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The Rip

By: Holly Craig
Narrated by: Carly Foxx, Shalom Brune-Franklin
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Summary

Luxury villas on hot white sand, views for miles over turquoise water.
Flawless hostess Penny gathers guests to an island for her husband’s birthday celebrations.
But she soon regrets inviting self-obsessed Eloise…

When a child vanishes on the night of the party, their perfect island weekend is ripped apart. Even paradise harbours murky secrets…
Has he been taken? Has he drowned?

In the panic to find any trace, Penny casts about for someone to blame—even if that person is her own daughter, Rosie. Even clear waters descend to pitch black…

But it’s not the first time Rosie’s been attacked by her mother. And it’s not the first time she’s turned to Eloise for support.

As the sun beats down and dark secrets rise to the surface, can they find the missing child before it’s too late—or will this sudden disappearance endanger them all? …and someone among them knows the whole shocking truth

©2024 Holly Craig (P)2024 Audible Ltd.

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Repetitive - Story Recaps Felt Like Fillers

I rarely give a bad review, being of the generation of "if you can't say anything nice, then say nothing at all" but in this case, I really struggled to listen to the end. The characters were, in my opinion, lazily sketched stereotypes which made them neither relatable nor likeable from the start. I felt my intelligence, whilst not brilliant sadly, was being insulted with each plot and character recap. Towards the end these repetitions felt like fillers to reach a certain word count. The story itself was weak and I found little to encourage me to suspend my disbelief.
That said, I am glad that I got to the end!

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Original idea

Liked the setting and the story and I thought the characters were well developed - a good read

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Kept me guessing

We were fed the characters and the story at really good pace, I loved it

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Exciting storyline

Brilliantly read, kept me interested the whole time. Pictures of the island painted perfectly with words. Loved it

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awesome

kept me listening from beginning to end. perfect amount of thrill and drama. narrators were very good

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Good if not a little bit annoying…..

Great performances, the story was easy to listen to and the characters believable. The storyline was a bit far fetched and the character Eleanor made some stupid choices that I just couldn’t fathom. Overall though, a good read!

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Enjoyable

Really good read but wasn’t keen on the ending as I thought it would have more of a twist than it did.

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The Rip

Too repetitive The story was dragged along using the same narrative and the same description.

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Great setting

The holiday setting was like another character. Easy to see what was coming but it didn’t distract from enjoyment. Great characters, well defined. One small thing, I found it a bit difficult to discern between the two female protagonists at time but it didn’t distract from my enjoyment.

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not bad

I won't give any spoilers but what happened to her watch??? Did I miss this or is there a loose end there? Overall not a bad story. characters are quite hard to warm to, and story took a while to get going.

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