The Pact

By: S. E. Lynes

Narrated by: Tamsin Kennard

You made a promise to your sister. It could destroy your daughter.

The daughter

Fifteen-year-old Rosie lies in hospital fighting for her life. She’s trying to tell her mother what happened to her, but she can’t speak the words out loud.

The mother

Toni is a doting and over-protective mother, terrified for her daughter’s life. Having lost her husband in a tragic accident, Toni has dedicated her life to keeping Rosie safe from harm. She needs to know what secrets Rosie has been keeping and how she ended up in a hospital bed - but Toni has a secret of her own....

The pact

Thirty years ago, Toni and her sister, Bridget, made each other a promise: never to speak of their childhood; to protect each other without asking for help from others, no matter what....

But in order to save Rosie, Toni may have to break her lifelong promise to her sister...and open doors to her past she hoped would remain closed forever.

The Pact is a chilling psychological thriller about the lies we will tell to save our children. Perfect for fans of Gone Girl, Apple Tree Yard, and The Sister.

©2018 S. E. Lynes (P)2018 Bookouture

Great story...wrong title

Four lines into this story, my thought was "oh, this is going to be gooooood!" and I was not disappointed! I'm still a little confused by thr title though. I don't think "the pact" played a big enough role in the story to be the title that defined the whole thing. But good story all the same!

"OK"

I didn't love it and I didn't hate it. Slow to start and with a mediocre ending.

slow starter

it starts off extremely slow than the book picks up & become a page turner.

No decent men in sight

This is the story about a damaged over-protective widow/mother, her 15-year-old boy-crazed daughter and the widow's fierce lesbian sister. It is told in a series of dialogs between the widow/mother and the daughter with other third-party commentary regarding the sister (the daughter's aunt) and the daughter's agent. The men in the story are either child molesters or dead. While it's well written and has some exciting parts, it wasn't particularly my cup of tea.

One of a million story

I've read this book so many times before. If you like the genre it's fine just not extraordinary.