I overall enjoyed this mystery but I really struggled to connect to any of the characters and overall found the story a little dull.

This was an interesting story to read. It really did not end up anywhere near where I thought it was going in the beginning. Additionally there was another twist that added more dynamic to the story. 

Friendship is a tricky thing. Very rarely these days do we find a person who will stick with us through life. The ups downs and everything that exists in between, few friendships can weather all the storms. Beth, Sally and Carol thought they had that forever friendship, until a promise and an even bigger secrets unknowingly tears them apart. 

With the looming closure of the school that holds all their secrets, Beth and Sally are desperate to find their old friend. Even though Beth is the one leading the charge, she doesn't fully recognize her good friends reluctance to go back to everything that nearly destroyed them in the first place. 

A story that leads you down one path before sharply veering in a different direction. A good weekend read.

The Promise is a taut psychological thriller.  Three school friends undergo a shared tragedy in their youth and the promise they made resonates to their present day lives.  The novel deals with friendship and domestic abuse and has empathetic characters.

I love Teresa Driscoll's books.  That being said, this book had its slow points.  It dragged a little for me and seemed like the ending was pretty obvious.  I did guess part of the ending, but then it really picked up at the end and I enjoyed it much more.

I had a great time reading this book and now I am looking forward to reading more books by the same author. Many many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for granting me access to this eARC.

I was drawn to this book because it's one of my favorite genres, a psychological thriller. And that element is there. Three girls at boarding school make a promise to each other to keep a secret about something that happened to them at school. Secrets of course have consequences, and this one pops up to haunt them years later when they learn the school will be closed and torn down. Whether they can, or even should, continue to keep their promise becomes the crux of the story. Driscoll takes us back and forth in time, spinning out the story of their school years and telling the story from multiple points of view. It was a bit drawn out for me, and because it could've been tightened up a bit it would've been closer to a 3-star read than a 4-star for me - but I listened to much of this one and the audiobook was very good, so I'm giving a bit of extra credit for the audio version.

My thanks to Netgalley and Thomas & Mercer for providing a copy for an unbiased review.

I must admit, throughout reading this I kept thinking "what's so great about this secret that it can never be told" - it caused so much drama and once revealed, I still felt the same way! Was still a nice enough read though so I would recommend...

Thanks for the opportunity to read this book early. I was anxiously awaiting it’s release and it did not disappoint. I read this authors previous book, I am Watching You and loved it as well. I love stories about girl friends and the secrets between them. If you enjoy psychological thrillers you are almost surely going to finish this one quickly.

I received an advanced copy of this book through NetGalley. This book had me from the very beginning. I love that it kept me engaged the entire time. I couldn't wait to see how it ended. I would highly recommend to all my fellow readers. Thank you for the chance to review this book!

This was a very suspenseful read. It had me at the prologue. In light of the different horrifying and crippling stories of the three friends, I did like the light heartedness betrayed by Beth in order to cope. I loved the friendships that formed between Beth, Sally, and Carol. Definitely terrifying situations with better outcomes.  I’d definitely recommend this book.

It had a really great beginning but by the end of the book the plot kind of fell flat on its face. The book started out so good that I was not able to put it down at all, but then the middle of the book got a little lengthy and then the end did not make sense to me whatsoever.

Goodness. This one was sad--absolutely heartbreaking. Although I had a good feeling about what the main twist was going to be, it was still well-worth reading. It's well written, and the audiobook narrator does a lovely job. The ebook and audiobook are available on Kindle Unlimited, which is how I read/listened to it, even though I'd been approved for the ARC. 

Thanks to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for a copy of the ARC.

Good book. I enjoyed the characters and the mystery element. The effects that trauma can have on different people in different ways, even when they experience the same trauma, was a prominent message.

I couldn’t finish. Too much book with nothing happening. I tried twice but never got past 1/3. Sorry

The writing was a little slow, but I liked the twists and turns the story took. It must have been terrible for the girls to give a promise in a situation they where in. So young and so afraid to talk to an adult, to get help. And getting on with life after an incident like this must've been hard. All in all, I liked the book. It's about a promise, but also about domestic issues and dark minds.

Sadly I DNF'd this book at around 20%. I didn't find that I was hooked enough to want to find out what the big mystery was and what the book was building up to and I wasn't all that invested in the characters. Unfortunately this one just wasn't for me.

I was really excited to receive a copy of this book from Netgalley and the publisher, but was ultimately disappointed! I read a ton of thrillers, so maybe I'm just hard to impress at this point. BUT, I really loved Driscoll's novel, "I Am Watching You", so I had extremely high expectations for this. This was a book I would consider decent in the genre. It was a slow burn for almost too long, and then you get to a point where everything feels rushed towards the end. The big reveal also was underwhelming. I'll definitely still read books that Driscoll puts out, in hopes that she'll have another hit. This unfortunately was a miss for me.

I received this book an embarrassingly long time ago (my apologies to the author), so I was really pleased when I pulled it from my book jar for June. Now I have read it, I am left wondering why I left it so long to read. It is filled with all the suspense and twists and turns that you could wish for in a psychological thriller, but it goes deeper than that as the heartbreakingly sad story that triggered the events of the book unfolds. Strangely characters that I didn’t particularly like at the beginning of the book I ended up loving, and vice versa to a certain extent. I hadn’t read anything by Teresa Driscoll before, but I will certainly be reading more now.

I was pretty disappointed by this book. Despite attempts to connect with the characters and develop interest in this book, I found myself quickly reading mostly just so that I could be done with it now because I was interested to see what happened.

The Promise
By: Teresa Driscoll

The Promise is the first book I have read from Mrs.Driscoll, and I am not disappointed.  Although it was not as gritty as I like my thrillers I did enjoy the slow burn of the mystery. I don’t really want to go over the plot very much since I am a believer that there are some books that are better if we go in not knowing much, this is one of them.  The plot had me hooked, nothing is straightforward, and by around 60% of the book the pace quickens and the ending felt a little rushed. But other than that it was a great thriller read and I am looking forward to reading more from Mrs. Driscoll.

Thank You to NetGalley for allowing me to read this novel for an honest review