What Have We Done: A Novel
In this "top-notch mystery thriller" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) from Alex Finlay, What Have We Done is a tale about the lives we leave behind and the secrets we carry with us forever.
One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2023: - BookPage - BookBub - E! News - Go BookMart - Goodreads - PopSugar - The Every Girl - She Reads - Beyond the Bookends A stay-at-home mom with a past.A has-been rock star with a habit.
A reality TV producer with a debt.
Three disparate lives.
One deadly secret.
Twenty five years ago, Jenna, Donnie, and Nico were the best of friends, having forged a bond through the abuse and neglect they endured as residents of Savior House, a group home for parentless teens. When the home was shut down--after the disappearance of several kids--the three were split up. Though the trauma of their childhood has never left them, each went on to live accomplished--if troubled--lives. They haven't seen one another since they were teens but now are reunited for a single haunting reason: someone is trying to kill them. To survive, the group will have to revisit the nightmares of their childhoods and confront their shared past--a past that holds the secret to why someone wants them dead. It's a reunion none of them asked for . . . or wanted. But it may be the only way to save all their lives. What Have We Done is both an edge-of-your-seat thriller and a gut-wrenching coming-of-age story. And it cements Alex Finlay as one of the new leading voices in thrillers today.
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Community Reviews
I LOVE thrillers, but not of this nature. Lots of action scenes, which were fine, but simply not my favorite. I don't regret reading it, but won't be seeking out more by Alex Finlay.
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Absolutely bonkers plot but it's kind of growing on me. It's marketed as a mystery/thriller based on old secrets from a childhood group home and based on that description and the author's previous work you have certain expectations about what kind of book this will be - so imagine my surprise when this one ends up being a high octane thriller with literal assassins. One of the main characters was recruited from her group home to be an assassin (think the plot of Nikita - the author sure wants you to! In fact, instead of explaining her backstory, the scene goes "when I told my husband about my past, he said 'like in the tv show Nikita?" and from this you can imply the troubled foster kid taken by a shadowy organization (Division in Nikita, the Corporation in this book) to become an assassin). Getting POV chapters from the sociopathic twin contract killers was also kind of fun. Overall, some POV chapters were better than others, Donnie and Nico's chapters were noticeably less action-oriented and they didn't really feel like they fit into the universe of the assassin organizations and contract killers that the other characters were inhabiting. I'm not sure I liked the ending - the final scene seemed unnecessary, came out of nowhere but then ended just as fast with no consequences.
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