Solid thriller

Enjoyable light thriller.
Slightly predictable but totally enjoyable. It's well worth a credit. Nice easy to understand narration

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It’s a smasher!

Another fabulous, twisty tale from Teresa Driscoll. Lots of suspense to keep you guessing until the end. Loved the different POV’s; each unique and authentic. Great narration too.

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a real puzzle

I loved the way this story led me to change my mind several times on the reason why, never mind just who. an interesting concept which made me think. the narration was good.

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Well Polished Psychological Thriller.

A well polished psychological thriller which was full of suspense and different points of view, overall easy to listen too. The narrator's kept the story engaging throughout. Worth the listen.

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Very good read with a twist at the end.

I found this a bit slow at the beginning and, at times, a bit hard to believe but it got better and I enjoyed the second half more. Nice twist at the end. Would recommend.

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Wow, a great story, well told

I really enjoyed this thriller, and the plot only opens up right at the end - I had no idea where it was going. It is extremely we written, and brilliantly narrated.

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The awful female narration at the beginning

I nearly stopped listening to this. If I fell asleep listening to it, and it played on, as often happens, instead of carefully finding the part of the book that I could remember, as I usually do, I couldn’t be bothered to find the exact place, and just picked a random place and listened from there. The male narration was perfect, but in the beginning the female narrator read every sentence as if it was dramatic, regardless of whether it was or not. She eventually calmed down, and read more normally, but I don’t think she can have read through the book first, and she often got the emphasis wrong. It totally spoiled the book for me. I’ll now try to find another book by this author with a different narrator. I suspect the story was good, so I’ll give the author a second chance, but not the female narrator.

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Fast paced and likeable characters

I enjoyed how this story was pretty fast paced, you jump straight into it and the characters are easy to remember and follow. I worked out the twist at the end up it didn’t matter as it was still an enjoyable ride!

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Preposterous plot, wimpy woman - what a let down.

I remember giving "I am Watching You" 5 stars, the following book by Teresa Driscoll "The Friend" seemed more far fetched and unbelievable and then "The Promise" with a gritty topic which I found ultimately depressing and also a bit unlikely and now "I Will Make You Pay" ..... um I think this will be my last Teresa Driscoll book, as while she writes very well and so much better than many thriller writers out there at present, I just felt let down and depressed by the wimpy protagonist and preposterous plot.
Plus all the "Breathe 1...2 ...3" mantra and a terminally ill mother just is not what I call entertaining.

During the book someone is discovered to have changed their name and the Police and various people are furious - um .... changing your name unless it is for criminal deception is not a crime, indeed it is completely legal to call yourself whatever name you like, without even doing it by deed poll so no idea what all that fuss was about.
Do editors not even exist anymore to do a little fact checking?
The backstory was as ridiculously unbelievable as the plot.
The motivation for the stalking was very strange and the actual event which triggered it all sounded most unlikely also
Then the actual process of putting the plan in action seems like it would never have worked in a million years
The reason the Police did not call a halt to it all on day one was put down to the chance of it falling to lazy Police to investigate when it was delegated to them by the main Police Detective whose help had been sought as a favour.
Seems odd that a favour had to be sought for what was a critically escalating stalking offence.
I do not want to spoil the plot by saying anything more - but highly unlikely to the point of impossibility would be a kind way to describe it.

I then went back to "I am Watching You" to see what I had liked about that so much that is missing from this latest offering and I have to say it seemed very familiar, wimpy, wittering woman, huge coincidences driving the plot, the same timid and tremorous delivery of the undeniably talented Elizabeth Knowelden -
(a breath of fresh air after listening to one too many thrillers narrated by the over dramatic and overbearing Imogen Church) - the same cringeworthy child and female characters creepily voiced by Steve West - who does a decent read as Matthew but just very disturbing narrating anything but male characters - all the same elements basically and yet fresh and enjoyable. .
In contrast these last two books and in particular "I will make you pay" just seems stale and recycled - how many twittering, wittering, wishy-washy, dithering and self doubting women are out there being preyed upon before it becomes boring?
This lead character who was so beige I have already forgotten her "breath 1,2,3" name, was too spineless to be interesting.
Even the terrible two year old toddler had more gumption, personality and get up and go than her, not to mention charm.

Perhaps I have just had too much of Teresa Driscoll and her repetitive style or just read some much better books recently by authors like Tana French, Clare Mackintosh, Ruth Ware, Caz Frear, Jo Spain, Helen Callaghan, Cara Hunter, Liz Nugent, Fiona Barton, Lucy Foley, Jane Casey, Emiliy Barr, JP Delaney, Lisa Jewell, Louise Candlish, Anthony Horowitz, Robert Galbreith, Sue Watson, Aga Lesiewicz, Dorothy Koomson; Claire Douglas, TM Logan, Sarah J. Naughton. Kate McQuaile, Lesley Kara, Ali Knight which means I no longer enjoy hers.

I will be returning as just hoped this one would be so much better than "The Promise" and a return to " I am Watching YOU" but just it was just too bonkers a plot to be in any way credible, too grim side topics like the terminal illness and depression plus the other unsavoury themes which I will not list as plot spoilers and too infuriatingly, meek, dull, unlikable and fearful a main character to even care what happened to such a colourless and silly mouse.

Perhaps the cleverest thing that she said was that she was afraid people saw her as just a vulnerable victim.
The stupidest thing she did was have a boyfriend who she seemed to have no feelings for or wanted to spend any time with.
I think she was lucky that anyone even noticed her at all to ask her out, employ her or stalk her as she was so very, very tiresome.

Kept going in the hopes it would get better.
It did not.
YAWN!

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Excellent listen, even better than her first!

This is the second book I have listened to by Teresa Driscoll and enjoyed this one even more. Fantastic story had me gripped from beginning to end, cleverly written and recommended read!

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