The Opportunist

By: Elyse Friedman

Narrated by: Senn Annis

A deliciously sly, compulsively readable tale about greed, power and the world’s most devious family.

When Alana Shropshire’s seventy-six-year-old father, Ed, starts dating Kelly, his twenty-eight-year-old nurse, a flurry of messages arrive from Alana’s brothers, urging her to help “protect Dad” from the young interloper. Alana knows that what Teddy and Martin really want to protect is their father’s fortune, and she tells them she couldn’t care less about the May–December romance. Long estranged from her privileged family, Alana, a hardworking single mom, has more important things to worry about.

But when Ed and Kelly’s wedding is announced, Teddy and Martin kick into hyperdrive and persuade Alana to fly to their father’s West Coast island retreat to perform one simple task in their plan to make the gold digger go away. Kelly, however, proves a lot more wily than expected, and Alana becomes entangled in an increasingly dangerous scheme full of secrets and surprises. Just how far will her siblings go to retain control?

Smart, entertaining and brimming with shocking twists and turns, The Opportunist is both a thrill ride of a story and a razor-sharp view of who wields power in the world.

Good story, fair narration

The narrator is monotone for most of the book; lack inflection, emotion.. it’s easy to drift off and not pay attention. I had to frequently replay chapters. It’s too bad, the story would have been a lot better with different narration.

Plot twist ending

Kept me on my toes. Tried to solve the ending and kept me guessing until the very end.

So-so

The story line was fine, a little predictive. I almost stopped listening due to the narration. It was robotic, often with weird inflection at the end of sentences.

Wow! Didn’t see that coming

Great storyline, good characters, and well performed. Awesome twist along the way and then a huge one at the end.

Great book but the narration

Agree with other reviewers, the narration was annoying but the story was great! Lots of plot twists that couldn’t be foreseen.