Well, I'd have been happier with a cleaner read. Meanwhile, Carol, Beth and Sally were BBF's all together in boarding school. Something happened, they make a promise and now time has passed. Carol went off to marry Ned and live in France. The time has come, as it always does, that the secret is going to be exposed. Way before the end we find out what that secret is and the rest of the book is working to wrap things up. In this, it was a bit aggravating. I had hoped for a bit more from this story, but I would read another one from this author in case it's different. 

I voluntarily read an advanced readers copy of this book from Net Galley. All opinions expressed are entirely my own and this review is left by my choosing.

This story is multi-layered. It's about three teenage girls who make a promise to not tell anyone about something that happened while they were at boarding school. Towards the end, things unraveled and you find out more than just the secret that they kept. I felt like the reader kept being strung along just to find out what this secret is, but then you find out MORE secrets that have been kept since boarding school - all in the last quarter of the book! I enjoyed this story but wasn't my favorite - not sure I would consider this book a thriller - more of a mystery.

I would start off by saying that 'The Promise' was good, not great. Dare i say, not very original or thrilling? Whilst i was taken in at the start and at the premise, it just didn't stay consistent for me and i found myself getting a little bored.

Thank you to the publisher for providing an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I don't like to read reviews that reveal too much of the plot so I'll restrict mine to feedback that I hope will help the reader decide if the book is something they might enjoy. The story started off well for me. I was intrigued by "the secret" and the three main characters were interesting. The build-up to the big reveal of the secret was compelling (if overly long) and as the book progressed I kept thinking "wow, this secret must be truly terrible". The threat of the secret being revealed upended the lives of the three women and supported the expectation of something too horrible to imagine. When the truth comes out about 2/3 of the way into the book I was underwhelmed and felt let down especially because I believe the potential impact of the "threat" was much over-rated. I received a free e-copy of The Promise by Teresa Driscoll from NetGalley for my honest review.

Really enjoyed this book/ great thriller/ characters were believable and realistic/ would.recommend this book to others

Secrets. Everyone has secrets.

Teenagers Beth, Carol, and Sally attend the same boarding school and are close friends. They share a dark secret that each one has promised to never tell anyone. Guilt, regret, and a fear of being found out surrounds each of them.

Carol leaves the boarding school while Beth and Sally continue there. They lose track of Carol and where she is.
Thirty years later, something is about to happen that will reveal their secret to the world: the boarding school is being torn down. This old school and all the land it sits on has been sold for redevelopment. Beth and Sally fear that more than dirt will be dug up. They need to get rid of the thing that will reveal to the world the horrible thing they have done. But no one can find Carol. She has distanced herself from everyone, so a detective is hired to find her.

This detective also has a secret.
In this psychological thriller full of suspense and intrigue, three ladies learn the dangers of keeping something that happened when they were teenagers a secret. The guilt they carry from keeping such a secret has impacted each of their lives. If only they had told, what would have happened?

Did I figure out what their secret was? Yes and no. I figured out part of it, but what I knew had happened was only the very tip of the iceberg. There was so much more to it, and that so much more was devastating to more than one person.

I was sent this book in exchange for an honest review.

I really enjoyed The Promise by Teresa Driscoll. The storyline had me intrigued from the beginning and surprised me by going in a direction I really wasn't expecting. A thoroughly enjoyable read.

I overall enjoyed this mystery but I really struggled to connect to any of the characters and overall found the story a little dull.

This was an interesting story to read. It really did not end up anywhere near where I thought it was going in the beginning. Additionally there was another twist that added more dynamic to the story.

Friendship is a tricky thing. Very rarely these days do we find a person who will stick with us through life. The ups downs and everything that exists in between, few friendships can weather all the storms. Beth, Sally and Carol thought they had that forever friendship, until a promise and an even bigger secrets unknowingly tears them apart.

With the looming closure of the school that holds all their secrets, Beth and Sally are desperate to find their old friend. Even though Beth is the one leading the charge, she doesn't fully recognize her good friends reluctance to go back to everything that nearly destroyed them in the first place.

A story that leads you down one path before sharply veering in a different direction. A good weekend read.

The Promise is a taut psychological thriller. Three school friends undergo a shared tragedy in their youth and the promise they made resonates to their present day lives. The novel deals with friendship and domestic abuse and has empathetic characters.

I love Teresa Driscoll's books. That being said, this book had its slow points. It dragged a little for me and seemed like the ending was pretty obvious. I did guess part of the ending, but then it really picked up at the end and I enjoyed it much more.

I was drawn to this book because it's one of my favorite genres, a psychological thriller. And that element is there. Three girls at boarding school make a promise to each other to keep a secret about something that happened to them at school. Secrets of course have consequences, and this one pops up to haunt them years later when they learn the school will be closed and torn down. Whether they can, or even should, continue to keep their promise becomes the crux of the story. Driscoll takes us back and forth in time, spinning out the story of their school years and telling the story from multiple points of view. It was a bit drawn out for me, and because it could've been tightened up a bit it would've been closer to a 3-star read than a 4-star for me - but I listened to much of this one and the audiobook was very good, so I'm giving a bit of extra credit for the audio version.

My thanks to Netgalley and Thomas & Mercer for providing a copy for an unbiased review.

I must admit, throughout reading this I kept thinking "what's so great about this secret that it can never be told" - it caused so much drama and once revealed, I still felt the same way! Was still a nice enough read though so I would recommend...

Thanks for the opportunity to read this book early. I was anxiously awaiting it’s release and it did not disappoint. I read this authors previous book, I am Watching You and loved it as well. I love stories about girl friends and the secrets between them. If you enjoy psychological thrillers you are almost surely going to finish this one quickly.

I received an advanced copy of this book through NetGalley. This book had me from the very beginning. I love that it kept me engaged the entire time. I couldn't wait to see how it ended. I would highly recommend to all my fellow readers. Thank you for the chance to review this book!

This was a very suspenseful read. It had me at the prologue. In light of the different horrifying and crippling stories of the three friends, I did like the light heartedness betrayed by Beth in order to cope. I loved the friendships that formed between Beth, Sally, and Carol. Definitely terrifying situations with better outcomes. I’d definitely recommend this book.

It had a really great beginning but by the end of the book the plot kind of fell flat on its face. The book started out so good that I was not able to put it down at all, but then the middle of the book got a little lengthy and then the end did not make sense to me whatsoever.

Goodness. This one was sad--absolutely heartbreaking. Although I had a good feeling about what the main twist was going to be, it was still well-worth reading. It's well written, and the audiobook narrator does a lovely job. The ebook and audiobook are available on Kindle Unlimited, which is how I read/listened to it, even though I'd been approved for the ARC.

Thanks to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for a copy of the ARC.

Good book. I enjoyed the characters and the mystery element. The effects that trauma can have on different people in different ways, even when they experience the same trauma, was a prominent message.

I couldn’t finish. Too much book with nothing happening. I tried twice but never got past 1/3. Sorry