Favorite Quotes:Her job was to help people regain remedial skills, and very few clients were thrilled to have that opportunity. She’d suspected Johnny of cheating plenty of times, but as far as she knew, it had only happened once. Just once… As for that one time? Well, she’d forgiven him. Or she thought she had. It turned out that frantically gluing the broken pieces of a marriage back together didn’t make for the tightest hold. Her daughter didn’t notice or didn’t care, and that was a blessing....

DNF 69%I'm sew board. Bring on the next Jane Doe book.

ᴇɴᴛᴇʀᴛᴀɪɴɪɴɢ. ᴀᴅᴅɪᴄᴛɪᴠᴇ. ғᴀsᴛ-ᴘᴀᴄᴇᴅ. Victoria Helen Stone has crafted an entertaining fast-paced Addictive story. Johnny and Veronica were college sweethearts the perfect couple. BUT as all avid thriller Readers know... no couple is perfect and this one wasn’t even close! So many secrets, so many lies, all that threaten to come out when Johnny earns hero status after rescuing a young boy. SO even though Johnny’s newfound status leads to an increase in Business for his personal training, it also

I finished False Step in one sitting . I just need to say that before I start this review. Last summer, I read Victoria Helen Stone's Jane Doe and immediately became obsessed with this author, so when I was given the opportunity to read and review her upcoming romantic thriller, False Step , I was very excited. If you go into False Step thinking that it's going to be the same style as Jane Doe—PLEASE THROW THAT IDEA OUT OF YOUR HEAD RIGHT NOW. It's a different realm of reality, but...

I definitely want to read Jane Doe now! ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ Tanner Holcomb is a missing child. He’s been lost for days. Then the best thing happens. He’s found by Johnny Bradley on a hiking trail miles away from home. Johnny was a fitness trainer working hard to make ends meet and now is a hero on every news channel. Johnny’s wife, Veronica, is tiring of the spotlight, though. She’s also worried this focus will cause some secrets about their marriage to be unearthed. Veronica will do anything to keep t...

The big reveal in the end wasn't that exciting for me. I figured it out before all of the main characters did. And speaking of the main characters, they had no redeeming qualities. I didn't bond with them or feel any sort of connection to them because they were so pathetic.Not even sure why I finished this book. It should have easily been a short story considering most of the first half of the book is fluff.

Review to come.*Review copy furnished via the publisher.

Amazon Kindle First Read - JuneI chose this as I had read ‘Evelyn, After’ by this author and really rated it but oh boy, was I disappointed with this one. I didn’t feel that it was particularly well written, there was repetition especially of the main character’s thoughts which frankly were not that riveting anyway, the plot was predictable and rather dull. On the plus side it didn’t take that long to read which I’m sorry to say is about all the positives I can muster. Apologies, as this one was...

I'm sorry, but no. This 280 page book could be condensed to a 25 page story, and you wouldn't miss a thing. Tedium abounds.None of the characters have a single redeeming quality. Veronica stays in an unhappy marriage, her behavior spiraling from unscrupulous to unforgivable, all to "protect" her daughter from... divorce? Seriously, no. Johnny is a caricature of a stereotype, who does appalling things for personal gain, plays the roll of victim when caught, and then Veronica accepts his rationale...

This book gets one star solely for providing an opportunity to say how angry I am that I wasted time reading it. The initial premise of the story seemed intriguing, but the plot became preposterous as the story unfolded. As other commentators have written, the characters were entirely unlikable, but worse than that, they were boring and utterly predictable. There are great novels where the main character is flawed, but this book had no redeeming qualities. I plowed through to see if my predictio...

I love the cover of this book! My goodness! I had raving reviews about this author with her previous book Jane Doe. I passed on reading it since I had a feeling it wouldn't live up to my expectations. But, decided to give False Step a try! :)Where do I start with this one? Well.. I have to say definitely to watch your step in this marriage. The story revolves around Johnny and his wife Veronica. There is a missing boy Tanner Holcomb who has frightened the entire town of in Denver. By a miracle,

3.50 rounded up! I just finished it so need to think about it before I add any more to the review. I will say right now it's totally different than Jane Doe, and in my opinion, not as good. However, with that being said, I believe Ms. Stone is a stellar writer and a shining star talent, so her 'lesser' effort is still better than most others. The plot had so many twists I was entirely confused on what I thought was going on, and was completely shocked by the ending. I will say none of the charac...

Veronica is suddenly in the spotlight when her husband, Johnny, finds a missing toddler. Johnny is enjoying being a hero and all the media attention, but Veronica is afraid her secrets may be revealed. When Veronica learns there was more to the toddler's disappearance, she realizes her secrets are the least of her worries.A combination of family drama and suspense. Veronica is unhappy with her life, primarily with her marriage. When Johnny is the local hero and in all the news, Veronica feels ev...

Dark, chilling, sexy, and intensely thrilling. Loved it!

Not as riveting as described I figured out who the bad guys were VERY early on and frankly it was a little predictable. I was hopeful that Veronica would be a better character than she was and not so cliche’. Luckily, i only invested an afternoon reading this. 😕

2.5 STARSI haven’t had a lot of luck choosing Amazon Prime Read books and FALSE STEP by Victoria Helen Stone is no exception.Stone initially drew me in as Veronica learns her husband has found a missing boy. Suddenly a hero, Johnny ate up the spotlight, which draws police attention. What ensues is a convoluted plot where most everyone, except Veronica’s sister and her wife, is a villain, some more than others. FALSE STEP is filled with inadequate parents, bad marriages, dishonest characters and

Last year one of my favorite and most memorable reads was Jane Doe so of course False Step was high up on my list of most anticipated reads for this year. I loved how original and unique that one was and I adored Jane as a character even though I probably shouldn’t have loved a sociopath as much as I did. I’m so sad to say that this one just didn’t work for me at all.While initially I was very interested to see where this one was going by about a quarter of the way in I had worked out exactly wh...

1.5 stars rounded up. This story was so incredibly boring with unlikable characters that I had to skim read the first 160 some pages. It seemed to center on how everyone cheated. It picked up some the last 100 pages as it focused more on the plot but still I wasn't vested in the characters or the story. Hard to recommend this one as I was simply glad it was over.