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  • Hold Your Breath

  • A Novella
  • By: Wendy Walker
  • Narrated by: Dylan Baker
  • Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (84 ratings)

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Hold Your Breath

By: Wendy Walker
Narrated by: Dylan Baker
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Summary

From the best-selling author of All Is Not Forgotten and Don’t Look for Me comes a sharp, compulsive thriller about a young woman who narrowly escapes a violent crime and the psychiatrist helping to recover her memory of the suspect.

Gabby Ashford has just survived an attempt on her life. Detectives have connected her story to two other cases in the area: Professional women drugged at a bar, brought to their homes, and drowned in their bathtubs. Gabby, who miraculously woke up in her own bathtub unharmed, could be the key to finding a serial killer on the loose - but she has no memory of the attack.

Gabby admits herself to a high-end rehabilitation center to recover and to seek the help of a psychiatrist renowned for his work with memory recovery. As Dr. Forrester works with Gabby - interviewing not only her but her overbearing fiancée, her emotionally fragile brother, and the local detective working the case - questions about Gabby’s story, her past, and the ethics of memory recovery emerge.

Dr. Forrester, the central voice of Walker’s breakout debut All Is Not Forgotten, is a fascinating and deeply complicated character, barreling toward the truth of the case at hand while wrestling with the demons of his own past. Shocking and succinct, Hold Your Breath will have you on the edge of your seat from the first minute to the last.

©2020 Wendy Walker (P)2020 Audible Originals, LLC.
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Excellent

I listened to this after listening to American Girl (which is also excellent) by the same Author. It was excellent and well narrated, and I will define be delving further into Wendy walker back catalogue.

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The story

It was such an amazing book, I love all of Wendy walker books, and it was so great to be reading from doctor forrester again as I really enjoyed his character in all is not forgotten, it really did surprise me at the end, I would’ve loved it to be longer but it really did keep me on hook.

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Surprisingly great

I didn't feel like a short book like this would be able to pull me in, but it did. And for once, a book with s twist I didn't see coming! The downside is how very slowly the narrator reads (but 1.7x speed fixed that).

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Great story by a fab author

This is a great story if you can get past the 2nd chapter when the reader meets the doctor. This section read like a “teach yourself psychiatry” manual and I nearly gave up but because I loved American Girl so much, I forced myself to continue. After this, the real story got going and it became everything I’d hoped. Fast forward the psych manual (should have been vastly edited) and you’ll be glad you did!

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Lasted 20 minutes. No idea what was going on

Lasted 20 minutes. No idea what was going on. Narrator was awful, even sped up!

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Not for me

I switched off at the psychiatrist,then realised that it's probably a thin plot.found the story irritating

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