The Book:
She’s Not Sorry by Mary Kubica
Published April 2, 2024 by Park Row
Date read: April 3, 2024
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The Characters:
Meghan and her daughter Sienna
She’s Not Sorry spoilers can be found below, but they’re hidden under a spoiler tag so you’re safe to keep scrolling if you’d just like to read my review.
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The Plot (from Goodreads):
An ICU nurse accidentally uncovers a patient’s frightening past in this chilling thriller.
Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom to a teenage daughter and working as a full-time nurse. While on duty at the hospital one day, a patient named Caitlin arrives in a coma with a traumatic brain injury, having jumped from a bridge and plunging over twenty feet to the train tracks below.
But when a witness comes forward with shocking details about the fall, it calls everything they know into question. Was Caitlin pushed and if so, by whom and why?
Meghan has always tried to stay emotionally detached from her patients, but this time, she mistakenly lets herself get too close until she’s deeply entangled in Caitlin’s and her family’s lives. Only when it’s too late, does she realize that she and her daughter could be the next victims.
She’s Not Sorry Spoilers:
The Reveal:
This book was dual timeline, not one continuous story. I listened to it on audio, so I didn’t know if there were any hints early on in the story that I may have missed.
“Nat” was a grifter. She gained Megan’s trust and convinced Megan to take her in, then stole from Megan once she let her stay at her house. The next day, Megan got a call from a scammer who pretended to have kidnapped her daughter Sienna. The scammer said that if Megan didn’t wire 10k to them within five minutes, Sienna would die. That seemed like an oddly small amount of money for a ransom charge. Megan sent the money, but then found Sienna alive and well at school. The police explained that Sierra’s number had been spoofed. When Megan realized that all her means of contacting Nat had disappeared, she figured out she’d been scammed. She went to Nat’s supposed place of work as well as her husband’s. She contacted a high school friend that Nat said she’d been in touch with and discovered that the real Nat had died years before in a car crash.
Then, one day, Megan happened to see “Nat” while she was walking home. She chased her down and they fought. “Nat” implied that she knew Megan and had a personal reason for what she’d done. Megan had backed “Nat” up against a railing and was threatening to call the cops. “Nat” said to go ahead, and she’d tell them what Megan had told her about being unsure if Sienna was really Ben’s. In anger, Megan shoved “Nat” off of the bridge.
That’s when we realize that “Nat” was Kaitlyn Beckett, the woman in the hospital where Megan worked. She’s been in a coma since the start of the book, but she starts to wake up just after we realize who she is.
Megan can’t let Nat wake up and turn her in. She dosed Kaitlyn with another patient’s insulin to kill her. (~80%)
A twist I definitely didn’t see coming: Kaitlyn was the jealous girlfriend of Ben, Megan’s ex husband.
Sienna was the one sending Megan hate mail. She was mad because Kaitlyn told her that Ben wasn’t her father.
The Ending:
Luke, Megan’s coworker, was the one harming women across Chicago. This was easy to guess as soon as he was introduced, and imo could have been left out. Luke kidnapped Sienna, but his wife Penelope called Meghan to warn her. Luke texted Megan where to show up, or else he’d kill Sienna. The police saved Meghan and Siena but killed Luke.
I hope these She’s Not Sorry spoilers were helpful.
The Review:
This is the Mary Kubica we know and love! I didn’t enjoy her last novel, so I was quite happy that this one was a hit. Some of the twists are a bit out there, but in a very enjoyable way. Just suspend belief and enjoy where she takes you! It’s a lot of fun how it all comes together.
I read someone’s review that said they DNF’d and skipped to the end to see if they were right about their hunch. They must have missed so much of the good stuff.
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