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tadams_sg's review
4.0
I didn't like the characters at first. In fact, I second-guessed my choice to read this book, but the reviews made me stick around. I am glad I did! Once Staub hooked me, I was in for the ride. And what a ride it was! Stick with this book - it's worth it.
emjay24's review
5.0
It's been a while since i've read a good thriller book. I did not guess who was the killer till the very end. This book had me wanting to read it every second i could, and last night, i read for hours, instead of doing everything i should have been doing, and suddenly, it was done! i loved it, it held me in its spell..
novelesque_life's review
4.0
3.5 STARS
"Don't Tell A Soul. . . In a remote, heavily wooded area near the Berkshires of Massachusetts, Rachel Lorant died on her birthday. But she didn't die alone. That night, her four sorority sisters make a solemn, trembling pledge. They will never reveal what has just happened in those woods--ever. Instead, they will take their terrible secret to their graves. . .
Don't Think About The Past. . .
Now, ten years later, their secret is coming back to haunt them as each receives a card in the mail from Rachel: "Happy Birthday to Me. xoxo R." It's clear that someone knows what happened that night. Someone is stalking them and sending mysterious, chilling gifts that only they can understand--deadly warnings of what is to come. For the sins of the past have come back with a vengeance, and a killer will see that they all pay in blood. . .
And Whatever You Do--Don't Scream. . .
Brynn Costello has never felt such pure fear. She didn't want any part in what happened so long ago, but now, the mother of two will do anything to stay alive and protect her family--even if it means matching wits with a killer she can't see. . .a twisted psychopath who is closer than she thinks and who is saving her death for last. . ." (From Amazon)
I enjoyed this mystery suspense thriller mixed with a little romance. I enjoyed this novel and Staub's writing.
"Don't Tell A Soul. . . In a remote, heavily wooded area near the Berkshires of Massachusetts, Rachel Lorant died on her birthday. But she didn't die alone. That night, her four sorority sisters make a solemn, trembling pledge. They will never reveal what has just happened in those woods--ever. Instead, they will take their terrible secret to their graves. . .
Don't Think About The Past. . .
Now, ten years later, their secret is coming back to haunt them as each receives a card in the mail from Rachel: "Happy Birthday to Me. xoxo R." It's clear that someone knows what happened that night. Someone is stalking them and sending mysterious, chilling gifts that only they can understand--deadly warnings of what is to come. For the sins of the past have come back with a vengeance, and a killer will see that they all pay in blood. . .
And Whatever You Do--Don't Scream. . .
Brynn Costello has never felt such pure fear. She didn't want any part in what happened so long ago, but now, the mother of two will do anything to stay alive and protect her family--even if it means matching wits with a killer she can't see. . .a twisted psychopath who is closer than she thinks and who is saving her death for last. . ." (From Amazon)
I enjoyed this mystery suspense thriller mixed with a little romance. I enjoyed this novel and Staub's writing.
tomaind's review
5.0
Another edge of your seat thriller by one of my favorite authors. This book kept me guessing until the very end. I had a hard time putting it down. Wendy Corsi Staub's books never disappoint!
ncrabb's review
5.0
Rachel Lorant died 10 years before this book begins under dark and secretive circumstances. Rachel was with four sorority sisters deep in the Massachusetts woods the night she died. She died on her birthday.
The four remaining women determine they will never tell anyone what happened that night. They swear one another to secrecy and do their best to get on with their lives. And they do. For 10 years.
On the 10th anniversary of Rachel’s death, which is the same day as her birthday, the four survivors get birthday cards signed by Rachel with her trademark signature comprised of X’s and O’s for kisses and hugs and the letter R written after them. Who knew that’s how Rachel used to sign her name? Who knew this was the 10th anniversary of her birth? Worst of all, who knew that she died that creepy September night 10 years earlier?
Things get ever more tense when one of the four remaining sorority sisters dies on her birthday. The others receive blood-saturated items designed to let them know that one of the four met an awful fate. Because their birthdays cluster around the same time of the year, the three remaining women begin to fear that their lives are in danger as well. Indeed, they are. The second of the four women dies brutally on her birthday, and now it’s a race against time and a sadistic killer who seeks the death of all five of the women.
This has all the hallmarks of a great thriller that I look for. I vacillated between two characters as the possible killer, and Staub so skillfully wrote this that I couldn’t figure out who killed the sorority sisters. Indeed, the people between whom I vacillated weren’t the killers at all. I never saw that end coming.
You also get the opportunity to dabble in the troubled private lives of these women. Brynn fears telling her professor husband that she’s pregnant with their third child; that same husband, on the other hand, has a thing for undergraduate girls with large breasts. He’s an insomniac who allegedly spends much of his nights at the university where he’s working on his next book.
If you enjoy a good thriller, this one won’t be easy to lay aside while you live the essential portions of your life that you can’t put off in favor of the book.
The four remaining women determine they will never tell anyone what happened that night. They swear one another to secrecy and do their best to get on with their lives. And they do. For 10 years.
On the 10th anniversary of Rachel’s death, which is the same day as her birthday, the four survivors get birthday cards signed by Rachel with her trademark signature comprised of X’s and O’s for kisses and hugs and the letter R written after them. Who knew that’s how Rachel used to sign her name? Who knew this was the 10th anniversary of her birth? Worst of all, who knew that she died that creepy September night 10 years earlier?
Things get ever more tense when one of the four remaining sorority sisters dies on her birthday. The others receive blood-saturated items designed to let them know that one of the four met an awful fate. Because their birthdays cluster around the same time of the year, the three remaining women begin to fear that their lives are in danger as well. Indeed, they are. The second of the four women dies brutally on her birthday, and now it’s a race against time and a sadistic killer who seeks the death of all five of the women.
This has all the hallmarks of a great thriller that I look for. I vacillated between two characters as the possible killer, and Staub so skillfully wrote this that I couldn’t figure out who killed the sorority sisters. Indeed, the people between whom I vacillated weren’t the killers at all. I never saw that end coming.
You also get the opportunity to dabble in the troubled private lives of these women. Brynn fears telling her professor husband that she’s pregnant with their third child; that same husband, on the other hand, has a thing for undergraduate girls with large breasts. He’s an insomniac who allegedly spends much of his nights at the university where he’s working on his next book.
If you enjoy a good thriller, this one won’t be easy to lay aside while you live the essential portions of your life that you can’t put off in favor of the book.
kboc923's review
4.0
pretty good suspense novel, some good plot twists that kept me guessing - definitely a good rainy day couch book!
akuhlma03's review
4.0
4.5 stars. First book I read by Wendy Corsi Staub and I will be reading others!!
mcipher's review
2.0
I just read this while camping - a quick read, but not as good as her books written as Wendy Markham. It had that choppy style a lot of suspense novels tend to use and that got to be sort of annoying, and I felt like the end just came way too far out of left field (though I'm terrible at figuring out endings, so it may be just that I'm a ditz). Either way, I wasn't a huge fan.
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