The Cursed Series, Parts 3 & 4

Now We Know/What They Knew

By: Rebecca Donovan

Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo, Phoebe Strole

Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins

Publisher's summary

The most dangerous lies are the ones we tell ourselves.

Exiled at a boarding school in Vermont, Lana is tormented by cryptic messages and pictures from her mother's past.

Seventeen years ago, something unspeakable happened. A pact of silence was forged.

Now, the lies are unraveling.

The closer Lana gets to the truth, the harder it is to accept. And someone's willing to kill to keep that secret buried.

To protect her friends, Lana's forced to trust the one person who's been lying since the beginning.

When the secret is finally revealed, it can't be unknown. They're forced to face the horrifying truth...the monster behind it all.

Every curse has an origin. This is theirs....

The conclusion of The Cursed Series is a powerful and complicated story that bravely gives voice to the choices that are taken away and the fight to get them back.

Who's to blame when everyone is at fault?

©2020 Rebecca Donovan (P)2020 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Hiding past secrets

Lana has found friendship within Blackwood boarding school. Although, some of her friends are liars. Blackwood isn’t that bad nor are the students that attend there. Although, they all seem to hold secrets. Eventually the truth comes out.
Someone on campus is trying to scare Lana. Lana doesn’t let the fear interfere with her discovering the truth. She continues to fight for what she believes by protecting those she cares about. Essentially she cursed herself with Honesty to keep herself from lying.

Overall:
I like the original storyline. Yet something is missing or lacking in its delivery. Not to mention this is a character driven story so there are tons of moving parts. It’s easy to lose track of who is related to who and who is friends with whom and who is dating each other. I almost needed a chart to help keep track. You definitely don’t want to step away from this story for long as it’s easy to lose track of all the characters.
For the most part Lana’s life at this boarding school read like a typical student attending parties, working, and dating. At times the school activities crowded the storyline with unnecessary information. The story seemed like it got sidetracked on building the lives of these characters instead of unsolving the mysterious notes and messages being left.
I really wanted to love this story and all its components given that Rebecca put so much of personal self into this story, but it fell flat at times and I found myself thinking about other things.
Part four was about Faye who is Lana’s mother. It’s her story and how it tangled the life of Lana. While it provided some answers I still felt like I was missing something. I think it’s because of all the moving parts. You really had to pay close attention to who was related to who and who was dating who.

Narrated by Lauren Ezzo and Phoebe Strole. Lauren is a female voice talent performer. Phoebe is a female performer with acting experience. Both narrators were spot-on with there performance.
This was an unabridged audiobook. The audiobook was performed using the highest quality audio.

The Cursed Series, Parts 3 & 4

I am glad I was in the teen drama kind of mood because book 2 had a lot more of who done it than the first but I was invested and I needed to know!
It was interesting how some of it played out some of it I kind of figured out but then there were parts that had me all kinds of confused which I think was the point.
I think what had me so hesitant was 15 year old's but it really was a mix of ages so it didn’t feel so young.
I loved the message at the end it was real and it made the story more poignant.
I really enjoyed the narration for this book.

Great conclusion

Finally got the answers and let me say I was partially correct. I really enjoyed all the interconnection.