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was a fantastic follow up to the brilliant and suspenseful first novel of Gemma Rogers, Stalker,

With Payback, I was hooked from the first pages and really enjoyed the plot and characters, I wasn't sure how the story was going to play out, I don't like when I read suspense and figure out what's going to happen halfway through! I want to be surprised and I was.


I also like that the story doesn't fall flat so often books lose steam towards the end, This was a solid novel and a definite mustread for fans of thrillers/suspense,

Gemma Rogers shows that you can never really hide from your past:

No one thinks that what they did in their teens would come back and haunt them but twenty years later, when they are brought back together with the death of one of them in a suspicious car crash.
It is after the funeral that Sophie White starts to receive threatening messages, all that have to do with the partyyears ago, Now Sophie is trying to figure out who knew about the party or if it was one of her old friends that is trying to kill them off one by one.


This book starts out really good and I was really interested in what was happening or going to happen, but I was able to figure out this book quite early on, so that did take the suspense out of it for me, and from then on things just became too predictable.
I also thought that the perspective inpretty boring and I do not think that it needed as much page time as it received,

For some reason I seem to be reading quite a few books lately where I cannot understand the main characters choices when it comes to someone stalking them, this is another book where this occurs/ Why is it so hard to involve the police right away I just don't get it, especially in this book, who cares that you had a sex pack thing that happened overyears ago, that is probably nothing compared to what youth are doing now.
Just stop being embarrassed and do something to protect yourself, Like you life is worth more than a little secret,

I think this book would have benefited with a second POV, that way we would not just have to deal with all of Sophie's bad choices, or that of Mark as he was in the police and he could have handled the investigative part of the book.


I'm not sure what else to say about this book, it just wasn't for me, i know that Rogers has the ability to write an interesting story, and she does write really well, but this one was just too predictable for me, I will however read another book by Rogers,

Cheers!!! Good story,

Good book but, . I think it was pretty obvious, early on, who the villain in the book is, Otherwise, even though I was pretty sure I figured it out early on, I really enjoyed reading this book, Excellent author. Didnot want to put this book down, it kept me turning the pages just so I could read more, it didnot disappoint, What a brilliant book. First book I have read by this Author Payback is a gripping new thriller by Gemma Rogers,

As a teenager Sophie White organized a party for her and her friends to lose their virginity to their guy pals, Twenty years later, the group gathers after the death of one of the guys, Gareth, His car accident is followed by threatening notes being sent to Sophie, How did a pact made as teens lead to a campaign of harassment after twenty years Someone wants vengeance, but who Sophie is scared but determined to find the culprit.


Payback is a real thriller, revealed through shifting timelines/from the perspective of the main character, Sophie, Flashbacks can be tricky and confusing but Ms Rogers handles them seamlessly with appropriate chapter headers, I was totally engrossed and didnt want to put the book down, The characters are strong, vibrant and welldeveloped with complete backstories, The suspenseful plot kept me guessing, incorrectly, until the very end, I loved it and rate it out of, If you like thrillers, grab this one and prepare to be intrigued,

My thanks to Boldwood Books and NetGalley for the opportunity to read an advance copy of this book, However, the opinions expressed in this review aremine and mine alone,
I wasnt too keen on this book to begin with and found it slightly boring and the readers voice took me a while to get used to, However when I got into it I really did enjoy it and loved trying to work out who the culprit was, I did work it out quite early on but then kept changing my mind, But it was good and I will try another from this author, This is my first experience of this writer, and one which of want to repeat, We all like to think weve worked out the mystery long before the reveal, and whilst I did crack some of the case it was by no means all, With more twists and turns than a waltzer ride, I was gripped throughout, In tackling some more disturbing aspects of teenage sex and relationships, I think it should probably come with a trigger warning just in case you unknowingly step into it,

I listened to this on audio and almost had a heart attack when I came to the end of it and then heard an unfamiliar voice behind me! It turned out to be an interview with the author, which was really quite good.
In it she discusses the inspiration for her writing, including her approach to writers block,

All in all I thought this was a great read, and look forward to reading more by the author, Thank you Boldwood Books and NetGalley for a complimentary copy, I voluntarily reviewed this book, All opinions expressed are my own,

Payback
By: Gemma Rogers


REVIEW
When you were in high school, did you have a core group of friends Did you make pacts to do things that you now realize were actually reckless or really stupid Told in past and present perspectives, we meet Sophie White and her friends inas they make a deal to all lose their innocence before their last year of school.
When all is said and done, one couple in this group will not discuss the true happenings of the fateful night when innocence was lost, but why they remain tight lipped is unknown.
Then, we see Sophie White in present day, I won't give too much away, but recent strange and deadly events point to that night in Sophie's past, What really happened As Sophie gets in touch with her friends from, details begin to surface about the truth, and it's clear someone wants payback, The question is why and why now Justice Revenge Regardless, the secrets held by the past have resurfaced to haunt those involved, This story is a thrilling and suspenseful read with twists and turns aplenty, I enjoyed the guessing game of who did what back then, Sophie is an interesting character with genuine flaws and characteristics, My overall impression of Payback is favorable, and I recommend it for fans of mystery, suspense and drama, Errrrm

