Someone Like You
Elena Frost
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5.0
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Karen B.
Feb 25, 2026
Reposting as I had posted on the wrong thread of reviews:
Someone Like You
~Elena Frost
Someone Like You focuses on Carey Billingham (FMC), an author and single mother traversing fresh beginnings and haunting secrets alongside her 10-year-old son Riley, who is on the autism spectrum. After a difficult divorce and incarceration of her controlling ex-husband and his family, Carey has purchased a derelict lighthouse station named Saltwick, on the coast of North York. Carey's dream is to renovate the station and it's cottages into a working AirBnB to supplement her writing career. While all this has been going on, her estranged father has shown up out of the blue with a terminal illness.
Instead of being able to focus on fixing up the old lighthouse station, she finds herself unraveling amid eerie disturbances and long-buried truths. Satwick is more than just a fixer-upper – it is balancing between opportunity and ominous decay. Riley is experiencing traumatizing nightmares, there is vandalism going on around the property and now she has seen a man in a yellow rain coat with a lit cigarette in her room. Carey has now gone from fresh start to chaos in what feels like overnight. As the police offer no answers, she is forced to confront whether the danger is external, or something deeper from her past clawing its way to the surface.
Frost has excelled at crafting Carey as a beautiful, intricately carved character. She is full of flaws, resilient and achingly human. Her fears, mental strife yet quiet strength create an emotional anchor allowing readers to relate to her. Through first-person PoV, we are immersed directly in Carey's reality – though her reality begins to twist making us question her reliability. Supporting characters like Riley, Amanda and Will are equally fleshed out adding depth and authenticity to the story.
While Someone Like You starts out as a slow burn, the tension and suspense quickly builds turning this into a compelling and fast-paced psychological thriller. Frost weaves atmospheric dread into the crumbling walls of the station, setting the perfect backdrop for a tale that's as much about personal demons as it is external threats. Each chapter layers in a steady undercurrent of suspense keeping readers on the edge of their seats not expecting the next twist along the way.
Somone Like You is the perfect blend of emotional complexity, haunting setting, and psychological suspense that you feel the sinister intentions just pulsing off the pages. Oh, and that final twist…………
You are going to have to read the book for that one!
This is truly the perfect book for those who love stories that blur the line between reality and perception - Someone Like You is one I highly recommend reading.
Someone Like You
~Elena Frost
Someone Like You focuses on Carey Billingham (FMC), an author and single mother traversing fresh beginnings and haunting secrets alongside her 10-year-old son Riley, who is on the autism spectrum. After a difficult divorce and incarceration of her controlling ex-husband and his family, Carey has purchased a derelict lighthouse station named Saltwick, on the coast of North York. Carey's dream is to renovate the station and it's cottages into a working AirBnB to supplement her writing career. While all this has been going on, her estranged father has shown up out of the blue with a terminal illness.
Instead of being able to focus on fixing up the old lighthouse station, she finds herself unraveling amid eerie disturbances and long-buried truths. Satwick is more than just a fixer-upper – it is balancing between opportunity and ominous decay. Riley is experiencing traumatizing nightmares, there is vandalism going on around the property and now she has seen a man in a yellow rain coat with a lit cigarette in her room. Carey has now gone from fresh start to chaos in what feels like overnight. As the police offer no answers, she is forced to confront whether the danger is external, or something deeper from her past clawing its way to the surface.
Frost has excelled at crafting Carey as a beautiful, intricately carved character. She is full of flaws, resilient and achingly human. Her fears, mental strife yet quiet strength create an emotional anchor allowing readers to relate to her. Through first-person PoV, we are immersed directly in Carey's reality – though her reality begins to twist making us question her reliability. Supporting characters like Riley, Amanda and Will are equally fleshed out adding depth and authenticity to the story.
While Someone Like You starts out as a slow burn, the tension and suspense quickly builds turning this into a compelling and fast-paced psychological thriller. Frost weaves atmospheric dread into the crumbling walls of the station, setting the perfect backdrop for a tale that's as much about personal demons as it is external threats. Each chapter layers in a steady undercurrent of suspense keeping readers on the edge of their seats not expecting the next twist along the way.
Somone Like You is the perfect blend of emotional complexity, haunting setting, and psychological suspense that you feel the sinister intentions just pulsing off the pages. Oh, and that final twist…………
You are going to have to read the book for that one!
This is truly the perfect book for those who love stories that blur the line between reality and perception - Someone Like You is one I highly recommend reading.