The Blackout

By: Sarah Goodwin

Narrated by: Katy Sobey

Don’t miss the new, totally addictive psychological thriller from Sarah Goodwin, with bombshell twists that will leave you stunned. Fans of The Sanatorium, The Paris Apartment and One of the Girls will be hooked from the very first page.

You can't outrun the past…

Summer, 2022. When Meg and Cat are forced to take a dangerous shortcut home one night, they notice two men silently following them. Suddenly running for their lives, they scramble into an abandoned building to hide and wait for help.

…for what’s done in the dark will come to light…

One year later. Attempting to escape the horrors of that fateful night, Meg barricades herself into a safehouse at the edge of a crumbling sea cliff. As a storm rages outside, a blackout plunges the house into darkness. But Meg’s not alone.

…and someone wants revenge.

This is a twisty locked-room thriller for fans of Sarah Pearse, Lucy Foley and Jane Harper that will leave you breathless.

©2023 Sarah Goodwin (P)2023 HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Really fun!

Loved this one, it has a lot of great twists and turns, as well as a morally gray but synaothetic main character. SEMI SPOILERS: The open ended ending is haunting me. Which one was she!!??

Enjoyable but Forgettable

This is my 3rd to read from her and my least favorite. It's worth the credit and the listen, but there wasn't anything wow about it like the first 2 from her. It was pretty straightforward, not a lot of mystery, and a pretty straightforward situation. Believable, for the most part, but also forgettable. It held my interest and attention, killed several hours while I did housework, but it wasn't riveting. All in all, 3.5. Glad I listened to it, but it won't be one I go back to.

Spoilers ahead

Incredibly offball ending left me wondering what the main character learned in the entire story

Did not finish

This started out pretty good but I could not take all the sexual assault and violence

So Disappointed with Repetition

This book had a lot of potential. The characters were interesting but not fully developed. The thing that tanked this book though is the outrageous amount of unnecessary repetition. It began early then seemed to stop. I kept going due to the reprieve but towards the end it was unbearable. In my opinion it seems insulting for the reader/listener to hear this amount of saying the same thing over and over. Definitely disappointing as the book had potential.

Ñarration was good despite the repetition.