't know how the author managed to keep everything so well on track but she did a great job. I'm so glad that I got the chance to read this and I can't wait to see everyone else's face when they check this book as it gets release. The only thing I didn't like about this book was near the end it got super confusing to keep everything straight because of that I have to give it that rating.

Maggie, Anna and Reah couldn't be more unlike but when they end up on the same school gala committee an unlikely but genuine friendship blooms. Although they have children at the same prestigious school each are tackling their own secret personal issues at home...
This dark and unexpected twister hooked me in immediately! Finished in a day; couldn't read it fast enough!
***I would be remiss if I did not add a trigger warning about Domestic violence. Weaver was careful to have most of it implied and not graphic but it is still a hard subject for some to read.***
Appreciate the ARC; thank you to Caitlin Weaver, Storm Publishing, and Net Galley!

Three very different moms at a elite private school are tasked with organizing a gala for the school.

These women could never see themselves becoming friends. But somehow they do. They bond over what becomes a huge scandal for the school.

The three voices belong to the three moms. They each have distinct personalities, experiences and views. I enjoy this in a book. I dislike when characters seem like the same person with another name.

I was hooked from the start and couldn't wait to find out what the scandal was and how it would all play out.

A solid read.

Thanks to netgalley and Storm Publishing for the arc.

Public life and personal life behind closed doors are two entirely different things. Three women quickly learn this fact when they are thrown together to work on a gala for a private school. They each believe the others have perfect lives. As they work together and become friends, the shields come down and they own up to their imperfect lives. When they stumble upon a scandal involving the school, the intensity is amped up a little.

This was an interesting book with characters that I was not really sure about to start with, but I changed my mind as I learned more. Sometimes what you see is not what you really get, and these ladies learn you need to be careful about assumptions.

Thank you to Storm Publishing and NetGalley for this ARC. I am leaving this review voluntarily.

Things We Never Say by Caitlin Weaver is a very good book: powerful, timely, well written with a developed plot that hooked me from the first page to the last. To quote the author in her notes it is "a story about the transformative power of female friendship. I found it to be empowering as I cheered on the three main characters as they bravely faced their challenges. Thanks to NetGalley, Storm Publishing, and the author for the opportunity to read an ARC of Things We Never Say, a very good book, perfect for fans of women's fiction. This review reflects my honest opinion. 4 Stars.

Things We never say was a very compelling story.
Three perfect families their lives interwoven by an explosive secret.
What follows is a extremely captivating and heart wrenching story. You follow three different families, each with secrets of their own, as they uncover an even bigger secret that may set them all free. But who will get hurt in the process?

I absolutely could not put this book down, the beginning was slow to start with but it did hook me in and I felt very engrossed in each families story. Anna was definitely my favourite. The flow of the story and how each of the women gradually became friends made me enjoy it even more and their fierce protection of one another. I cannot wait to read more by Caitlin Weaver, and if you enjoyed her other books you will love this one!
Thanks to netgalley and Storm Publishing for the arc!

BOOK: THINGS WE NEVER SAY
AUTHOR: CAITLIN WEAVER
PUB DATE: 27 SEPTEMBER 2024
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REVIEW- 4.2 stars
Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for this ARC. I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
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I couldn't stop reading once I started, I didn't even know when I finished the whole 343 pages. I loved it! I'm familiar with this genre, but this was kinda different, and I liked it.
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We followed three different mothers and wives, Anna, Rhea, Maggie, and their different challenges. The three of them knew each other but only started interacting when they volunteered to plan the centennial gala for the school, and they were all judgemental at first. It was amazing how the women moved from strangers to best of friends while dealing with their respective challenges.
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Anna, the wife of the headmaster, is a victim of domestic abuse and is working hard to escape. Rhea has a perfect family, but she had a son before marriage, and she didn't tell anyone. Rhea's family was most surprising because I expected the husband to be an asshole, but he was a very good guy, and I love their relationship the most. And Maggie, a relationship therapist whose relationship is on the rocks. I still feel like Dan should have been punished more because what he did to his wife was unacceptable. But I'm happy Maggie got her own happy ending.
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While all this was going on, they discovered a scam ongoing in the school, and they managed to expose the ones involved, which was a difficult decision, but they still managed to do it.
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I really liked this book, but it felt like more of a women's fiction than a thriller, like there was no murder. But, I'd definitely read more of this author's books.
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Wow...This was such a great book. It sucked me in from the very beginning and kept me intrigued throughout. I just kept wondering what secrets would be revealed next.

In Things We Never Say we meet Anna, the headmaster's nervous and aloof wife, larger than like PTA president Rhea, and comical therapist Maggie whom are all thrown together on the gala committee for the private school their children attend. Throughout their meetings to plan and discuss the gala secrets emerge that threaten to change their lives forever.

The characterization of this book is top notch--all of the women were written fantastically. They were super relatable and easily likeable. The challenges they faced throughout were very thought out as well as their reactions and moves to maneuver them.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is into domestic thrillers---just a trigger warning though that domestic abuse is in this novel, not heavily, but if you are triggered by this, be advised.

Caitlin Weaver has done it again! Written a domestic thriller that has me turning pages at lightning speed. This time three women find their committee work leading to a shocking reveal at a school benefit.

This new title has been compared to Big Little Lies and there are some similarities. The storytelling style, though is very different. Caitlin Weaver tells her story in a straightforward, linear style and does it very effectively.

Rhea, Maggie, and Anna are all on the same committee, but are very different. A stray email in a stack of committee paperwork sends them on a joint journey for justice. The story of their growing friendship is punctuated by the exclamation points of the secrets that are in each of their homes. I was riveted. Trigger warning: domestic abuse.

Thank you to Storm Publishing and NetGalley for a DRC in exchange for an honest review.