Amy has a past. Not that anyone would know it. To her friends and family she is a mother and a dive instructor and her life seems picture perfect thought it wasn’t always that way.

Amy is a run-of-the-mill suburban mom, although she is in the 1% club. She's a scuba diver. What were you thinking I meant? She enjoys the boring, satisfying routine of everyday suburbia. Amy loves her husband and stepdaughter Maddy, who lovingly refers to her as 'Monster'. She is perfectly content with a perfectly boring life. . . until book club. When everything is turned upside down and inside out. It's as if someone flipped the switch on the dryer to the tumble setting. No more Boring. No more Routine. Here comes your Worst Nightmare. Additionally, I felt like the pacing was totally off. It took a long time for me to get into it and then it would fluctuate between being interesting and being boring. Never Have I Ever starts off with my kind of evening, a book club meeting, wine and friends. What could go wrong? Soon things take a turn when a new neighbour changes the pace to a game of Never Have I Ever. Along with a little too much drink, things take a very intriguing turn and secrets start to come out or threaten to come out. I was hooked and couldn’t wait to find out more. The pace slows down a bit as the characters are developed and I began to get a little impatience and wanted things to move along a bit faster.When Roux proceeds to get the ladies sloshed, minus Charlotte, who is currently pregnant, Amy's suspicions begin to grow. I was also rooting for Amy because I cared about every member of her family. They were all such well-developed characters – even baby Oliver. I adored the relationship between husband and wife (Davis and Amy), father and daughter (Davis and Maddy) and especially stepmother and stepdaughter (Amy and Maddy). It was so refreshing to read about a healthy, loving, trusting relationship between a stepmother and a teenager, and how Amy saw Maddy as her daughter (not step), and Maddy felt the same way about Amy. There's one problem, Roux underestimated Amy. The domestic goddess exterior is not the whole of her persona and Amy is willing to do anything to protect what is hers.

The last seven years have been amazing, but there are times she wonders if she should have told the people she loves about her past. Amy Whey is happily married, has a teenage stepdaughter, and a young son. She has a close friendship with her BFF, Charlotte, and lives in a nice home, in a nice community, and enjoys hosting Charlotte’s book club. New to the neighborhood, renting a dilapidated house that sees many short-term tenants, Roux is carefree and mysterious. I absolutely loved this one and especially loved Amy. Tough as nails yet soft in the center, she is a surprising opponent to the cunning Roux. I fell in love with her sweet family and loved the relationship she had with her stepdaughter. She’s a great character to root for. The side stories of the other characters were just as delightful as the battle of wits between Amy and Roux. I have one gripe about the book. There is a point at which Amy misleads Roux by telling her something that was not true, hardly an unreasonable approach when dealing with the criminal element. But not having been clued in by the author makes Amy, who had seemed pretty reliable, an unreliable narrator. It seemed inconsistent.But there is always an option to stop reading before reaching the second half and automatically giving two stars and starting another book. I want to thank the publisher, William Morrow, for providing me with a copy to read and review. I appreciate the opportunity even though it was a miss for me. Forty-two year old, Amy Whey has a great life. She has a wonderful family and a terrific best friend. She finally feels at home for the first time in her life. Roux also threatens Amy to let the secrets, but Amy is no quitter. She has to beat Roux at her own game, and the cost may be higher than she ever imagined. Amy has no intentions seeking Roux out, but she is worried. She tells herself that it’s impossible for Roux to know about her past. Truly impossible. But when Roux comes looking for her, Amy’s instincts are proven right. Roux wants something from her and if she doesn’t get it, she’s going to make Amy pay...

Book club is well underway when the doorbell rings. Amy opens the door to a pretty woman with beautiful dark hair. The woman's name is Angelica Roux, Roux for short. She is a single mom with a teenage son and they are staying at the Airbnb next door. She thought she would come to book club to meet some new people. It turns out, she has dirt on Amy; very real dirt about the worst night of Amy's life. One Amy thought she had successfully buried forever.The dynamics of the the book club change when a woman by the name of Angelica Roux (Roux) turns up and decides she’d like to join in. Roux is a single parent with a teenage son and she thought it would be good to get to know some of the neighbours. Before they know what is happening Roux seems to have taken over the book club and the women are drinking shots and playing a game called Never Have I Ever. The game starts off well, but it sure doesn’t end so well and this is where things change amongst the women. Her nice, contented life is threatened in the worst way when the seductive, Roux, a new resident in her neighborhood, pops in on their book club meeting and proposes they all play a little game. It turns out that Amy is not entirely sunk by Roux’s threat, but rises to the surface, gasping for air and finds a way to shore. The benefit of having kept secrets all her life is having a pretty decent feel for how to go about uncovering the secrets of others. It requires some pretty bold action, but having guts, plus an excellent brain, gives her the wherewithal to give Roux a serious run for her money.