[ARC Review] Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian
Format: eARC/ALC
eARC provided by: Harlequin Trade and Netgalley
ALC provided by: LibroFM
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Chloe Sevre had one goal in mind when she went off to college: get revenge on the boy who hurt her six years ago. And Chloe, a diagnosed psychopath, will do whatever it takes to get what she wants. The only problem is, Chloe isn’t the only psychopath on campus. She’s actually part of a groundbreaking study on campus, part of a group of seven psychopathic students undergoing treatment under the careful eye of Dr. Leonard Wyman. It’s all supposed to be anonymous, but it doesn’t take long before others in the study start getting killed. Chloe has to turn to others in her group for help, but trusting her fellow psychopaths might not be her wisest decision if she wants to stay alive.
Never Saw Me Coming was a wild ride of a story. With chapters told from multiple viewpoints, half who are diagnosed psychopaths, this novel is a fantastic thriller full of unreliable narrators and surprises around every turn. The writing is very well done; chapters are not always clearly demarcated by which character point of view we are reading from, but the narrative is distinct for each voice, making it easy to fall into that character’s headspace. I loved that we had so many unreliable narrators - the story wasn’t just one unreliable narrator against everyone else, it was each character against each other while also being against everyone else. These pages dripped with suspicion and distrust in a way that was beyond what I normally get from thrillers. The plot wonderfully weaved truths, lies, and misdirects around each character and development. With so many pathological liars running around, it was easy, as a reader, to begin to suspect everyone. I definitely did not see the ending coming, but it was oh so satisfying when it did. Never Saw Me Coming was a fantastic debut from Vera Kurian, and I can’t wait to see what she writes next.
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