I really wanted to love She’s Not Sorry, and honestly, I came close. On paper, this one felt tailor-made for me. Meghan is an ICU nurse, she is divorced, and she is trying to hold her life together while carrying the mental load of work, parenting, and the emotional fallout that follows you home. I identified with that immediately. The ICU details and the general texture of Meghan’s day-to-day life felt accurate enough that I could relax into it instead of constantly getting pulled out of the story. I appreciated that a lot.

The concept is strong and very “Mary Kubica”: uneasy tension, a sense that something is off, and a main character who is both relatable and increasingly unreliable. The book kept me turning pages. I did not struggle to stay engaged, and I wanted to know how it would all come together.

Where it lost me a bit was in the execution, specifically the timeline structure. The story is told in different points in time, and when it becomes clear that what we are reading is not being presented linearly, it felt abrupt rather than cleverly revealed. I usually enjoy a nonlinear twist when it clicks into place with that satisfying “ohhhh” moment, but here it felt more like the book hit the brakes, turned sharply, and expected me to catch up emotionally and logically at the same time. It was not confusing exactly, just a little jarring in a way that made the pacing feel uneven.

I also struggled with Meghan as the story went on. I can handle a flawed narrator, and I actually like morally complicated characters, but the overall arc made Meghan feel less “humanly messy” and more like someone with a deeply skewed moral compass. At a certain point, it became harder to root for her or even understand her motivations as grounded in recognizable decision-making. I found myself thinking, Okay, but why would a person actually do that? and not in the fun thriller way.

There were also a few elements clearly designed to add extra dimension and extra twists, but they felt unnecessary to me, like the story was already strong enough without them. Instead of making the plot richer, those additions sometimes made it feel less logical. I love a twist that reframes what I thought I knew. I like it less when the twist feels like it exists because thrillers are “supposed” to have one more secret tucked behind the curtain.

Still, I cannot pretend I did not enjoy the ride. The premise is compelling, the nursing/divorce aspects felt authentic and personal to me, and it has that Kubica momentum that makes you read “just one more chapter” until you are suddenly done. For me, this lands around 3.75 to 4 stars: entertaining, fast, and worth reading, even if the structure and some of the character logic did not fully stick the landing.