Dr Roth - Loving or controlling husband...
Sabrina - Mentally ill wife or deranged psychopath...
Emily is top of her class and is recruited by Dr Ross for a great financial opportunity as the hired nurse (or is it hired help?). Things seem a bit complicated in the Roth household - rules and guidelines to follow exactly. Does this woman really need her medication? Is what she saying a delusion or reality? So many secrets held between the walls of their mansion.
This book kept me guessing on which way it was going to go. A slow burn but a great ending.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for giving me the opportunity to provide an honest review of this ARC.

I received an ARC of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review.
This book has a really slow start. The first 60-70% of the book is dragged out with too long descriptions and unnecessary details. It feels like a lot of it was added simply to make the book longer and have the author achieve her word count.

The characters are frustrating and I just wanted to shake them and get the story to move forward. In the last 30% of the book things pick up but now it feels like the author has run out of words left in her word count and everything is rushed.

If you like a slow burn thriller with a good twist at the end, this one is for you but if you prefer something more fast paced I would avoid this one.

The narration is done really well I have listened to a few books by Madeline Pell and I always enjoy her narration.

Overall it’s a three star from me. If I was just reviewing the last 30 or so percent of the book it might have been a four star but the slow start was not for me.

I would like to thank NetGalley, The Author and Dreamscape Select, Bookouture for the ARC of this book.

Emily has just graduated top of her class in nursing. She has been offered a job as a nurse for a doctors wife, Bri.
The wife can not drive and is delusional on many events that she says have occurred in her life
Dr Roth is also the physician over his wife's health care. His wife is erratic. He thinks someone is following her and that her husband is over medicating her
The nurse begins to see a lot of things happening in the home. But who can she tell. She signed an NDA. Who can she reach out for help. For help of herself and Bri.

The book did not keep me engaged or interested

This one was a difficult one for me. It was a very slow build and took a long time for me to get hooked. The slow build just isn’t my thing at the current time so I can’t really dock it too much for that. Had a couple pretty great twists at the very end which I did not see coming. Once I was finally hooked (at 75%) I did enjoy this book.

I almost did not finish this book. Almost. I'm glad I did.

I received a free copy of the audiobook from NetGalley and publishers in exchange of an honest review. My sense of duty made me bear the first 40%-45% (that and other reviews saying it gets better in the second half), which is repetitive and a little dull, in my opinion. The piece of info that Emily 'sooo desperately needs this job' is thrown in a hundred times. I also found annoying that the narrator posed sooo many questions. I understand that they represent Emily's doubts and fears, but boy, were they repetitive.

Well, the other reviewers were right. The story does pick up pace and gets really interesting in the second half. Emily's actions to try to figure out if her employer (a psychiatrist) is trying to help her troubled-minded, sick wife or if he's purposely overmedicating her takes some twists and turns. As a reader/listener, I wanted Emily to succeed, but I was also afraid of the repercurssion. Towards the end, there is a plot twist that I was able to figure out (mostly) before its revelation to the reader/listener, but was well executed anyhow.

I'm giving it 3 stars due to the tiring, repetitive first half, but I even so I recommend this book to those interested in psychological mysteries.

I recently had to complete a 10 hour road trip. I am not a long distance driver. I just don't enjoy it.

This audiobook kept me company on the drive and made the long hours so much more bearable.

Our main character is a young nurse. Having just graduated top of her class, and living in an extremely run down area of the town, she is desperate for this amazing opportunity to be a private nurse for the wife of the famous Dr Roth.

From the start, something seems off. Mrs Roth has everything a person could possibly want: expensive clothes and shoes, a decant house, time to follow her passion and the constant opportunity to socialise with friends. So why is she here?

It seems that Mrs Roth has condition she won't admit to and, given their wealth, our main character's job seems more cleaning and pill distribution. Once her husband has left for the day, Mrs Roth becomes more clearheaded. She has been smuggling away the pills instead of taking them and now she can finally tell the truth...

Out main character is left wondering who she should believe, what she should do and how she can fulfill the carefully executed plan that brought her to their doorstep...

This book was exactly in my wheelhouse. I love a mystery. Even though I could guess some of the twists, there was enough there to keep me guessing.

Definitely a recommend.

The set up and the story of this is mysterious, suspenseful novel has all the makings of the kind of twisty thriller that I love. We follow Emily, a newly-minted nurse who graduated top of her class, but is very very broke. A respected psychiatrist at the hospital where she did her practicum hires her to be a private nurse for his wife, who has a number of mysterious psychiatric issues. Soon, Emily begins to suspect that the psychiatrist is actually overmedicating his wife to hide a series of dark secrets.

I loved the atmosphere and the pacing was great, but where I struggled was with character development and the ending. We don’t get a lot of information about Emily off the bat, and I could kind of tell throughout that the author was deliberately holding back information about her and her past, and particularly her motivations for investigating this psychiatrist and his wife. It was hard to believe at times that she would go to these lengths just out of professional or moral obligation to figure out what was going on.

As I said, I love a twisty, thriller, and part of the fun is for me trying to figure out the twist ending and picking up on clues throughout. There were very minimal clues throughout, but not enough to put any of the pieces together which I found frustrating. The end was an info-dump of an ending. Now I don’t mind a far-fetched or implausible ending - done right, it can be a lot of fun - but this didn’t work for me. I think it’s because I couldn’t connect with the main character, and because there are SO many components to the story that it’s was hard to follow the ending.

