I don’t know where to begin on this book I had thoughts and ideas of what might have happened or what might not have happened but the twist in the terms of this book will make you think cry laugh sadness whore the truth about youth with that you will love this book I couldn’t put it down I read the book from front to back in one sitting while sitting on my patio you should not miss this fuck I have never read from the softener before and I will definitely look for her books in the future. Thanks for a great book

Loved this book and it kept me well gripped from the beginning!

This is a fantastic story as how tragedy can impact on friendship and what is hidden behind closed doors.

There are some great twists and you won't be able to put it down.

This story is about three girls who were friends in school- Beth, Sal and Carol News that the school is going to
Close and be torn down cause alarm and fear of a horrible secret finally being revealed and the promise they made to never tell coming out.
This story dragged a bit for me. I was not attached to any of the characters and the anguish seemed forced. None of the three has an honest relationship and even when others are hurt they hold on to unreasonable actions.
It is not a bad story just not my personal taste and I think it may be miscatergorized as a mystery/thriller.
Thank you @ netgalley for the ARC and the chance to give my opinion.

This was the first I've read of this author and I quite enjoyed it. I had a hard time keeping up with the jumps in the timeline in the beginning, but it worked itself out. The girls secret was definitely not what I was expecting. A new twist.

This book wasn't what I expected. It starts out a little slow and about halfway through the pacing really picks up with a lot of suspense. Then as the reveals begin the story becomes something completely different. The characters are well developed. The ending is full of twists and surprises. Overall it's a good read, but not what I typically expect from a psychological thriller.

This book was just alright for me, although I have read a lot about it. Three girls keep a secret from their boarding school days that ends up creating a rift in their group. When the school is going to be torn down, they become compelled to make a decision in the case that their secret is found. I really struggled with forming attachments to the two main girls and this made it hard for me to really understand why they cared about finding the estranged friend. The story seemed forced in places and the curves did not make much sense. Thanks for the ARC, Netgalley.

I always enjoy a quick psychological thriller, and once again Teresa Driscoll comes to the rescue. If you have a long flight or just need a break from your day-to-day routine, this is an interesting but “not too much work” type of book. You’ll have a good idea what the bad memory for these three schoolgirls entails, but there are still some interesting twists and unforeseen revelations. And we always enjoy a secret, possibly a crime at an all-girls Catholic boarding school, now, don’t we?
(I received an advance copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an unbiased review. Thank you to Thomas & Mercer and NetGalley for making it available.)

The story of 3 girls at boarding school ,, their friendship and a promise. An interesting story of the long few of 3 girls and how their lives progress after a terrible thing happens and they decide not to talk about it.
I really enjoyed the story and the characters. I thought I knew what had happened and was surprised at the ending, well written and exciting.

It's such a pleasure to have a book that you look forward to reading more of, instead of counting the pages (or percentages), wondering how much longer before you will be done. My first (and final) assessment was the excellent writing of Teresa Driscoll. I love her style. Though I didn't care for any of the characters but Adam (and one or two of the nuns), they were realistic and necessary for the events to transpire. The story is mainly about secrets, some you won't be able to guess, while a few twists here and there along the way also help to keep one's attention! https://www.goodreads.com/group

I want to read more by this author!

Great book! Kept me guessing until the very last twist. Teresa Driscoll is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors!

This is an intense psychological thriller full of mystery and suspense. I was very entertained and enjoyed it immensely Will check out more books by this author, for sure I received a complimentary copy of this book from NetGalley and am voluntarily leaving this review

3 best friends who grew up together in boarding school share one huge dark secret. They are adults now and have to deal with this secret once again. This book was just ok. It wasn’t bad or really good. Easy read.

Ok mystery about three best friends who went to boarding school together and are now dealing with repercussions of a long-held secret from their school days. The characters felt a bit wooden to me - readers weren't given enough information to really 'know' them. I was a little curious about the secret event from boarding school days and the reason for why one of the friends is estranged in the present day timeline...but I wouldn't classify it as a mystery that I just couldn't put down.

Thank you to NetGalley and Thomas & Mercer for providing me with a digital ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a free ARC of this book. My opinion is my own and was not influenced by receiving the ARC.

This was a 3 maybe 3.5. I wanted to like The Promise a lot more than I did.

I appreciated that the story was told from many different perspectives and time periods in the characters' lives. I thought this moved the story forward in a way that just wouldn't have been possible with a single perspective, and I thought this was the best thing about the book.

However, without giving anything away, I didn't think the big build up was all.that big. I saw most of the end coming, and didn't find it as shocking as I think the reader was meant to. The stakes honestly didn't seem that high for the characters, and I didn't understand why the big secret was meant to be life-ruining so many decades down the line.

The Promise was just ok for me, some parts of the book moved fast, and other parts were a little slow. There were a few twist and turns that kept my interest. Thank you NetGalley for the advanced copy.

It was their darkest secret. Three schoolgirls made a promise – to take the horrible truth of what they did to the grave.

Thirty years later, Beth and Sally have tried to put the trauma behind them. Though Carol has distanced herself from her former friends, the three are adamant that the truth must never come to light, even if the memory still haunts them.

But when some shocking news threatens to unearth their dark secret, Beth enlists the help of private investigator Matthew Hill to help her and Sally reconnect with estranged Carol ­– before the terrible act they committed as teenagers is revealed.

Beth wishes she could take back the vow they made.

But somebody is watching and will stop at nothing to ensure the secret stays buried. Now, with her beloved family in peril, can Beth still keep the promise?
from goodreads.com

Three best friends are simultaneously tied together and ripped apart following a tragic event that befalls them during their time at boarding school. They make a promise that, many years later, they will each struggle with keeping. Can they overcome the tragedies in their past? Or will their buried secrets come back to destroy them?

