Kickstart the Spooky Season with Never Saw Me Coming
- Rebecca
- Sep 14, 2021
- 2 min read
Each one of them is used to being on top. They are diagnosed psychopaths—narcissists who are unburdened by useless emotions like empathy or fear and full of contempt for everyone around them.
But now, the tables have turned. It’s their turn. To be outsmarted. Manipulated. Hunted.
In exchange for free tuition, a group of college students participates in a study on diagnosed psychopaths, monitoring their moods and tracking their movements. This particular group of students holds itself high above the rest but is soon taken down a peg when it becomes clear that members of the group are being hunted and killed. Now it’s up to them to learn to trust each other just enough to find out who is after them. There’s just one problem: can you ever really trust a psychopath?
Never Saw Me Coming was such an interesting read. It’s not often I find myself rooting for a psychopath with homicidal tendencies, but it was impossible not to. This one had me hooked from beginning to end, and was equal parts amusing and frightening. It was a story of unlikely friends and odd alliances, and while the characters may not have feared for their lives, I certainly wasn’t immune to the thrill of it all.
Never Saw Me Coming is the perfect novel to kickstart your autumn and ease you into the spookiest season.
Thanks so much to Harlequin Trade Publishing for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!
About the Book
“I’ve never met someone like me, but when I do, eventually, I think it will be like two wolves meeting in the night, sniffing and recognizing a fellow hunter.”
Meet Chloe Sevre. Freshman honor student. Average-seeming, legging-wearing, hot girl next door…and diagnosed psychopath with an IQ of 135. Her hobbies include yogalates, frat parties, and plotting to kill Will Bachman, a childhood friend who grievously wronged her.
Now Chloe and six other students at John Adams College are part of an unusual clinical study that includes smartwatches to track their moods and movements, in exchange for free tuition. The study, led by a renowned psychiatrist, has inadvertently brought together some of the most dangerous minds who feel no guilt or fear. When one of the participants is found murdered, it becomes obvious they’re all in danger. Chloe goes from hunter to prey, and joins forces with two other psychopaths in the program to discover why they’re being targeted – if they could only trust each other.
Wildly entertaining with compelling characters and a vividly conjured campus setting, NEVER SAW ME COMING will keep you up all night, pinned to the page, wondering why you’re rooting for a would-be killer.
About the Author
Vera Kurian is a psychologist and writer and a longtime resident of Washington DC. She has a doctorate in social psychology, specializing in intergroup relations, political ideology, and quantitative methods. She has studied fiction at Breadloaf, Sewanee, VONA, and attended juried workshops at LitCamp, Colgate, Juniper, and the Marlboro Summer Writing Intensive. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and was a semifinalist for the Mark Twain Royal Nonesuch Humor Writing Contest.
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