Book Review: Never Have I Ever | Joshilyn Jackson

Never Have I Ever

📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚 Never Have I Ever

AUTHOR: Joshilyn Jackson @joshilyn_jackson

Publisher: William Morrow

Stars: ⭐⭐⭐1/2 + 🐰 

Published: July 30, 2019

The Review 📚 Never Have I Ever

The Title/Cover Draw:

  • I enjoyed Joshilyn Jackson’s latest book so I was interested in her backlist.

💜 What I liked:

  • They story had plenty of twists and a nice pacing. You kept wondering how Amy was going to get herself out of this mess. I did appreciate the thought that went into these details and that last twist was jaw dropping.

😱 What I didn’t like:

  • There are some major trigger warnings in this book, so be prepared. However, even now after it’s been awhile since I read it, there is not a whole lot that sticks in my head about this book. I will say the experience was quite fun though!

🚦 My face at the end: 🧐

💭 3 Reasons to Read:

  • 1. Secrets in a Community
  • 2. Deadly Game
  • 3. Lots of twists

🕧 Mini-Summary:

  • Amy loves the little community she lives in. Until Roux comes along and uses their secrets against them.

All thoughts and opinions are my own. 

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📘 Summary 📚 Never Have I Ever

In this game, even winning can be deadly…

Amy Whey is proud of her ordinary life and the simple pleasures that come with it—teaching diving lessons, baking cookies for new neighbors, helping her best friend, Charlotte, run their local book club. Her greatest joy is her family: her devoted professor husband, her spirited fifteen-year-old stepdaughter, her adorable infant son. And, of course, the steadfast and supportive Charlotte. But Amy’s sweet, uncomplicated life begins to unravel when the mysterious and alluring Angelica Roux arrives on her doorstep one book club night.

Sultry and magnetic, Roux beguiles the group with her feral charm. She keeps the wine flowing and lures them into a game of spilling secrets. Everyone thinks it’s naughty, harmless fun. Only Amy knows better. Something wicked has come her way—a she-devil in a pricey red sports car who seems to know the terrible truth about who she is and what she once did.

When they’re alone, Roux tells her that if she doesn’t give her what she asks for, what she deserves, she’s going to make Amy pay for her sins. One way or another.

To protect herself and her family and save the life she’s built, Amy must beat the devil at her own clever game, matching wits with Roux in an escalating war of hidden pasts and unearthed secrets. Amy knows the consequences if she can’t beat Roux. What terrifies her is everything she could lose if she wins.

A diabolically entertaining tale of betrayal, deception, temptation, and love filled with dark twists leavened by Joshilyn Jackson’s trademark humor, Never Have I Ever explores what happens when the transgressions of our past come back with a vengeance. 

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