The overall story was good but my issue was the amount of filler, Think of ahr movie you enjoy, then imagine having to watch ahr version of it where the extrahours is just what the characters do in their spare time.
Payback is my first but definitely not my last read by this author as this was a great read,

We get told the story from Sophies point of view, . in the present and as her

as a teenager, I couldnt read this fast enough, What was happening So many questions was going through my head,

This is a well written story, Cant wait to read more from this author, Sophie is being stalked by someone from her past, She had made a pact with her friends twenty years ago, They thought it was a good idea to loose their virginity to each other on the same night, Her dad was an estate agent so Sophie takes the keys to an empty house, But Sophie lost touch with her friends, she was the only one who hadn't moved away, She eventually takes over her dads business when he retires, But things start happening that have links to the ight twenty years ago,

The story goes back and forward in time fromto the present day, Things start happening, the first eing someone getting killed in a road accident, This is a tense and gripping read with plenty of twists to keep you guessing, I did guess correctly where this story was going ut it did not spoil the book, I read this book in one sitting, This is my first read by the author but it wont be my last,

I would like to thank NetGalley, Boldworld Books and the author Gemma Rogers for my ARC in exchange for an honest review, I read, reviewed and absolutely loved Gemma's debut novel 'Stalker', I have been impatiently waiting for her to release her second novel, Well ladies and gents, the wait is finally over because Gemma's second book 'Payback' was released onth January, Gemma has done it again and she has written one hell of a fantastic read, which I thoroughly enjoyed but more about that in a bit,
I wasn't quite sure what to make of Sophie, who is the main character of this book, When we meet her in the present day, she is an estate agent and she has taken on the running of her father's business, She comes across as being a workaholic, devious, cold woman, She doesn't have many if any friends and the only socialising she seems to do is with one of the people, who works for her, Something happened when she was a lot younger which still affects her to this day, Back then she was a schoolgirl with quite a close and small network of friends, They had planned to all do the same thing at the same time but I won't go into any more specifics than that as I would hate to spoil the book for anybody.
Needless to say that it didn't go to plan, In the years following this incident, the friends have drifted apart and left the village or town all apart from Sophie that is, I think that she has thrown herself into her work to forget, The group of friends drifts back together following the death of one of them, At the same time Sophie finds herself the victim of a few unsettling and unnerving incidences, What was it that happened back in the day What went wrong Why is Sophie the victim of somebody's hatred What does fate have in store for Sophie and her former school friends Well for the answers to those questions and more you are just going to have to read the book for yourselves to find out as I am not going to tell you.

It took me no time to all to get into this story, In fact I was addicted to the book from the moment I read the synopsis never mind from when I started to read the story itself, I had an inkling that I was going to love this book from the start and I did, Reading this book became an addiction that I was not willing to break under any circumstances, Once I started to read that was it, I did not put my Kindle down again, The book literally travelled everywhere with me, I had my own suspicions as to what was going to happen and I had to keep reading to see whether my suspicions were correct or if I had the wrong end of the stick entirely.
The pages seemed to turn really quickly and I seemed to motor through the story, I soon reached the end of this gritty, well plotted and fast paced book, which I was gutted about, I don't mean that I was disappointed with how the story ended but I was enjoying the book so much that I just wanted it to carry on and on.

'Payback' is brilliantly written, The author captures your attention from the start and much as an angler reeling in a catch, the author reels you in, Gemma writes so realistically and uses such vivid descriptions that I felt as though I was part of the story myself, I found that I went through every experience and emotion that the different characters went through, Gemma certainly kept my attention throughout the book and she certainly kept me guessing, I was gripped by the story and on the edge of my seat throughout, The book is written using two different timelines, which run parallel to each other, One of the timelines describes events as they happened back inand the other timeline describes things as they happen in the present day, I did wonder if this way of telling the story might be a bit confusing but I needn't have worried because the two timelines interlinked really well and the story flowed seamlessly as a result.
I loved the fact that part of the story took me back to, when I had just finished my 'A Levels', I had a nostalgic trip into my own past as I was of a similar age to those in the story and I recognised a lot of the cultural references that were made.

In short, I thoroughly enjoyed reading 'Payback' and I would definitely recommend this book to other readers, I will definitely be reading more of Gemma's work in the future, The score on the Ginger Book Geek board is a very well deservedout of, .