This Is Not Over audiobook

Dawn and Rob Thiebold rent Miranda Feldt’s home in Santa Monica during their vacation. They are a young married couple on a tight budget while Dawn attends college full time. After the vacation, Dawn receives an email from Miranda stating that $200 was deducted from her security deposit to replace stained sheets. After emails go back and forth between the two, communication decays resulting in Dawn leaving negative reviews on the rental website.Miranda relies upon her rental income to support her drug addicted son, Thad. His father is not supporting him monetarily because he is not compliant in his drug recovery program. The negative review left on the website has Miranda unhinged and she is worried about her future revenue stream.Tensions continue to rise between the two women after a series of insulting email exchanges. Tempers flare and any attempt at resolution breaks down.This is novel is told in the voices of Miranda and Dawn. It is a fast paced story where each character’s secrets are revealed. In the digital world we all have had instances where what we wrote was not what we meant. Sometimes the best choice is to pick up the phone to resolve an issue.Book giveaway on my blog until 3/8 https://www.facebook.com/suzyapproved...

Loved the cover, the audiobook, the narrators, the author, and the book! Need to pass this along to all my hotel clients (and guests). Being in the business-- this is like "everyday reality madness" with reviews and social media-- in the hotel and vacation rental business. Yes, it really happens, and could add even more horror stories to this. . . . .Lots of humor and great one-liners. Made my day while plowing through work!. Designing websites this week. Behind on my reading and writing reviews. Review to follow!

This isn't just a book about security deposits. It's an in depth view of bullying, even as adults, about how behind closed doors someone's life may not be what it seems. And definitely about how living your life not being who you really want to be can backfire.

Well I'm just going to have to do it and give this one 5 stars. It deserves it and I read it. This is a guilty pleasure read. If you read this book, you are going to feel like you just emerged from a full Saturday of binge watching Dance Moms and eating an entire extra large Domino's pizza dunked in blue cheese dressing. But I have to give it all the stars because I could not put it down and it couldn't have been better. This was a super well-written, outstandingly trashy book. 5 stars.

Two women: Dawn Theibold and Miranda Feldt fighting like teenagers about a $200 security deposit that Miranda is keeping due to a stain being left on sheets at the house in Santa Monica, CA, that Dawn and her husband rented from Miranda. This was my third book written by Holly Brown and I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was easy to picture in my head the animosity between the two women even though Miranda seemed to make a mountain out of a molehill. If she hadn't done that, there would have been no story to be told. You never know what happens behind closed doors; just because it appears Miranda is more well off than Dawn, it doesn't mean her life is easier than Dawn's either. Each woman was jealous of the other for their own reasons.

Interesting read. Intense look into characters and their thought process under adverse conditions. The character subterfuge each other consciously and throughout question themselves. Unusual writing, quite creative in the presentation of the story and a very surprising ending. Must stick with it to the end to realize how good a read this is.

I loved this book. Absolutely adored every page. And yes, it all takes place over the dispute between a landlord and tenant and a $200 deposit but that dispute is just the beginning of a journey that delves into the real heart of life's issues for Dawn and Miranda and the discovery that maybe they aren't as different as they think they are. I'm sure the issues that this book revolve around were especially poignant for me, as a mother of a drug addict I could relate in pretty much every way with Miranda and I agonized with her and cried with her. It is a painful painful thing. I definitely felt a connection with her from the very beginning. So I was hooked and needed to see how this all played out. I found the dispute and its escalation absolutely riveting and unfortunately very real, in today's Facebook world I see these same things played out in the very same way every day. So for me, it was a fictional look at a very real issue and I thought the author handled it very well. The tit for tat back and forth vengeance was actually quite entertaining to watch and the whole story was very riveting to me.I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys an anxiety producing and fascinating look at misunderstandings and difficult life experiences.

Thank you to the author, publisher, and Ann-Marie Nieves of Got Red PR for the opportunity to read and review this book. I guess you could say this might be the perfect book for me. In my working world, the one that pays the bills, I am travel advisor and have been for 28 years. This book appealed to me on several levels, it's a psychological thriller (a favorite genre of mine) and it deals with a travel problem.What happens when you rent a place via Air BnB or VRBO and the owner doesn't return all or part of your deposit? What if they claim you caused damage and they need to fix, repair, or replace what was damaged? The only thing, you didn't cause any damage! This is the premise of This Is Not Over by author Holly Brown.The story is written in a series of emails and texts back and forth between Dawn, who rented the place in Santa Monica with her husband,  from Miranda, the owner. The story is multilayered, so we begin to see more of each women's private and public persona as we read on. In addition to the emails and texts the story lets us in on the lives of the two women.Dawn is a 30 year old wife who has gone back to college to fulfill her dream of becoming a better person. Dawn has always felt less. Less pretty, less rich, less smart and the email from Miranda saying she soiled the $200 sheets during their stay, brings out all of Dawn's feelings of inadequacy. Dawn has worked hard to hide where she came from. She loves to go on getaways where she can "try on" a different persona, pretend to be someone else and she's not going to let a snob like Miranda get away with keeping her deposit and sullying her at the same time.Miranda is an older woman and wife of a well-known doctor in Beverly Hills. Most people think the rental in Santa Monica is a little project to keep her busy, but what they don't know is she needs the income from the rental, desperately. Miranda's son has a drug problem and she's been sending him money without anyone knowing.As the story progresses the dispute between Dawn and Miranda escalates. We begin to realize the desperation each woman feels and we understand why neither is able to back down. Miranda's son starts applying pressure on her, her husband is up to something too, plus she can't let him know she's been sending money to their son, causing her more stress. Dawn's crazy past comes back with a vengeance when her father dies and her mother shows up on her doorstop threatening to ruin her new life. Dawn's husband begins to see the cracks in her facade.The author has added plenty of twists and you will be unable to put the book down until the very terrifying and surprising ending. This Is Not Over, by a long shot!