This book deals with so much; the three girls at the center of the story each experience so much sadness, conflict and trauma. This book hits on some pretty heavy topics (so maybe some trigger warnings would be helpful), like depression, miscarriage, still birth, rape of an underage girl, infertility, abuse (psychological and physical), and so much more. This book was intense.

Despite the intensity and the tragedy, I still really enjoyed this book. The friendship between the three girls was really beautiful, and added so much hope. To see how these women protected each other, and truly cared for each other, was lovely.

This wasn’t a perfect book, for me, but I really did like it, and will definitely look for more from this author.

*Thank you to NetGalley and Thomas & Mercer for providing me with a free advance review copy (ARC) in exchange for a fair and honest review.*

This book was advertised as a psychological thriller, however it read more like a script for a Daytime soap opera. Unfortunately I am not a fan of the soaps and I found it to be middling reading fare. The premise held promise: three women who attended boarding school together made a vow to never admit to some deep dark secret they experienced while at school. The story follows the three women as adults as they navigate their tormented adult lives, as well as a tag-along token male in the guise of a Private Detective.

From the beginning I had difficulty distinguishing two of the main characters, Beth and Sally, from each other. They had the same way of thinking and speaking, so I was constantly confused as to which woman was the mother, which was single, which was depressed and neurotic (both, actually!). Carol was more easily distinguished only because her point of view was written in italics, so there was an obvious difference. Matthew as the token male played such a weak role, we could have done without his individual PoV altogether. To be honest, I think the story would have been more readable if the female characters were fleshed out a little better, and had more distinct personalities. They felt like variations of the same person to me.

Then there is the story line; As a script for a daytime drama it was perfect! Family troubles, a little romance, allusions to past trauma and secrets are all standard fare and I could picture the action as I read the story. As a psychological thriller I found myself less thrilled and more impatient to get to the end. From the first chapter we know there was likely a death at the school that the girls were complicit in, we just don't know the details until about 2/3 of the way through the novel. Once we reach that tipping point of the story, we get a whole host of more outlandish details and bombshells true to the soap opera style.

I always feel badly giving a 3 star review to authors as I feel they have worked hard to put out an entertaining book that has simply failed to entertain me. From the other reviews I see that people love the story and the writing, so it must be enjoyable to someone.

As I sat and read this book while on a break at work, I found that I had accidentally uttered the words “Holy moly,” out loud. And if that isn’t the perfect way to describe this book, I just don’t know what is. So many twists and turns that came out of this story! I wanted to slap myself for not seeing certain things coming but there were just SO MANY little paths to keep up with! I was distracted by a different path in the story so that when a twist came, I was completely blind sighted! AND I LOVED IT.

Alright alright… where to begin…

Beth, Sally and Carol. The three amigos. The three best friends that anyone could have. They meet at a Catholic boarding school and are soon inseparable. But dark and sinister things happen within the school walls and even outside of them while school is out for breaks. One particular school break brings with it an event that becomes the turning point for the three girls and their friendship. An event that they agree to take to their grave. An event that is back to haunt them now that their alma mater is scheduled to be sold and torn down. And it seems someone else knows about what happened…

I was captured from the very beginning with this story and the fierce bond the three girls had with one another. I was equally captured by the conflict between them. I had soooo many questions. Questions that were slowly answered throughout the story and in JUST the right time. Three girls hold the same secret on their shoulders and the same secret effects their lives in different degrees and in different ways. By now they’re all well into their 30s and their carrying what happened differently. One is haunted every day, one desperately wants to forget and has mastered the art of pretending it never happened, and one has too much going on in her life now to think about what happened then, though she never truly forgets. What’s more is the way this book shows how even though we can have the fiercest of bonds with someone, guilt can bring us to doubt, to point fingers, to desperately want logical explanations to the extent to which we would throw someone under the bus to get them, no matter how much we love that person. Guilt is a heavy burden to carry. No matter if the guilt is misplaced or not, it is heavy and can drive a person mad. The basis of this book is guilt. I want to reread it knowing that everything fueling the decisions and actions of these girls was simply guilt. GUILT GUILT GUILT. I’m not going to say “guilt” again, I promise.
This book just delivered on this natural human occurrence SO WELL. It was beautiful.

Now I may be biased as I was able to relate to some of the happenings and a couple of the characters, but this was a DAMN good book. I was never bored with this book. I never felt the writing was drawn out too long or that the narration was too narrow. (Other than, of course, wanting to know what the hell their secret was! Among other things…) The pacing was perfect. The character building was perfect. The amount of mystery left for us to ponder over was PERFECT. Did I expect a darker twist than the ones I got? Yes. But I found myself emotionally invested in this story, which is something that can be a challenge for me. I don’t typically cry over books or movies, but when I do, it usually involves a pet or animal. Well, this one didn’t. This one got me right in the feels by using just these three girls. I found myself misty eyed more than once during my journey through this story. This was a wonderful read and has found itself on the top of my list of books I want to read a second time.

Special thanks to the publisher for providing the ARC via Netgalley.

Three schoolgirls make a pact to keep a dark secret that affected them all but when they hear their old school is being demolished the panic sets in that their past will be exposed. Beth and Sally have remained friends throughout but Carol has been very elusive and they need to find her and fast. All of this appears very early on in the book but the secret is withheld until near the end, although I was able to guess what had happened. We learn very little else until more than half way through which makes the story drag somewhat. Added to the characters is Matthew, an ex police officer turned private detective with a secret of his own, employed to track down Carol. The story comes to a dramatic end following so may twists and turns that my head began to spin. A good plot that maybe could have been more evenly paced, but a sure fire winner for thriller lovers.