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  • The Retreat

  • A Novel of Suspense
  • By: Sherri Smith
  • Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
  • Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
  • 3.8 out of 5 stars (43 ratings)

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The Retreat

By: Sherri Smith
Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
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Publisher's summary

Sherri Smith illuminates the dark side of the self-care and wellness industry in a thrilling ride of revenge perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty’s Nine Perfect Strangers. The Retreat is a twisting, bone-chilling suspense that asks: how well do you really know your friends?

Four women.
Four secrets.
A weekend that will change them forever…if they survive.

Katie Manning was a beloved child star until her mid-teens when her manager attacked and permanently scarred her face, effectively ending her career and sending her on a path of all-too-familiar post-Hollywood self-destruction.

Now twenty-seven, Katie wants a better answer to those clickbait “Where Are They Now?” articles that float around online. An answer she hopes to find when her brother’s too-good-to-be-true fiancée invites her to a wellness retreat upstate. Together with Katie’s two best friends - one struggling with crippling debt and family obligations, one running away from a failed job and relationship - Katie will try to find the inner peace promised at the tranquil retreat. But finding oneself just might drudge up more memories than Katie is prepared to deal with.

Each woman has come to the retreat for different reasons. Each has her secrets to hide. And at the end of this weekend, only one will be left standing.

©2019 Sherri Smith (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
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uneven ending

I was enjoying the sly humor and character development throughout this book ,even when it drug a little at times,it seemed worthwhile. But the ending wzs very rushed and just left so many issues dangling. Without spoiling anything ,there should have been more about certain people. There was so much evidence and so many testimonials. I guess in the end it was just a psychological characterization after all.

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Could have been better

As I listened, I kept asking myself why this story wasn't holding my interest. The idea was intriguing, but the results just weren't compelling. Is it the generally under-developed characters ? Or the rather flimsy plot devise ( did Katie kill someone in a sleepwalking state ?) The narrator didn't help; she was ok, but didn't pull the story out of it's lethargy.

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