This book starts out full of humor, with moments of pithy, and sometimes controversial, musings on life and status.  Then it gets darker.  And more complicated.  Until it gets to a point where you think, I can't stand to find out more, yet I can't stop reading.  In the end, there were numerous gasp-inducing surprises, and some less-than-surprising revelations.  I felt the author really made an effort to give each woman, Miranda and Dawn, their own personality, their own view of the other person, and their own faults.  Neither was right, but neither was wrong.  You kept thinking one thing, along with one or the other of these characters, then second guessing yourself, and what you'd read.  There was quite a bit more moral ambiguity than I expected, which worked rather well in the context of this particular story.  It's about more than a house, or a refund, or a disagreement.  It's about what we can stand to lose, what we can't fathom ever having to give up, and what we are willing to do to keep what we think we deserve.4 stars and my thanks to Harper Collins and TLC Booktours for the review opportunity!

wow a very modern story and a great take on life in this day and age ...read it in one and half days! could not put it down but it was a weekend and my dvr is empty so but but still a good story and it kept my attention ..

Wow! Brilliant execution. The first indication that this isn't going to be one of those drippy, cliche filled thrillers with gut wrenching circumstances that don't have the tone or punch to back it up, is the quote on the front by Mary Kubica, a master of psychological depth and suspense herself. "A Master storyteller and an expert of suspense," Kubica says. I almost missed this one, as it wasn't recommended to me like all the others I see on my Audible queue. I found it because I typed the authors name in, and found this book, which appears to have not garnered that much attention. (And it deserves more than most of the recommendations/suggestions I'm offered on kindle.) Swerving from one disillusioned pov to the other, these two women in very different circumstances encounter each other online through trivial coincidence, and somehow become embedded in each others thoughts until they're total enemies. A lot of the chapters begin with letters written or reviews from one to the other, followed by the characters thoughts. I really like the way Brown started out with such a superficial premise, the kind of thing you'd expect to see in a Jane Green or Sophie Kinsella book that's light and comic, but that superficial premise was just one guise to draw you into the tumultuous depths of these two women's lives. Holly Brown delivers both povs with unflinching individuality. I sided with one voice more than the other (Miranda's) but I'm sure there are probably just as many people who sided more with Dawn. I'm in awe of the way the author was able to grow a faint grudge into a war with casualties on both sides, and the way these two women kept misinterpreting each other at every turn. That was the brilliant part: Brown really captured those insightful psychological details of what goes on when you're misunderstanding someone else's motives. However, if you're the type of reader that needs to really root for a character, to have a hero that is going to inspire you with their moral clarity, this isn't your type of book at all. While the characters do find a way to overcome their circumstances and their biases, the trip is filled with rocky moments of moral grey, incidents that might might make you hate the characters before you reach any satisfaction. (I'm guessing if I read other reviews there will be complaints like "the characters were unlikable" which seems to be a complaint I hear a lot in plenty of the books I tend to like.) This is the second Holly Brown book I've read, (The first was "Don't Try To Find Me") and I have not been disappointed yet. I hope that the next one I read (A Necessary End) is as good.

Ok so i know at times this book was petty, & a lot of people feel it was bordering on ridiculous... But i have to admit, i enjoyed every minute of it! I think it was entirely plausible.. & people constantly dwell on things that aren't actually worth their energy. Regardless, it was fast, easy listening & i ate it right up!🙈 It might not be a classic but give it a shot, i bet you secretly love it!

3.5 So, have you ever stayed in a Bed and Breakfast or booked a few nights in an Airbnb? Ever have any problems? Well, a problem with a rented stay is the the starting point for Holly Brown's new novel, This is Not Over.Dawn looks forward to her 'getaways' with her husband Rob. A weekend rental in a luxurious home is a chance to imagine what life might be like for them. It's also a large financial outlay for them. So, when their latest 'host' Miranda deducts $200.00 from their deposit to 'replace the stained sheets', Dawn sees red. She knows that they did not ruin the sheets. And the rental was not perfect......And so begins a war of sorts. Escalating nasty emails and texts, online stalking and more that threatens to consume each woman and their lives. Neither can let it go. They are each adamant that they are right and neither will back down. This is not over....Each woman has a voice and as readers, we become privy to the details of their lives. We're observers, along for the ride, as the misconceptions compound and the resentment grows. I use observer as that was what I felt like as I read. I didn't become invested with either character as they are not likeable in any way, shape or form. I felt a bit like a rubbernecker, driving by an accident, unable to turn away but wanting to know what happened. I was curious as to where Brown was going to take things from that initial set of emails.I had my suspicions about the ending as things progressed and I wasn't far off. I do feel the back and forth between the two women went on a bit too long in my opinion and could have tightened up a bit. And some of the plot devices need to be taken with a grain of salt. But that being said, I can absolutely see how this would happen. Social media has become the public ring for battles of all sorts. Brown is a practicing therapist and her descriptions of Dawn and Miranda's thinking and 'logic' benefits from her expertise. In the acknowledgments, Brown writes: "Thanks are also due to my 'host', who shall remain nameless. Sometimes inspiration comes from the most unlikely of places, and I am so grateful for that."

I really enjoyed this! I’ll be honest and say the first few chapters had me thinking about maybe not continuing as I assumed it would end up being a “she said, he said” sprat between two people. How wrong I was! I loved the character building and it just goes to show you can never Truly know another person.

Could have really trimmed it down but great premise, plot, and I loved the last third.