The Opportunist

By: Elyse Friedman

Narrated by: Senn Annis

Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins

Publisher's summary

A deliciously sly, thoroughly enjoyable 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.

©2022 Elyse Friedman (P)2022 Harlequin Enterprises, Limited

Plot twist ending

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

Good listen.

The story was really good. The narration was not the best, but not so bad that I wouldn't listen. Worth a credit!

Great story… poor performance

It was hard to get into the book as the reader was not good. The story was gripping, and the writing was very good.

The narrator…

The storyline was good, but I almost gave up because of the narrators voice. Buy the book.

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.

Great story if you can get past the narration

Unfortunately, it's not the best voice. Soo.. if you can get past that, the storyline is excellent. The book was very unpredictable and the twists and turns were brilliant! Great author! If you don't mind reading instead of listening/reading, it's fantastic. I definitely recommend it!

narration could have been better

I almost gave up on this due to the narrator ( they really do make or break an audio of authors wrote,). the story was good enough to keep me listening but then somewhere I figured out " who dun it" so then it wasn't so much entertaining, but listening to prove me right

I’d give it 4.5/5 stars

Great book! The narrator was fine but I didn’t love her choppy robotic sound, however, I got used to it. I was a little bored bc I thought I’d figured it out but was very surprised at the twists at the end! Small SA warning, wouldn’t have been bothered at all but it involved little children. Thankfully, it wasn’t much.