Review: You Can't Catch Me by Catherine McKenzie

Genre: Thriller/Mystery

Released: June 9th, 2020

Page count: 335 pages

Summary: After escaping a cult, Jessica Williams is ready for life to calm down. But after her career takes off and she is accused of plagiarism and given a large settlement, she meets another Jessica Williams, or Jessica Two. Jessica Two has the same birthday as her, and she uses that to her advantage – she manages to steal all of Jessica One’s money. Jessica One is determined to not let her get away with it, so she finds other victims and hunts Jessica two down.

Rating: 5/5 stars

Review: I’m a sucker for a good thriller. I think everyone reading my reviews knows that by now. This one really opened up the door for some interesting possibilities of what really could happen if someone with your name and birthday got ahold of your information. It’s the type of novel that makes you want to keep flipping pages, and despite being a thriller, is pretty light reading – a good beach read, if you don’t mind sinister happenings in your beach reads!

I do think that the final twist at the very end of the novel was a little unnecessary – it only occupied a couple pages and just seemed kind of rushed and thrown in there, the other twists were fine without it. I also wish that the flashbacks to her life in a cult had been fleshed out a bit more, but overall it was a really good thriller.

I recommend this to anyone who likes thrillers that are hard to put down, or who overthinks things and is now afraid of the possibility of someone with their name and birthday stealing their money after reading the summary of this book.