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The Babysitter

A Gripping Psychological Thriller with Edge of Your Seat Suspense

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The Babysitter

By: Sheryl Browne
Narrated by: Tamsin Kennard
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You trust her with your family. Would you trust her with your life?

Mark and Melissa Cain are thrilled to have found Jade, a babysitter who is brilliant with their young children. Having seen her own house burn to the ground, Jade needs them as much as they need her. Moving Jade into the family home can only be a good thing, can’t it?

As Mark works long hours as a police officer and Melissa struggles with running a business, the family become ever more reliant on their babysitter, who is only too happy to help. And as Melissa begins to slip into depression, it’s Jade who is left picking up the pieces.

But Mark soon notices things aren’t quite as they seem. Things at home feel wrong, and as Mark begins to investigate their seemingly perfect sitter, what he discovers shocks him to his core. He’s met Jade before. And now he suspects he might know what she wants …

Mark is in a race against time to protect his family. But what will he find as he goes back to his family home?

If you loved reading The Girl on the Train, Behind Closed Doors and The Sister, you’ll love the suspense of The Babysitter. This unpausable listen will have you turning the pages until way after dark.

©2018 Sheryl Browne (P)2018 Bookouture Fiction Genre Fiction Psychological Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Exciting

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enjoyable listen, but the whole 'abused young woman who lost a child turns into a mentally ill child thief' story line is getting a bit old and overused now.

enjoyable listen, but predictable

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This was such a great book I was gripped from the beginning to the end

Gripping

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Brilliant listen . After two wasted credits and disappointed listens I was abit nervous . But loved every min , didn’t want it to end .

Loved it

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brilliant couldn't stop listening. a real page Turner and we'll narated. highly recommend. don't pass by this one

brilliant

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I loved this book. Great characters, a good plot and brilliant narration. We knew from the start what was going on and who but the suspense came through the build up of increasing dangerous behaviours and hearing the increasing desperation as things get out of the main characters control.... Not knowing how things would be resolved etc
Would definitely recommend. Hooked from the start.

A great book

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Admittedly was looking for The Babysitter by R. L. Stine but decided to settle for this. Wish I hadn't.
Story: utterly predictable plotline - comparable with those "made for TV" thrillers broadcast on Channel 5. Lazy writing, repetitively overused phrases, descriptions and language, and flitting between character viewpoints every chapter takes away any sort of mystery, spelling out the very obvious climax. Mark really is a terrible policeman (as another reviewer remarked!) and Melissa, as much as I felt sorry for her, was a such a wet mop and so easily misled. I wanted to reach in and shake her! Would have liked more suspense and build-up over LESS chapters. It often felt like the author was writing just to fill up pages. Disappointed.
Performance: Kennard does a grand job with the different accents and characters, but her phrasing is irritating at times, breathing mid sentence as opposed to the end, or a natural pause (ie. a comma or hyphen). Chapters are often written in the third person (not first), so it was confusing at times navigating between who was speaking (or thinking), a character or the narrator. That said, I empathise with her bearing in mind the amount of drivel she had to perform. Felt Jade was a bit too perky - yes, she's a psychopath and they tend to wear many masks, but Kennard read her like she was "up" all the time, so lacked any real expression or emotion, I found it hard to believe she could really manipulate other characters so easily using her wicked ways.
Overall: this book really dragged, far too long. 82 chapters was tediously unnecessary. I don't like leaving things unfinished so I begrudgingly forced myself to keep listening - the last 10 odd chapters varied in length, with a rushed climax and abrupt ending. I half expected it to be more drawn out, bearing in mind the first 60 chapters were. Not wowed, would not recommend. Glad I used a free credit on this.

Predictable, poorly written, mediocre performance

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Gripping! Just couldn’t put it down! Really enjoyed it and would defiantly recommended! Fab author

Good read

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Great pace and easy to listen to but it was so implausible in places. How Jade could be believed so easily (by a policeman no less!) and Mel’s irritating judgmental behavior did grate at times. As for Cummings how he got away with his behavior was also very unrealistic. I did roll my eyes a fair bit but still a good listen and exciting.

Gripping but sometime implausible

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There's no big twist but it's a great book all the same. Poppy is so loveable. The narrator of this book was amazing

really good despite being predictable

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it was a good story but slightly predictable storyline, and the ending was a bit of and anti climax as we already new what had happened

good story but predictable

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