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for a review copy.

This story was so interesting and very tense.
It’s suspense had me on edge even feeling the fear, panic and paranoia of the characters.
This is a flawlessly written revenge story and these are pretty hard to come by these days.
Definitely will read this author again!!

The voice did not match the story, but the story itself was very good. It’s simply the voice of the reader that took me out of the book and made it harder to listen.

Narrated by Madeline Pell ⭐⭐⭐
I did not enjoy Madeline Pell's voice for this particular book. I found it really difficult to get into it due to her feeling like such a wrong fit for the story.

Story by Jenna Kernan ⭐⭐⭐
As mentioned above I really struggled to get into this story which I think is mainly due to the narrator, but once I got past her voice this story was very creative.

I would definitely recommend this book to reader but I would suggest paperback or kindle over the audiobook.

I was really enjoying this fast paced thriller until the end, where the court details were revealed, because it didn't feel like its energy matched the rest of the book. It felt so abrupt and clean cut instead of the mess we'd been developing. I did enjoy the explanations and found them slightly surprising but not shocking in the slightest. I was really intrigued by the dynamics between the characters and they made the energy of the book feel very tense like we were waiting for the other shoe to drop. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Super close to 5, but 4 is my star rating as the audio seemed to be slow paced at the beginning and then started to pickup

The narrator was exceptional as she truly bought out the characters in this audio.

A domestic psychological thriller with lots of twists, lies, secrets and full of deceit. Definitely recommended

Who can you trust.

Thank you to Netgalley

If you seek revenge you dig two graves...Emily is employed as a private nurse to care for Sabrina, the wife of prominent psychiatrist Dr.Roth. Emily has to administer a cocktail of drugs that sedate Sabrina. Dr. Roth states that Sabrina is delusional, Emily believes that there is more to the diagnosis...

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Thank you to Netgalley for copies of the audio and ebook! As a nurse I was totally down to read this thriller. From the start this felt reminiscent of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘥 but then the writing got a little boring for me. The last 20% or so was good but I didn't like how the reveal was executed. I think the overall plot of this book was good but the writing just didn't do it for me unfortunately.

Many thanks to Net Galley and Dreamscape Select for an audio copy of The Nurse for an honest review.

Emily, fresh out of school, is struggling financially. She does not want a regular nursing job. She interviews at a lavish house where her boss is a Dr. And her patient is Sabrina, who has mental disorders. She eagerly accepts the job. Then she finds she's in a web of deception.

3.5/5 stars. Good story concept, not sure that it was executed to the fullest.

The premise behind this book is WICKED AWESOME! As soon as I read the blurb I immediately wanted to read it. A mystery-thriller like this is right up my alley.

This book has some twists and turns that I didn't see coming and we all know that that's GOLD in the mystery world. I love the betrayal, the lies, the complete absurdity of the world that was created. I say absurdity in the best way possible. It takes a great amount of creativity to create the world and the people that Jenna wrote.

All of that being said, this book dragged for me. I felt like things were very repetitive and slow moving. Strange when I thought that a lot of things were thrown at you pretty quickly... not an experience that I've run into often.

The Nurse by Jenna Kernan was fantastic! Thank you to Netgalley, the author and publisher for the opportunity to read this advanced reader copy. This was a page turner, for sure. It kept my interest the entire time and, at one point, my mouth literally fell open! For the lovers of thrillers and mystery, I certainly recommend!

This is the first book I read or listen from this author. Although I found the writing was good, I felt like it had too much unnecessary descriptions even for minor characters (like clothes, hairstyle) that slowed the plot. The first third of the book could be drastically reduced as it slowed a lot the plot, instead of moving it forward. The last third of the book on the other hand was really engaging and exciting, a twisty game of cat and mouse that kept me guessing until the end.

Classic story of revenge.

The narrator in this was great, had great range and was entertaining!

The story, however, lacked any shock factor. I mean it basically gave the “twist” at the end away in the description of the book.

All of the characters were horrible. I also felt like the character Janelle was so random and useless in the story. I was expecting something to come from the character but it seems maybe she was filler?

I finished listening to the book, but I’ve definitely listened to more entertaining stories. It wasn’t for me, but it was still something to listen to if I was bored

𝗠𝘆 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆
This book gave me Verity vibes from the beginning. Emily is hired to take care of wealthy housewife, Sabrina Roth, who is supposedly mentally unwell and unable to completely care for herself. There were quite a few red flags about her employment from the beginning which had be wondering about why someone would even take the job. It seemed somewhat unbelievable at times and I found myself irritated with Emily. There was some suspense and it was hard to tell who was telling the truth, but the ending brought it all together in a nice little explainable package. This wasn't my favorite book, but I dolid enjoy it overall.

𝗠𝘆 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸
The audiobook was well done. I listened at 1.5x speed and it was easy to understand. There were two narrators who each had unique voices and were easily recognizable considering that the chapters weren't named for either character. I do think I enjoyed this more on audiobook than I would have ohysically reading. I definitely recommend the audiobook!

Thank you to NetGalley, Jenna Kernan and Bookouture for an ALC in exchange for an honest review.