The Regret

By: Dan Malakin

Narrated by: Esther Wane

A gripping psychological thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat. If you are a fan of authors like Rachel Abbott, Cara Hunter and C.L. Taylor, you'll love this.

Rachel Stone’s world was destroyed by a stalker, Alan Griffin. After he went to prison, she rebuilt her life. Now she has a daughter and is in a new relationship. But someone is stalking her again. Her phone, her emails and her social media are hacked. Rachel believes it’s Griffin, out of prison and looking for revenge. She needs to find him and make him leave her alone.

But as Rachel is drawn into a hunt, she realises that something even more horrific is happening - something that will make her confront the childhood that has lingered like a ghost and will force her to face the truth about her new life. Is Griffin the one ruining her life? Or someone else?

©2019 Dan Malakin (P)2020 W. F. Howes Ltd

“What was that?!” …that line overused!

There was interesting enough plot aspects, though I suspect the writer/editor isn’t an actual mom, so there’s a disconnection with parts of the details regarding relationships. However, you DO get the impression there’s keen knowledge regarding anorexia, and at least some research was done regarding hacking/fraud. The last chapter/ending became so eye-rolling I started to think I’d wasted my time to read this book. My lasting feeling is that I definitely need to become more skeptical regarding cheap fiction novels before using my monthly credit... However, to be fair, there were plenty of times the story held my attention. Why though -all the questions posed inside the mind of the main character combined with the way it was narrated, did this person have to be made so ditzy?! To listen to THAT much internal dialogue where there’s hardly anything beyond frightful, confused weakness starts to make you as the reader feel dumb for going along with the story much of the time. …and then there’s the ending, which I’m going to leave alone other than to say, not impressed.