terrible!

awfully depressing gets worse ! am stopping listening right now!! give this a pass save yourself a credit!

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extremely irritating main character

I usually love this author but so many times I nearly gave up on this. it really is the poorest she's written. The main character is a snivelling wimp and the story doesn't come accross as believable because of the idiot characters. No substance to the plot. Really disappointing as usually get drawn into this authors psychological thrillers. It wasn't helped by the whiney voice of the narrator

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not as good as her other one

this one started off good but then seemed to drag on for ages. still a good read though.

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Easy listening

I enjoyed this story. Not the best narrator but tolerable. So many books disappoint this was a pleasure.

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Irritating narrator!!

almost unbearavle to listen to the forced, robotic narrator. It distracts from the story, very disappointing.

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NOT my favourite........

I've listened to quite a few Valerie Keogh stories now and they are full of twists,turns and all things unexpected. I loved them.
This one though, not so. Although there were a few gear changes, I can't decide if it was the narrator that I didn't warm to, the seemingly far-fetched and unlikely plot or a combo of the two. My last 4 or 5 stories have been VK's so maybe I just need a change of author for a while. I certainly don't rave over this one as I did the first couple but then if this had been my first novel of hers, I may have absolutely loved it!

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Weak characters. WEAK ENDING.

I am not a fan of books that portray women as hysterical or emotional. I'm even less of a fan of books that equate emotional women to mentally unstable women. This is lazy writing. Completely unoriginal and unimaginative. The vague references to "the clinic" where Diane stayed after her baby's death were just insulting. When writers don't do their research about mental health and the treatment involved it truly makes me angry. Diane was a weak character who cried and drank wine every 30 seconds. It was exhausting listening to her be so pathetic. Then suddenly in the last 2 minutes of the book she becomes super mom and manages to narrowly avoid having her daughter taken to another country? Ridiculous. Everything about this book was ridiculous. If someone is stalking you, call the police don't crash your car. And why was it never addressed that Pam had let Emma out of the house? Pam really seemed to have it out for Diane and her children. It's ridiculous that Paul still wanted to be with her. As if he never cared about his children at all. Then again. Paul wasn't a well developed character. None of the characters were developed. They were all static, boring one dimensional space fillers. I didn't even care about Emma to be honest. I kept hoping for some kind of redeemable quality in Paul. But no, he was complete trash. Like, why would he want to be with a woman like Pam after what she did? And why did the book end just as Diane seemed to be getting interesting? This book was not good. I don't trust this author to do anything better. There was nothing heart pounding or even remotely intriguing about this book but I shouldn't be surprised given the lame book title. Good grief.

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Lingeringly tragic...

The idea behind her phycological thriller was genius,, but there was so little interaction between her and other characters even her daughter. It was told entirely the whole time through her own perception and thoughts, and her personality was so lacking despite what should have been an dramatically interesting character I felt she "drivelled" on. It's very ambitious to presume you can focus an entire novel around one soul person and expect to keep the reader entertained. Honestly from the author to the moaning voice of the audible narrative this was torture. Will definitely be asking for a refund.

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addicted from the start.

wanted to drag this book out so it didn't finish too quick but I couldn't! it was so addictive!

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Gaslighting or not. . . .?

Well worth reading to find out, bit of a slow burning but that’s the point of the book, I’m searching for more by this author, the narrator was excellent. Highly recommend, you may lose sleep. 5 stars

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